Press Releases

Sanja Sviben has been awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society (MPG). She will receive the award during the annual meeting of the MPG, which takes place from June 13th-14th in Heidelberg. The society recognizes her outstanding doctoral thesis on the investigation of the mechanisms and the machinery underlying the biomineralization of calcium carbonate in coccolithophorid algae. [more]

eForFuel is an exciting EU-funded research and innovation action that seeks to provide a sustainable replacement of fossil fuels by using electricity and microorganisms to convert CO₂ into renewable fuels. [more]

Living on a host tree saves energy for the European Mistletoe [more]

BY: Diego Orzaez and Markus Schmidt [more]

Breeding has had influenced the chemical composition and taste of tomato [more]

How plants can be transformed into bio-factories [more]

Surfaces with unusual structures, minimalist urban silhouettes - Christof Wegner exhibition at the Max Planck campus [more]

Scientists from China and Germany announced the sequence of the hexaploid sweet potato [more]

A clever strategy to protect plants against herbivores could be used as an attractive alternative to chemical pest control [more]

Within KLAS – “Knowledge Link through Art and Science” – the Max Planck Institutes of Colloids and Interfaces and Molecular Plant Physiology invite for the first time contemporary artists to develop their own project at the Potsdam-Golm Science Park (Germany) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). In the course of this eight month pioneering project, artists will work side by side with researchers in order to develop a new artwork bridging contemporary art practices and scientific research. [more]