On April 26 at 18:00 in the MPI-CBG Auditorium, the Science and Society will kick off their new seminar series “The History of Science.”
There will be a screening of “Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix” to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Watson & Crick discovery of the structure of the DNA.
Check out the MPI-CBG website for more information!
Science and theater are coming together to bring you “Ziffer, Zelle, Zebrafisch.” This interactive play hopes to bring about changes in perspective but also aims to celebrate life, its diversity, its mystery, and of course to answer the who, what, when, where, and how’s of science.
For more information, tickets, and performance dates, check out the MPI-CBG website or tjg. theater junge generation.
We are proud of our 2012 title of “Most family friendly company in Dresden.” There is no doubt that the balancing act of raising a family and succeeding in your career can be difficult, but the flexibility at the MPI-CBG institute facilitates a friendly environment where employees can succeed in both areas.
Listen to the latest commentary interviewing Tony at MDR-FIGARO.
A genomic toolkit to investigate kinesin and myosin motor function in cells.
Maliga Z, Junqueira M, Toyoda Y, Ettinger A, Mora-Bermúdez F, Klemm RW, Vasilj A, Guhr E, Ibarlucea-Benitez I, Poser I, Bonifacio E, Huttner WB, Shevchenko A, Hyman AA.
Nat Cell Biol. 2013 Feb 17. [PubMed] (Epub ahead of print)
Tony’s editorial, Funding Innovative Science, emphasizes the positive directions that can be made when moving towards a system for funding starting researchers funds based on excellence and innovations, rather than preliminary data. Read more.
This year, 18 Hyman Lab members made the journey to San Fransciso!
The annual ASCB meeting was a success and as Program Chair, Tony was honored to give the introduction speech. For the ASCB Annual Meeting Videos, click here.
The excerpt is from his opening remarks:
“Any field faces two challenges: How to keep introducing new ideas and techniques to the field, and how to apply these discoveries to human health. In terms of introducing new ideas to the field, in my opinion, the greatest step forward in the last decade has been the application of the physical sciences to cell biology.The behaviour of a cell emerges from the collective property of the millions of molecules in a cell, rather like the pattern of a swarm of birds, which emerges from the interaction of all the flying birds in that swarm. However, just as knowledge of how a bird flaps its wings does not tell us how the swarm has its pattern, knowledge of molecules does not tell us how a cell is organized. The physical sciences provide us with the tools and techniques to answer such problems. We therefore believe the introduction of the physical sciences to cell biology is central to the endeavor. In the last decade, it has never been clearer that medicine must be understood at the level of the cell. Only by understanding the pathology of cells can we understand why the body as a whole does not function. In the next few years, we must focus on understanding how the basic physiology that we have sorted out over the last half-century varies in disease. Therefore, we have introduced these two subjects to the meeting as threads. One thread in intersections of physical sciences and the other thread cell biology medicine. You can follow these subjects everyday if you so wish, and I believe, have a superb introduction to the state of the art in both these fields.”
Nucleic Acids Research
January 2013
Alexander Oparin
Author: The Origin of Life
Evolution News & Views comments on Hyman and Brangwynne’s recent Retrospective piece in Nature.
To celebrate or not to celebrate may be the argument of many, but “it is interesting to see the intelligent design take on Oparin,” comments Hyman. [Full Article]
Tony, on behalf of MPI-CBG, was proud to accept the bronze girl scultpure entitled “I know it” by artist Malgorzata Chodakowska for ranking #1 in the “Most family-friendly company” competition.
Click below for more!
Watch Tony accept the award from Helma Orosz
Tony’s Acceptance Speech (PDF in German & English)
Newspaper report in the Bild.de (in German)
Helma Orosz presents the award to MPI-CBG
November 15, 2012
Image: Per Widlund w/ contributions form Alex Bird, Mark Leaver, and Veikko Geyer
Congratulations to Per Widlund and contributors Alex Bird, Mark Leaver, and Veikko Geyer for producing the image on the cover of the November 15th
Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Where: Amsterdam
When: September 21-24, 2013
