Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The institute was founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, the Max Planck Institute of Protein and Leather Research, and the Max Planck Institute of Cell Chemistry.
With about 750 employees in currently nine research departments and more than 20 research groups, the MPIB is one of the largest institutes of the Max Planck Society.
Departments
There are nine departments currently in the institute:- Cell and Virus Structure
- Cellular Biochemistry
- Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
- Machine Learning and Systems Biology
- Molecular Machines and Signaling
- Molecular Medicine
- Proteomics and Signal Transduction
- Structural Cell Biology
- Totipotency
Research groups
There are 26 research groups currently based at the MPIB, including 3 emeritus research groups:- Bacteriophages: Microbiology, Bacteriophages, RNA polymerases, Structural Biology, Biochemistry
- Cell and Virus Structures: Structural Biology, Cryo-Electron Tomography, Viruses, Membrane trafficking
- Cell Dynamics: Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility
- Cellular and Molecular Biophysics: Biophysics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single Molecule, Synthetic Biology
- Cellular Biochemistry: Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Protostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding: Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry
- Chromatin Biology: Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development
- Chromosome Biology: Cell division, Meiosis
- Computational Systems Biochemistry: Systems Biology, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics
- CryoEM Technology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Focused Ion Beam Milling, correlated light microscopy, in situ Structural Biology, visual Proteomics
- DNA Hybridnanomaterials: DNA Nanotechnology, DNA-Silica Hybridnanomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Biophysics
- Immunoregulation: Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism
- Machine Learning and Systems Biology: biomedical research, data mining, machine learning, biological systems
- Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis: RNA Biology; Translation Dynamics; Protein Folding; Systems Biology
- Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology: Super-Resolution Microscopy, DNA Nanotechnology, Biophysics, Single-Molecule Studies
- Molecular Machines and Signaling: Structural Biology, Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Ubiquitin-like Proteins
- Molecular Medicine: Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics
- Molecular Structural Biology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation
- Proteomics and Signal Transduction: Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer
- Structural Cell Biology: Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation
- Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines: DNA Replication Dynamics, Structural Biology, Single-Molecule Imaging, Biophysics
- Structure Research: Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry
- Totipotency: Mechanistic Cell Biology, Genomics and Biochemistry of Chromatin Reprogramming, Transcription, Mouse Genetics
- Translational Medicine: Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease