Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

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Max Planck Institute for
Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Institute building MPI-CBG
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Dresden
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Life sciences , life sciences
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Marino Zerial (Managing Director)
Employee: approx. 380
Homepage: www.mpi-cbg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a research facility for molecular biology in Dresden and is part of the Max Planck Society . The abbreviation CBG stands for the full English name Cell Biology and Genetics .

Research subjects of the institute include: mechanisms of cell organization, cell communication, differentiation of different cell types and their connection to complex tissues and organisms. For this purpose, experiments are carried out on various model organisms , for example on yeasts , roundworms , fruit flies , zebrafish , clawed frogs and mice .

The institute is headed by five scientific directors, three of whom have been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . It employs around 550 people, around half of whom are of foreign origin.

The MPI-CBG was founded in 1998. After the Pfotenhauerstrasse tram station in Dresden-Johannstadt was shut down in May 1998, the Max Planck Society took it over in December of that year and had the existing halls demolished. In the spring of 1999, construction of the institute building began on the site and was completed at the end of 2000. The facility has been in operation since February 2001. The official inauguration took place on March 27, 2002 by the President of the Max Planck Society, Hubert Markl , the Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .

Institute site

On the institute site on Pfotenhauerstraße in the immediate vicinity of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden , there are several buildings with a total area of ​​24,126 m², which were designed by the Finnish architects Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen and the German architecture office HENN . The total cost was 55 million euros. The site used to be used by the Dresden transport company as a tram depot and is directly adjacent to a residential area with old town villas.

main building

The main building houses the laboratories, administration, library , canteen, cafeteria and other research-supporting facilities. It has a floor area of ​​20,541 m² and consists mainly of concrete, steel and sandstone . The outer facade is clad with a metal grid structure that is supposed to support the air conditioning of the rooms. In terms of color, the building appears green, blue and turquoise depending on the incidence of light. The interior of the building is kept minimalist. The walls are neither plastered nor wallpapered or painted, just sanded concrete. The floor of the entrance area is made of sandstone containing fossils . The entrance hall, known as the atrium , extends over four floors and is dominated by a large spiral staircase modeled on a strand of DNA. The upper floors are divided into so-called home bases , with two of them on each floor. The offices are to the front of the building, separated by a corridor behind the laboratories. This division is intended to support the cooperative work of the research groups among themselves as well as within a group.

Functional building

The experimental animals are kept in the functional building. It connects directly to the main building in the direction of the university hospital. The flat building with a floor area of ​​2,678 m² is a simple construction made of steel and concrete.

Center for Systems Biology Dresden

The Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD) is located with its golden facade in front of the guest house. The center is an initiative of the Max Planck Society together with the Technical University of Dresden (TUD) and was founded in 2010 by the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) founded. The building and center were officially opened on May 31, 2017. An interdisciplinary team of physicists, computer scientists, bioinformaticians, mathematicians and biologists researches complex biological systems at all levels - from molecules to cells to tissues - and develops theoretical and computer-aided methods for this purpose.

Guest house

The guest house is at the far end of the site. The Dresden Center for Systems Biology is located between the functional building and the guest house . The guest house is used to temporarily accommodate employees who have moved in until they move into their own living space and has a floor area of ​​943 m². Architecturally interesting are the upward sloping staircases at the front.

Services and facilities

The institute has facilities for:

There are also departments for technology transfer, IT, public relations and a non-public library.

management

The institute is run by five directors. In contrast to most of the other Max Planck Institutes, the directors are not assigned any departments, but research is carried out in a network of working groups in order to be able to react to rapidly changing research directions. The directors are:

The managing director is appointed every two years, since July 2019 this has been Marino Zerial . The institute coordinator (Chief Operating Officer) manages the services and facilities and is responsible for technology transfer. Emeritus directors are Kai Simons , Wieland B. Huttner and Elisabeth Knust .

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics is involved in the International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology . An IMPRS is an English-language doctoral program for a structured doctorate. Further partners in the IMPRS are the Technical University of Dresden , the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and the "Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering", which are jointly organized in the DRESDEN-concept science association. The spokesman for the IMPRS is Ivo F. Sbalzarini .

International ranking

In the March issue of the science magazine The Scientist , the institute was named “Best Place to Work 2009” for postdocs in a ranking. In October 2009 the institute was again awarded the title “Best Place to Work in Academia 2009” by The Scientist magazine . It tops the list of the ten best research institutions outside the USA in 2009, among which there are no other German ones.

Web links

Commons : Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release Max Planck Society https://www.mpg.de/11311788/zentrum-systembiologie
  2. ↑ MPI-CBG: Systems Biology https://www.mpi-cbg.de/de/forschung/systembiologie/
  3. ↑ Overview of the board of directors of the MPI-CBG. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Membership of the CBG in scientific networks. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Steering Committee. IMPRS, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2009 Results Announced: Best Places to Work for Postdocs. Marketwired , archived from the original on December 21, 2015 ; Retrieved March 19, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Best Places to Work: Postdocs 2009. The Scientist, March 1, 2009, accessed March 19, 2009 (Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 47).
  8. ↑ Best Places to Work: Academia. The Scientist, accessed October 29, 2009 (Volume 23, Issue 11, Page 43).

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '31.1 "  N , 13 ° 47' 4.4"  E