This was the Long Night 2024 at the Max Delbrück Center
Hustle and bustle in front of the MDC-BIMSB in Berlin-Mitte during the Long Night 2024.
The weather was perfect and people came to the Berlin-Buch campus to gain an insight into current research.
Using virtual reality, a child wanders through a microscopic image of a fish heart.
Political visit at the Long Night: Henry Marx, Berlin State Secretary for Science and Research (left), visited the labs of Altuna Akalin (right) and Stefan Kempa to learn about the potential of AI in health research.
A lab tradition: as there are often multiple machines of one type, each machine is given a name - and sometimes a mascot.
When proteins are poorly folded, they can no longer fulfill their function - much like a bent paper clip.
Pipetting, measuring, finding information - at our Lab Olympics, children and adults could try how well they would be prepared for everyday laboratory work.
Children could pipette different patterns into a plate using colored liquids and finally compete to see who could insert pipette tips the fastest.
The Long Night ended with a pub quiz in Buch with Darren from Tom and Darren.
