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How exactly does gut bacteria affect our health? This is what the Swedish bioinformatician Sofia Forslund is trying to figure out. She also wants to develop a software that helps keep people from getting sick.

Only about 15 percent of Japanese researchers across all fields are women — about half the average proportion among OECD countries. All the more reason for an “all women speaker” symposium to highlight the achievements of female scientists and for a leadership training.

The Berlin University Alliance has won the Excellence Competition. Thomas Sommer, Scientific Director (interim) of the MDC) congratulated the alliance, which includes three Berlin universities and Charité University Hospital.

Marion Posselt-Hofmann is Disabilities Officer at the MDC. She is committed to promoting the rights of disabled employees and wants to encourage more people with disabilities to work at the MDC. A report from the “We at the MDC” series.

A German-Swiss team around Professor Oliver Daumke from the MDC has investigated how a protein of the dynamin family deforms the inner mitochondrial membrane. The results, which also shed light on a hereditary disease of the optic nerve, have been published in Nature.

The administrative agreement is signed, the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) will become the third pillar of the Charité. "We are excited about the privileged partnership," says Professor Thomas Sommer, interim Scientific Director of the MDC.

If you want to relax by the lake but still discover more about how we do science then the ORION Open Science Podcast has you covered.

Jennifer Pocock from University College London spoke at the Elena Timoféeff Ressovsky lecture on 20 June 2019.