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The HIDA Trainee Network’s third call for application is open. Once again, it offers doctoral researchers and postdocs the opportunity to gain interdisciplinary experience in an exchange with another Helmholtz center. In this way, the Trainee Network provides new impulses for collaboration between the centers and builds a vibrant community of data scientists.

Tumor cells search for niches in tissue where they can grow and multiply. Uta Höpken studies how these cells migrate through the body and interact with other cells in their special niches. Her goal is to use this knowledge to train therapeutic CAR T cells to detect and destroy cancer cells.

Viruses come and go – most of the time, at least. Some, however, stay around forever. A team led by Markus Landthaler at the MDC intends to find out what enables viruses to set up home permanently in a host, as part of the DFG Research Unit DEEP-DV.

If you’ve ever survived the onset of winter in the Arctic, you can hopefully keep your cool when hackers attack. Karsten Häcker, CIO at the MDC, tells us how adventure holidays help him keep his composure at work. And he reveals what Swiss cheese has to do with IT.

The new edition of the MDC’s “Lab Meets Teacher – Digital” further education program begins in September. The eight online LMT training sessions will give teachers insights into the latest research topics and methods – such as single-cell analysis, which is expected to deliver new understanding of disease processes.

This year marks a special anniversary for Berlin's scientific community, and our recommended book relates to this event. 200 years ago, in 1821, two men were born who would make a huge impact on science, not just in Berlin but beyond: Rudolf Virchow and Hermann von Helmholtz.

The advent of new field strengths of up to 10.5 Tesla allows magnetic resonance imaging in unprecedented detail. This opens up enormous opportunities in cardiac, neurological, and experimental medicine. Researchers will discuss these new possibilities at the MDC’s Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Symposium on September 2 and 3.

As a scientist you can be expected, even encouraged, to work in different countries during your career, but what about when that decision isn’t a choice. Anita Waltho, PhD Researcher at MDC, spoke with a Syrian refugee, who is now working at Campus Buch.

The potassium channel KCNQ3 is required for our brain to generate accurate spatial maps. Defects in this channel have measurable effects on the internal navigation system of mice, reports a research team led by Thomas Jentsch of the FMP and MDC in the journal “Nature Communications”.