The collaboration between the MPI, the Philipps-Universität, and the LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology affords you to find all the resources on campus that you need for your research. Here collaborations are not the exception - they are the rule!

We have experts for:

• quantitative proteomics (protein identification, relative and absolute proteome quantification, interaction studies and phosphoproteomics)
• functional genomics incl. global gene expression profiling using RNA-seq
• targeted and untargeted metabolomics
• automated design and assembly of DNA and delivery to chassis organisms (DNA foundry)
• flow cytometry and cell sorting
• fluorescence microscopy (wide-field, TIRF and confocal live-cell imaging)
• advanced fluorescence microscopy (FCS, FRET, FRAP)
• super-resolution microscopy (SIM, STED)
• transmission electron microscopy
• protein structure determination using X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy
• macromolecular interaction analyses using surface plasmon resonance technology and bio-layer interferometry
• large-scale fermentation (anaerobic, light and gas-controlled)
• robotics for high-throughput screenings
• access to a joint mechanical workshop shared by MPI and UMR
• and much more...

The IMPRS also includes social activities, one of them being a biannual retreat. Our PhD student representatives are regularly organising social events, such as a monthly meet-up (Stammtisch), so that you can meet your fellow PhD students. The MPI hosts a summer fest and a great Christmas party!

Marburg is a historic and lively University town in the heart of Germany. If you enjoy the outdoors, there are countless possibilities for activities in and around Marburg. Its location in the Frankfurt metropolitan area, which has Germany's biggest airport, makes it convenient to travel to and from Marburg.

To sum it up: Marburg is a lovely city to study and live, with the possibility to explore the world!

And here are some more facts about Marburg:

• The University of Marburg, which was founded in 1527, is one of the oldest German Universities and the first protestant one;
• Among its students and alumni were E. Behring, who discovered a diphtheria antitoxin and whose life was actually tightly connected with Marburg, R. Bunsen, who discovered caesium and rubidium, and M. Lomonosow, a founder of Moscow State University;
• Brothers Grimm, prominent linguists and lexicographers, known worldwide as storytellers of folk tales, also lived and studied in Marburg;
• Marburg virus, which is (along with Ebola virus) a causative agent of hemorrhagic fever, was isolated and described here;
• St. Elizabeth Church (about 800 old!) is held to be a model for the architecture of one of the most famous churches in the world – Cologne Cathedral.