_{MARCH 23, 2023}
Max Planck Society’s Senate appointed Patrick Cramer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, as new President-elect for the term of office from 2023 to 2029. He will take over the role from Martin Stratmann in June 2023, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Max Planck Society. 
Over the past months, Patrick Cramer has been visiting the various institutions that will be under his leadership. We were grateful for his visit and talk, which highlighted the importance of microbiology in our research organization, and MPG’s commitment to excellence.
External Link: @CramerLab

 

Prof. Marc Erhardt (Institute for Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) has been appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP) headed by Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier. Marc Erhardt and his team work at the interface of bacterial cell biology and infection biology using bacterial genetics and quantitative single-cell biological approaches to understand pathogenicity mechanisms of Gram-negative bacteria. more