Thinking of doing a PhD in Germany? Hopefully this podcast can convince you to do it in Göttingen! From international (final-year🤞🏾) PhD students in the cardiovascular sciences, Alisa DeGrave, Surabhi Swarnkar and yours truly 🫀Uni Göttingen

This week we had the great honour to host David Eisner in Göttingen. We all very much enjoyed his talk and many stimulating discussions. In particular, we had a lot of fun doing experiments together. Thank you David Eisner for all your efforts! MBExC Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG DZHK Germany

Thanks to DZHK Germany I could visit the lab of Niels Voigt last week - great exchange and lucky timing, as David Eisner was also visiting. Full Göttingen scientific experience topped off with a dinner joined by Nobel laureate Prof Neher - Wow! Faks Will Seibertz

This week we celebrated not only one but two very successful PhD defenses. Tony Rubio & Julius Pronto Julius Ryan Pronto are the new postdocs in our team. Congrats to both of you & thank you for your hard work! Great to have you aboard! Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Young-DZHK MBExC Christoph Maack

Huge Congratulations to Judith Gronwald for the successful defense of her thesis! "Postoperative AF - A clinical and experimental risk stratification" It was a great pleasure working with you and thank you very much for all your hard work. Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Deutsche Herzstiftung Faks

It is a great pleasure to announce that Will Seibertz successfully defended his thesis yesterday with a well deserved "summa cum laude". Dr. Seibertz, thank you for all your hard work during the last years. Great that you will stay aboard. MBExC Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Nanion Technologies

Our recent Editorial in Circulation Research on "Vicious Twins: RyR2 Dysfunction and Structural Remodeling" is now online. Thank you Faks and Will Seibertz for your contribution and Circulation Research for this great opportunity. Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG MBExC DZHK Germany ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Would you like to get insights into our daily work in the lab? With support of @MBExC and Swen Pförtner we just updated our website with new impressions! Please visit molecular-pharmacology.de to learn more! Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Will Seibertz Faks Julius Ryan Pronto Fleur E. Mason Young-DZHK

I just gave my first invited talk as a PhD! Thank you Monika Sadlonova, M.D. & to the organisers of the Dreiländertreffen Herzinsuffizienz for allowing me to share our work on mitochondrial calcium in AF, alongside excellent early-stage clinician scientists Niels Voigt Young-DZHK

Congrats Will Seibertz & Tony Rubio on the Young-DZHK Paper Award 2023🏆! Well-deserved recognition for their new iPSC-CM AF model. Thanks to Monika Sadlonova & Gesine Dittrich for hosting a great meeting that brought this work into spotlight. CVR_TomaszGuzik MBExC Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG

Check out our latest paper Circulation where we explore Ca2+ buffering in atrial cardiac myocytes of #Afib patients. We suggest myofilamental Ca2+ sensitization as a new promising therapeutic approach. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI… MBExC DZHK Germany Young-DZHK Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie

Special congratulations to Faks for this elegant work! Heartfelt thanks to all the co-authors for their invaluable contributions and collaboration. @FleurEMason @HubrichtD Izzat Sobitov Aiste Liutkute Will Seibertz Julius Ryan Pronto Samuel Sossalla Christoph Maack Jordi Heijman

#ICYMI: Impaired Ca2+ buffering in persistent AF patients Faks Niels Voigt DZHK Germany @SanuelSossalla Jordi Heijman Christoph Maack Will Seibertz Julius Ryan Pronto Aiste Liutkute Fereshteh Haghighi Dominik Hubricht Niels Voigt

Special congrats to Faks for his outstanding work! Many thanks to all the co-authors for their essential contributions and collaboration. @FleurEMason @HubrichtD Izzat Sobitov Aiste Liutkute Will Seibertz Julius Ryan Pronto Samuel Sossalla Christoph Maack Jordi Heijman Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG

What an honor! Our research on Ca2+ buffering in AF, published in Circulation, received an editorial by Björn Knollmann & Don Bers! They discuss the biphasic relationship between Ca2+ buffering and the risk of atrial or ventricular arrhythmia. Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

New press release on our Circulation paper with DZHK Germany & Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG): "Defective Ca2+ 'Shock Absorber' in heart muscle cells contributes to AF." Learn how impaired calcium buffering drives #AFib. Faks Dominik Hubricht @FleurEMason MBExC Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG dzhk.de/newsroom/aktue…

Earlier this month,we hosted guests from Macau University,invited by Erwin Neher,who demonstrated our new automated patch-clamp system!A privilege to welcome the Nobel Prize winner who pioneered this technique 40+ years ago.MBExC Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Izzat Sobitov Faks Will Seibertz

Another highlight this week: Prof. Gemma Vilahur from Institut de Recerca Sant Pau delivered an amazing MBExC lecture in Göttingen on myocardial infarction research. A day of deep scientific discussions and great interactions. Thanks,Gemma Vilahur! Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG Andre Fischer doi.org/10.1093/eurhea…

I am incredibly proud to announce that Faks Dominik Hubricht & Vanessa Möller received the most prestigious research award from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie for their pioneereing work on Ca2+ & #AFib. Congratulations! Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG DZHK Germany Young DGK MBExC Young-DZHK doi.org/10.1161/CIRCUL…

We were in the news!📰Göttinger Tageblatt featured our recent Oscar-Lapp-Award win! Big congrats again to Faks, Dominik Hubricht & Vanessa Müller for their outstanding research on improving treatment strategies for #AFib. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie MBExC DZHK Germany Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UMG AFNET