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12.06.2025	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master Student Katharina Kopp!
20.05.2025	BAYREUTH HUMBOLDT CENTRE GUEST We welcome our guest and Bayreuth Humboldt Centre grantee Prof. Dr. Swathi Sudhakar
12.05.2025	NEW SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT We heartily welcome our new Scientific Assistant (HiWi) Sven Thoma!
03.03.2025	NEW SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT We heartily welcome our new Scientific Assistant (HiWi) Katharina Kopp!
21.02.2025	NEW PAPER A. Ramsperger et al. Cellular internalization pathways of environmentally exposed microplastic particles: Phagocytosis or macropinocytosis?, J. Hazard. Mater. 489, 137647 (2025)
14.11.2024	BAVARIAN CULTURE PRIZE 2024 We congratulate our postdoc Dr. Anja Ramsperger for receiving the Bavarian Culture Prize 2024!
12.09.2024	PAUL-CRUTZEN PRIZE 2024 We congratulate our postdoc Dr. Anja Ramsperger for receiving the Paul-Crutzen Prize 2024!
13.08.2024	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Johanna Bodrogi !
01.07.2024	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master student Matteo Kumar
03.06.2024	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Katharina Kopp!
01.02.2024	NEW PRESS RELEASE Not all microplastic particles are created equal - physical properties matter for their interactions with cell
31.01.2024	NEW PAPER S. Wieland et al. Nominally identical microplastic models differ greatly in their particle-cell interactions, Nat. Commun. 15, 922 (2024)
15.01.2024	NEW PHD STUDENT We heartily welcome our new PHD student Reetha Thomas!
30.10.2023	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master student Katharina Beitzinger!
23.10.2023	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master student Dominik Müller!
02.10.2023	NEW SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT We heartily welcome our new scientific assistant Johanna Bodrogi!
09.08.2023	NEW PHD SPEAKER Congratulations to Simon Wieland for being elected as a new PhD Speaker for the CRC on Microplastics!
07.08.2023	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Katharina Nottbohm!
22.06.2023	JOB VACANCY PhD position in Biological Physics
08.02.2023	NEW PAPER M. Eisentraut et al. The spatial resolution limit of phagocytosis, Biophys. J. 122, 1-12 (2023)
16.01.2023	NEW MED. TECH. ASSISTANT We heartily welcome our new med. tech. assistant Daniela Grätz!
01.12.2022	NEW PAPER A.F.R.M. Ramsperger et al. Nano- and microplastics: a comprehensive review on their exposure routes, translocation, and fate in humans, NanoImpact 29, 100441 (2023)
04.10.2022	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Anna-Lena Vesper!
01.09.2022	NEW PHD STUDENT We heartily welcome our new PHD student David Gitschier!
04.07.2022	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master student Bettina Firmke!
23.06.2022	NEW PAPER T. Witzmann et al. Repulsive Interactions of Eco-corona-Covered Microplastic Particles Quantitatively Follow Modeling of Polymer Brushes, Langmuir (2022)
20.06.2022	NEW PAPER J. Brehm et al. In-depth characterization revealed polymer type and chemical content specific effects of microplastic on Dreissena bugensis, J. Hazard Mater. 437, 129351 (2022)
26.04.2022	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Paul Schwanitz!
26.04.2022	NEW MASTER STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Master student Michael Stur!
11.04.2022	NEW BACHELOR STUDENT We heartily welcome our new Bachelor student Matteo Kumar!
18.01.2022	NEW PRESS RELEASE Learning from dust: Microplastic researchers compare health risks of microparticles
18.01.2022	NEW PAPER S. Wieland et al. From properties to toxicity: Comparing microplastics to other airborne microparticles J. Hazard Mater. 428, 128151 (2022)
10.01.2022	NEW SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT We welcome our new Scientific Assistant (HiWi) Paul Schwanitz!
14.12.2021	NEW PAPER A.F.R.M. Ramsperger et al Supposedly similar microplastic particles show different levels of toxicity J. Hazard. Mater. 425, 127961 (2022)
14.12.2021	NEW PRESS RELEASE: Supposedly similar microplastic particles show different levels of toxicity
22.11.2021	SUSTAINABILITY AWARD FOR SARAH SPRENG Sarah Spreng was awarded with the third place of the sustainability award of the University of Bayreuth for her Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
15.11.2021	NEW SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT We welcome our new Scientific Assistant (HiWi) Johanna Lix!
11.11.2021	NEW B.SC. STUDENT We welcome our new Bachelor Student Markus Brendel!
26.06.2021	NEW PAPER K. Berghoff et al Using blinking optical tweezers to study cell rheology during initial cell-particle contact Biophys. J., in Press (2021)
10.12.2020	New Press Release: Article on microplastics in Science Advances
09.12.2020	NEW PAPER A.F.R.M. Ramsperger et al Environmental exposure enhances the internalization of microplastic particles into cells Science Advances 6, eabd1211 (2020)
17.11.2020	NEW PAPER A.F.R.M. Ramsperger et al. Structural Diversity in Early-Stage Biofilm Formation on Microplastics Depends on Environmental Medium and Polymer Properties Water 12, 3216 (2020)
06.11.2020	NEW PAPER H.T. Spanke et al. Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 198102 (2020)
21.04.2020	NEW PAPER A. Rohrbach et al. Measuring Stepwise Binding of Thermally Fluctuating Particles to Cell Membranes without Fluorescence Biophys. J. 118, 1850-1860 (2020)

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