Recent videos and podcasts

Feb 29, 2024 (Deutsche Roentgengesellschaft)
Röntgen Academy - Learning experiences around the X-rays. We meet experts and award winners at the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for the EBENEN interview format.  One guest, one topic and three stages: Experience, Deepen, Explore. From the surface to the depths, from the general to the detailed, from the simple to the complex.
Our first guest is Prof Dr Patrick Cramer, chemist and molecular biologist, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, President of the Max Planck Society and winner of the Röntgen Plaque 2023 for his groundbreaking research into decoding the gene transcription mechanism using X-ray methods.
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5.02.2024 (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie d. Wissenschaften)
Four years have passed since the German public first heard about a virus that began to spread rapidly. The first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Germany was reported in January 2020. What happened after that is well known: Waves of infection, overcrowded hospitals, social distancing and hygiene rules, lockdowns.... How do we look back on this period today, which - overlaid by further crises - seems to have disappeared from the centre of public attention, but is still ongoing? How do we assess the rapid pace of its spread and the associated maximum deceleration of social life? Chemist Patrick Cramer (Academy Member, President of the Max Planck Society), physicist Viola Priesemann (Young Academy, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation) and political scientist Barbara Prainsack (University of Vienna, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) take a look back with presenter Anja Martini (NDR) at how the pandemic has been dealt with and look ahead to the research questions that arise now and in the future in connection with Covid-19. How should the measures and their communication be evaluated in retrospect? What research has Covid-19 triggered and what research questions will arise in the future?  (German language)
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29. Januar 2024 (Deutschlandfunk / Kultur) [Podcast]
It all started with the Hobbythek: Fascinated by the experiments on the TV screen, Patrick Cramer started experimenting himself - even if it was with nitric acid at the lunch table. In 2000, he solved one of the greatest mysteries in molecular biology. (German language)
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3.12.2023 (BR Podcast)
Patrick Cramer was a passionate researcher for over three decades: Göttingen, Munich and Stanford were just some of the places where his biochemical research took place. Since June, he has been President of the Max Planck Society and is responsible for the course of 85 research institutes with 24,000 employees from 127 countries. Moderator: Jeanne Turczynski (German language) more

13^th November 2023 (University of Hong Kong)
Professor Patrick Cramer and Professor Eva Nogales, Shaw Laureates in Life Science and Medicine 2023, delivered the Shaw Prize Lecture on 13^th November 2023.
“Molecular and cellular mechanisms of transcription and its regulation” by Patrick Cramer and “Visualising the molecular choreography in early stages of human gene transcription” by Eva Nogales. 
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This year’s Shaw Prize recipients, Professor Patrick Cramer and Professor Eva Nogales, pioneered structural biology approaches to enable visualisation, at the level of the individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for gene transcription. They revealed the molecular mechanism underlying each step in gene transcription, and the importance of proper gene transcription to promote health and prevent disease.
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29^th September 2022
Article: Future President of the Max Planck Society, Patrick Cramer, on Research and Fake News
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