Energetic Enzyme Droplets & Notorious Viruses – Adventures in the Invisible

(Event in German)

There’s a lot going on inside our bodies: energy packets, enzyme droplets, and every now and then a sneaky coronavirus.

Physicist Kathrin Laxhuber from the MPI-PKS Dresden shows how our bodies process sugar in tiny cellular power plants and how enzymes team up into little droplets to keep us supplied with energy. She even crunches the numbers on what’s happening in your body right now—while you’re drinking your beer.

Theresia Gutmann a biochemist at the MPI-CBG Dresden, makes the invisible visible: she takes us into the world of coronaviruses, masters of disguise, and reveals the nasty tricks they use to outsmart our immune system.