(Event in German) What do nu, nor and nh have in common? They’re tiny words that never fail to spark a smile, an eye roll, or a good old “what on earth was that?” This evening’s speakers, linguists Simon Oppermann (University of Leipzig) and Simon Meier-Vieracker (TU Dresden), take a slightly more scientific look at the topic. In Simon Oppermann’s talk, it’s all about the secrets of Saxon dialect: Why do Saxons tack an -e onto everything [...]

(Event in English) What is health and how can we learn more about what goes wrong during diseases such as cancer? For tonight, we will learn about our how fats make us who we are and may not be as scary as the internet tells us and how cutting edge research is developing mini stomachs to learn more about cancer. Our opening speaker is Olya Vvedenskaya from Lipotype, a company that has large experience in studying lipids or fats [...]

(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 [...]