Apply soon: Full professorship in Systems #Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de See shorturl.at/VczFp

Some really cool research in this center, should be a nice role to fill :-)

Excellent @activemotifusa.bsky.social epigenetics podcast w @andersshansen.bsky.social It’s interesting, while going through specific projects and lines of questioning, the conversation acts as a nice reflection of the state of our field (fields?) Lots of ideas! open.spotify.com/episode/19Nd...

One more paper made it over the finish line before end of the year, though publication as part of a special issue will be in 2026. Thanks for helpful input from our editor, anonymous peers & colleagues we asked for presubmission feedback, made the piece so much better. 👏 @yuzhibao.bsky.social

Nuclear speckle associated RRM-containing proteins are block copolymers. They make size-limited, ordered microphases, tens of nm in size comprising tens of molecules. Speckles are likely clusters or emulsions of distinct microphases and not macrophases www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a longer conversation about project strategy and scientific careers with our postdoc today, I realized “One positive change that still came after becoming professor is enough experience to see the big picture. I can step back now, see how things connect-a kind of beauty I couldn’t see before!”

This confirms my belief that knowing too much about something is a hindrance to discovering anything new about it, right?

Journal Club über unser kürzlich erschienenes Perspektivpapier, jetzt im @laborjournal.bsky.social Hat richtig Spaß gemacht, sich mit Petra Neis-Beeckmann über das Thema zu unterhalten. Der Artikel ist toll! (wenn auch manchmal etwas zu großzügig bezüglich unserer Beiträge und Erfolge)

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

We are looking for a Postdoc to join us at the Center for Gene Expression @cgen2025.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen! Full advertisement here: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

The IZMC (FELASA-certified) is offered in English & Deutsch by @ezrc.bsky.social, for those interested! Upcoming courses in 2026: 26-29 January (Deutsch) 16-19 March (English) 04-07 May 21-24 September 19-22 October 23-26 November More details here: izmc.ezrc.kit.edu/english/inde... #zebrafish

Greetings from the International Zebrafish & Medaka Course (IZMC) Grüße vom Internationalen Zebrafisch & Medaka Kurs 👋🐟 Photo from teaching this morning for this week’s November German language edition. This FELASA-certificate course is offered via @ezrc.bsky.social at @kit.edu

Really cool to hear about it at the Center SynGen event, and now see it published. Of course I very much like this angle of building a synthetic model of cellular phase separation phenomena-like here of the RNA-mediated feedback as outlined by @jhenninger.bsky.social and colleagues

Excited to share our new Perspective Article in Advanced Functional Materials: Integrative Approaches for DNA Sequence-Controlled Functional Materials We jointly cover scale-bridging simulation, machine learning & experiments from several groups. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Almost all hands on deck today in Hilbert lab meeting. Postdoc Ewa very small on Zoom, PhD student Nils substituted for a colleague for a talk; associated fellow Simon and Master student Georg not in the photo. I just felt super happy I can work with this group, so I am sharing selfie greetings 👋 😃

Registration is now open to attend Journal of Cell Science's meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics, organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti. Find out more: biologists.com/meetings/jcs... #JCSimaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #Cells #CellScience

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Next Tuesday Oct 28, great talks of invited and local speakers of our Synthetic Genomics Center, in Heidelberg and on Zoom!

The @crg.eu 2026 International PhD Programme is now open! Join our international community in Barcelona: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Last night Science Slam with a full house at Tollhaus, as part of @kit.edu Science Week. As one of four slammers, our PhD student Mona Wellhäusser @mofrawe.bsky.social entertained a huge audience, putting fish in jello for microscopy, (optically) slicing a pumpkin. Great show, fantastic atmosphere!

We are hiring ! If you want to become professor of Bioinformatics in the best city of North America, check the announcement below ! Also you do need to speak French (as long as you commit to learning it :) ) www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d...

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend. mpl.mpg.de/news/article... @fau.de 📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Sharing a recent, deep insight: The concept of a membrane-less organelle is an interesting one, like calling something a house without walls

Happy 200th bday KIT 🥳

Sadly, yes, and applies also past junior level! Sorry to everyone affected by my unreal email and task overload in the form of non-responsiveness 😣

Warming up for October start of KIT teaching by guest lecturing for @unistra.fr Cell Physics Master “Active Droplets”. First of three lectures today. 3:00 h sharp, start to finish 💪 Some travel impressions, including fancy and very white “Le Studium” on Strasbourg Central Campus 🤍 And, Gyoza 🥟

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

What a great doctoral defense by Tim Klingberg @fau.de Based in the group of our collaborator @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social Tim decisively contributed to at least 3 of our own lab’s foundational projects, which he showed today at “Max Planck Zentrum Physik und Medizin” Some impressions

Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.

GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!

If you are at GBM compact "Focus on Condensate Biology", we will be happy to talk to you at our lab's posters: Mona Wellhäuser, MC15 @mofrawe.bsky.social Yuzhi Bao, CA03 @yuzhibao.bsky.social Lennart Hilbert, MC06 Conference abstracts: gbm-compact.org/abstracts.html *sketch added as click bait

Molekulare #Bionik: Der Zellkern als Vorbild für DNS-basierte #Computerchips. Forschende des #KITKarlsruhe (u. a. @lennarthilbert.bsky.social) nutzen zelluläre Informationsverarbeitung als Inspiration für die #Biotechnologie. www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2025_...

Simulation of the formation of a chromatin-attached condensate, which is visited by a gene undergoing transcriptional activation. Read more about it here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Chromatin-associated condensates as an inspiration for the system architecture of future DNA computers" Highly conceptual Perspective article, supported by fresh data & simulations from our group. Containing my now 40 years of accumulated "wisdom". nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“We ask you to return your proof corrections within 48 hours.” #sciencememe #academicmeme #academemia youtube.com/shorts/8N2eZ...

Fine structural organization of the interphase nucleus in some mammalian cells, Monneron & Bernard, 1969 Gotta love these classic papers about nuclear architecture. In hindsight, all that we understand and discover today was already contained in their images. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice paper showing how gene / TSS CpG-hypomethylation can allow long-range regulatory interactions, hypermetyhlation repress these interactions. "Increased enhancer–promoter interactions during developmental enhancer activation in mammals" www.nature.com/articles/s41... @evgenykvon.bsky.social

Is euchromatin really “open”? Our new study @bioRxiv suggests otherwise. Using super-resolution imaging @shiori-iida.bsky.social‬ @masaashimazoe.bsky.social reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

Paused Polymerase II in genome hyper compartmentalization in chicken terminally differentiated adult red blood cells (aRBC), see screenshot. Excellent paper recommendation from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social Thanks! Andrés Penagos-Puig, ... Mayra Furlan-Magaril www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.

Another one, Riveline Lab bsky.app/profile/epim...

This was magical — @loicaroyer.bsky.social live on piano @mpi-cbg.de. Made my day! It’s always amazing to learn about unexpected talents apart from the amazing science.

Our first expansion microscopy results. Imaged today on "normal" Zeiss LSM 900, revealing chromatin and RNA polymerase II clusters at an unreal level of detail. Our PhD student @mofrawe.bsky.social learned the protocol from amazing @mpownall.bsky.social 🙏 Months of preparation are paying off now!

I have two experiences with cold-emailing other groups for data underlying published graphs. Once as PhD student, I got “it’s 5 years ago no idea where the hard drive is.” End of story. Today, one of our PhD student mailed at 5 PM, we had the ~10 year old data sent to us before 7 PM. Extremes!

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Looking for a #fellowship for an independent #PhD at one of the best places for life sciences in the world? The summer call at @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch is open until October 12, 2025. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

We are hiring! "Researcher in DNA-Based Information Processing Systems" (PhD or postdoc level). Co-supervision by Prof. Ralf Reussner (KIT computer science) and myself (biological systems). Combination of experiments and computational work. Please Apply / Repost! www.pse.kit.edu/english/karr...