Exciting Postdoc Opportunities – Alliance Interinstitutional Program **Deadline:** March 31, 2026 (5:00 pm CEST) 🔗 Two shared positions: www.syn-gen.de/alliance-pos... 🔗 Full call & application info:: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

📢Job alert📢 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.

Monday: new Postdoc arrives at the lab Friday: first own experiment, DNA nanostar condensates clearly visible, even in in vitro transcription buffer Welcome on board, Dr. Marcel Piepers! Stay tuned! PS Marcel is co-supervised w Ralf Reussner, tasked w ground work for www.sfb1608.kit.edu @kit.edu

Apparently, we made the (additional) cover of the January issue of Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences with our artistic representation of surface condensates on a chromatin strand. I hope you appreciate the subtle use of a modified Hilbert curve? nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super feature zu Regenerationsforschung Bei SWR Kultur gehört: Körperteile nachwachsen lassen – Was die Medizin von Tieren lernt - Forschung www.swr2.app/s/koerpertei...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

I am recruiting postdoctoral fellows to develop new research directions in the lab. We study transcriptional regulation through biomolecular condensates in development and disease, with an emphasis on first-principles and mechanistic discovery. Please repost or share with colleagues.

All key information about the German Fish Meeting at COS, Heidelberg (16–18 September 2026) is summarized in this flyer. Please feel free to share it with colleagues and researchers working with any fish model. Thank you!

Progressing well with this year’s Master course Methods of Developmental Genetics, got the first immunostained zebrafish animal caps on the microscope today, nuclear pores looking great, participants in good spirits ✌️ Greetings to all fish labs 🎏

Journals explaining why it takes 9 months to send back reviews

Click bait from yesterday’s safety introduction for 2026 Masters course “Methods if Developmental Genetics” Here my text to go along This is your hand This is your leg This is your foot Just let it fall To the floor First three: one drop into the kiwi Last one: tweezers upright in the floor

There is a special Current Opinion in Genetics & Development issue about genome architecture and expression and it looks great including reviews by @lennarthilbert.bsky.social @yghavi.bsky.social and @wbickmor.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Our Mini Review went online last night in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development "Block copolymer concepts of how transcription organizes the stem cell genome" doi.org/10.1016/j.gd... Fig. 1: Stem cell–typical organization of the genome and transcription, and the block copolymer sorting concept.

I am sure this will be a great presentation by David @zwickergroup.bsky.social He has an excellent (theoretical) biophysics overview of our field! 21 January, 3 PM CET

Wer schon einmal den Gebetsruf oder den Klang spielender Kinder gehört hat, wird den Kontrast mit Explosionen, Raketeneinschlägen und berstenden Scheiben vermutlich genauso unerträglich wie ich finden. Eine erschütternde 50-minütige Klangdokumentation, von heute im SWR. www.swr.de/kultur/gesel...

I am looking for two postdocs to join our lab - One (bio)image analyst - One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics! The positions will open soon, be in touch!

Apply for a PhD in Singapore at NUS! Deadline Jan 12. I'm recruiting: Here with Mechanobiology Institute: www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr... and Here with Biomedical Engineering dept: cde.nus.edu.sg/bme/

Great post to start the new year, the first hours of a new life :-) Also tagging @mofrawe.bsky.social here, her handle is a tad difficult to find, but worth to watch and follow ;-)

We are looking for a Postdoc at the Center for Gene Expression in Copenhagen. Deadline for applications is the 11th of January. If you are interested in 3D chromatin, SMC complexes, and super-resolution microscopy, join us. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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!