So exciting to see some of my microscopy images and PhD work featured in the daily German newspaper Goettinger Tageblatt! 😍

Thank you @maxplanck.de and @mpi-nat.bsky.social for spotlighting our work on how #aging impacts female #fertility. We uncover how maternal age impairs DNA repair in eggs—lowering reproductive potential. Curious? Read more + see some cool images too! 😀

Women lose >90% of their #eggs by their mid-30s, with persistent #DNADamage driving this loss. But why isn’t this damage repaired? Our new work in @CurrentBiology, led by @ninadini_sharma, reveals the causes of high DNA damage in aged oocytes.🧬💥 http://bit.ly/48e35Ee (1/13)

Last month, I bid adieu to my amazing PhD lab @SchuhLab at @mpi_nat and #Goettingen. 👋🇩🇪 Thank you Melina & all for creating a great environment for science, community, creativity and freedom! 🥰🔬✨️ Excited to share my work on DNA repair, #fertility & #aging soon! 🧬

It was such a pleasure and honour to present my work on the #aging and #female #fertility on the #ESHRE2024 stage! 😃🔬✨️ It was inspiring to meet talented scientists, clinicians, industry leaders and everyone working tirelessly in the field of reproduction! @ESHRE

Happy New Year! 🎉 Here are some sunset-inspired images of a few of my favourite things...chromosomes, spindles, oocytes and ovaries! 🎶😍 Wishing everyone a wonderful 2024 - hopefully with lots of fun microscopy and beautiful sunsets to behold!🔬✨😊

Honoured to speak with Nobel Laureate Michael Young from @RockefellerUniv and Hagen Schroeter from @MarsGlobal for the panel discussion on "Adding Life to our Years" at @lindaunobel #LINO23💡💭 We discussed roles of circadian rhythms, nutrition and #fertility for healthy #aging.

Stimulating discussions at the WORLD.MINDS and @lindaunobel #Longevity luncheon. Great to hear thoughts of scientists, CEOs, investors and VCs on the latest breakthroughs in aging. Loved @francesarnold's point - We need to focus more on healthy #aging and not living forever! 💯

Excited to be at the Stem Cells @cshlmeetings at picturesque @CSHL campus this week. Please come visit my poster #136 if you wanna talk about fertility, aging and the beauty of oocytes! 😍🥚🔬🧬@schuhlab @mpi_nat

Great fun talking about how aging affects female fertility at the @uniGoettingen #GGNBScienceSlam earlier this week!😊🐁🥚Thanks for coming and voting. So nice to meet other PhD students and learn about their cool work! @mpi_nat @SchuhLab

Fantastic talk by @Spo11Rulz today at @mpi_nat! Thank you for joining our joint departmental seminar series @SchuhLab @rinklab.😃 Beautiful data, stories and most importantly so easy to appreciate the science when someone is so assionate about it. 🧬🐁🔬🌟 #meiosis4eva

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing everyone a bright and colourful 2021 -- much like these mammalian oocyte nuclei!😊✨🎅🔬🎄 @SchuhLab @mpi_bpc @maxplanckpress #sciart

Very nice talk at @HorizonsMolBio today by @Thomas_Helleday on oxidative DNA damage in cancer. Interesting science and also loved all the messages on perseverance and serendipity! 👏🧬⚡️ #Horizons2021 #HorizONline

Very fascinating talk by @PauliGroup from @IMPvienna on sperm-egg binding during fertilizations! So much remains to be understood about the beginning of life! 🥚😍🤯 Great going, @HorizonsMolBio! 😀 #Horizons2021 #HorizONline

2 really fun talks esp. for a microscopy lover at #LINO70!🔬😻 Also very nice to have open interactive discussions with the participants and @StefanHellLabs and @joachimfrank! @lindaunobel @mpi_bpc

Fantastic #AgoraTalk today at #LINO70 discussing next generation medicine. Great food for thought on the importance not only being informed but also making efforts to keep others informed about facts. Especially to handle pandemics better in the future! 😀🧪🙋🏻‍♀️@lindaunobel

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!🎄🔬✨ Wishing everyone bright and colourful times ahead! 😊 @mpi_bpc @maxplanckpress @SchuhLab #sciart

Trying to capture some autumnal colours from the absolutely beautiful view at @mpi_bpc @thegoecampus, in my microscopy! 😍🍁🍂🍃🔬🌟

#Horizons2020 comes to an end today after 4 days of fantastic science online. Big congratulations to all the organisers who were so adaptive and motivated to keep the @HorizonsMolBio flag flying high. Great job, guys! 🌅😀

Day 2 of my life in 7 pictures. No words, no people and challenge a new person every day. I was nominated by @xlred, I nominate @vnzinchenko. #homemade #samosas 🤤🇮🇳🔺️

Day 1 of my life in 7 pictures. No words, no people and challenge a new person every day. I was nominated by @xlred, I nominate @kartik_lakshmi. 🐁🥚🔬💫😊

That moment when your cleared brain slices slightly look like the face of a sloth. 🧠🦥🤯 @Harvard_CBI #TCW2020

Really fun and informative campus seminar at @mpi_bpc today by @wojciechkopec3 from @CompBioPhys. Didn't zone out even for a second, and learned lots of cool things about K+ channels. Great job, Wojcieck!🤓🙌🏼

Full house today for Melina's campus talk at @mpi_bpc! Fantastic talk and work on the liquid-like meiotic spindle domain (LISD). 🔬🐭🌟 @SchuhLab Also a great idea to combine lunch and talks! 🙌🏼

Met this li'l frizzball at @mpi_bpc while trying to meet the deadline for sequencing pickup. 🐛🍃 Voiceover by @LastChrisThomas

Science for the day, music for the night. Our peeps at @mpi_bpc swapped their pipettes for 🎤🥁🎹🎻🎸 to make our Friday Happy Hours even cooler! Introducing: RBF! 🥳 @LastChrisThomas @birdumbrella @francosimonetti @thegoecampus @VedranVasic

Superb talk and discussions yesterday with @AndreaMusacchi1 from @mpimoph. Still buzzing about the beauty of kinetochores solved by in vitro reconstitutions. Thank you for visiting the @SchuhLab and @mpi_bpc! 😀

Great news for the @SchuhLab @mpi_bpc today! Melina just won the #LeibnizPreis 2019. Congratulations, Melina, you constantly amaze and inspire us. 😊🍾🎊🎉

2. #PollyMatzinger: Read more and think more before you do too much at the bench. Don’t read only when you begin to write.

Some of my favorite advices: 1. @TheVillaLab Fail fast. Don’t march ahead to step 84 of your idea without a solid beginning. Make a sensible pilot experiment and know how far you’ll invest in the project.

Superb panel discussion on “Troubles of a young scientist: Fantastic ideas and where to find them” today at #Horizons2018. Joined by an eclectic panel and served some delicious food for thought! 👀🧠✨ @KrishnanYamuna #DavidGiltner #PollyMatzinger @TheVillaLab @maradierssen

Dr. Polly Matzinger from @NIH @NIAIDNews spoke about her paradigm danger model of immunity today at #Horizons2018 in @mpi_bpc. An amazing scientist, storyteller and dancer. 👩🏼‍🔬✨ ...and I can now personally vouch for all of that. 😀

Great talk by @florianjug today at @mpi_bpc for #Horizons2018. Knowing more about taking good #CARE of images. 🌅🔬✨ @HenriquesLab’s #SRRF also made a virtual cameo! 🏄🏻‍♂️

Who knew microscopy could be this fun? Thanks @EMBLEvents for amazing science and beyond! 😄🔬✨🍷@P_Matos_Pereira @LaineBioImaging @fabio_pezzano

From the creators of #Pumpy McPumpface @HenriquesLab! Great talk today by @P_Matos_Pereira at @EMBLEvents advanced microscopy course. Excited for what’s next here in @embl! #lovemicroscopy #fluorescence #frompapertoperson 🔬👩🏻‍🔬✨

An absolutely gorgeous animation of the kinetochore done in elaborate artistic detail! 🤩 https://x.com/drewberryiv/status/984552151551590400

Here's an egg wishing you a very happy Easter from the lovely Schuh lab at @mpi_bpc that studies meiosis in mammalian oocytes! 🐰🌼🌞 #meiosis #schuhlab #melinaschuh #happyeaster #FroheOstern #itallbeginswithanegg

After more than half a year at @mpi_bpc, I think I really have taken a liking for the colours of @maxplanckpress! 🔬✨♥️ #meiosis #chromosomes #spindle #mouseoocytes

Hello, @kiranshaw, I’ve been trying to reach you to invite you for the Annual career Fair at 15th Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium at Göttingen, Germany. The graduate students of Max Planck School would love for you to join us! Where can I send the official invite?

“Chocolate is forever, right?” 😁🍫 #ScienceRescuesChocolate = #ScienceRescuesHumanity ? CRISPR put to work to save chocolate from devastation http://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/crispr-put-to-work-to-save-chocolate-from-devastation/

Hulk in the lab! #hulkhands 😀

Here for the science! #myfirstTweet