Class 4b from Grundschule am Hechinger Eck visited our lab. 22 kids learned about DNA with @jweir.bsky.social, peered through microscopes to explore their cheek cells, insects & even carpet (!). Best part? DNA extraction from bananas! 🧬🍌 #biology #education #STEM #schoolvisit #DNA #MaxPlanck

New preprint! How does meiosis work in non-model organisms? Together with Susana Coelho at the MPI for Biology Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social , we took a look at the proteins of the meiotic axis in the brown alga Ectocarpus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Registration now open for the 2025 EMBO workshop on Meiosis! June 22-26, 2025, Engelberg, Switzerland. Deadline for abstract submissions and registration is Feb 15th, 2025. Lots of speaker slots will be selected from abstracts, so apply now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...

Kinetic and structure-based comparisons of silent and stimulatory flagellin interactions with TLR5 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627598v1

Roses are 🔴, violets are 🔵, check out our latest mini-review! portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...