New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains 1/ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Proud to see your story featured on the cover of #Neuron! 🤩 Along with a great #preview from Fides Zenk lab @epign.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Excited to share our News & Views in Neuron, co-authored with Yong-Qi Gao 🎉🧠 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... It highlights the fantastic new work from the @mareikealbert.bsky.social lab.

🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

GSCN 2025 Young Investigator Award goes to @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Find PR here www.gscn.org/ #stemcells #stammzellen #epigenetics #genetics @maxplanck.de @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de @bihatcharite.bsky.social

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.

Workshop Single Cell Genomics on 13 & 14 Oct in @www.helmholtz-munich.de , right before the @gscnoffice.bsky.social 13th Conference. Register and be part! #stemcells #singlecell #genomics #data #stammzellen #organoids

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How do epigenetic modifications contribute to human #neocortex #development? Excited to see our work out in #Neuron. We applied Epi-CyTOF and identified a novel role for PRC2 in regulating #ECM. @crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread below 👇

How important is #epigenetics for human brain? Researchers led by @mareikealbert.bsky.social used brain organoids 🧠 🧫 and Epi-CyTOF to show that histone methylation controls how brain cells multiply and how big the organoid grows. Read more ➡️ tud.link/4ywe3g #neuroscience #CMCBnews

Rund 150 (!) aktuell und ehemalig Geförderte waren beim diesjährigen #EmmyNoether-Jahrestreffen - und es war wieder einmal lustig, produktiv, sonnig, kollaborativ, synergetisch, kommunikativ und noch viel mehr. 😊 Kurzer Bericht, mehr Impressionen & die Präsentationen zu den Talks: fcld.ly/ent2025

Join us!!!!! THE Symposium for all Chromatin and Epigenetics experts and 'lovers' this year!!!

Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids. mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

Do you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! Topics: object detection/tracking, multimodal models & more. DM/email for details! #PhD #AcademicJobs #GPUsgoBrr

#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp

🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility! 🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11 More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8 @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Award-winning mentors share best practice to keep your team going amid political upheavals, economic downturns and other events https://go.nature.com/4eErOVx

Dr. Katie Long is leading vital research, funded by an MRF award, to learn how pregnant people feel about vaccines during pregnancy. We want your views! Take this short survey: tinyurl.com/vaccines-in-... For more information on vaccines in pregnancy visit tommys.org/vaccinations-pregnancy

We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have several open postdoc positions! We do computational biology 🧬🖥️ and deep learning to understand the genomics of genome instability and (somatic) genome evolution in ageing and cancer. Interested? 👉🏻 more details: tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/...

Here's a job at my institute that just opened up: Max Planck Director in Biological AI. This is an amazing opportunity - www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity

Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development @nature.com @akanksha-jain.bsky.social @graycamplab.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Shuting Xu 🎉㊗️ As Shuting is the first PhD graduate from our Dresden lab, I was probably more nervous than she was. But Shuting delivered an outstanding, stimulating presentation and handled the Q&A with confidence. Very well done! 1/2

Brandnew online: GSCN Magazine: www.gscn.org/ Stem cells: Aging & Cancer Content: When sc age: Ways to rejuvenate; Stem cells and blood cancer; Stem cells and tumors @mdc-berlin.bsky.social n.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @bihatcharite.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de @dkfz.bsky.social

Check out our new review with @takashi-namba.bsky.social featured on the cover of Trends in Neurosciences 👇

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Three amazing days of the #neurogen2025 conference at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan. Many thanks to all the participants, speakers and fellow co-organizers. We heard fantastic talks in #neurodevelopment #brainevolution #cancerneuroscience #neuroimmunology #neurodegeneration #neurodiversity

Carlotta Barelli great presentation of her fresh work on how Glioblastoma stem cell morphotypes convey distinct cell states & clinically relevant functions (resistance,invasiveness) With @nereokalebic.bsky.social #neurogen25 @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Mareike Albert @mareikealbert.bsky.social presenting how Human-specific morphoregulatory signatures in basal radial glia characterize neocortex evolution. #neurogen25 @nereokalebic.bsky.social @harschnitz.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

We will be kicking off the Neurogenomics Conference with two sessions on Neurodevelopment with talks from Wieland Huttner, @bassemh.bsky.social, @mareikealbert.bsky.social, @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social, Yukiko Gotoh, @boyanbonev.bsky.social and others! #neurogen25

Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why does the forebrain expand dramatically while other neural regions grow less? Our new publication reveals progenitor metabolism critically shapes region-specific brain growth. Thread below. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-udL7PXu...

Delighted to share our latest work deciphering the landscape of chromatin accessibility and modeling the DNA sequence syntax rules underlying gene regulation during human fetal development! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read on for more: 🧵 1/16 #GeneReg 🧬🖥️

Great study by @nataliabaumann.bsky.social @djabaudon.bsky.social & collaborators, showing how regional differences in progenitor metabolism shape brain growth during development @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

My guidelines for exploratory data analysis

Are you interested in combing machine learning and 🧬 language models with multi-omics data to study somatic genome evolution? We have several open postdoc positions and look forward to hearing from you! tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/... 🧬🖥️

Telomere-to-telomere genome sequences of six ape species: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean & Sumatran orangutan, & siamang! Invaluable resource for future evolutionary studies of humans & our closest living relatives. Kateryna Makova, @aphillippy.bsky.social, Evan Eichler & co in @nature.com.🙌🧬🧪

Our Physics of Life exhibition @poldresden.bsky.social‬ is now open at the COSMO science forum. Explore interactive materials in the beautiful glass building in the city center. 📍Schloßstraße 2, 01067 Dresden

That is a great reason for a first post! With a few days of delay, I am proud to share that my postdoc work at the @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social has finally been published on @cp-cellreports.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Now a small (or maybe not) thread about the work!

#zebrafishrocks #zebrafishjobs #Regeneration 🧪 Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Can a stem cell change its epigenome while proliferating? In collaboration with the lab of Amos Tanay, we demonstrate that yes, the epigenome of neural stem cells (NSCs) is continuously remodeled, across multiple layers, during mouse corticogenesis. 1/14 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀 Applications OPEN! 🚀 Study Life Sciences at CMCB, @tudresden.bsky.social 🔬🧪 Regenerative Biology & Medicine 🌱⚙️ Molecular Bioengineering ⚛️🧬 Physics of Life Apply now ➡️ tud.link/b672uf #MSc #LifeSciences #StudyinGermany

I could not be more excited to have our lab's first story online where we report our discovery that HDACs ~reverse~ their activity to ADD acyl groups to lysine! We found this for our favorite ketone body, BHB, but this pathway controls other lysine modifications too!🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoy our new review article discussing epigenetic-metabolic interplay in brain development! It is a nice & fun collaborative work with Mareike Albert lab @mareikealbert.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

⏳🧠 Developmental timing is key during neocortex development. Our new review with @takashi-namba.bsky.social lab discusses the role of epigenetic and metabolic regulation of developmental timing in neocortex evolution. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exciting work from the Albert lab on unique signatures of human basal radial glia. And look at those beautiful organoids with their basal progenitors! 🤩