The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

📢 Talents wanted. Are you a graduate, doctorate or an early career researchers at a research institution in #Africa? The @maxplanck.de offers mentorship by Max Planck scientists at various MPIs through its ARTEMIS program. Here is the 2026 call – application deadline is April 13, 2026.

TriRhena Gene Regulation Club Meeting in March 2026. 📍 Location: @igbmc.bsky.social, Strasbourg 🇫🇷 📅 Date: March 18, 2026 | 2:00 PM 🆓 Participation is free of charge, advance registration is required. Register your abstracts for 20-minute research talk. www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/gene-regulat...

Tread -1- EpiSci - I am very proud to share with you our new study that you can access on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (see link below) "The Interaction with Nanotopographical Environment regulates nuclear mechanoresponse in mESCs via Histone Demethylase KDM3A. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

See this 12 minute video by DW on @asifa-akhtar.bsky.social research in epigenetics and why and how closing the gender gap. #womeninstem #womeninscience

Fantastic news before we enter the weekend. @nanodiagbw.bsky.social receives funding approval! The »cluster4future« receives 15 Mio. € for their next phase making nanopore technology usable for the molecular diagnostics. Great success. Our proteomics facility is part of the cluster. 😍

This Friday (today), we’re pleased to welcome Melike Lakadamyali (@melikel.bsky.social) from @upenn.edu. If you are interested in Super resolution microscopy, cytoplasmic and nuclear organization with a focus on biophysics, then do not miss Prof. Lakadamyali talk in our lecture hall at 13:00. 🤗

Finish now! Only a few hours ⏳ to complete your application for the Max Planck & @uni-freiburg.de Freiburg #PhD program IMPRS-EBM If you missed this call, feel free to use our 📬 IMPRS-EBM notifier. We will send you a reminder as soon as the next call is waiting. www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/imprs

Apply now! The 2026 call for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open with a deadline of 1 April 12:00 midday CEST. 🧪 More info here: https://www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme/ #LifeSciences #research #funding

In the first feature of our "SFB 1381´s Female Minds" series in 2026 we talked to Asifa Akhtar, director at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and vice speaker of our SFB. Find the interview on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe... @mpi-ie.bsky.social #womeninstem

Okay folks, this is getting serious! 🚀 We already have 100 participants registered for “Looking Beyond Academia” – a #Career Evening hosted by our IMPRS‑EBM PhD program together with @sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social. If you’re in Freiburg next Monday, feel free to join us: s.gwdg.de/yjlAXo

Next Monday, we are happy to welcome George Wendt. The 🪱 schistosome researcher from the Collins lab at UTSW Medical enter joins our seminar series to present on “An evolutionary approach to studying the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni”. We start at 11AM! www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/events/43996...

We had a super interesting seminar by Giacomo Cavalli (@cnrs.fr | @umontpellier.bsky.social), today. 🤩 … with exciting data and results by the Cavalli on epigenetic memory of past events that get mediated by Polycomb components & #histone #acetylation. Thanks to @iovino-lab.bsky.social for hosting!

Tomorrow! ☺️

“Looking Beyond Academia” | Feb 9 | @uni-freiburg.de One of the most nerve-wracking questions for PhD students: What comes after the doctorate? To ease the transition into the next career phase, we invite you to join the IMPRS @sgbmfreiburg.bsky.social #Career Evening. Register: s.gwdg.de/yjlAXo

Join our next #DiscoverySeminar by Prof. Elena Conti from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry @mpibiochem.bsky.social. She will talk on "Shaping the message: molecular logic of mRNA-protein assemblies." #protein #RNA

#APPLYNOW 📣 The CIBSS Team is hiring! We are looking for someone passionate about helping early-career researchers develop their skills, qualifications and career prospects🧑🏽🔬🧬 ➡️ Coordinator of Early-Career Programs and Diversity Management 🗓️Deadline: Jan 18, 2026 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004767/

Next week, we welcome Giacomo Cavalli from @cnrs.fr | @umontpellier.bsky.social. He joins our Special Guest Seminar Series to give a talk on »Epigenetic memory of past events mediated by modification of Polycomb components & histone acetylation« Thanks to @iovino-lab.bsky.social for organizing. 🤗

International Genome Dynamics course in Institut Curie-Paris (April 8-15), experimental and computational methods in multiomics,with a #TE centered session. Free registration, until Jan 15th Don’t miss it! 👉https://training.institut-curie.org/courses/Genome-Dynamics-2026 @institutcurie.bsky.social

Fully-funded #PhD positions in #epigenetics, #biophysics & #metabolism, gene regulation, cell biology and more… Are you already on track to start an exciting research career @maxplanck.de & @uni-freiburg.de? This is your timeline. Apply by February 6th, 2026 www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/apply-imprs-...

As usual this time of year, started drafting the list of gene regulation conferences for 2026, enjoy! generegulation.org/conferences-... Know of a relevant event that’s missing? Please reply below

🧬 Join our Deep Sequencing Facility! 🧬 We are looking for a Scientist as Application Specialist »Next Generation Sequencing« (m/f/div) to work with cutting-edge tech like AVITI24 & NovaSeq. 📍 Freiburg, Germany 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Feb 2, 2026 🔗 jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/d...

🎄🌟 Season’s greetings from the entire team of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg … with a few impressions from our Winter Cookie Fair on December 11. ❄️ We wish you Happy Holidays and best wishes for 2026!

Our PhD program IMPRS-EBM of #Epigenetics, #Biophysics & #Metabolism will open for applications next week. 📢 Want to work at the forefront of epigenetic research at an MPI? Looking for a fully-funded #PhDposition at Max Planck? Here is your chance: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

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Please RT 📧 Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field ! ▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i

Join us for tomorrow´s 📢 CIBSS Seminar Series 🗓 09 Dec 2025 | 12:00–13:00 👩‍🔬 @julianeg.bsky.social, (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) 🎙 Endogenous retroviruses and mouse developmental malformations 📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1 See more: kurzlinks.de/iplv #CIBSS #Science #Immunobiology

Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack

This Thursday, we’re pleased to welcome Philipp Korber. Prof Korber leads a research group on “Nucleosome Positioning & Remodeling in Yeasts” at the @bmc-lmu.bsky.social in Munich. His work has identified ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers as major determinants of nucleosome positioning. Join us!

In case you missed it. @natsmb.nature.com is currently offering all its reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We are seeking an experienced computer scientist (m,f,d) to lead our Bioinformatics Core Facility But there is more… have the opportunity to develop and lead your own independent research project & build a research team by hiring PhD students and Postdocs. jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/6...

Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu

This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Day 20/31 Prompt RIVALS Pdb: 8V27 & 8G6S Two rival histone modifications on a nucleosome. Ubiquitination of H2BK120 activates genes while H2AK119 represses them. Next: BLAST Suggestions?

🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷. We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net

Here is the schedule for the next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club at the FMI @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel 🇨🇭 next week (5 Nov 2025; 14:00-18:45). Exciting topics ahead & we are looking forward to the #newPI talks by @julianeg.bsky.social (MPI) & Anupama Hemalatha (FMI). www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/grc

🚨 The Power of Wellbeing 🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks. ➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s ➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1

✨ Grand Opening of Our New Premises Today we will open the doors to science at HERZOG MAX — right in the heart of Munich. We expect guests from science, politics, and society to attend the grand opening. The highlight will be the panel discussion. @maxplanck.de

📣 Apply now for the 🌵CaCTüS 3-month fully funded internship in Germany in 2026! Work on ML, theor. neuroscience, computational psychiatry, behavioral experiments or data analysis at a top institution in Tübingen. For students facing barriers in higher education. 👉 cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de

Registration closes today. Hurry up. ⌛ 👉 The next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club takes place at the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel 🇨🇭. 📅 Nov. 5th, 2025 (14:00-20:00) 📌 FMI, Basel ✍️ Registration deadline: Oct. 20th, 2025

🚨 Paper alert: Using liver organoids and in vivo models, the Akhtar lab and first-author @mwiese.bsky.social revealed how the epigenetic regulator KANSL3 shapes transcriptional programs driving liver function and development. More in @lsajournal.org: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...

Feeling inspired after presenting some #3Dgenome & #single-cell data at the #EDRC2025 in the beautiful #Alicante🇪🇸🧬🪰 Looking forward to the next amazing sessions to exchange ideas and connect with the community!

👉 The next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club takes place at the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. 📅 Nov. 5th, 2025 (14:00-20:00) 📌 FMI, Basel ✍️ Registration deadline: Oct. 20th, 2025 Attendance is free 💸 , but registration mandatory: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/gene-regulat...

Congratulations 🎉, Thomas Boehm. Our emeritus Director was appointed Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina!

Our Alumna Felicia Basilicata became Professor for Chromatin & Neurodevelopment in Munich. 🥳 — here is an interview with Felicia.

Job alert 🚨 – Technical Assistant (m/f/d) – Developmental Epigenetics Help uncover how epigenetic information is set at life’s very beginning. Join @iovino-lab.bsky.social to study gamete formation & the zygotic epigenome using 🪰, 🐭 and 🧫. jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/2...

Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo. 📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009 #PlantScience

Congratulations to Davor Solter!🎊 Our Emeritus Director receives the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for the groundbreaking discovery of genomic imprinting! He shares the prize with Azim Surani (@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social) All the details: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6058738/2025...

TODAY at 12:00 ➡️ We are are excited to host Dr. Tanja Mittag in our Seminar Series! @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social www.stjude.org/research/lab...

A big welcome to the new PhD students in our IMPRS graduate program for Epigenetics, Biophysics & Metabolism in Freiburg! We’re excited to see where their curiosity will take them. Have good start! More about the program here: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr... (new call in Dec. 2025 👀)

NEXT WEEK we are at #EESMicrobiome in Heidelberg @events.embl.org Full program: www.embl.org/about/info/c... On Tuesday, 16 Sept. see you at Session 1 from 15:30 ✨Liviana Ricci will give a talk "Microbial strain transmission between infants in nurseries drives gut microbiome development" 1/3