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

🚨 New Review Out 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest review in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research: “Dad’s Diet Shapes the Future: How Paternal Nutrition Impacts Placental Development and Childhood Metabolic Health” 👉 lnkd.in/g8_VWKCp

Excited and very grateful to announce that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant by @erc.europa.eu! 🎉 This is a fantastic opportunity to further build my team at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (@mpi-ie.bsky.social) exploring new grounds in fundamental research:

New ERC Starting Grant for Valentin Flury to investigate the role of epigenetic memory during cell division focusing on epigenome maintenance on sister chromatids. Read all details here: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6057908/2025... Congratulations 🥳, @flurylab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

New ERC Starting Grant for Juliane Glaser to study role of epigenetic mechanisms, specifically the control of transposable elements, in mammalian embryonic development. Read all details here: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6057908/2025... Congratulations @julianeg.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

🎊 Congratulations to Juliane Glaser (@julianeg.bsky.social) and Valentin Flury (@flurylab.bsky.social) on being awarded each an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant! – #ERCStG www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6057908/2025...

Registration is open for the online course on Sex Chromosome Evolution (Oct 6-10) but seats are limited. Learn about sex chromosome evolution and analysis. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/sexchr/ #course

If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you. I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/8vTgeXB

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social! register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

This week, we are happy to welcome Prof Phillip Zamore from @umasschan.bsky.social | @rti-umasschan.bsky.social | @hhmi.org. The RNA expert will give a talk about »Towards a modern understanding of an ancient small RNA pathway«. 📅 Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025, 1PM 📍 MPI-IE Freiburg, Lecture Hall

Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026? #EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics

Hey there 👐 . This week, we are happy to present our Monday #JobAlert posting, again. We have to fill many interesting positions at the Max Planck in #freiburg such as Postdoc positions in the Asifa Akhar lab & @flurylab.bsky.social lab … and we are in the middle of the next trainee call 🤗.

It's time again for another installment of our "SFB 1381´s Female Mind" series, in which we talked to Sukanya Guhathakurta, one of our YIGs. Find the answers to the three questions we asked her on our web page: www.sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/sfb-1381s-fe... #wominstem @mpi-ie.bsky.social

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

🍹 @ninacabezas.bsky.social & co combine #metabolomics, #lipidomics and transcriptomics of #hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during differentiation, #aging and #leukemia, finding a role for choline and showing that supplementation enhances stemness. bit.ly/3H98V0U

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 In this 2nd part of a 2-part episode, Dr Charles De Bock engages with Prof Dr Petya Apostolova and Dr Jörg Büscher to explore the intricate relationship between metabolism and hematology ➡️https://bit.ly/4o5oE1s Find the referenced Review in full & open access:  https://bit.ly/4kiYh5w

"I think that organizations such as EMBO and EMBL (...) should be expanded, because they go beyond boundaries and look for possibilities to promote #science without borders," says Asifa Akhtar, EMBO Member and Director of the @mpi-ie.bsky.social #Germany. 🧪 www.embo.org/people/scien... @maxplanck.de

Learn how the teams from @ninacabezas.bsky.social and our MPI-IE metabolomics facility created a metabolism map of healthy, old and cancerous HSCs. Great podcast episode. ⬇️🎧

Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually. www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...

🍼 Können väterliche Darmbakterien vor der Zeugung die Gesundheit der Nachkommen beeinflussen? 😳 Der aktuelle Stand der Forschung sagt: Ja, und zwar überraschend deutlich. 🏆 @denbobalab.bsky.social‬ hat darüber einen in @science.org ausgezeichneten Essay geschrieben. 🧵 1/12