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

Join our "Advances in Single-Cell Technologies" meeting in December in Freiburg, co-organised with Marco Prinz and @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social. Excellent line-up of speakers covering spatial technologies, lineage tracing, computational methods, and more. www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/single-cell-...

🎉 Join us at the upcoming GfG Symposium "Epigenetics & Chromatin" in Giessen, Sept 24–26, 2025! Amazing speakers, low registration fee, € 300 prizes for best poster & short talk, + free GfG membership for non-members. Please RT! express.converia.de/frontend/ind...

Only a few more days to submit your abstract to this fantastic conference. Hurry up! ⬇️

The first comprehensive map of HSC metabolism. 😱 The team of @ninacabezas.bsky.social published the first integrated map detailing metabolic & molecular changes in human blood stem cells as they age, specialize, or turn cancerous with many astonishing insights More in @natcellbio.nature.com or ⬇️

🎤 Apply to speak @our TALENT FORUM by July 31! Showcase YOUR research in Epigenetics & NucleicAcids @www.helmholtz-munich.de & connect with leading scientists 🧳Travel+accommodation covered if selected! 📝 Info+how to apply: lnkd.in/drkRvz7N #postdoc #career #groupleader #HelmholtzMunich #research

🚨New paper in @natcomms.nature.com Crossing a >300x threshold in major satellite repeat RNA expression disrupts heterochromatin & triggers mitotic failure & cell death. Using a dCas9 system, the Jenuwein lab reveals that MSR transcription levels govern chromatin structure in mice.

After the break, we finish the symposium with talks by our fantastic iGEM team, newly hired Professor @simonelsasser.bsky.social and honorary Professor @ibrahimcisse.bsky.social of @mpi-ie.bsky.social.

Wow. 🥳 The recent cardio paper by @ninacabezas.bsky.social lab got 2️⃣ beautiful highlights. … one by Nature Cardiovascular Research nature.com/articles/s44... and a second review by Science Immunology science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations to team for this fantastic recognition! 🥇🥈

Interested in mass spectrometric analysis of protein machineries? Join us at our Mini-Symposium taking place September 23! For registration (free of charge, but mandatory), please contact [email protected] until August 15th. @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

New paper in @natgenet.nature.com by the Mundlos lab! The team has identified the mechanism by which a retrotransposon of viral origin causes limb malformations. Congratulations to first author @julianeg.bsky.social, now group leader @mpi-ie.bsky.social! --> www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-an...

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