Congratulations, Dr. Kalita!!!

Cell biology enthusiasts: We look forward to the #DGZ meeting in Heidelberg in October to celebrate 50 years of @dgz.bsky.social! 4 keynote speakers, 12 DGZ workgroups showcasing the latest in their fields & DGZ awardees 2025 will present. Register by Sept 15. www.zellbiologie.de/dgz-internat...

🧬 New study from the Kinkley Lab! 🧬 In collaboration with the Vingron and Hnisz labs at the MPIMG the team has gained new insights how the epigenetic reader PHF13 regulates it´s affinity to bind to chromatin. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/2025-07-28-o... Congrats to first author Francesca Rossi!

I'm really happy to see the work from my Master's thesis published! 🎉 Shoutout to everyone who helped make this happen — especially @albaperez.bsky.social for the amazing mentorship and Alfred for the opportunity to work on this cool project! Check it out 👀

Calling all aspiring Postdocs! One extra week to apply to join our exciting HFSP-funded project to uncover how chromatin moves to function. Deadline July 15th. www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

We are looking for a research assistant to join our lab and support ongoing projects with genome engineering in mouse embryonic stem cells! Please get in touch if you are interested. www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

We are excited to officially welcome a new group leader at the MPI-IE in #Freiburg. 🎉 Dr Juliane Glaser 🥳 – she studies epigenetic mechanisms of embryonic development, with a focus on transposable elements. 👉 Interview: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6043545/2025... Welcome, @julianeg.bsky.social!

Check out the work of the freshly baked Dr @flavia-con.bsky.social from the Brockdorff lab. Flavia used live-cell single molecular imaging to understand how SMCHD1 interacts with chromatin and is involved in silencing of Xi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🗞️Our June issue is live!📷 This month, we're featuring work on editing epigenetic age, somatic mutation, senescence, Alzheimer’s biomarkers and much more. Read it all here: nature.com/nataging/vol...

Join us in the #institutcurie exceptional environment to explore the mysteries of X chromosome regulation in early human development

If you are interested by epigenetics, early human development in excellent scientific environment in middle of Paris, we are recruiting a postdoc. app.beetween.com/WeaselWeb/p/... Don't hesitate to apply or share the post !

One thing still missing in many GWAS pipelines: chrX analysis... In this study from @ajhgnews.bsky.social, Mefford et al. explore X-GWAS across 48 UKBB traits and as expected, ~3% of trait heritability comes from chrX. Looks like it’s time we start doing this! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

🚨Preprint alert!🚨 Great collaboration with the lab of Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social - we dissect the role of non-canonical enhancers in human pluripotent stem cells. 👇

Why do women experience aging-related diseases differently than men? A new study shows that with age, genes on the inactive X chromosome can reactivate – potentially influencing conditions like #dementia and #autoimmunity: go.tum.de/987255 #genetics #aging 📷 @dandergassen.bsky.social

Berlin’s local government is ruining the city’s scientific landscape, by further cuts into the under-financed Universities. www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/kurzu...

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

📢 Don't miss! Wei Xie of Tsinghua University, Beijing will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Decoding the transcription circuitry when the life begins 📆 09. MAY, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41527...

I’m incredibly proud to share the results of our lab’s first project, leading to the exciting discovery – Aging promotes reactivation of the Barr body at distal chromosome regions – now published in @nataging.nature.com! 🔗 tinyurl.com/3jkzzy7d

Our own Elodie Limberg won a poster prize! Congratulations! 🍾

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How do embryos ensure precise tissue patterning? It’s all about timing cell divisions! Our new preprint reveals how cell proliferation syncs with signaling oscillations to regulate precision of somite formation and growth. Check the full story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#StandUpForScience👩‍🔬👨‍🔬📢Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, including our managing director, show solidarity with our colleagues in the US who are protesting against the attacks of the current US administration. @standupforscience.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

Congratulations, Daniel and team! Sounds really interesting, I'm looking forward to reading it!

First cake in the sun this year with the Schulz Lab! ☀️

Für unser Institut suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Technische Betriebsleitung (m/w/d). Nähere Informationen finden Sie hier: www.molgen.mpg.de/4839359/job_...

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planc... #ScienceCareer

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With pleasure we share our preprint reporting robust and cost-effective expansion of naive human Pluripotent Stem Cells without feeder cells. A fantastic collaborative effort with @leeboratory.bsky.social @jzylicz.bsky.social @pasquelab.bsky.social and Nicolas Rivron. tinyurl.com/5n6z9rt9

Wow, that's great! Congratulations, Maud and team!

It’s official 🎉 I am excited to share that I will start my lab this spring at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social in beautiful Freiburg 🤩🗻☀️ I am looking forward to new collaborations and working with the fantastic community in Freiburg & its surroundings!

We (schierlab.bsky.social and Seelig lab) are very happy to share that our work has found a home at DevCell cellpress.bsky.social! Free access here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... What are the features in 5′ UTRs that determine when and how much of a protein to make during embryogenesis?

Meet our excellent speakers joining us for #GenomicImprinting25: @arburga.bsky.social @cwhanna.bsky.social @daannoordermeerlab.bsky.social @eddaschulz.bsky.social Join us for an exploration into how the latest #ImprintingResearch is advancing the clinical treatment of imprinting disorders 🔽

Happy to join Bluesky! We have news for friends of RNA in fission and budding yeast - our census of RNA-dependent proteins is online: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We are using R-DeeP (pioneered by @maiwen-ch.bsky.social) @pombase.bsky.social & @yeastgenome.bsky.social (1/n)

Very interesting paper by Philipp Voigt about nucleosomal asymmetry at bivalent domains. "Bivalency recruits H3K27me3 but not H3K4me3 readers, promoting a poised state" www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Huge noisy crowd outside the Berlin House of Representatives protesting proposed budget cuts that would hit universities hard #savebraincity

How do 250k regulatory sequences coordinate 15k genes in mammalian development? Just out: A genomic evidence board to decode the chaos by mapping enhancer-gene interactions across embryonic mouse tissues New resource with Miao Yu, Ming Hu, Bing Ren, and more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The distriction between epigenetics and epigenomics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social

Join us at FMI as a Junior Group Leader! A unique opportunity to set up your lab in a vibrant international research institute with world-class research groups and facilities, generous core funding, a collegial and inclusive culture - and great colleagues 🤓!

First post! We are hiring. We are looking for a motivated computational PhD student for an exciting project focusing on understanding malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRT), aggressive childhood cancers. Are you interested in epigenetics & genomics? Check out the following link: t.ly/l_KR0

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

Cool new work from Jenn Prescher and coworkers @ucirvine.bsky.social, “RNA lantern” technology for bioluminescence imaging of RNA transcripts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

By definition, enhancers can activate from a distance. But with increased distance between enhancer and promoter, the activation drops. To study this systematically, we build a synthetic locus: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... 1/12

We designed MS2 and PP7 binding coat proteins that are degraded in cells except when bound by their hairpin RNAs. You can check out our pre-print here: tinyurl.com/27p7hyt9, and listen to a Google AI-generated podcast on it here: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d71...

Fellow Genetics professors - rejoice! This is pedagogy heaven: the paradigmatic epiallele in calico cats … is built on a cis-regulatory deletion, not a coding mutation! We can teach it all off 1 paper! 1. Woo 2. Hoooo!!! H/t @lianafaye.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations, Ingrid! Winning a poster prize at your first international conference is a great achievement! #ProudPI

Our lab members are off to cool new jobs (including faculty 🎉) so we are looking for new team members. Experimental postdoc prioritized, but do get in touch if you think you are a good fit. Also, our PhD program is currently accepting applications: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic...

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

Really cool resource!

I’ll be pitching a Mosbacher Kolloquium at the next annual meeting of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM). The topic will be „Advances in gene regulation, editing, and medicine“. Anything that you’d like to be highlighted? gbm-online.de/en/the-gbm-2...