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Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, meet #mdcBerlin researcher and group leader Melissa Birol. Her lab models how neurodegenerative diseases progress – focusing on intrinsically disordered proteins and their role in brain dysfunction. 🔗 More: www.mdc-berlin.de/about/values...#InternationalWomensDay#mdcBerlin#WomenInSTEM

An unforgettable night at SPARK 12: Seeking the Mysterious in Art and Science! 🎶🧬 We were immersed in a mesmerizing performance by SooJin Anjou of Messiaen’s piano preludes combined with original video art (world-premiere) by Lillevan - a collaboration beautifully blending sound and visuals. (1/2)

🟥Zwei Postdocs an Charité & @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social stärken am EC Early Disease Interception die Expertise zu Biomarker-Validierung & kohortenbasierter translationaler Forschung. 🟥 Am EC Youth Mental Health arbeitet ein Charité-Postdoc zur MRI-gestützten Früherkennung psychiatrischer Erkrankungen.

🤩💪 Out now! 3D regulatory hubs in sex determination With @mamartirenom.bsky.social & Capel labs, led by @imotagom.bsky.social & @jrotwitguez.bsky.social 1️⃣ METALoci – explore #3DGenome 🧬 2️⃣ Non-coding region controlling Fgf9 🧩 3️⃣ Meis genes = new key players 🌟 👉 rdcu.be/e5sm2 1/n Bluetorial 👇

Geschichte auf dem Weg ins Labor: im weißen Gebäude links war die "Ständige Vertretung der BRD in der DDR", rechts wohnte bis zu seiner Ausweisung Wolf Biermann. Eine "Botschaft" durfte es nicht sein, das hätte die DDR zu sehr aufgewertet: www.spiegel.de/geschichte/s... – heute ist darin ein… (1/2)

Guten Morgen in die Runde! Diese Woche gibt es meinen Wissenschaftsalltag als Molekularbiologie am @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social / @mdc-berlin.bsky.social, allerlei Hintergründe zu unserer Forschung und natürlich (Versuche von) Antworten auf eure Fragen. Falls jemand da reinschauen will: meine … (1/2)

Seen yesterday at the door of a PI office at our institute @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social I agree 💯 - and good to know that even PIs feel the same after many years of research…

🎶✨ SPARK #12, Feb 26, 2026 For the 1st time, SPARK will feature visual art: internationally renowned video artist Lillevan presents a world premiere video interpretation of O. Messiaen’s Complete Preludes (1929), performed live by S. Anjou. Panel discussion: “Seeking the mysterious in art & science”

We’re excited to host Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) at MDC-BIMSB. Talk: How do cells learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer 📅 Friday, Feb 20, 2026 🕝 2:30 PM 📍 MDC-BIMSB @mdc-berlin.bsky.social Host: Jan Philipp Junker Join us! #mdcBerlin

Registration now open for the I&I Berlin Symposium 2026! Are you part of Berlin’s immunology community or planning to become one? On March 17, 2026, the symposium bringing together researchers, clinicians, & early-career scientists working on immunology and inflammation.

🧠 How do brain organoids help researchers study the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease? #mdcBerlin's Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf explains what drives her and how advanced brain organoid models help her team explore how the disease may be initiated. 🔗 Full article: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ag...

🚨 1/ Preprint Alert! Sex determination outcome is conserved across vertebrates (i.e. generating 2 compatible sexes) ♀️♂️ But are the cell types and gene programs behind them conserved too? 🧬 Spoiler: not really 👀 Find out in our new preprint ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉 Congratulations to Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf on winning a €200,000 Alzheimer’s research grant from the Stiftung Alzheimer Initiative! 👉 Detailed insights: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ag...

We mourn the sudden unexpected loss of Peer Bork who helped shape our commitment to innovative life science. Read the full obituary by Detlev Ganten: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/me... Photo: Jeff Dowling/European Bioinformatics Institute | @ebi.embl.org

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#jobalert We have open position/s in genomics and explainable/generative AI @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet... More info also on linkedin: www.linkedin.com/posts/uwe-oh... please share!

PhD in Berlin? The city offers a broad spectrum of doctoral programs w/ funding opportunities & collaborations w/ research institutions. www.doctoral-programs.de/welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, @unipotsdam.bsky.social, @udkberlin.bsky.social

1️⃣2️⃣ top institutions. One goal: advance early disease interception in Berlin. The Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception brings new technologies together to detect disease long before symptoms occur. We sat down with two of its speakers. Full interview: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ne... 👈

Artificial intelligence raises new responsibilities for science and society. At Salon Sophie Charlotte, #mdcBerlin researcher and group leader Uwe Ohler and Mathijs Vleugel (#Helmholtz Open Science Office) discuss data ownership, AI models, and data sovereignty. More info: 👉 salon.bbaw.de/start#mdcBerlin👈

Exciting news: The Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception (EC-EDI) has received €6M in funding from @einsteinberlin.bsky.social In this interview, the 2 EC-EDI spokespeople—MDC-BIMSB Director Nikolaus Rajewsky & Leif Erik Sander (Charité/BIH)—discuss the initiative: bit.ly/4qp39t2 #MDCBerlin

🚀 We’re hiring – join us at the #mdcBerlin! We are looking for a Science Strategy Manager in Bioengineering & Precision Prevention to help connect people, ideas, and disciplines across biology, AI, and medicine. 🗓 Apply by Jan 20, 2026 More: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...#mdcBerlin👈

Yesterday's Predictive Systems Medicine Partnering Event at #mdcBerlin brought together leaders from science, industry, investment, and innovation. Pitches, 1:1 matchmaking, and networking set the stage for new collaborations in diagnostics, therapies, AI-driven medicine, and more. Take a look! 👇

Join us for an MDC Afternoon for Immunology at the @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social on December 8th with student/postdoc talks and two keynotes, Jeffrey A. Hubbell and Stefano Casola 🙂 🔗 Register: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/...

🤝 Science meets industry at #mdcBerlin! Join the Predictive Systems Medicine Partnering Event on Dec 4, 2025, at #CampusBuch – connecting innovators, start-ups, and industry leaders in #AI, omics, drug discovery, and other fields. Info & registration: 👉 www.b2match.com/e/predictive...#mdcBerlin👈

NIMSBinars continue on Nov 25, 13:00 CET - another look into systems biology research highlights. This episode features Emanuel Wyler from the MDC-BIMSB and Carlos Minutti from the Champalimaud Foundation. 🔗 Register here: mdc-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Wie Malaria ungeborenen Kindern schadet: mit Kolleg*innen der Mount Kenya University (Thika/Kenia), @cam.ac.uk und @lshtm.bsky.social werden dank einer großen Förderung des britischen @wellcometrust.bsky.social die "Plazenta-Malaria" erforschen. www.mdc-berlin.de/de/news/pres... … (1/3)

Meeting @mdc-berlin.bsky.social alumni: Yongbo Wang (Fudan U), @munschauerlab.bsky.social (Heidelberg U), and Wei Chen (SUSTech) at Sino-German RNA Symposium in Shenzhen

🌍 Global recognition for two #mdcBerlin scientists! Friedemann Paul and Nikolaus Rajewsky are listed among Clarivate’s #HighlyCited2025 researchers for their influential work in neuroimmunology and systems biology. 👉 More information: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/in...#mdcBerlin👈

📣 Applying for an #ERC grant? Join us at #CampusBuch on November 19 (9:30–11 a.m.) for a talk by Dr. Martin Penny from the @erc.europa.eu Executive Agency on #ERC funding opportunities and evaluation procedures. 👉 More information: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/...

✨Our latest SPARK: creative processes in the arts and sciences brought together music, science, photography and philosophy during @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social #SPARK #ArtMeetsScience #BerlinScienceWeek25 #mdcBerlin (1/3)

🧬 During the lab tour at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social at this year’s @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social people learned about single cell technologies and how machine learning can make sense of measurements. 👇 See our guests try experiments of their own below.

Had a great time welcoming visitors into our labs for @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social! It's always inspiring (and important!) to share our research with the public, and to see so much curiosity for how and why we do science 🧪🧬 Photos © Marc Beckmann / Berlin Science Week

Next up in the NIMSBinars series - join us on Nov 11 at 13:00 CET for another deep dive into systems biology! This time we are featuring Inês Pires da Silva from Champalimaud Foundation and Annette Hammes from Max Delbrück Center. 🔗 Register here: mdc-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔬 One Cell at a Time. Am 4. & 6.11. können Interessierte im @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social mehr über #Einzelzellforschung erfahren und im Labor selbst #Zellen pipettieren. 👉 Mehr dazu berlinscienceweek.com/de/programme...

👏 Thank you, Otmar D. Wiestler – and welcome, Martin Keller, incoming President of the #Helmholtz Association. We here at the #mdcBerlin thank Otmar Wiestler for his visionary leadership and look forward to continued collaboration under Keller’s direction. 👉 More: www.helmholtz.de/en/newsroom/...#Helmholtz👈

Out now: how the deubiquitinating enzyme OTUD7B in astrocytes protects against murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis – lead by our colleagues at MHH Hannover, with us @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social providing spatial transcriptomics analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social is coming – and we are once again part of it! From Nov 1–10, the #mdcBerlin joins researchers and science enthusiasts across the city to share ideas shaping the future of science. Explore our program: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/science-week 👈 #BerlinScienceWeek25

The new season of NIMSBinars kicks off Oct 28 at 13 CET! Join us for insights into the latest systems biology research. This session features Marina Chekulaeva (Max Delbrück Center) and Sophia Maschalidi (VIB-UGhent). 🔗 Register here: mdc-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New preprint! Using single-cell lineage tracing in zebrafish, the Junker lab shows how neuroblastoma cell states arise and change: tumor states are partly determined by the cell of origin, yet retain plastic potential and can be reprogrammed in developmental environments. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀 WE ARE HIRING 3️⃣ Independent Group Leaders for #mdcBerlin's new cutting-edge Bioengineering Cluster within our Biomedical Engineering Program. Lead cutting-edge research at the interface of biology, engineering, and medicine in Berlin. 👉 Apply now: www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

Congrats to #mdcBerlin researchers Simone Spuler, Ana Pombo, Gabriele Schiattarella, Clara Vazquez, and Thoralf Niendorf! They are on the @tagesspiegel.de's list of the 100 most important minds in Berlin science. Read more: 👉 www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/sie-g... 👉 www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/sie-s...

Passionate about #SystemsBiology and ready to lead your own research group? Join us at the forefront of discovery — apply now to be a #GroupLeader at the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology, in beautiful Lisbon, PT! Appl. by Oct 8: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #ScienceJobs #JobOffer

Check out the latest #preprint by @ms-maren.bsky.social from our lab @leifludwig.bsky.social if you want to use frozen/archived tissues for mitochondrial scATAC-seq 👇 (With example data from #glioblastoma, #aortas, #als and #neuroblastoma 🤩) @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @bihatcharite.bsky.social

Very dynamic poster sessions at the late summer school on tumor heterogeneity and treatment followed by a rooftop party. Thank you @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social for hosting us!

ADPKD affects 1 in 1,000 children – but only one drug exists, and it mainly targets symptoms. Now, an international team led by #mdcBerlin / #mdcBIMSB's Michael Kaminski shows how base editing can restore protein function and shrink cysts in mice. Full story: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/g...#mdcBerlin👈

Cells use nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) to destroy faulty RNA before it can cause harm. Researchers at the #mdcBerlin and the University of Cologne uncovered hidden RNA variants and built a free database for the field. Check out the full story: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/h... 👈

Job offer! We have a fully funded open PhD student position at the @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social as part of @deep-dv-for5200.bsky.social, on RNA-based molecular mechanisms in herpes simplex virus 1-infected cells. Please spread the word, and DM me in case of questions. www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

Nearly 50 new cancer drugs are approved each year – but which one fits which patient? At the #mdcBerlin, @al2na.bsky.social’s team built Flexynesis, a deep learning toolkit to guide precision cancer care. Learn more: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/u... 👈

🚀 Deadline approaching: apply by September 17 and become a GLOBAL POSTDOC FELLOW at the #mdcBerlin. You'll co-develop projects with two supervising labs, tackling biomedical grand challenges – with full salary, modern infrastructure, and career support. More: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/postdocs#t-g...#mdcBerlin👈