🥳 Huge congratulations to Roland Beckmann and his team on being awarded an ERC Synergy Grant! We are very proud of you! 👏🏻 🥂 @beckmannlab.bsky.social

📣Join us for a guest seminar by Atlanta Cook from the University of Edinburgh 🕐TODAY at 13:00 ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall. Title: “Seeing Double: Integrative structural approaches to unravel nuclear dsRNA recognition by the NF45-NF90 complex.” We're looking forward to seeing you🤗 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

🧬 From 14–16 Nov, join us at the #DeutschesMuseum for “Stem Cell Stories” — an interactive exhibition on stem cells, identity & epigenetics. 🎙️ Roundtable discussion on #AI in stem cell research & its ethical challenges on 📅14 Nov ⏲️18:30. #StemCells #Epigenetics #AIinBiomedicine #HelmholtzMunich

🎓 Great to see LMU highlighting alumnus Stephan Kotrade in an alumni portrait! He fondly recalls the inspiring lectures of Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, founding director of the Gene Center Munich — where innovation and curiosity still drive research today🚀 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

📣Don't miss this amazing publication from the Hopfner lab👇

🤩Congratulations to Lukas Milles on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant – we’re proud to have you at the Gene Center! 👏🥂 @lfmilles.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Marleen Bérouti (@marleenberouti.bsky.social) from the lab of Veit Hornung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 👏🏾 2/

🥳Congratulations, Marleen!👏

LMU remains the best German university www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Check out this LMU article on Lukas Milles’ research — one of our rising talents!😉 Nanomachines made to measure: protein design with artificial intelligence www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @lfmilles.bsky.social

Check out our pre-print on how the human INO80 complex acts on nucleosomes and hexasomes: PostDocs Priyanka & Manmohan et al. solved structures of INO80 bound to several substrates and completed missing questions about similarities of modes of actions across species🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now peer reviewed and in its final form @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We‘re proud to share that our #SFB1361 PhD student, Yilan Fan from the @hopfnerlab.bsky.social, has been awarded a poster prize at the CNIO-CaixaResearch Frontiers Meeting “Machines on DNA and RNA: A Molecular Mechanistic Perspective“ held on 28-30 May 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Congrats! 🎉

Neue Vizepräsidenten der LMU gewählt www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

📣New paper from the Stingele lab! 👏🥳Congratulations to first author @sduerauer.bsky.social and the @jstingele.bsky.social team on their exciting discovery showing how ubiquitin activates the SPRTN protease to repair toxic DNA–protein crosslinks – a key mechanism for maintaining genome stability👇

Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns go.nature.com/4m48yDu

🥳Congratulations, Shubo! 🥂👏What a fantastic start to your scientific career! Shubo Zhao @jstingele.bsky.social receives Promotion Award from the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft: www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/news-events/... MUG prizes for LMU early-career researchers www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

If EMBL-EBI managed data resources have ever saved you time & effort, this is your chance to give back! Fill in a 15-minute survey to help us: 🌍Demonstrate the real-world impact of our resources 🤓Understand your needs 🌟Secure continued funding Closes 16 July www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch...

🎤 Postdocs: want to take the next step and become a #PI? Apply to speak at the TALENT FORUM @www.helmholtz-munich.de, showcase your research in Epigenetics & Nucleic Acids, and connect with top scientists. 🧳 Travel & accommodation covered if selected! 📝 Apply by 31July. 🔗 Info: lnkd.in/drkRvz7N

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🤗We're excited to host Daphne Cabianca next Monday! She will give a talk on “Shaping the genome with diet: dietary control of chromatin organization and function in a whole organism” 📅 July 7 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Join us for an inspiring talk – see you there! @daphne-cabianca.bsky.social

📣Rotem Sorek @soreklab.bsky.social has been awarded the Robert Koch Prize 2025 – congratulations, Rotem!👏🥂 www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/en/media/pre...

🩺💖The new ICON center unites cardiovascular research across disciplines to accelerate clinical translation of innovative therapies. Steffen Massberg and our PI Eckhard Wolf discuss the center’s goals and potential➡ www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🥳Amazing publication from the Hornung lab, in collab. with the Carell lab, on the innate immune system: how modified RNA tricks the immune system. Big shout-out to the two first authors, Marleen Bérouti and Mirko Wagner! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @v-hornung.bsky.social @m-berouti.bsky.social

🌟Hey Master’s students! Don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity in the Bohlen lab!👇

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📣Our guest series continues with Oleh Khalimonchuk! We're happy to welcome him next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Regulation of mitochondrial shape and function: From basics to disease” 📅 June 2 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @mitocrue.bsky.social @jaelab.bsky.social

Amazing! Congratulations to the whole team! Great job, everyone!👏🤩🥂🥳

🤗 Join us TODAY for the next session of the Gene Center PhD/Postdoc Seminar Series! Finn Becker from the Reichart lab and Milena Milakovic Obradovic from the Keppler lab will present their latest research results🧐 🕐1:15 PM ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall

Wow, so cool!🌟 Excellence in Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies: NUCLEATE Cluster selected for national recognition Led by spokesperson Veit Hornung, the NUCLEATE Cluster secures funding in Germany’s Excellence Strategy 🥂🥳🤩 www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @v-hornung.bsky.social

🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🤗 Join us TODAY for the next session of the Gene Center PhD/Postdoc Seminar Series! Yilan Fan (@hopfnerlab.bsky.social) and Wiebke Kochendörfer (Förstemann lab) will present their latest research on DNA double-strand breaks🧐 🕐1:15 PM ▶️Lynen Lecture Hall

Excited to share our latest preprint @albaabad.bsky.social @anjinaduvath.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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We're happy to welcome Evangelos Karousis next Monday! 🎉 He’ll be talking about “Decoding viral secrets using cell-free translation” 🧬 📅 May 12 🕐 1:15 PM ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall Don’t miss it! 🤗✨ @karousislab.bsky.social @jonathanbohlen.bsky.social @unibe.ch

✨Paper alert in the Klughammer lab👇 Congrats to the team 👏

📢Stigler lab in collaboration with the Holt lab decipher that LINE-1 ORF1p forms super-saturated co-condensates with RNA that enable DNA binding and nuclear entry during mitosis. Congratulations!👏👏👏 Details: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The full videos are available! Check them out: VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social youtu.be/YBVArSDgFMA

🥂🤩first snapshot of yesterday's award ceremony👇

🥳Congratulations to our PI Eckhard Wolf, who has been elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities! 🎉 www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/research-gro...

‼️ Job opportunity ‼️ ➡️ LAFUGA Proteomics is looking for a doctoral researcher: As part of the EU-funded NHPig project, you will study the proteomic profiles of a variety of tissues and biological fluids More details: www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/career/nhpig... www.nhpig.eu

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🎉 We couldn’t be prouder of you, Veit! 🎉 Next week, Veit Hornung will officially receive the Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine in Geneva! The Louis-Jeantet Foundation has created this fantastic video – a must-watch! 📽️👇 🧪 #LJFPrizes #Immunology #ProudMoment #ScienceInMotion

Next week: join us at the CMU for the #LJFPrizes Lectures with VEIT HORNUNG @v-hornung.bsky.social @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social and GILLES LAURENT @maxplanck.de 📆9th April 16h30 📍Auditoire Alex Müller (A250), CMU, Genève Free registration on: www.jeantet.ch/en/public-ev...

🤩Save the date: Marieke Oudelaar will speak on Molecular Drivers of 3D Genome Folding and Their Function in Gene Regulation💬 We look forward to meeting @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social😆 Join us on April 8 at 1:30 pm🤗 ➡️Lynen Lecture Hall @mpi-nat.bsky.social

Don't miss this👇 🧪 #cancer @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest pre-print! We solved the cryoEM structures of human DNA repair factor MRN bound to DNA and to TRF2. Main work of Yilan, Filiz @filizkuybu.bsky.social and Hengjun. Great collab within the @sfb1361.bsky.social and @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social 🧬🔨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yesterday, we did a quick spot check, asking our colleagues if they were concerned about current events affecting research freedom. The response was huge-most passers-by expressed their solidarity with the global scientific community 🧪 Imagine if we'd asked more... #StandUpForScience #ScienceMatters

Did you know?🧐 🗺️The campuses Grosshadern and Martinsried together form a hotspot of life science research. Located at the♥️, @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social is part of a vibrant research community @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social @mpibiochem.bsky.social @bmc-lmu.bsky.social