Very happy to host Fotis Sampaziotis on the 11/11 at BCRT. All are welcome to join. Fotios Sampaziotis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Title: "Deciphering fibrosis in bioengineered organs’" When: 11/11 2025 What: Talk at 1pm Where: Auditorium@Cranach Haus, Föhrer Str. 15, 13353 Berlin

Many exciting opportunities for a PhD in Life Sciences in CRG, Barcelona. If you are interested in Genomics of Diabetes check out the offer for a fully funded fellowship in our lab - we will consider candidates with experimental or computational backgrounds. Please spread the word!

ICYMI: New online! Towards a reference cell atlas of liver diversity over the human lifespan

Early bird today, I am on my way to the @gscnoffice.bsky.social conference, representing the @vallierlab.bsky.social together with Ferhat Ali Yaman. Looking forward to connect! #GSCN

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Tomorrow the first Berlin symposium on organoids will take place @ BCRT/BIH/Charite. Program: www.bihealth.org/en/notices/b.... I will present a summary of our work on liver organoids. : "Everything you always wanted to know about liver organoids (but you were afraid to ask)".

Looking forward to present the work of the lab at the lac leman regenerative medicine symposium: www.habiblab.org/l2rm Title of my talk: "CELL-BASED THERAPY AGAINST LIVER DISEASES AND BEYOND". I hope that the "beyond part" got your intrigued, me too.

In late August we had the pleasure of welcoming BSc students from the EPFL in Switzerland. They learned about our IMPRS-BAC graduate program and enjoyed a tour of the institute and the Vallier lab with Maïa Pesic. We wish the students all the best in their future careers! @vallierlab.bsky.social

🚨 Job Alert: we seek a Lab Manager for @juliabatki.bsky.social's new group (start Mar 2026), which will study cell fate regulation during organ development. Join the Batki's group to drive experiments & lab operations! Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

So, we (Dylan Liabeuf and Anastasiia Maksiuk) are organising the first Berlin symposium on organoids. The objective is to bring together the Berlin organoid community and to develop further interactions. Info: www.bihealth.org/en/notices/b... Free registration: www.bihealth.org/en/news/even...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Anzy Miller Here, @anzymiller.bsky.social talks about about her research interests at the intersection of developmental biology and modelling, as well as her advocacy for inclusivity and sustainability in science. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The website and the report for the German National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-based Therapies is now available: www.nationale-strategie-gct.de/en/ If you want to know how Germany will develop these key therapies.

Interested in how cells read biological time? Next week I'm talking about my recently published work on how protein expression oscillations are read by cells and their impact on the timing of cell differentiation. Link below to register!

Looking forward to join the 10th International Symposium on Primate Research in Kunming from the 15th to 18th of August. The title of my talk: Fibrosis: developmental biology breaking bad. New data showing importance of dev mechanisms in disease. mm.sciconf.cn/en/minisite/...

Check out the latest publication of @vallierlab.bsky.social. Editor's Choice at DMM Journal (@dmmjournal.bsky.social), Laëtitia Pinte's PhD work highlights the role of EHF in the airway epithelium. Congrats and thank you to all co-authors!

Very good news. Vital for European research especially with the increase in applicants and the recently announced augmentation of grant size. Success rate must be maintained above 10% and should be above 20%. This is the only way to maintain faire system supporting broadly impactful research.

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

The latest publication from @vallierlab.bsky.social is now online. This tour de force from the amazing Laetitia Pinte (supervised by @martavilagonz.bsky.social) uncover the function of EHF in the lung (not a liver story!) epithelium using hiPSCs, genome editing, and lung organoids

Read our #DMMEditorsChoice highlight on the Research Article by Laetitia Pinte, @martavilagonz.bsky.social, @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social, @andresfloto.bsky.social, @pcicuta.bsky.social, @vallierlab.bsky.social and colleagues. doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

Happy national day to all French people! 🇫🇷 & 🇪🇺 In 1950, French Jean Monnet played a crucial role in drafting the Schuman Declaration, which laid the foundations for the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. For info about the Council in 🇫🇷→ europa.eu/!kQtCvg

💥 A single infusion into the portal vein of embryonic stem cell-derived pancreatic islet result in 12/12 patients free of severe hypoglycemic and 83% with insulin independence at one year. However, one death due to the immunosuppressive treatment. buff.ly/ZI14m2i

📣 Find out all about funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition schedules, and eligibility rules for ERC research funding in the coming year. The 2026 ERC Work Programme has been adopted! 👉 europa.eu/!qhVTkt New to the ERC? Watch our webinar Thursday 10th July @ 15:00 CEST europa.eu/!3rGdWB

A tremendous loss. Pete Coffey passed away.

I’m really pleased to share that our paper is out in Developmental Cell! NGN3 oscillates in the developing pancreas and controls the timing of cell differentiation via an incoherent feed-forward motif. For more details check out the comments below and DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2025.06.004

📢 Don't miss! Remo Rohs, from the University of Southern California, LA will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Structure-based deep learning models for predicting protein-DNA binding specificity 📆 02. JUL, 03:00 PM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42283...

Results for ERC advanced grants. UK is back in the lead with 56 funded projects and Germany is second with 35 grants! Success rate 11%. Hopefully the ERC budget will significantly increase to attract scientists from outside EU. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

😎 The FSSCR annual meeting is set to take place in Lyon from November 17 to 19th, 2025. Prepare for an incredible lineup of speakers and an outstanding program! 👉🏻 Organoids, pluripotent stem cells, regenerative medicine pre-clinical models, etc. buff.ly/B6xYOVv ABSTRACT deadline extended!

The journey culminated on May 12th, invited by the 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹, Dylan gave a multidisciplinary talk. 🎙️ Now, the adventure continues with the launch of a multilingual 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 series of exceptional individuals from diverse backgrounds. 🌍 Follow the journey: www.berlin-barcelona.com

Work is a collaboration with @matthewkraushar.bsky.social, @aktast.bsky.social and the MPIMG Service Groups FACS, microscopy, sequencing and mass spec, as well as researchers from Austria, the US and Switzerland. Link to the publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In @nature.com Yaotian Zhang and @henriniskanen.bsky.social from the Hnisz Lab discovered a micropeptide, the "Killswitch," which alters the physical state of biomolecules in condensates. This tool solidifies dynamic, liquid-like droplets, affecting their function. --> www.molgen.mpg.de/4884827

Join us today June 4th at 1 pm for Irina Mohorianu talk at the BCRT* Auditorium@Cranach Haus on "RoSignOL: Robust Signature of Life A Gene regulatory network-centric collection of robust and scalable frameworks for the analysis of high-throughput datasets" *Föhrer Str. 15, 13353 Berlin

Job Alert: Professorship in Human Genetics Univeristy of Cologne is searching for a new head for human genetics. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Amazing work from the @rseguilab.bsky.social‬ lab and very happy for the @vallierlab.bsky.social to have contributed. "Endogenous glucocorticoid receptor activation modulates early-stage cell differentiation in pancreatic progenitors of mice and humans"

📣 Register for the 6th Annual FSSCR Meeting in Paris and experience pioneering research in #stemcells biology & future clinical applications! fsscr-meeting.org 👇🏻 ABSTRACT submission now available.

If you have the chance to be at the Keystone Symposia: "Organoids: Engineering Innovative Approaches for Basic and Translational Insight". Don't miss the talk by Carmen Ortuno today 14.30-16.30 “Generation of hepatocyte organoids from primary hepatocytes” www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

“This is not just a cycling journey. It is the beginning of a public health adventure rooted in science, advocacy, and movement”, explains Dylan Liabeuf and I am truly honored to be a tiny part of this great project. Looking forward to discussing #LGBTQIA in #science and more (stay tuned, folks!).

L’excellent Soulcié pour L’Est Républicain.

Don't miss the "4th International Symposium on Regenerative Hepatology". Amsterdam May 6, 2024. Excellent program featuring hepatocyte organoid expansion, hepatic cellular plasticity in regeneration, microRNAs, and gene therapy for liver disease etc.. regenerativehepatology.com

ICYMI: New online! Cell therapy for liver disorders: past, present and future

Our review Cell therapy for liver disorders: past, present and future is now available in Nature Rev. Gastroenterology & Hepatology. The development of such therapies remain a major objective for @vallierlab.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

We would like to thank the awardees, speakers, moderators, and guests for the wonderful evening at the 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward ceremony! @kaiwegner.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @pubpeer.com @helenajambor.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social

Registration is open for the British Society for Gene & Cell Therapy annual conference on 20th June! It's conveniently located at the Royal Holloway University London, and features great speakers, a BBQ, Ceilidh, and ECR events the day before. Details at: bsgct.org/annual-confe...

Gene editing is here for Alpha-1! @BeamTx clinical trial results announced: "the world’s first results in patients who have had a disease-causing mutation corrected at the genetic level." @AlphaFriend #helpisontheway #becausescience! Press release: investors.beamtx.com/news-release...

Join the exciting EMBO Workshop on Liver and Pancreas in Metabolic Disease, which brings together top-tier speakers in an outstanding seaside venue in April 🌊🌅. We’ve designed an interactive and engaging program—register now before it’s too late! ⏳👉 meetings.embo.org/event/25-liv...

*last day* to register and submit your work in topics relevant to liver and islets in metabolic disease, including… - organoid models, regeneration, and synthetic biology - disease mechanisms and therapies - genome regulation - ….others

You can still register to the EMBO Workshop Liver and pancreas in metabolic disease: from pathways to therapies Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona), Spain, 2 – 4 April 2025. Great science in a beautiful place.