Looking forward to seeing you all at the #aECM club today!👇

Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇

Postdoc positions available in my lab in Aarhus, Denmark on 'Mammalian Nuclear RNA Production and Turnover Systems'. Please get in touch for further information or simply apply here: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Join us 👇. Together with our CompBio and Proteomics platforms, we'd love to work with you on examining protein dynamics!

🚀 We’re hiring! The Structural Biology Platform is seeking a Project Leader to advance cryo-electron tomography and expand capabilities at the FMI. Join a vibrant research community at the interface of structural biology, cell biology & disease mechanisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

👩‍🔬 On February 11, to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re hosting a panel discussion on how scientific progress and gender equality can advance together. The panel brings together voices from academia, industry, and EDI. Join us for this important conversation! #IDWGS

Now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: neuroscientists in the lab of @felsenberg.bsky.social found that in fruit flies, re-tasting a sugar reward can weaken past memories, pointing to new ways to safely update harmful ones. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Very thankful for this thoughtful dispatch by @shaisrael.bsky.social sky.social and Moshe Parnas about our work. Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our annual brochure “Year in Review” is out now! It highlights the FMI’s key scientific publications, major events, and facts & figures from 2025, a year that marked our 55th anniversary. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Prof. Fiona Doetsch has been awarded the 2026 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine! Her discoveries reveal how neural stem cells support lifelong brain plasticity and repair. 🧠 Read more: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

RNA-binding proteins function through network effects, coordinately binding and weakly regulating many transcripts – or don’t they? Read our new preprint on how LIN28 controls developmental timing through only two targets, one mRNA, one miRNA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Please repost - position of Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs available at our Institute in the heart of Europe (Basel, Switzerland) 👇

Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!

Now in @embojournal.org: Researchers in @labgrosshans.bsky.social & UCSC found that similar molecular machineries control daily circadian rhythms & developmental timing—showing that evolution can repurpose core timing systems to coordinate both daily cycles & growth. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

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

Nektarios Tavernarakis on why curiosity-driven research, not focusing on application, is fundamental to problem solving and requires government support in @emboreports.org doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Flying worms! www.science.org/content/arti... (And I always wondered how worm cuticular alae (= wings) got their name 😉)

🔬 Next in the NCCR RNA & Disease Seminar Series: Prof. Olivia Rissland (Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)! 📅 27.10. 16:30 – University of Bern, DCBP 📅 28.10. 15:00 – ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg 👉 More info: nccr-rna-and-disease.ch/education/nc... @unibe.ch @ethz.ch @snf-fns.ch

For what it’s worth, The Wyoming Worm lab has funding for 5 years along with exciting projects with solid foundations. We are is still looking for capable, dedicated, and fun-to-work-with lab members at all career stages. [email protected] scholar.google.com/citations?us...

And the next one: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00585-z . Super-fun collaboration with @partchlab.bsky.social & @gotworms.bsky.social to find similarities between developmental and circadian clocks – supported by @fmiscience.bsky.social Facilities and, financially, @snsf.ch and @erc.europa.eu . 1/n

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏

And here is a layperson video summary of parts of our recent paper👇

🎥 FMI scientists discovered that thousands of C. elegans genes switch on and off in rhythmic patterns controlled by chromatin, revealing how gene timing shapes development & offering clues to human biological clocks. @labgrosshans.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dibw...

Watch Lucas' amazing artistic/musical rendition of C. elegans larval development and our work on developmental timing and molting here youtu.be/-hGHYRvw87w and read on his inspiration and challenges below

Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper alert! doi.org/10.1038/s443... - "A scheduler for rhythmic gene expression". We show how 9 txn factors suffice for rhythmic gene expression of thousands of genes with any phase or amplitude in #Celegans larvae (and also look at the tissues where oscillations happen) 1/n

The 2025-2026 #aECM club schedule is now posted on our website, where you can also find the link to sign up for access. I’m looking forward to lots of great talks and discussions! sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...

Another FMI Annual Meeting is in the books! After a night of follies and plenty of dancing, today brought the announcement of our internal prize winners, more inspiring talks, and a vibrant poster session. Already looking forward to next year! 🙌

 📅 Program of the NCCR RNA & Disease Seminar Series for the Autumn Semester 25/26:
For more information visit: nccr-rna-and-disease.ch/news/article...
 @unibe.ch @ethz.ch @snf-fns.ch

📣The Turco group is seeking a computational biologist to analyze large omics datasets. Work on cutting-edge 3D organoid models of the human placenta and be embedded in our Computational Biology Platform (part of @sib.swiss). Apply here: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Thanks for highlighting - thread to follow. Mini-summary: beyond assigning oscillatory genes expression by scRNA-seq to individual cell types, we also show that chromatin opens rhythmically and that we can predict this (and gene expression) with a small set of TFs in a mathematical model.

Here is some recommended reading 👇 (and enjoy the associated thread for clarity and the beautiful imagery 👍) Lots of different genes, oscillating in different cell types

🎊 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...

Super excited that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant! In project "InfoFate" we will study how cells use information in dynamical, neighborhood & mechanical signals to make decisions. We'll have PhD and Postdoc positions available, please get in touch if interested!

🔬✨ Join us this Saturday (September 6) | 16:00-23:00 at Nacht der Forschung 2025 at the University of Bern ✨ Come and check out our booth "RNA – Master of Versatility" 👩‍🔬 Meet our researchers & enjoy pipetted cocktails at the reproduzierBAR! www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch #ndfunibern @unibe.ch

🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday

I am happy to finally share this preprint of my PhD project in @guillaumediss.bsky.social lab at the FMI in Basel. We used ddPCA to map the genetic architecture of the entire human bZIP interaction network. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to all our co-authors for the great collaboration!

Very thrilled to welcome Julia as our new colleague in Multicellular Systems at @fmiscience.bsky.social !

We’re excited to share that ez_zarr now supports Zarr v3! 🚀 Huge thanks to @mbstadler.bsky.social & @csoneson.bsky.social who took on the challenge of creating this open-source tool for fast, programmatic access to OME-Zarr file sets + easy plotting 📊 📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)

This is not a HiC map! Ever wondered if multiple enhancers get activated simultaneously? We measured chromatin accessibility on thousands of molecules by nanopore to create genome-wide co-accessibility maps. Proud of @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social Biology in the thread👇

Excited to see this published with additional data following our preprint a while back. Cool combination (in our biased view) of controlled TF expression and machine learning to decode chromatin sensitivity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

We're seeking a Research Associate in stem cell biology to join a global, interdisciplinary team investigating organoids and tissue organization. This unique role is part of a collaboration between the @priscaliberali.bsky.social lab & the @alleninstitute.org. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Happy #PrideMonth! We celebrate LGBTQ+ voices in science and beyond—but many still face discrimination & violence. We stand for dignity, safety & equity for all 🌈

Delighted to share this timely article in Boston magazine on our local C. elegans community and the effects of NIH freezes. "There might be no group more enthusiastic, self-aware, or life-affirming than the worm people." www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

We are hiring👇. Join us if you are interested in a PhD project on biological clocks that time development. Genomics, genetics, quantitative microscopy, computational analysis, ... grosshanslab.org. 2.5 weeks left to apply www.fmi.ch/education-ca... @fmiscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to Iva Greenwald and Gary Struhl on this award! Their creativity and intellectual partnership of worm and fly genetics elucidated fundamental mechanisms controlling Notch signaling - which we now know controls so many aspects of human development and disease

Always a such satisfying moment to see one of your students defend – congratulations, Jana, great work!