Our new preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We show that GRN benchmarks commonly used can overestimate performance due to negative-sampling choices, sometimes allowing simple degree-based baselines to rival more complex GNNs. A reminder of why bias-aware evaluation matters!

🎉 Wrapping up 2025 with EpiCrossBorders! A year of breakthroughs, cross-border exchanges, multiple publications & vibrant outreach. Next stop: 2026 Symposium in Edinburgh + new workshops & theses submissions Thank you to all who made this possible. 🌐 #Epigenetics #PhDprogram #Sciencecollaboration

Excited to share new manuscript on histone acylations, exploring how H4K16 acylations regulate inter and intranucleosomal interactions and how they confer resilience to metabolic challenges in vivo. Thanks to all authors +1 author @sandrani.bsky.social Enjoy 👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don’t miss this opportunity! Please share with recent PhD grads or students who will soon graduate

An early Christmas present for those interested in chromatin and transcription! Fantastic work from @au-ho-yu.bsky.social and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social . Thanks to Inge and Michiel for their help. Please repost! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please RT 📧 Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field ! ▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

📣We are looking for a Project Assistant to join my group at the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University. Join us if you are interested in transposable elements, epigenetics and human brain aging. 🧠🧬 Dont hesitate to reach out with any questions! 📣 umu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I feel extremely honoured for this recognition. Thanks go to many people from my lab and colleagues for their trust and support over the years

Happy to present TOGA2, developed by Yury Malovichko @ymalovichko.bsky.social, the faster, memory-efficient & more accurate TOGA1 successor (github.com/hillerlab/TO...). And annotations, orthologs & gene loss/dup data generated with 4 references for 883 placental mammal and with 5 refs for 676 ...

In the Chromatin, cancer and the ubiquitin system lab, we are looking for a candidate to apply for a postdoctoral contract in the Juan de la Cierva call (3 years) www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

Thanks everyone for having made the Talent Forum @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social a great (inspirational) success !!!

The Helmholtz Munich Talent Forum (Nov 18–19) brought 8 emerging global talents in epigenetics & nucleic acids research to our Neuherberg Campus! Inspiring talks, a keynote by @boyanbonev.bsky.social & vibrant networking—science at its best! bit.ly/4o2ftxr

Stem Cell Stories – the hands-on exhibition at the Deutsches Museum was a huge success! 🎉 👏 Thanks to everyone who visited and joined! @epicrossborders.bsky.social @carstenmarr.bsky.social @tum.de @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #StemCells #Epigenetics #AIinScience #ScienceCommunication #HelmholtzMunich

Wrapping up a great weekend of “Stem Cell Stories” at the Deutsches Museum. Science doesn’t exist in isolation. We are committed to engaging with society, exchanging ideas, and building trust through transparency. Let’s keep the conversation going. #ScienceOutreach #Epigenetics #AIinBiomedicine

Science thrives through engagement and this weekend proved it! The “Stem Cell Stories” exhibition @ Deutsches Museum showcased the power of outreach. A shout-out to our EpiCrossBorders students, who played a key role in connecting with the public and sparking curiosity. #ScienceOutreach

The #MBioSys25 keynote lectures by Prof Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and Prof @elowitzlab.bsky.social (Caltech) are now online! Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...

Help us to promote this DevBiol course (in Spanish) ¡Nuevo curso gratuito de Biología del Desarrollo (en español)! Aprende sobre los procesos que dan origen a la vida Cupos limitados → forms.gle/sfSV1GTae2nC... Detalles y programa: drive.google.com/file/d/1-9dd... #BiologíaDelDesarrollo

@science.org 🧬🔬🐛🔭🌊🌳🧫🐳

Great discussions & attendance @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social in our yearly #Epigenetics Spotlight meeting organised by @robertife.bsky.social and myself - thanks all for coming, our long-distance guests Giacomo ad Marc !! and all attendants for fantastic discussions - see you next year 🥳

🌟 Prof. Ulrike Protzer (4th from left), Director of the Institute of Virology at #HelmholtzMunich and Chair for Virology at the Technical University of Munich at @tum.de, has been awarded the #GermanMedicalAward2025 in the category “Female Doctor of the Year”. 👉 Read more: t1p.de/es04m

Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie... #PhD, #PhDPosition

Thank you all. And we hope to see you again in 2027 for the premier conference on gene regulation in Latin America!

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

very much enjoying @molbiosystems.bsky.social conference -very south of 🌎 in #Chile -outstanding selection of topics and models 🦚🦋🪴🐀🐢 -very refreshing -lots of new ideas and very collegial ! Thanks @aemonten.bsky.social for the invite - for putting this together & for arranging the ☀️ on Osorno 👇

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)".

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

#Jobalert 🚨: Please RT ! Looking for a #PhD student for exciting project on the interphase between epigenetics and cellular metabolism: How do (nuclear) metabolic enzymes reguate chromatin function ? #epigenomics, #epigenetics, #metabolism www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/ife/job-o...

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

I think we were all lucky to have someone like him in the epigenetics and chromatin fields 😊🧑‍🎓🎓🎓

Honoured to be in Birmingham to mark Bryan Turner’s retirement- a gentleman and giant of epigenetics.

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

How to represent genomes in 3D? In this paper (and video), we propose Geometric Diagrams of Genomes (GDG)—a visual grammar that aims at emulating the effect ribbon diagrams (Richardson et al 1981) had in protein structural biology. Time will tell.😅 👉🏼 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Argonautes are coming :-) ... soon at @imgprague.bsky.social ... finishing preparations. Still missing a few things like drums, guitar, badges, beer ... but it's under control. I think. I hope. :-)) #argonautes2025

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Thank you for the interview @dev-journal.bsky.social! Very excited to be part of the Pathway to Independence program Interested in my research? I'll be presenting my postdoc work at the 'Development presents' webinar, tomorrow afternoon: thenode.biologists.com/development-...

SYMPOSIUM OUTLOOK: #Telomeres at the nexus of #aging, #tumor suppression, and #inflammation: toward an understanding beyond #senescence By Samuel Bloom & Jan Karlseder ➡️ https://bit.ly/410dJwg ##cshlsymp25 #DNAdamage #replicativesenescence #DNAreplication #crisis #cancer

Such a nice review for one of our latest research works!

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

@embl.org is undoubtedly one of the best place in the world to start your lab! The GB unit is collegial, supportive, collaborative and the science is just outstanding. Apply! DM me if you have questions.

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home.... More details for how to apply are here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

🎤 Apply to speak @our TALENT FORUM by July 31! Showcase YOUR research in Epigenetics & NucleicAcids @www.helmholtz-munich.de & connect with leading scientists 🧳Travel+accommodation covered if selected! 📝 Info+how to apply: lnkd.in/drkRvz7N #postdoc #career #groupleader #HelmholtzMunich #research

Congratulations @palmrinmoy.bsky.social I’m a proud PI 😎👍🏻. Well done and good luck in your next step. Looking forward to seeing many discoveries of yours

Very happy to share our recently published work on the role of VCP/p97 during DNA replication.

Congratulations, Jei! 🎉 We’re so proud of your journey and all that you’ve achieved. Thank you for all your incredible contributions! 🎓

Please RT ! 5️⃣ days left to register. Gordon Conference “Histone and DNA modifications” Tuscany 🇮🇹 20.-25. July 25 🗓️ Regulation of genome function by histone and nucleic acid modifications. Great speaker lineup !!! >25 talks will be chosen from abstracts. Submit yours ➡️ shorturl.at/hBjyT

Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ? Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell... Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!! Please distribute :) 🙂