Great to see our Alumni Hossein and Uirá named among the 100 most influential scientists in Berlin by @tagesspiegel.de! They are co-founders of Lucid Genomics, a startup that develops algorithms to analyze the non-coding genome for potential use in precision medicine. Congratulations!

2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics 16 - 18 Feb 2026 at MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin with support by the Weizmann Institute for Science. Early bird registration until 30 Sep - register now👇 www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026

📢 Don't miss! Steven Reilly of Yale School of Medicine will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📆 22. SEP, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42874...

📢 Don't miss! Pavel Pevzner of University of California, San Diego, USA will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 A new parameter-free framework for sequence comparison 📆 15. SEP, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42633...

Congratulations to Claudia Giesecke-Thiel on her ERC Starting Grant! Her project will focus on how the site of infection influences immune responses. She will be moving from the MPIMG to Charité, where she will launch her own research group in Jan 2026. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-er...

📢 Don't miss! Aziz Al'Khafaji of Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Advances in Transcriptomics, Methods and Applications 📆 12. SEP, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42555...

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

📢 Don't miss! Dan Landau of Weill Cornell College of Medicine, and the New York Genome Center will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 The somatic genome - from basic discovery to clinical application 📆 04. SEP, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42554...

Congratulations to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu on receiving the GSCN Young Investigator Award 2025! The award recognizes her lab’s research on dormancy. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs... @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social

A big thank you to Alessa Ringel, Christian Feregrino, Jonathan J. Froehlich and Michaela Reissland for organizing this year’s MPIMG Postdoc Retreat! Our postdocs enjoyed an inspiring mix of skills development, career insights, and networking both within and beyond the MPIMG community.

A recent study from the Meissner and Smith labs in Genome Biology reveals that widely used cancer models fail to replicate the DNA methylation patterns found in actual tumors. Read more in our news: www.molgen.mpg.de/2025-08-12-m... Picture: Dr. Cecil Fox, Wikimedia Commons

📢New paper in @natecoevo.nature.com! 🦇Research reveals that bat wings form by reusing existing genetic programs By @molgen.mpg.de, @mdc-berlin.bsky.social, @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social (@dariloops.bsky.social‬, @fany-real.bsky.social) & CNAG (@mamartirenom.bsky.social‬) www.cnag.eu/news/flying-...

🧬 New study from the Kinkley Lab! 🧬 In collaboration with the Vingron and Hnisz labs at the MPIMG the team has gained new insights how the epigenetic reader PHF13 regulates it´s affinity to bind to chromatin. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/2025-07-28-o... Congrats to first author Francesca Rossi!

Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually. www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...

How did the bat get its wings? New research from a collaboration between the labs of Stefan Mundlos (MPIMG), Dario G. Lupiáñez, and Francisca M. Real (@cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social) show how genetic programs were reused during the evolution of mammalian flight. --> www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-fl...

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

New paper in @natgenet.nature.com by the Mundlos lab! The team has identified the mechanism by which a retrotransposon of viral origin causes limb malformations. Congratulations to first author @julianeg.bsky.social, now group leader @mpi-ie.bsky.social! --> www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-an...

In Nature Genetics, @danielibrahim.bsky.social (MPIMG/BIH) and his team have developed a bioinformatic tool to identify evolutionary conserved regulatory regions of the genome that have transformed so much over time that their DNA sequences have changed completely. 👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/4927054

📢 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...

Im Podcast des Deutschlandfunks "25 Jahre Genom" teilen Alexander Meissner, Stephan Lorenz und Daniela Piechotta vom MPIMG ihr Wissen mit uns und geben Einblicke in ihre Forschungsarbeit. 👉https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/genom-sei-der-herr-teil-2-aus-information-wird-medizin-100.html

Max Planck Society prizes for our scientists! Congratulations to group leader Zack Smith, who received the 2025 Hermann Neuhaus Prize, and to postdoc Sara Hetzel, one of 28 young scientists honored with the Otto Hahn Medal. --> Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-mp... @maxplanck.de

⚠️ I am really excited to share the work of Anastasios Balaskas, an excellent PhD candidate in the lab, with the wider world. Tasos made a significant advance: generating a stem cell-based embryo model that contains both posterior and anterior neural tissues of the late-stage gastrulating embryo.

📢 Don't miss! Eugenio Fornasiero of University Medical Center Göttingen will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Proteome turnover and spatial nano-mapping: an integrated view of brain physiology and aging 📆 30. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/42143...

At our #DahlemColloquium Postdoc Daniel Ming-Kang Lee spoke with Cassandra Extavour from Harvard University about her scientific journey, inclusion in academia, and how her second career as a part-time soprano singer shapes her scientific work. Interview 👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-me...

📢 Don't miss! Wayo Matsushima of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Gene regulatory evolution driven by transposable elements and their controllers 📆 20. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41978...

📢 Don't miss! Leeat Keren of Weizmann Institute of Science will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Spatial proteomics for next generation pathology 📆 16. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41528...

New paper in @nature.com by Yaotian Zhang and @henriniskanen.bsky.social (Hnisz Lab)! A micropeptide, the "Killswitch", alters the physical state of biomolecules in condensates. This tool solidifies dynamic, liquid-like droplets, affecting their function. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/4884827

This spring, Dylan Liabeuf, postdoc at the Vallier Lab, launched the 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻–𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, an ambitious public health journey at the intersection of 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, and 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. Dylan was joined and supported by a remarkable community of inspiring 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲s, and 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.

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

📢 Don't miss! Stefani Spranger of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Not all anti-tumor immune responses are alike: why tissue site matters 📆 11. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41863...

📢 Don't miss! Irina Mohorianu of Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, GB will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📆 05. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41862...

Starting January 2026, Alexander Meissner and Aydan @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social will join the ImmunoPreCept excellence cluster, which will receive up to €10M from the @dfg.de. Project will deal with early prevention of chronic inflammatory diseases. Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-cl...

📢 Don't miss! Prof. Debora Marks of Harvard Medical School, Boston will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Generative AI to accelerate protein design for health and sustainability goals 📆 04. JUN, 03:00 PM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41915...

An unforgettable day full of fun and team spirit at the #BerlinerFirmenlauf! 🏃‍♂️🌞 With 39 colleagues, bright sunshine, and our MPG running shirts, we set off on May 21. Together, we conquered the 5.5 km and celebrated our team spirit at the Brandenburg Gate. Thank you to everyone who participated! 👍

📢 Don't miss! Matthew C. Lorincz of University of British Columbia will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Chromatin-guided DNA methylation of CpG island promoters: insights from the mouse germline & early embryo 📆 02. JUN, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41523...

On May 22, we had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation of US students as part of the STEM & Enterprise LAUNCH program. Participants explored study and career opportunities at our institute, with focus on the "International Max Planck Research School for Biology and Computation" (#IMPRS-BAC).

#Exzellenzstrategie: Künftig prägen 5 #Exzellenzcluster die Berliner #Spitzenforschung 👉 Mehr dazu: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/excellence-s... @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social #ChariteBerlin #BerlinUAlliance #WirsindBUA #ExzellentimVerbund

Don’t´miss ❗️ Panel discussion with Anna Alessandra Monaco, Postdoc in the Mundlos lab 👉 Misinformation Maze: Finding Facts in a Noisy World 🗓 May 22, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. 📍 Thomas The Startup Lawyers HQ – Oranienburger Str. 23, 10178 - Berlin - Rooftop Further information & tickets: lu.ma/zsb00xbm

On your marks... get set... go! Science is our passion, we even run for it! #BerlinerFirmenlauf

Talking at @pintofscience.de was really scary and really fun. Thank you everyone for the sold out event ✨ #pint25

Everything is ready for tomorrow's company run! 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ The T-shirts are being handed out to the participants. Together with our colleagues, we are running for team spirit, health, and lots of fun. 😀 #BerlinerFirmenlauf #TeamSpirit

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Our running shirts for the #BerlinerFirmenlauf arrived just in time and climate-friendly by cargo bike #fLotteBerlin! 🚲

📢 Don't miss! Konrad Hochedlinger of Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, USA will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Investigating mechanisms of cell identity in tissue homeostasis and disease 📆 26. MAY, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41558...

❗Don’t miss: Dr. Anna Alessandra Monaco, postdoc in the lab of Stefan Mundlos, will give a talk at the Pint of Science Festival about her research project entitled “Junk that shapes us: the Dark Genome's role in Evolution.” 👉 pintofscience.de @annaamonaco.bsky.social @stemundi.bsky.social

Nuage Therapeutics, co-founded by our group leader Denes Hnisz was highlighted in recent Nature Spotlight article: www.nature.com/articles/d42... Find out more about work in the Hnisz lab: www.molgen.mpg.de/3857230/tran... @irbbarcelona.org @xsalvatella1.bsky.social

📢 Don't miss! Wei Xie of Tsinghua University, Beijing will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Decoding the transcription circuitry when the life begins 📆 09. MAY, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41527...

📢 Don't miss! Cassandra Extavour of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 New blood: horizontal transfer as a source of genetic novelty in developmental and adaptive evolution 📆 07. MAY, 11:00 AM (CET) 📍MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41525...

Job offer: PhD position in Computational Genomics 👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/4874641/job_... We are seeking a motivated young scientist interested in working on projects related to gene regulation in stem cells and development. #sciencejobs #PhD

At #GirlsDay & #BoysDay, April, 3th, participants had an incredible opportunity to get to know several professions at our institute! #bioinformatics #microscopy 🧫🔬 More information: www.molgen.mpg.de/4872535/2025...

📢 Don't miss! Robert Schneider of Institute of Functional Epigenetics (IFE), Munich will speak at our #DahlemColloquium! 📜 Novel Players in Chromatin 📆 23. APR, 03:00 PM (CET) 📍 MPIMG, Berlin 🔗 www.molgen.mpg.de/events/41385...