A great pleasure to give a keynote at the Germ Cells meeting at @cshlnews.bsky.social. I shared our work on chromosome segregation in mammalian oocytes, how it changes with age, and our efforts to understand and prevent these errors. Very proud of our team & grateful for the great discussions!

Yesterday, we welcomed our former postdoc Chun So (Nick) for a talk on oocyte & embryo development @mpi-nat.bsky.social, followed by a roundtable discussion with the lab. Nick, it was great to have you back with us! Thank you, for visiting and sharing your latest work with us! 🧬🙏

Huge congratulations to our PostDoc @palmrinmoy.bsky.social on receiving the Elisabeth Gateff Prize for his outstanding dissertation.🎉 His talk, “How DNA Self-Organizes in the Early Embryo,” and the award ceremony will be streamed online on 22 October at 3 pm! 🎥 www.gfgenetik.de/en/news/deta...

Dr. Mrinmoy Pal receives this year’s Elisabeth Gateff Prize

44

gfgenetik.de

A few days away from the lab, time together, plenty of opportunities to learn from each other – that was our #labretreat at Harnack Haus in Berlin. We shared knowledge during our “Teach Us Something” talks, deepended our statistics skills and explored science history in Dahlem.💡

Why does female fertility decline with age – could we one day do something about it? Delighted to contribute to the new @artede.bsky.social documentary “Stecken wir in einer Eizellen-Krise?” featuring our research on why chromosomes become unstable in ageing eggs - and how to keep them stable.

Great news from our lab: Congratulations to Marios & @debojitsaha.bsky.social on receiving the 2025/26 Campus Seminar Awards at @mpi-nat.bsky.social! Marios was recognised in the PhD category, Debojit in the Postdoc category. Delighted to see their excellent research acknowledged — well deserved!👏

For over two decades, I have studied how eggs develop & why chromosome errors rise with age. My lab & I have explored ways to reduce these errors. A new portrait in @faznet.bsky.social reflects on this journey from fundamental cell biology to potential applications in reproductive medicine.

Ovo Labs: Diese Forscherin macht Kinderlosen neue Hoffnung

Nur jede dritte künstliche Befruchtung hat Erfolg. Melina Schuh weiß, warum. Die Ausnahmewissenschaftlerin hat Bahnbrechendes über Eizellen herausgefunden. Jetzt macht sie aus ihrem Wissen ein Produkt...

faz.net

Last week, I had the great honour of being formally admitted as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org & signing its historic Charter Book. Deeply grateful for this recognition of our work. None of this would've been possible without many wonderful lab members, colleagues & collaborators. ✨

Congratulations to our Postdoc @palmrinmoy.bsky.social on receiving the Helmholtz Munich Doctoral Researcher Award 2026 for his outstanding PhD research. We are proud to now have you in our Schuh lab. A well-deserved recognition! 🎉🌟 📷credits: @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

We are glad to see Ovo Labs receive the Max Planck Society Startup Award today. Ovo Labs was founded to translate human oocyte biology research into therapies to improve IVF outcomes. A short film on the journey from basic research to biotech (German): www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIr2...

Ovo Labs - Neue Wege bei der künstliche Befruchtung (IVF)

YouTube video by MaxPlanckSociety

youtube.com

Great publication by our former Postdoc Nick (Chun) So, now PI at NIBS. Congratulations to So Lab and the team! 👏🎉 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two distinct causes contribute to the low efficiency of human pre-implantation development

∼50% of fertilized eggs arrest during human pre-implantation development, representing a major bottleneck for assisted reproductive technology. The un…

sciencedirect.com

What happens inside human egg cells as they age, and why are errors so common? In the new episode “Ach, Mensch!” of detektor.fm (in German), Melina talks about fertility, ageing egg cells, future fertility treatments and the motivation behind her research. detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m...

Unfruchtbarkeit: Wie lässt sie sich behandeln, Melina Schuh?

Dr. Melina Schuh erforscht, wie menschliche Eizellen funktionieren und worin Ursachen für Unfruchtbarkeit und Fehlgeburten liegen.

detektor.fm

I am deeply honored to have been elected as a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety.org. Very grateful to all members of the lab, past & present. Their curiosity & commitment to science shaped the work in countless ways. It's been a privilege to work with them. www.mpinat.mpg.de/5261989/pr_2...

Royal Society elects Melina Schuh as Fellow

Biochemist Melina Schuh elected Fellow of the Royal Society for groundbreaking research on egg cell development.

mpinat.mpg.de

A very special evening at the Rathaus in Schweinfurt, where I officially received the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. @leopoldina.org

Many congratulations to our PostDoc @palmrinmoy.bsky.social on receiving the Best Poster Award at the @events.embl.org Practical Course “Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue” last month! 🎉👏 A great achievement — very well deserved!

Grateful to receive the Pearse Prize from the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social. A big thank you to my amazing team and collaborators — this is truly a shared recognition. 🌟 www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Dr Melina Schuh to receive RMS Pearse Prize

rms.org.uk

For #FutureDay2026, we welcomed 5th & 6th graders for a hands-on day exploring science up close. They got a first look at lab work, from observing #egg cells under the microscope to pipetting and liquid nitrogen experiments 🔬🥼. A small step into the world of research!

Honored to receive the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Very grateful to my lab and all collaborators - this recognition belongs to all of us. ✨

Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina@leopoldina.org · 7mo ago

🎉 Die Leopoldina gratuliert ihrem Mitglied Melina Schuh @schuhlab.bsky.social zur Carus-Medaille. Geehrt wird die Biochemikerin für ihre Forschungen zu Eizellen: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

The German Embryo Protection Act (1990) sets the legal framework for research involving human embryos, adapted long before much of today’s knowledge of human development was available. In a @spiegel.de interview (in German, paywall) Melina discusses its impact on research today.

A warm welcome to Roni, who joined the Schuh lab in December 2025 as a new Postdoc! She completed her PhD in Genetics focusing on the development and aging of #oocytes in C. elegans. Now she‘ll investigate the role of actin in #meiosis. Great to have you with us, Roni 🎉

Huge congratulations to Ovo Labs on receiving the Max Planck Startup Award! 🎉

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft@maxplanck.de · 8mo ago

Congratulations!🎉 Ovo Labs, a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, has been awarded the Max Planck Startup Award by Stifterverband 2026 for their groundbreaking work in improving #IVF success rates. www.mpg.de/26166244/ovo... @schuhlab.bsky.social

What does it take to translate fertility research into a biotech company? Agata and Melina joined “Holding on to Unicorns and Rainbows” podcast to tell the story of Ovo Labs. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: (Apple Podcasts) podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/f...

The Schuh lab just got a new postdoc—welcome Venus! 🎉 Venus studied telomere regulation in cancer during her PhD and will now explore telomeres in meiosis. Excited to have you on the team, Venus! ✨

🚀 Our research on human egg quality and #fertility is making headlines worldwide! 🌍 Thanks to @debojitsaha.bsky.social, our co-authors, clinical collaborators, and the patients who made this study possible - and to Ovo Labs for advancing this work. #IVF #womenshealth

Why do women’s eggs deteriorate as they age? 🥚 The @washingtonpost.com reports on this question and features our study on Shugoshin 1. 📰

Our work on improving human egg quality was featured in @theguardian.com. We hope this will help to make #IVF more successful and allow more couples to conceive. 💜

Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates

Exclusive: Research suggests supplementing eggs with a key protein reduces age-related defects, raising hopes of improved IVF for older women

theguardian.com

Human eggs must segregate their chromosomes with exquisite precision — yet errors rise with maternal age, causing miscarriage & infertility. Our new article on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social shows why chromosome cohesion fails in aging eggs & how to improve it. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/10)

The Schuh lab wishes you & your families a #MerryChristmas and a wonderful start to a happy & successful #NewYear2026 🎄✨ This year’s department Christmas card features a microscope image by our PostDoc @kosti-sofroni.bsky.social showing a fetal ovary containing prophase oocytes.

We’re excited to have Qiuyan join the Schuh lab as a postdoctoral researcher 🎉 She earned her PhD in Biological Sciences, with a research focus on understanding early embryonic development. In her new role, she’ll explore germ cell development. Welcome to the team, Qiuyan!

🧬Why does female fertility decline with age? And can egg cells be rejuvenated🥚? Find out in a new interview with Melina discussing her research on the biology of aging #oocytes. #WomensHealth 💜 (Article in German) ajour.ch/de/story/634...