Truly honored to recieve this recognition-a testament to the dedication, hard work and creativity of past and current lab members, I am grateful to be able to do science with them. Also want to thank all our wonderful collaborators that facilitate interdisciplinary work essential for new discoveries

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · last mo.

🌟 Congratulations to Sara Wickström! 🌟 Our Director Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social receives the Körber Prize for her groundbreaking research on how cells sense physical forces, influencing genes and potentially leading to new disease treatments. s.academiccloud.de/ouQdRQ

Huge congratulations to Sara Wickström! 🎉Our director @mpi-muenster.bsky.social has been awarded the #KörberPrize 2026. The scientist discovered that genes respond not only to chemical signals but also to the physical properties of their surroundings. @koerber-stiftung.de @sarawickstrom.bsky.social

When teammates jointly present CellMate-seq, true teamwork shows: Big congrats to Tobias Christaller and Philipp Stachel-Braum from my lab for receiving the Best Talk Award at the ISCO (Innovations in Single Cell Omics) conference in Barcelona. Very well deserved!

We are over the moon! 🎈 Dr. Marieke Oudelaar joins the MPI-IE as a new #MaxPlanck Director, heading the newly established Department of Genome Biology She studies how the 3D folding of DNA controls gene expression – more details below ⬇️ Welcome to #Freiburg, @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social!

Marieke Oudelaar becomes new Director at MPI-IE in Freiburg

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Keep the Batki lab on your radar! Julia has an exciting research program. Can’t wait to see the insights that come out of it.

FMI science@fmiscience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In this interview, @juliabatki.bsky.social, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us understand disease, and her love of improv. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

The CiM-IMPRS PhD program in #Münster is offering 16 #PhD positions in Life and Natural Sciences! Perform cutting-edge resesearch in a vibrant international setting and lively city! Apply by May 1st, 2026 - see www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap... @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social

Proud PI moment 😀 Poster prize at SY-Stem for a great team effort by Tobias Christaller, Philipp Stachel-Braum, and Henrike @h-schwarzenbacher.bsky.social. Amazing conference organized by @impvienna.bsky.social & @imbavienna.bsky.social with lots of stimulating science!

The CiM-IMPRS PhD program in #Münster is offering 16 #PhD positions in Life and Natural Sciences! Perform cutting-edge resesearch in a vibrant international setting and lively city! Apply by May 1st, 2026 - see www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap... @uni-muenster.de @mpi-muenster.bsky.social

The CiM-IMPRS doctoral program in Münster is offering 16 PhD positions in Life and Natural Sciences! Join our PhD program in October and apply now. All information for your application by May 1, 2026 can be found at this link: www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap...

Dynamic Cellular #Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the @sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026. Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w @uni-muenster.de

Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

We are looking for PhD students or Postdocs with an interest in developing and using new methods for functional genetics following our recent work 👉 rdcu.be/e05Oo and academic.oup.com/nar/article/52

iFlpMosaics enable the multispectral barcoding and high-throughput comparative analysis of mutant and wild-type cells

Nature Methods - iFlpMosaics are a compendium of mouse lines and genetic tools for tissue-agnostic generation and analysis of genetic mosaics.

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Rui Benedito@ruibenedito.bsky.social · last yr.

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👉 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

Excited to be joining SY-Stem in Vienna this March and contributing to its fantastic program on stem cell research, which spans signaling, patterning, plasticity, reprogramming, and more.

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology@imbavienna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Register online: www.sy-stem.org

Registration for ISCO – Innovations in Single-Cell Omics is now open! Exciting program and speakers coming to sunny Barcelona this May.

Lars Velten@larsplus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ISCO (Innovations in Single-Cell OMICS) will be back in beautiful Barcelona! 🗓️ 28th/29th of May 2026 📍Barcelona Biomedical Research Park @prbb.org (beachfront!) Keynotes: @bartdeplancke.bsky.social and @bocklab.bsky.social Submit your abstract and present your research! www.isco-conference.eu

SY-Stem 2026 brings two outstanding keynote speakers to the Vienna BioCenter. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the @impvienna.bsky.social & @imbavienna.bsky.social March 11-13, 2026 Program and registration: www.sy-stem.org

1. Excited to share CONCORD, out in @NatureBiotech, an ML framework for single-cell analysis addressing integration, dimensionality reduction, and denoising in one go by @qinzhu1.🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check out this CONCORD model of worm development resolving differentiation trajectories:

Congratulations, Dr. @alejofraticelli.bsky.social (#IRBBarcelona-@icreacommunity.bsky.social), on your appointment as a new @embo.org Young Investigator! Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/7uh1C 🧪

🥳 Thrilled, honored & very happy to become part of the amazing EMBO Young Investigator Programme! Looking forward to the new opportunities, interactions, ideas & collaborations it will spark. Very grateful to my fantastic team @mpi-cbg.de, colleagues, collaborators & mentors who made this possible!

EMBO@embo.org · 8mo ago

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

🚀 Exciting news! ERC Synergy Grant of €8.5 million to Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, Daniel St Jonston @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch @universitypress.cambridge.org! This highly interdisciplinary project will boost our understanding of tissue biology. #ERCSyG @erc.europa.eu

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Simon Elsässer in his new #CIBSS core professorship as Endowed Professor for #SyntheticBiology at the @uni-freiburg.de. His work is funded by the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social with 4.8 million euros over 10 years. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/44nn

Simon Elsässer is the new Endowed Professor for Synthetic Biology at the University of Freiburg

Elsässer strengthens the ‘Signals of Life’ research focus as well as the CIBSS Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg. The foundation Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung is providing the professorship wi...

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Pls spread the word! We have a postdoc position available in the Rocha Lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social. Join our team to study mechanisms underlying robust organ development using zebrafish embryos and human organoids. mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine@mpi-muenster.bsky.social · last yr.

We are looking for a #Postdoc with a great interest in biological robustness to lead a project investigating the self-correction capabilities of the developing nervous system. Join us at the @rocha-lab.bsky.social Rocha lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social! jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

FMI science@fmiscience.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 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...

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

Computational image analyst (m/f/d)

The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

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🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development. We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 11mo ago

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

🚨 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...

Rui Benedito has joined our MPI in Münster as a director. He develops innovative genetic tools to study how mutations alter single-cell behavior — pushing the frontiers of biomedical research. Welcome, Rui! @ruibenedito.bsky.social 🎉 #Genetics #SingleCell www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...

New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

New director Rui Benedito brings advanced genetic tools to study how mutations affect single cells and contribute to cardiovascular disease or cancer.

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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

Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production

Morphogen gradients provide the patterning cues that instruct cell fate decisions during development. Here, we establish an optogenetic system for the…

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I am excited to share that I will join the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel as a group leader, starting my lab in March 2026 🎉 We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.

⚠️ 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.