Special thanks to our guests for the inspiring talks and the fantastic interaction @maiwen-ch.bsky.social @tschwammle.bsky.social and Salma Balazadeh! Your insights added so much value to our retreat. And to Hanna Sänger for the vital talk on mental health during the PhD! 🧠✨ #ScienceRetreat #PhDLife

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Hard work can't have a great view? 🏔️🔬 Of course, it can! Our retreat in Braunlage is in full swing! We're spending our time exchanging our research, new ideas, but also networking, and bonding over volleyball in the evenings. 🏐✨ #PhDLife #IMPRSGS #ScienceRetreat #TeamBuilding #Harz

Hard work can't have a great view? 🏔️🔬 Of course, it can! Our retreat in Braunlage is in full swing! We're spending our time exchanging our research, new ideas, but also networking, and bonding over volleyball in the evenings. 🏐✨ #PhDLife #IMPRSGS #ScienceRetreat #TeamBuilding #Harz

⏰Deadline for abstract submission approaching: Our #GoenomiX Symposium "Frontiers in Molecular Zoology" will happen on Sept 24-25 at @uni-goettingen.de. Submit your abstract until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1458/

Göttingen SPIRIT - Symposium “Molecular Genetics in Zoology” (Symposium only)

In this 2-day symposium will bring together international scientists working on understanding the function of genes underlying a wide range of zoological phenomena. Some contributed talks will be sele...

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📣 Join us for the Spirit Summer School "Molecular Genetics in Zoology" with three days of hands-on training and consulting in #RNAi, #CRISPR genome editing, in-situ hybridization, #imaging and #RNA-seq for emerging model systems. 🐌🪰🪱🐞🧬 Registration is open until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1457/

📢Magda Koziol @epigenome.bsky.social will be speaking at the DPZ @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen this Wednesday. 🗓️11 March ⏰13:00 Join us for an exciting seminar! 👇👇

Congrats to our alumna! 🎉 That's a fantastic achievement, and a well-deserved recognition!👍🥂

@s-monteiromartins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Honored to receive the 2026 KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award (Basic Science) for our paper "Genetic screens of imaging-derived kidney volumes identify genes linked to kidney function" Grateful to an amazing team behind our study published in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.theisn.org/wcn/member/s...

Honored to receive the 2026 KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award (Basic Science) for our paper "Genetic screens of imaging-derived kidney volumes identify genes linked to kidney function" Grateful to an amazing team behind our study published in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.theisn.org/wcn/member/s...

Sara Patricia Monteiro-Martins - World Congress of Nephrology 2026

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Today we mark UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science And remember: opportunities to meet inspiring women in a range of disciplines and careers at Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair on 19 March, a family friendly event aimed at all researchers: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair #MeetYourMentor

And also thanks to our successful female scientific group leaders! They are a huge inspiration to our junior scientists. #Inspiration #RoleModels #Science 4 from our 18 female PIs are on bluesky: @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social @schuhlab.bsky.social @zafeirioulab.bsky.social

Inspiring the Next Generation 🎉Happy International Day of #WomenInScience 🎉 We had many amazing female scientists – like our two alumnae, who recently received prestigious postdoctoral fellowships: @sophiesiems.bsky.social (Marie Curie) & @nishahemandhar.bsky.social (Walter Benjamin) Congrats! #STEM

Göttingen Campus Postdoc Fair 2026 Thurs 19 March from 14:30. Registration now open. Book onsite childcare by 6 March. Postdoc Fair: organised by Postdocs for Postdocs and everyone welcome. Get informed, shine a light on your career and meet your mentor: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

🚨 Last call - deadline extended to Jan. 15! PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute & University of Göttingen! #IMPRSGS #GönomiX ➡️ www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... #PhD #GenomeScience #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #Germany @mpi-nat.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Fully-funded #PhD positions in #epigenetics, #biophysics & #metabolism, gene regulation, cell biology and more… Are you already on track to start an exciting research career @maxplanck.de & @uni-freiburg.de? This is your timeline. Apply by February 6th, 2026 www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/apply-imprs-...

📣 Talented PhD students wanted: The IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social and the DFG Research Training Group GönomiX are looking for you!

New in #SubtiWiki: Clusters of structural homologs! Enjoy the new feature! Thank you, Oskar Geissel & @c-elfmann.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @imprsgs.bsky.social

Want to shape the future of genome science? 🧬 PhD positions available at Max Planck Institute & Uni Göttingen (IMPRS-GS/GönomiX)! Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community. Apply by Jan 14, 2026: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... #GenomeScience #Research

💻 The Project: We will integrate multi-omics (bulk/scRNAseq, long-reads, ATAC-seq) to explore how duplicated genes diverge in regulation and function. 🤝 You will be part of the DFG SPP 2349 @gevol.bsky.social consortium & the @imprsgs.bsky.social, with research visits to collaboration partners (👇).

Happy to share our latest publication, in which we show that the arrangement of nucleosomes around CTCF sites contributes to higher-order organisation of chromatin into TADs: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html Apply here: obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

How can scientific evidence guide political decisions? And how can researchers take an active role in democratic debate? These are the central questions of the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School (MP-SPWS), taking place January 25–30, 2026, in Berlin! Learn more: www.fkf.mpg.de/mpsps

Starting science at our retreat 2025 at Harnack Haus with the first talk by our guest @keyfm.bsky.social on evolutionary genomics of microbial pathogens. Interesting topic distracting from knowing the nice weather and surrounding.

Great start of our @imprsgs.bsky.social retreat 2025, with a kind “thank you” from our PhD students. It is such a pleasure to guide you throughout you project! Looking forward to three energetic and fruitful days, with lots of science and fun.

All metabolites have now been assigned to categories in #SubtiWiki! This helps to get a rapid overview on all molecules that are Part of a pathway or that group together for other reasons, Check it out! Thank you, @c-elfmann.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @imprsgs.bsky.social

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

ATAC‐seq in Emerging Model Organisms: Challenges and Strategies

Principle of ATAC-seq (left), overview of arthropod species with published ATAC-seq data (middle), summary of experimental design (right).

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Always an emotional moment when one of your trainees graduates. Here, Dr. Adi Mackay (Danieli), 10th PhD from our lab, after an impeccable defense and a well-deserved "summa cum laude" distinction. ...paper will hopefully follow soon and it will become very clear why the distinction was awarded.

Most important: Adi was supported in her journey to the doctorate title, which included motherhood and an incredible amount of work, by our @imprsgs.bsky.social PhD program and by the UMG's @kfo5002.bsky.social consortium on PDAC research.

Very happy to see that the work by Magdalena Karpinska from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social's lab at @mpi-nat.bsky.social is now out in NSMB! Mariano Barbieri from my lab contributed modeling that (we think) nicely explain CTCF contribution to multiway E-P interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CTCF depletion decouples enhancer-mediated gene activation from chromatin hub formation - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Karpinska, Zhu and colleagues characterize the structure-function relationship of the genome during cellular differentiation and demonstrate a role for enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulatio...

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...the article is accompanied by a thoughtful commentary from @dariloops.bsky.social (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). The work is also a good example of collaboration within the @spp2202.bsky.social program funded by the @dfg.de, with Magda also supported by our @imprsgs.bsky.social PhD program.

Decoupling chromatin hubs from gene control - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Chromatin hubs, which are formed during cell differentiation, are characterized by simultaneous interactions between multiple regulatory elements and gene promoters. Research now shows that the disrup...

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How can we make better use of research data?💻 Our new Facility for Data Sciences and Biostatistics, led by Juliane Liepe, supports our scientists with bioinformatics, proteomics, transcriptomics, modeling, & statistical planning📊. Read more in our INSIDE NAT 1/25:⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/4965372/INSI...

Deadline to register fast approaching #WoCaNet2025! Women’s Careers & Networks, inspiring #workshops #CareerFair #Speakers #Networking @WoCaNet: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/203891.html Be a part of it: #Wocanet 4 & 5 June. #StopTheLeakyPipeline #WomenInSTEM #Networking #MothersInScience