Class 4b from Grundschule am Hechinger Eck visited our lab. 22 kids learned about DNA with @jweir.bsky.social, peered through microscopes to explore their cheek cells, insects & even carpet (!). Best part? DNA extraction from bananas! 🧬🍌 #biology #education #STEM #schoolvisit #DNA #MaxPlanck

New preprint! How does meiosis work in non-model organisms? Together with Susana Coelho at the MPI for Biology Tübingen @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social , we took a look at the proteins of the meiotic axis in the brown alga Ectocarpus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exploring Meiosis in Brown Algae: Meiotic Axis Proteins in the model brown alga Ectocarpus

Most extant eukaryotic systems share core meiosis-specific genes, suggesting meiosis evolved only once in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). These genes have been characterized as master regu...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apply for a PhD in Biology! Exciting projects (part 1 of 5) from. Beatrice Ramm & Can Aztekin (@canaztekin.bsky.social). Contact your referees, prepare your documents & apply by 27 Jan. www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de #imprs #graduateprogram #maxplanck #phd #phdlife #phdpositiongermany

Registration now open for the 2025 EMBO workshop on Meiosis! June 22-26, 2025, Engelberg, Switzerland. Deadline for abstract submissions and registration is Feb 15th, 2025. Lots of speaker slots will be selected from abstracts, so apply now! meetings.embo.org/event/25-mei...

Meiosis: Exploring diversity to discover the fundamentals

Meiosis is an essential cell division for sexual reproduction and fertility across eukaryotes. It involves a series of tightly regulated processes, including entry into meiosis, pairing of homologs, …

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Kinetic and structure-based comparisons of silent and stimulatory flagellin interactions with TLR5 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627598v1

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The molecular machinery of meiotic recombination

Meiotic recombination, a cornerstone of eukaryotic diversity and individual genetic identity, is essential for the creation of physical linkages between homologous chromosomes, facilitating their fait...

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