Prof. Albert @mareikealbert.bsky.social is part of MICRO-NEST, a new international consortium. Backed by €6 million Horizon Europe grant 🇪🇺, it combines multidisciplinary expertise to study early markers of autism spectrum disorders. Read more ➡️ tud.link/319gn4 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social

New funding for Korean-German collaboration! 🇰🇷 🤝🇩🇪 Backed by the @dfg.de, the Albert group @mareikealbert.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social partners with Korean researchers to study how epigenetics and the extracellular matrix shape the human cortex 🧠 🧬 Read more ➡️ tud.link/qqvtcv #CMCBnews

Exciting news 🧬 Funded by a Rise Up! grant from @boehringerglobal.bsky.social, the Albert group @mareikealbert.bsky.social will explore how epigenetics shapes the timing of brain development across species. Read more ➡️ tud.link/uakytp

📣 Deadline extension for #EMBOBrainEpi! Good news for anyone who did not submit an abstract for the EMBO Workshop 'Brain (epi)genome': the abstract deadline is now 26 January 👉 s.embl.org/brg26-01-bl Join us to explore how genome and epigenome shape brain cell diversity, function, and disease 🧠

🥂 We have a new PhD!!! Congratulations to Theresa Schütze for an excellent PhD defence! 🥳 The result of hard work, dedication and curiosity. Very well deserved! Thank you to the committee members. Stay tuned for the manuscript!!! 🧠 🧫 🦍 🧬 @crtd-tud.bsky.social #DIGS-ILS #CNV alumnus

New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains 1/ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Proud to see your story featured on the cover of #Neuron! 🤩 Along with a great #preview from Fides Zenk lab @epign.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

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How do epigenetic modifications contribute to human #neocortex #development? Excited to see our work out in #Neuron. We applied Epi-CyTOF and identified a novel role for PRC2 in regulating #ECM. @crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread below 👇

Excited to share our News & Views in Neuron, co-authored with Yong-Qi Gao 🎉🧠 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... It highlights the fantastic new work from the @mareikealbert.bsky.social lab.

Unlocking the epigenome: Single-cell histone profiling in cortical development

Ditzer et al. used single-cell cytometry by time-of-flight-based method for epigenetic analysis to profile histone modifications in the primary human …

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🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu! With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠 #CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG

GSCN 2025 Young Investigator Award goes to @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Find PR here www.gscn.org/ #stemcells #stammzellen #epigenetics #genetics @maxplanck.de @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de @bihatcharite.bsky.social

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

Workshop Single Cell Genomics on 13 & 14 Oct in @www.helmholtz-munich.de , right before the @gscnoffice.bsky.social 13th Conference. Register and be part! #stemcells #singlecell #genomics #data #stammzellen #organoids

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How do epigenetic modifications contribute to human #neocortex #development? Excited to see our work out in #Neuron. We applied Epi-CyTOF and identified a novel role for PRC2 in regulating #ECM. @crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread below 👇

How important is #epigenetics for human brain? Researchers led by @mareikealbert.bsky.social used brain organoids 🧠 🧫 and Epi-CyTOF to show that histone methylation controls how brain cells multiply and how big the organoid grows. Read more ➡️ tud.link/4ywe3g #neuroscience #CMCBnews

Rund 150 (!) aktuell und ehemalig Geförderte waren beim diesjährigen #EmmyNoether-Jahrestreffen - und es war wieder einmal lustig, produktiv, sonnig, kollaborativ, synergetisch, kommunikativ und noch viel mehr. 😊 Kurzer Bericht, mehr Impressionen & die Präsentationen zu den Talks: fcld.ly/ent2025

Join us!!!!! THE Symposium for all Chromatin and Epigenetics experts and 'lovers' this year!!!

Gesellschaft für Genetik@gfgenetik.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Join us at the upcoming GfG Symposium "Epigenetics & Chromatin" in Giessen, Sept 24–26, 2025! Amazing speakers, low registration fee, € 300 prizes for best poster & short talk, + free GfG membership for non-members. Please RT! express.converia.de/frontend/ind...

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...

Do you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! Topics: object detection/tracking, multimodal models & more. DM/email for details! #PhD #AcademicJobs #GPUsgoBrr

#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp

🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility! 🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11 More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8 @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

Award-winning mentors share best practice to keep your team going amid political upheavals, economic downturns and other events https://go.nature.com/4eErOVx

Rubbish years: how to boost lab group morale when world events crash in

Award-winning mentors share best practice to keep your team going amid political upheavals, economic downturns and other events.

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Dr. Katie Long is leading vital research, funded by an MRF award, to learn how pregnant people feel about vaccines during pregnancy. We want your views! Take this short survey: tinyurl.com/vaccines-in-... For more information on vaccines in pregnancy visit tommys.org/vaccinations-pregnancy

We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of transposable elements and their roles in development and disease - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome. This Review discusses transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms that repress TE activity, how TEs escape this suppressio...

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We have several open postdoc positions! We do computational biology 🧬🖥️ and deep learning to understand the genomics of genome instability and (somatic) genome evolution in ageing and cancer. Interested? 👉🏻 more details: tu-dresden.de/cmcb/biotec/...

Open positions

We are looking for Postdocs! If you are interested in the lab in general as a postdoc, please feel free to apply with an open application, including a letter of motivation and a CV …

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Here's a job at my institute that just opened up: Max Planck Director in Biological AI. This is an amazing opportunity - www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Open Call: Max Planck Director in Biological Artificial Intelligence

Expressions of interest or nominations to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence at MPI-CBG.

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Excited to share our latest work out in @pnas.org! We show that the #SARSCoV2 nucleocapsid protein directly prevents DNA recognition of the immune sensor #cGAS by competing for DNA, which may delay early innate immune responses during infection. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #innateimmunity

Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development @nature.com @akanksha-jain.bsky.social @graycamplab.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data

Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...

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Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Shuting Xu 🎉㊗️ As Shuting is the first PhD graduate from our Dresden lab, I was probably more nervous than she was. But Shuting delivered an outstanding, stimulating presentation and handled the Q&A with confidence. Very well done! 1/2