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Lennart Hilbert
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Studying the cell nucleus in search of inspiration for future DNA computers. Systems Biology professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, post opinions mine alone.

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"Chromatin-associated condensates as an inspiration for the system architecture of future DNA computers"

Highly conceptual Perspective article, supported by fresh data & simulations from our group. Containing my now 40 years of accumulated "wisdom".

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Registration is now open to attend Journal of Cell Science's meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics, organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Guillaume Jacquemet, Michael Way and Giulia Zanetti.

Find out more: biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

#JCSimaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Imaging #Cells #CellScience
October 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Next Tuesday Oct 28, great talks of invited and local speakers of our Synthetic Genomics Center, in Heidelberg and on Zoom!
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The @crg.eu 2026 International PhD Programme is now open! Join our international community in Barcelona: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Last night Science Slam with a full house at Tollhaus, as part of @kit.edu Science Week. As one of four slammers, our PhD student Mona Wellhäusser @mofrawe.bsky.social entertained a huge audience, putting fish in jello for microscopy, (optically) slicing a pumpkin. Great show, fantastic atmosphere!
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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We are hiring ! If you want to become professor of Bioinformatics in the best city of North America, check the announcement below ! Also you do need to speak French (as long as you commit to learning it :) ) www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d...
www.umontreal.ca
October 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.

mpl.mpg.de/news/article...
@fau.de

📸 Stephan Spangenberg
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sharing a recent, deep insight:

The concept of a membrane-less organelle is an interesting one, like calling something a house without walls
October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy 200th bday KIT 🥳
Das #KITKarlsruhe hat heute, am 7. Oktober 2025, Geburtstag: Auf den Tag genau vor 200 Jahren unterschrieb Großherzog Ludwig I. von Baden das Gründungsdekret für die erste Vorgängerinstitution der heutigen Exzellenzuniversität, die Polytechnische Schule in #Karlsruhe. www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2025_...
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Sadly, yes, and applies also past junior level! Sorry to everyone affected by my unreal email and task overload in the form of non-responsiveness 😣
If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Warming up for October start of KIT teaching by guest lecturing for @unistra.fr Cell Physics Master “Active Droplets”. First of three lectures today. 3:00 h sharp, start to finish 💪

Some travel impressions, including fancy and very white “Le Studium” on Strasbourg Central Campus 🤍

And, Gyoza 🥟
September 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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.
August 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What a great doctoral defense by Tim Klingberg @fau.de

Based in the group of our collaborator @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social Tim decisively contributed to at least 3 of our own lab’s foundational projects, which he showed today at “Max Planck Zentrum Physik und Medizin”

Some impressions
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Congratulations to the Fritz Lipmann Lecturer Michael Rosen (Dallas) by the GBM president Harald Kolmar.
September 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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GBM Compact Focus on Condensate Biology is opened by Edward Lemke. Looking forward to a great meeting!
September 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you are at GBM compact "Focus on Condensate Biology", we will be happy to talk to you at our lab's posters:

Mona Wellhäuser, MC15 @mofrawe.bsky.social
Yuzhi Bao, CA03 @yuzhibao.bsky.social
Lennart Hilbert, MC06

Conference abstracts:

gbm-compact.org/abstracts.html

*sketch added as click bait
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Molekulare #Bionik: Der Zellkern als Vorbild für DNS-basierte #Computerchips. Forschende des #KITKarlsruhe (u. a. @lennarthilbert.bsky.social) nutzen zelluläre Informationsverarbeitung als Inspiration für die #Biotechnologie. www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2025_...
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Simulation of the formation of a chromatin-attached condensate, which is visited by a gene undergoing transcriptional activation.

Read more about it here:

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"Chromatin-associated condensates as an inspiration for the system architecture of future DNA computers"

Highly conceptual Perspective article, supported by fresh data & simulations from our group. Containing my now 40 years of accumulated "wisdom".

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“We ask you to return your proof corrections within 48 hours.”

#sciencememe #academicmeme
#academemia

youtube.com/shorts/8N2eZ...
Marc Rebillet’s Late To Work Song 🔥😆
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September 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fine structural organization of the interphase nucleus in some mammalian cells, Monneron & Bernard, 1969

Gotta love these classic papers about nuclear architecture. In hindsight, all that we understand and discover today was already contained in their images.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Nice paper showing how gene / TSS CpG-hypomethylation can allow long-range regulatory interactions, hypermetyhlation repress these interactions.

"Increased enhancer–promoter interactions during developmental enhancer activation in mammals"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@evgenykvon.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Is euchromatin really “open”? Our new study @bioRxiv suggests otherwise. Using super-resolution imaging @shiori-iida.bsky.social@masaashimazoe.bsky.social reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Soon at @spirochrome.com
Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Paused Polymerase II in genome hyper compartmentalization in chicken terminally differentiated adult red blood cells (aRBC), see screenshot.

Excellent paper recommendation from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social Thanks!

Andrés Penagos-Puig, ... Mayra Furlan-Magaril

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM