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We were very happy to welcome this amazing group of early-career researchers as part of the @Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin! Special thanks to @annaamonaco.bsky.social (Mundlos Lab) and @matthewkraushar.bsky.social for hosting the group and providing an in-depth tour of their labs!
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
Thrilled to start my Group Leader adventure with these and other great scientists!
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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We are excited to welcome @fueyoraquel.bsky.social, @sedonamurphy.bsky.social, and @jmstein.bsky.social as new group leaders at our institute!
Read more about their work:
--> www.molgen.mpg.de/2025-10-31-n...
All three are recruiting in the IMPRS PhD Call!
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Three new research groups joining the MPIMG
www.molgen.mpg.de
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🧬📢 We look forward to welcoming Jacob Hanna from the Weizmann Institute of Science as part of our speaker lineup for the #Embryo2026 meeting!

More information 👇
www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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New online! Redefining cellular reprogramming with advanced genomic technologies
Redefining cellular reprogramming with advanced genomic technologies
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 17 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00899-yMorris discusses how single-cell genomics and computational tools expose failure points in reprogramming and guide protocols that improve the fidelity, maturity and purity of engineered cells, advancing their use in regenerative medicine and disease modelling.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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varianteffect.bsky.social
🗓️Abstract Deadline Extended
to December 1st, 2025!
#VariantEffect26
ℹ️https://www.mss2026.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The IMPRS-BAC call is open until January! Interested in applying to the graduate school? Here are ten tips for a successfull application! ⬇

Check out our projects and apply by Jan 7th, 2026! www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRSPhDproj...

#IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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ICYMI: New online! Redefining cellular reprogramming with advanced genomic technologies
Redefining cellular reprogramming with advanced genomic technologies
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 17 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00899-yMorris discusses how single-cell genomics and computational tools expose failure points in reprogramming and guide protocols that improve the fidelity, maturity and purity of engineered cells, advancing their use in regenerative medicine and disease modelling.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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molgen.mpg.de
📢🧬 Next in the speaker line-up for #Embryo2026 is @eileen-furlong.bsky.social from @embl.org who will present her research on

"Genome regulation during embryogenesis: Going loopy about enhancer regulation"

Register until Oct 31! 👇
www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
Supported by the Weizmann Institute
SharePic for the contribution of Eileen Furlong from EMBL for the 2nd Meeting on Early embryogenesis & epigenetics organized by the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin with support by the Weizmann Institute for Science. The SharePic features the portrait of Eileen and the title of her contritbution "Genome regulation during embryogenesis: Going loopy about enhancer regulation".
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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mattjones.bsky.social
Delighted to share our new study in @natcellbio.nature.com showing that the unique epigenetic landscape of ecDNA can enable the oncogenic enhancer activation of transposable elements! This was a great collaboration with @katerinakraft.bsky.social and @sedonamurphy.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mwfbu4w4
Enhancer activation from transposable elements in extrachromosomal DNA - Nature Cell Biology
Kraft, Murphy, Jones et al. identify extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA)-interacting elements (EIEs) enriched for transposable elements within ecDNA in colorectal cancer cells. They show that EIE 14 integrat...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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📢Speaker showcase for our 2nd Meeting #Embryo2026 🧬

@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk will speak on

The Dynamics of Neural Tube Formation

More information on www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Our featured article: Structural variants in the 3D genome as drivers of disease - Review by Varun K. A. Sreenivasan, Verónica Yumiceba & Malte Spielmann go.nature.com/4oiPdPQ
Free to read here: rdcu.be/eu0KR
Structural variants in the 3D genome as drivers of disease
Nature Reviews Genetics - Disruption of the 3D genome caused by structural variation contributes to developmental disorders and cancer. The authors review the causes and molecular and clinical...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Our November 2025 issue is now live: go.nature.com/4hlXnVx
Topics include: the impact of structural variation on the 3D genome in disease; single-cell DNA sequencing of somatic mutations; the role of transcription compartments in gene regulation; synonymous mutations and their consequences
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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jshendure.bsky.social
Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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gregfindlay.bsky.social
Hello Boston! The lab is delighted to be at #ASHG25🧬
Check out our talks over the next few days - all unpublished stories.

Kicking things off is @michaelherger.bsky.social presenting "Saturation mutagenesis of 37 human splicing factor genes with pooled prime editing". Today @2pm, Rm205abc

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October 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Interested in handling big data and developing efficient algorithms for omics data?
Apply by 07.01.2026 for a PhD position in the lab of Knut Reinert

#IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #gradschool

👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/4775929/Rein...
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work.
🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab
October 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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fueyoraquel.bsky.social
Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD
A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model
Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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jacob-hanna.bsky.social
EEE meeting is BACK! Early Embryogenesis & Epigenetics conference in Berlin 02/2026.
Checkout great program and over 12 slots for (not so) short talks for submitted abstracts!. Early registration now open -
w.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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benoitbruneau.bsky.social
awesome new work by my @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social colleagues incl @vram142.bsky.social on how chromatin remodelers affect mesoscale chromatin organization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin condensates reveals distinct mesoscale outcomes
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)–dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes mobilize nucleosomes, but how such mobilization affects chromatin condensation is unclear. We investigate effects of two major remod...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben: 14 October Tuesday 1:30 - 15p.m. CET in English
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Great to see our Alumni Hossein and Uirá named among the 100 most influential scientists in Berlin by @tagesspiegel.de! They are co-founders of Lucid Genomics, a startup that develops algorithms to analyze the non-coding genome for potential use in precision medicine. Congratulations!
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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nobuhamazaki.bsky.social
New paper from my lab and @jshendure.bsky.social lab! Led by the brilliant @zukailiu.bsky.social and @cxqiu.bsky.social. We tackled how anterior and posterior progenitor cells cooperate to self-organize into an embryonic structure (termed AP-gastruloid). (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM