Stefanie Grosswendt
@stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social
Independent Group Leader, @bihatcharite.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu, single-cell omics, cell-cell interactions, cell communication, From Cells to Tissues
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Dynamic Cellular #Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the
@sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026.
Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
@sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026.
Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Dynamic Cellular #Interfaces reloaded: Join us for the
@sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026.
Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
@sfb1348.bsky.social International Meeting on 'Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces' in Münster, May 27–29, 2026.
Registration is open - Limited spots – first come, first serve! More info: tinyurl.com/ypyzd23w
@uni-muenster.de
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Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...
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We are looking for PhD students or Postdocs with an interest in developing and using new methods for functional genetics following our recent work 👉 rdcu.be/e05Oo and academic.oup.com/nar/article/52
January 28, 2026 at 9:50 AM
We are looking for PhD students or Postdocs with an interest in developing and using new methods for functional genetics following our recent work 👉 rdcu.be/e05Oo and academic.oup.com/nar/article/52
Excited to be joining SY-Stem in Vienna this March and contributing to its fantastic program on stem cell research, which spans signaling, patterning, plasticity, reprogramming, and more.
Register online: www.sy-stem.org
SY-Stem 11. - 13. March 2026, Vienna (Austria)
In this two-and-a-half-day event, recognized keynote speakers, as well as aspiring young group leaders will discuss the latest advances in stem cell biology in an informal and collaborative setting. Our goal is to strengthen a cooperative and dynamic spirit in this research area.
www.sy-stem.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Excited to be joining SY-Stem in Vienna this March and contributing to its fantastic program on stem cell research, which spans signaling, patterning, plasticity, reprogramming, and more.
Registration for ISCO – Innovations in Single-Cell Omics is now open!
Exciting program and speakers coming to sunny Barcelona this May.
Exciting program and speakers coming to sunny Barcelona this May.
ISCO (Innovations in Single-Cell OMICS) will be back in beautiful Barcelona!
🗓️ 28th/29th of May 2026
📍Barcelona Biomedical Research Park @prbb.org (beachfront!)
Keynotes: @bartdeplancke.bsky.social and @bocklab.bsky.social
Submit your abstract and present your research!
www.isco-conference.eu
🗓️ 28th/29th of May 2026
📍Barcelona Biomedical Research Park @prbb.org (beachfront!)
Keynotes: @bartdeplancke.bsky.social and @bocklab.bsky.social
Submit your abstract and present your research!
www.isco-conference.eu
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Registration for ISCO – Innovations in Single-Cell Omics is now open!
Exciting program and speakers coming to sunny Barcelona this May.
Exciting program and speakers coming to sunny Barcelona this May.
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SY-Stem 2026 brings two outstanding keynote speakers to the Vienna BioCenter. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the @impvienna.bsky.social & @imbavienna.bsky.social
March 11-13, 2026
Program and registration: www.sy-stem.org
March 11-13, 2026
Program and registration: www.sy-stem.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:08 AM
SY-Stem 2026 brings two outstanding keynote speakers to the Vienna BioCenter. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the @impvienna.bsky.social & @imbavienna.bsky.social
March 11-13, 2026
Program and registration: www.sy-stem.org
March 11-13, 2026
Program and registration: www.sy-stem.org
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1. Excited to share CONCORD, out in @NatureBiotech, an ML framework for single-cell analysis addressing integration, dimensionality reduction, and denoising in one go by @qinzhu1.🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check out this CONCORD model of worm development resolving differentiation trajectories:
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 PM
1. Excited to share CONCORD, out in @NatureBiotech, an ML framework for single-cell analysis addressing integration, dimensionality reduction, and denoising in one go by @qinzhu1.🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check out this CONCORD model of worm development resolving differentiation trajectories:
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Congratulations, Dr. @alejofraticelli.bsky.social (tag/IRBBarcelona-@icreacommunity.bsky.social)," class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#IRBBarcelona-@icreacommunity.bsky.social), on your appointment as a new @embo.org Young Investigator!
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/7uh1C
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Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/7uh1C
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Congratulations, Dr. @alejofraticelli.bsky.social (tag/IRBBarcelona-@icreacommunity.bsky.social)," class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#IRBBarcelona-@icreacommunity.bsky.social), on your appointment as a new @embo.org Young Investigator!
Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/7uh1C
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Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/7uh1C
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🥳 Thrilled, honored & very happy to become part of the amazing EMBO Young Investigator Programme! Looking forward to the new opportunities, interactions, ideas & collaborations it will spark. Very grateful to my fantastic team @mpi-cbg.de, colleagues, collaborators & mentors who made this possible!
Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome!
Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🥳 Thrilled, honored & very happy to become part of the amazing EMBO Young Investigator Programme! Looking forward to the new opportunities, interactions, ideas & collaborations it will spark. Very grateful to my fantastic team @mpi-cbg.de, colleagues, collaborators & mentors who made this possible!
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🚀 Exciting news! ERC Synergy Grant of €8.5 million to Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, Daniel St Jonston @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch @universitypress.cambridge.org! This highly interdisciplinary project will boost our understanding of tissue biology. #ERCSyG @erc.europa.eu
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🚀 Exciting news! ERC Synergy Grant of €8.5 million to Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, Daniel St Jonston @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social and Ewa Paluch @universitypress.cambridge.org! This highly interdisciplinary project will boost our understanding of tissue biology. #ERCSyG @erc.europa.eu
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We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Simon Elsässer in his new #CIBSS core professorship as Endowed Professor for #SyntheticBiology at the @uni-freiburg.de. His work is funded by the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social with 4.8 million euros over 10 years.
🔗 kurzlinks.de/44nn
🔗 kurzlinks.de/44nn
Simon Elsässer is the new Endowed Professor for Synthetic Biology at the University of Freiburg
Elsässer strengthens the ‘Signals of Life’ research focus as well as the CIBSS Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg. The foundation Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung is providing the professorship wi...
kurzlinks.de
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Simon Elsässer in his new #CIBSS core professorship as Endowed Professor for #SyntheticBiology at the @uni-freiburg.de. His work is funded by the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social with 4.8 million euros over 10 years.
🔗 kurzlinks.de/44nn
🔗 kurzlinks.de/44nn
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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
mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career
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...
jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
July 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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
mpi-muenster.mpg.de/career
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I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role:
www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
September 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I am excited to announce that we are looking for a Lab Manager @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel. If you want to be part of a growing team investigating development and tissue formation, and are enthusiastic about helping set up a new lab, please check out the role:
www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
Computational image analyst (m/f/d)
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a
jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de
September 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
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🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development.
We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development.
We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
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🚨 Job Alert: we seek a Lab Manager for @juliabatki.bsky.social's new group (start Mar 2026), which will study cell fate regulation during organ development. Join the Batki's group to drive experiments & lab operations! Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
September 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🚨 Job Alert: we seek a Lab Manager for @juliabatki.bsky.social's new group (start Mar 2026), which will study cell fate regulation during organ development. Join the Batki's group to drive experiments & lab operations! Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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Rui Benedito has joined our MPI in Münster as a director. He develops innovative genetic tools to study how mutations alter single-cell behavior — pushing the frontiers of biomedical research. Welcome, Rui! @ruibenedito.bsky.social
🎉 #Genetics #SingleCell
www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...
🎉 #Genetics #SingleCell
www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...
New Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
New director Rui Benedito brings advanced genetic tools to study how mutations affect single cells and contribute to cardiovascular disease or cancer.
www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Rui Benedito has joined our MPI in Münster as a director. He develops innovative genetic tools to study how mutations alter single-cell behavior — pushing the frontiers of biomedical research. Welcome, Rui! @ruibenedito.bsky.social
🎉 #Genetics #SingleCell
www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...
🎉 #Genetics #SingleCell
www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/pressrelease...
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Congratulations to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu on receiving the GSCN Young Investigator Award 2025! The award recognizes her lab’s research on dormancy.
Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs...
@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social
Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs...
@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Congratulations to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu on receiving the GSCN Young Investigator Award 2025! The award recognizes her lab’s research on dormancy.
Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs...
@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social
Read more: www.molgen.mpg.de/news-2025-gs...
@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social
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Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh
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Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production
Morphogen gradients provide the patterning cues that instruct cell fate decisions during development. Here, we establish an optogenetic system for the…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am excited to share that I will join the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel as a group leader, starting my lab in March 2026 🎉
We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.
We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.
August 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am excited to share that I will join the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel as a group leader, starting my lab in March 2026 🎉
We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.
We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.
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⚠️ I am really excited to share the work of Anastasios Balaskas, an excellent PhD candidate in the lab, with the wider world. Tasos made a significant advance: generating a stem cell-based embryo model that contains both posterior and anterior neural tissues of the late-stage gastrulating embryo.
June 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
⚠️ I am really excited to share the work of Anastasios Balaskas, an excellent PhD candidate in the lab, with the wider world. Tasos made a significant advance: generating a stem cell-based embryo model that contains both posterior and anterior neural tissues of the late-stage gastrulating embryo.
Just wrapped up 2 inspiring days at ISCO – Innovations in Single Cell Omics! A great community came together to share science and fun. A big THANK YOU to all our fantastic speakers and interactive participants
May 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just wrapped up 2 inspiring days at ISCO – Innovations in Single Cell Omics! A great community came together to share science and fun. A big THANK YOU to all our fantastic speakers and interactive participants
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Our 3D study of the tumor microenvironment is finally out!
Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 )
Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 )
Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
April 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Our 3D study of the tumor microenvironment is finally out!
Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 )
Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 )
Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
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"Innovations in Single Cell Omics" Berlin 5.12-13.
Organizers:
@stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social
@simonhaas.bsky.social
@leifludwig.bsky.social
Ashley Sanders
@larsplus.bsky.social
@elimereu.bsky.social
@alejofraticelli.bsky.social
Organizers:
@stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social
@simonhaas.bsky.social
@leifludwig.bsky.social
Ashley Sanders
@larsplus.bsky.social
@elimereu.bsky.social
@alejofraticelli.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Innovations in Single Cell Omics" Berlin 5.12-13.
Organizers:
@stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social
@simonhaas.bsky.social
@leifludwig.bsky.social
Ashley Sanders
@larsplus.bsky.social
@elimereu.bsky.social
@alejofraticelli.bsky.social
Organizers:
@stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social
@simonhaas.bsky.social
@leifludwig.bsky.social
Ashley Sanders
@larsplus.bsky.social
@elimereu.bsky.social
@alejofraticelli.bsky.social