Victoria Deneke
@vdeneke.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Pauli Group at IMP Vienna studying fertilization | #scicomm | #mentoring | #scienceandfaith | #DiversityandInclusion | Salvadoran scientist 🇸🇻
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Victoria Deneke
@vdeneke.bsky.social
· Dec 13
The life of each of us began when a sperm and an egg came together. But what happens at a molecular level?
Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11)
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A personal dream come true! Elated that our study @pauligroup.bsky.social was featured in this month’s issue of Cell!
⬇️ Check out our #skytorial below🦋
⬇️ Check out our #skytorial below🦋
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Check out this episode on the Future of Fertility featuring @gunes-taylor.bsky.social - loved every second of it and learned so much!
🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)
Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.
Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Check out this episode on the Future of Fertility featuring @gunes-taylor.bsky.social - loved every second of it and learned so much!
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
Know someone who fits this description?
🎯 Trained in the Global North
🏡 Returned to Latin America
🧪 Leads a research lab
Nominate them: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🎯 Trained in the Global North
🏡 Returned to Latin America
🧪 Leads a research lab
Nominate them: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Know someone who fits this description?
🎯 Trained in the Global North
🏡 Returned to Latin America
🧪 Leads a research lab
Nominate them: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🎯 Trained in the Global North
🏡 Returned to Latin America
🧪 Leads a research lab
Nominate them: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨
We’re currently collecting nominations!
This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇
We’re currently collecting nominations!
This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇
July 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨
We’re currently collecting nominations!
This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇
We’re currently collecting nominations!
This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇
Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚
June 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
If you have the means, please help this vital resource. Any contribution will help sustain @flybase.bsky.social during this difficult time. Thanks for your consideration 🙏 #ThatsHowWeShoal
🔗 to donate: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
🔗 to donate: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
If you have the means, please help this vital resource. Any contribution will help sustain @flybase.bsky.social during this difficult time. Thanks for your consideration 🙏 #ThatsHowWeShoal
🔗 to donate: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
🔗 to donate: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
A heartfelt thank you to @izfs.bsky.social for this incredible honor! I'm so grateful to receive an award in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien, an inspiring scientist and pioneer in the zebrafish community 🐟💙
We are excited to announce the winner of the Chi-Bin Chien Award, Dr. Victoria Deneke! See more about Dr. Deneke and the CBC Award here: www.izfs.org/news/congrat...
@impvienna.bsky.social @vdeneke.bsky.social
@impvienna.bsky.social @vdeneke.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A heartfelt thank you to @izfs.bsky.social for this incredible honor! I'm so grateful to receive an award in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien, an inspiring scientist and pioneer in the zebrafish community 🐟💙
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
👩🔬 @idajentoft.bsky.social won a Birnstiel Award for her outstanding doctoral research in 2023.
Do you know an exceptional PhD student? The Birnstiel Award has an open call!
📅 Nominate by 30 June: www.imp.ac.at/achievements...
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social
Do you know an exceptional PhD student? The Birnstiel Award has an open call!
📅 Nominate by 30 June: www.imp.ac.at/achievements...
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
👩🔬 @idajentoft.bsky.social won a Birnstiel Award for her outstanding doctoral research in 2023.
Do you know an exceptional PhD student? The Birnstiel Award has an open call!
📅 Nominate by 30 June: www.imp.ac.at/achievements...
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social
Do you know an exceptional PhD student? The Birnstiel Award has an open call!
📅 Nominate by 30 June: www.imp.ac.at/achievements...
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social
Happy 25th birthday, @gmivienna.bsky.social!
Thank you for an amazing party last night, here’s to another 25 years of plant-astic science! 🌱
Thank you for an amazing party last night, here’s to another 25 years of plant-astic science! 🌱
May 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy 25th birthday, @gmivienna.bsky.social!
Thank you for an amazing party last night, here’s to another 25 years of plant-astic science! 🌱
Thank you for an amazing party last night, here’s to another 25 years of plant-astic science! 🌱
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
🚨 PhD position open! 🚨
Join our team at the Medical University of Vienna to study glycan regulation in mammary organoids, milk, and breast cancer.
Details in the image – please share! 🧬✨
Join our team at the Medical University of Vienna to study glycan regulation in mammary organoids, milk, and breast cancer.
Details in the image – please share! 🧬✨
May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🚨 PhD position open! 🚨
Join our team at the Medical University of Vienna to study glycan regulation in mammary organoids, milk, and breast cancer.
Details in the image – please share! 🧬✨
Join our team at the Medical University of Vienna to study glycan regulation in mammary organoids, milk, and breast cancer.
Details in the image – please share! 🧬✨
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
🧵1/14
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
🧵1/14
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
🧵1/14
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
🧵1/14
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
If you’re a scientist who values strong institutional support, join us! The GMI is currently hiring new Group Leader positions, including a Junior Group Leader to lead an independent research group addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. Links below.
May 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If you’re a scientist who values strong institutional support, join us! The GMI is currently hiring new Group Leader positions, including a Junior Group Leader to lead an independent research group addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. Links below.
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
There’s now a MedakaBase paper that you can cite, courtesy of @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social 🐠
🔗 to MedakaBase: medakabase.nbrp.jp
🔗 to MedakaBase: medakabase.nbrp.jp
Empowering medaka fish biology with versatile genomic resources in MedakaBase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653297v1
May 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There’s now a MedakaBase paper that you can cite, courtesy of @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social 🐠
🔗 to MedakaBase: medakabase.nbrp.jp
🔗 to MedakaBase: medakabase.nbrp.jp
💡 Considering starting your own research group?
➡️ Apply to IMBA! Amazing support for research groups and located in beautiful Vienna.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
➡️ Apply to IMBA! Amazing support for research groups and located in beautiful Vienna.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply by May 18: imba.science/beagroupleader #hiring #biology #research #groupleader #europe
May 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
💡 Considering starting your own research group?
➡️ Apply to IMBA! Amazing support for research groups and located in beautiful Vienna.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
➡️ Apply to IMBA! Amazing support for research groups and located in beautiful Vienna.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
Kristina Stapornwongkul and Sven Klumpe are new IMBA Group Leaders starting in 2025. Who will join IMBA in 2026? IMBA is hiring a Junior Group Leader. Apply to the position by May 18: imba.science/beagroupleader #hiring #biology #research #groupleader #europe
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Kristina Stapornwongkul and Sven Klumpe are new IMBA Group Leaders starting in 2025. Who will join IMBA in 2026? IMBA is hiring a Junior Group Leader. Apply to the position by May 18: imba.science/beagroupleader #hiring #biology #research #groupleader #europe
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
⭐ Faculty for the Future Fellows ⭐ Interesting opportunity for women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies schlumbergerfoundation.com/eligibility-...
Eligibility Criteria - Schlumberger Foundation
schlumbergerfoundation.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
⭐ Faculty for the Future Fellows ⭐ Interesting opportunity for women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies schlumbergerfoundation.com/eligibility-...
So happy to be back in the heart of Durham for this year’s National Contraception Meeting! If you’re here, let’s meet! 👋
April 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So happy to be back in the heart of Durham for this year’s National Contraception Meeting! If you’re here, let’s meet! 👋
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
1/6 🧵 I am beyond excited to share the latest work from @williamsrepro.bsky.social! This story began during the pandemic as we sought to understand how a brief insult during the peri-fertilization window can escalate into a metabolic outcome in adulthood—as seen in IVF-conceived children.
Calcium signals shape metabolic control of H3K27ac and H3K18la to regulate EGA
The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has enabled the birth of over 9 million babies; but it is associated with increased risks of negative metabolic outcomes in offspring. Yet, the unde...
www.biorxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
1/6 🧵 I am beyond excited to share the latest work from @williamsrepro.bsky.social! This story began during the pandemic as we sought to understand how a brief insult during the peri-fertilization window can escalate into a metabolic outcome in adulthood—as seen in IVF-conceived children.
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
March 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Thankful for any retweet! 🫶
imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
We are seeking to fill a type of position that will be new to the IMP: a Scientific Grant Writer to help with externally funded research projects throughout the process: identify donors, apply, coordinate collaborators, oversee implementation, & report back to donors.
www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Ref2504: Scientific Grant Writer (m/f/d), full-time | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
www.imp.ac.at
March 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We are seeking to fill a type of position that will be new to the IMP: a Scientific Grant Writer to help with externally funded research projects throughout the process: identify donors, apply, coordinate collaborators, oversee implementation, & report back to donors.
www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Super excited for @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social to join @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social this year, exciting times ahead! 😎
Kristina Stapornwongkul is joining IMBA! The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutritional environment and metabolic processes influence embryonic development—an emerging research area with broad implications for both fundamental biology and biomedical applications. Welcome, Kristina!
March 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Super excited for @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social to join @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social this year, exciting times ahead! 😎
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
If you want to be selected for a short talk at the Singer-Polignac meeting "Fertility-contribution of the maternal inheritance", you can now provide an abstract :
singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/...
singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/...
Fondation Singer-Polignac - Fertility - Contribution of the maternal inheritance
La Fondation Singer-Polignac, Établissement reconnu d'utilité publique, mécène culturel dans le domaine de la musique, des sciences et des lettres.
singer-polignac.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
If you want to be selected for a short talk at the Singer-Polignac meeting "Fertility-contribution of the maternal inheritance", you can now provide an abstract :
singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/...
singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/...
Reposted by Victoria Deneke
New preprint from the @gerlichlab.bsky.social @imbavienna.bsky.social!
How do DNA breaks locate homology sites in the vast space of the human genome? We show how cohesin guides homology search for faithful repair!
Read more 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10
Follow along for key insights! 🧵
How do DNA breaks locate homology sites in the vast space of the human genome? We show how cohesin guides homology search for faithful repair!
Read more 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10
Follow along for key insights! 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New preprint from the @gerlichlab.bsky.social @imbavienna.bsky.social!
How do DNA breaks locate homology sites in the vast space of the human genome? We show how cohesin guides homology search for faithful repair!
Read more 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10
Follow along for key insights! 🧵
How do DNA breaks locate homology sites in the vast space of the human genome? We show how cohesin guides homology search for faithful repair!
Read more 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10
Follow along for key insights! 🧵