Congratulations to Clara Schmidt, MendjanLab, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Multi-Chamber Cardioids Unravel Human Heart Development and Cardiac Defects!”

Meet EcoBot the professional weeder.

The Machine Learning, Solar powered apparatus that can run for the entire day pulling weeds.

Replaces expensive in every possible way, herbicides.

Elly Tanaka will be IMBA’s new Scientific Director, heading the institute from April 2024 onwards. Elly Tanaka is a renowned researcher, who studies the regeneration of complex body parts. Welcome, Elly!

Fantastic work (and unexpected findings!!) by our neighbors from the Alejandro Burga lab! Anyone interested in how toxin-antitoxin elements, (non-)coding RNAs, selfish genes, piRNAs and parent-of-origin effects can (co-)evolve, this is a paper not to be missed!

New manuscript alert! Writing in nature, the Burga Lab (@arburga) describe a genomic silencing mechanism which represses a selfish genetic element in the eggs of the nematode C.tropicalis only when it is paternally inherited. Their findings reveal the potential evolutionary…

Our paper describing Bioframe, a python library for working with genomic intervals, was just accepted! academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

What a beautiful sight - children with Microscopes, curiosity in their eyes learning the wonders of Developmental Biology! Terrific outreach event organised by Indian Society of Developmental Biologists and fantastic students at National Centre for Biological Sciences. Great start to InSDB 2024!

Our new data-driven mathematical model of sarcomere assembly is now out. All the math was done by our fantastic collaborators in Dresden Benjamin Friedrich Physics of Life Dresden IBDM Clara Sidor Benoit Dehapiot journals.aps.org/prxlife/pdf/10…

We are hiring!! The IMP is looking for a new junior group leader with a curiosity-driven, innovative research program in fundamental and biomedical science. It's an amazing place with lots of freedom to do the science you dream of - please spread the word!

What graduate degree should you go for? The MBA, the MD, the JD, or the PhD? The PhD is unique - it has to be said - for teaching both critical reasoning and the creative process of discovery; skills that prepare you for anything you’d then want to do.

Our latest release on placental microvasculature..Just in time for the holidays! ⁦HaaseLab⁩ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

One decade after starting this journey, our collaborative paper with @Gibson_lab is finally out: rdcu.be/dtupS.
It reports chromosome assemblies of the related sea anemones Larisa Sheloukhova and Scolanthus callimorphus. Will be an important resource for the community.

Is there a better way to make PGCs in culture than with disorganised EBs and signalling cocktails? In our latest pub Development we show that mouse 'gastruloids' make beautiful PGCs... 😍 [as also seen by others] (1/6) doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…

Why do we get certain diseases whereas others do not exist?
This new book builds a foundation for systems medicine. Starting from basic laws, it derives why hormone, immune and aging circuits are built the way the are, culminating in a periodic table of diseases.

Great study in Cell from our virologist colleagues Elisabeth Puchhammer et al & neurologists of the MedUni Wien. Bravo!! 👏

Specific Epstein-Barr virus determinants and immune responses by NK & T cells implicated in the risk for #multiplesclerosis .

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

I am excited to share our latest work where we introduced a time-axis in single-cell epigenomics data and provide new insights into X-chromosome inactivation. Excellent work by Samy & Pim together with Peter Alexander van Oudenaarden Hubrecht Institute Oncode Institute
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cannot recommend this enough!

An interactive resource of molecular signalling in the developing human haematopoietic stem cell niche

Read this Human Development Article by Edie Crosse Edie, Alexander Medvinsky Centre for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

We are very excited to present a major breakthrough achievement – the de novo design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in fruit fly embryos in vivo using deep- and transfer learning, @deAlmeida_BPet al published today in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…. Thread 👇(1/N)