Congrats Douwe for receiving the poster prize at the 5th Danube Conference on Epigenetics (Budapest).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619792v1

New Preprint from the lab identifying a catalytically-independent role for SETD2 during neuronal differentiation.

Christina Ambrosi, Ramon Pfaendler, Stefan Butz, Davide C. Recchia, Xue Bao, Nina Schmolka, Tuncay Baubec

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619798v1

Jente van Staalduinen joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow. Jente did his PhD with Frank Grosvelt at ErasmusMC, Rotterdam. He will apply chromatin engineering to study how chromatin is established and maintained.

We had a fantastic trip to Texel enjoying science, biking, hiking, archery and bird watching with the entire group. Thanks to EMBO YIP for supporting our retreat.

The Bhardwaj lab will be jointly associated with our division, Developmental Biology and Bioinformatics at Utrecht University. Learn more about Vivek’s research here – https://vblab.org

We have three new MSc students that joined us on various projects in the last 6 months. Imane Chaouch and Lorenza Casasanta join us from Utrecht University, and Nicola Hallmann joins from ETH Zurich. Wellcome to the group, Imane, Lorenza and Nicola!

We welcome our newest PhD Student, Mathilde Noël! Mathilde studied genetics at the University of Paris Cité then continued her Masters with internships in the labs of Romain Koszul, Alex Stark and Daan Nordermeer. Mathilde will investigate gene control specificity by DNA sequence and chromatin.

We say farewell to our three MSc students that were brave enough to be the first MSc students to join our group in Utrecht. Thank you for all the good work and fun, and we wish you all the best for your future!

Kristeli Eleftheriou joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow. Kristeli studied Biology at the University of Athens and obtained her PhD in the lab of Mark Wossidlo at the Medical University of Vienna working on DNA methylation reprogramming and epimutations during early development. Welcome onboard, we are happy to have you here.