Severin Uebbing joins GBE as Assistant Professor

We have a new neighbour! Severin Uebbing joins us from Yale to establish his group at our division. Severin will study how evolutionary changes impact enhancer function using computational and functional genomics. We are very excited to have you here and looking forward to future collaborations.

More information about research in Severin’s Lab can be found HERE


Ifigeneia joins as a new PhD student

Welcome to Ifigeneia Thomopoulou. Ifigeneia studied molecular biology and biotechnology at the University of Crete and continued her Masters studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the labs of Kerstin Wendt, Joost Gribnau, and Manfred Kayser. Ifigeneia will explore the DNA methylation sensitivity of various regulatory proteins.


Stefan’s paper published in Nature Genetics!

With long overdue, the impressive work led by our previous PhD student, Stefan, with help from many lab members and collaborators (Elling Lab, Vienna; Zuber Lab, Vienna; Schubeler Lab, Basel) is published in Nature Genetics.


Angela and Niklas join the group for their MSc internships

Angela Topic joined us from University of Zurich, where she is enrolled in the Quantitative Biology and Systems Biology Masters program. Angela will develop novel methods to test co-factor – gene promoter dependencies.

Niklas Kupfer, from Ulm University, joined our lab for an internship as part of the UU Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences MSc program. His work will focus on characterising a new set of histone-acetylation readers.