Gintare joins us for the summer

Gintare Sendzikaite from Gavin Kelsey’s Lab at The Babraham Institute (Cambridge UK) joins us for the summer months for a lab visit. Great to have you on board, and thanks to the MRC for funding this.

Georg Friedrich Götz-Award

Tuncay received The Georg Friedrich Götz-Award 2018. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of biomedical research.

Read more about it here

Welcome Chaitra

Chaitra Rao from ETH joined our lab for a bioinformatics practicum.
Welcome to the team!

Davide joins the lab.

Davide Recchia joined us for his PhD studies. Davide studied biology at the University of South Carolina and did his Masters in Nadine Vastenouv’s Lab at the MPI-CRG Dresden, working on zygotic genome activation in zebrafish.

Welcome Davide!

Rodrigo wins Poster Prize!

Congratulations to Rodrigo Villaseñor for winning the Best Poster Prize at the MPI Epigenetics conference in Freiburg. 

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Jahnavi and Colin on successfully defending their MSc theses!

Welcome back Sara!

Sara Giuliani has returned to our group for her MSc thesis. Welcome back!

Big Sinergia project grant awarded!

We have been most successful in securing a large Sinergia grant together with the labs of Christina Nevado (chemistry), Amedeo Caflish (biophysics/ biochemistry) and Christian Mosimann (developmental genetics), all from The University of Zurich.

More info can be found in the news release from UZH: English version, German version.

f.l.t.r.: Caflish, Baubec, Mosimann, Nevado