Congratulations on your appointment as group leader. We value your continued involvement as faculty in our program and anticipate many more successful PhD students under your guidance.

Congratulations @c-elfmann.bsky.social! 🎉 So proud we could support you during your PhD work.

📢Magda Koziol @epigenome.bsky.social will be speaking at the DPZ @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen this Wednesday.
🗓️11 March ⏰13:00
Join us for an exciting seminar! 👇👇

Congrats to our alumna! 🎉 That's a fantastic achievement, and a well-deserved recognition!👍🥂

Sara Patricia Monteiro-Martins - World Congress of Nephrology 2026

Honored to receive the 2026 KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award (Basic Science) for our paper "Genetic screens of imaging-derived kidney volumes identify genes linked to kidney function"
Grateful to an amazing team behind our study published in @kidneyint.bsky.social
www.theisn.org/wcn/member/s...

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Today we mark UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science

And remember: opportunities to meet inspiring women in a range of disciplines and careers at Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair on 19 March, a family friendly event aimed at all researchers: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair #MeetYourMentor

And also thanks to our successful female scientific group leaders! They are a huge inspiration to our junior scientists. #Inspiration #RoleModels #Science 4 from our 18 female PIs are on bluesky: @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social @schuhlab.bsky.social @zafeirioulab.bsky.social

Inspiring the Next Generation 🎉Happy International Day of #WomenInScience 🎉 We had many amazing female scientists – like our two alumnae, who recently received prestigious postdoctoral fellowships: @sophiesiems.bsky.social (Marie Curie) & @nishahemandhar.bsky.social (Walter Benjamin) Congrats! #STEM

Image: This is a blue and turquoise poster with text included in the post - with the exception of join us for pizza at 17:30 and the following: Chat with experts: get inspired and inform your next career steps, discover opportunities at the Campus and beyond, meet other postdocs and build your network. There is also a QR code which leads you to the website here: https://goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

Göttingen Campus Postdoc Fair 2026

Thurs 19 March from 14:30. Registration now open. Book onsite childcare by 6 March.

Postdoc Fair: organised by Postdocs for Postdocs and everyone welcome. Get informed, shine a light on your career and meet your mentor: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

🚨 Last call - deadline extended to Jan. 15! PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute & University of Göttingen! #IMPRSGS #GönomiX
➡️ www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati...
#PhD #GenomeScience #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #Germany @mpi-nat.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Fully-funded #PhD positions in #epigenetics, #biophysics & #metabolism, gene regulation, cell biology and more…

Are you already on track to start an exciting research career @maxplanck.de & @uni-freiburg.de?

This is your timeline. Apply by February 6th, 2026
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/apply-imprs-...

📣 Talented PhD students wanted: The IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social and the DFG Research Training Group GönomiX are looking for you!

New in #SubtiWiki: Clusters of structural homologs!
Enjoy the new feature!
Thank you, Oskar Geissel & @c-elfmann.bsky.social
@uni-goettingen.de @imprsgs.bsky.social

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Want to shape the future of genome science? 🧬 PhD positions available at Max Planck Institute & Uni Göttingen (IMPRS-GS/GönomiX)! Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community. Apply by Jan 14, 2026: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... #GenomeScience #Research

💻 The Project: We will integrate multi-omics (bulk/scRNAseq, long-reads, ATAC-seq) to explore how duplicated genes diverge in regulation and function.
🤝 You will be part of the DFG SPP 2349 @gevol.bsky.social consortium & the @imprsgs.bsky.social, with research visits to collaboration partners (👇).

Happy to share our latest publication, in which we show that the arrangement of nucleosomes around CTCF sites contributes to higher-order organisation of chromatin into TADs: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout:
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html
Apply here:
obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

How can scientific evidence guide political decisions? And how can researchers take an active role in democratic debate? These are the central questions of the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School (MP-SPWS), taking place January 25–30, 2026, in Berlin! Learn more: www.fkf.mpg.de/mpsps

Empty sun chairs with MPG logo in the garden of the Harnack Haus

Students following a talk in lecture hall.

Starting science at our retreat 2025 at Harnack Haus with the first talk by our guest @keyfm.bsky.social on evolutionary genomics of microbial pathogens. Interesting topic distracting from knowing the nice weather and surrounding.

Great start of our @imprsgs.bsky.social retreat 2025, with a kind “thank you” from our PhD students. It is such a pleasure to guide you throughout you project! Looking forward to three energetic and fruitful days, with lots of science and fun.

All metabolites have now been assigned to categories in #SubtiWiki! This helps to get a rapid overview on all molecules that are Part of a pathway or that group together for other reasons, Check it out!
Thank you,
@c-elfmann.bsky.social

@unigoettingen.bsky.social @imprsgs.bsky.social

ATAC‐seq in Emerging Model Organisms: Challenges and Strategies Principle of ATAC-seq (left), overview of arthropod species with published ATAC-seq data (middle), summary of experimental design (right).

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

Always an emotional moment when one of your trainees graduates. Here, Dr. Adi Mackay (Danieli), 10th PhD from our lab, after an impeccable defense and a well-deserved "summa cum laude" distinction.

...paper will hopefully follow soon and it will become very clear why the distinction was awarded.

Most important: Adi was supported in her journey to the doctorate title, which included motherhood and an incredible amount of work, by our @imprsgs.bsky.social PhD program and by the UMG's @kfo5002.bsky.social consortium on PDAC research.

CTCF depletion decouples enhancer-mediated gene activation from chromatin hub formation - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Karpinska, Zhu and colleagues characterize the structure-function relationship of the genome during cellular differentiation and demonstrate a role for enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulatio...

Very happy to see that the work by Magdalena Karpinska from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social's lab at @mpi-nat.bsky.social is now out in NSMB! Mariano Barbieri from my lab contributed modeling that (we think) nicely explain CTCF contribution to multiway E-P interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Decoupling chromatin hubs from gene control - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Chromatin hubs, which are formed during cell differentiation, are characterized by simultaneous interactions between multiple regulatory elements and gene promoters. Research now shows that the disrup...

...the article is accompanied by a thoughtful commentary from @dariloops.bsky.social (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
The work is also a good example of collaboration within the @spp2202.bsky.social program funded by the @dfg.de, with Magda also supported by our @imprsgs.bsky.social PhD program.

How can we make better use of research data?💻 Our new Facility for Data Sciences and Biostatistics, led by Juliane Liepe, supports our scientists with bioinformatics, proteomics, transcriptomics, modeling, & statistical planning📊.
Read more in our INSIDE NAT 1/25:⬇️
www.mpinat.mpg.de/4965372/INSI...

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Deadline to register fast approaching #WoCaNet2025!

Women’s Careers & Networks, inspiring #workshops #CareerFair #Speakers #Networking @WoCaNet: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/203891.html

Be a part of it: #Wocanet 4 & 5 June.

#StopTheLeakyPipeline #WomenInSTEM #Networking #MothersInScience

Interested in some emerging model system research updates? Join us for the hybrid #Goenomix Seminar Series. We have you covered in May/June with exciting talks covering worms and #insects, #development, #genetics, #imaging and #venoms.

@unigoettingen.bsky.social, @mpi-nat.bsky.social, #UMG

Many congratulations! Well done Shyam!