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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re interested in a PhD that explores the ins and outs of genomes and the nucleus - don’t look further but apply here!!!
It is excellent 👌

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 3d

🚨 Please share! We are seeking motivated PhD students who wish to work at the intersection of molecular life sciences and computational sciences.
#IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Check out our projects and apply by Jan 7th, 2026!
www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRSPhDproj...

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 2d

I used a lot of strong words, but the Vienna Biocenter is a very special place.

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 2d

Two more days to apply for the VBC PhD program! Join us in beautiful Vienna to explore exciting scientific questions under fantastic mentorship and in an outstanding training environment!

Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 6d

Our PhD program offers many training activities and courses for your future career. Check out the range of fully-funded PhD positions in our Autumn call before 10 October 2025: www.vbcphd.at

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 5d

That is such great news and Berlin is so lucky to have snatched you up!

Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social · 5d

⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work.
🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! nice to see this out!

Bart Deplancke @bartdeplancke.bsky.social · 5d

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq - Nature Genetics

This study introduces single-cell transcription factor (TF) sequencing, a single-cell barcoded and doxycycline-inducible TF overexpression approach that reveals dose-sensitive functional classes of TFs and cellular heterogeneity by mapping TF dose-dependent transcriptomic changes during the reprogramming of mouse embryonic multipotent stromal cells.

www.nature.com

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha @impvienna.bsky.social for their research on vertebrate fertilization, which was awarded this year's ÖGMBT Life Science Research Award in Austria for basic research!

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15d

🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT!

She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 8d

not to forget my current lab members! It seems like most of them are not on Bluesky just yet.

Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, @lcferme.bsky.social , @merrom.bsky.social , @laurasantini.bsky.social , @henryfthomas.bsky.social , Swathi Jayaram, @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social and everyone else who made the last 10 years so special!

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 8d

I have the best lab ever! Today I thought we "just" celebrate the acceptance of @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social paper (more to come in due time...). But my lab surprised me with a 10 year birthday party! And an amazing video from former lab members!

Cheese cake with candles and a 10 are out of blueberries.

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations, Raquel and the Wysocka lab! Very cool story! Hope to catch up soon!

Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social · 10d

Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD

A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model

Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.

rdcu.be

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 13d

Amazing group of speakers.

Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 13d

EEE meeting is BACK! Early Embryogenesis & Epigenetics conference in Berlin 02/2026.
Checkout great program and over 12 slots for (not so) short talks for submitted abstracts!. Early registration now open -
w.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 15d

Uh, this sounds really interesting! Congrats!

David Suter @davidsuter.bsky.social · 15d

📣 New preprint from the lab - Endogenous fluctuations of transcription factor levels shape their occupancy in unexpected ways
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Endogenous variability in transcription factor concentrations shapes their genome-wide occupancy

The control of transcription factor (TF) concentrations is crucial for the precise regulation of gene expression and cell fate decisions during development. Yet, TF concentrations can display substant...

www.biorxiv.org

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to the whole Matos lab!

Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 16d

Paper alert! 📢 How do cells strike the perfect balance during meiosis? ⚖️ A new study from the Matos lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com uncovers how Holliday junctions and the synaptonemal complex safeguard crossovers ➡️ tinyurl.com/2k4mmpzu

@univie.ac.at
@meduniwien.ac.at

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 16d

This is really exciting, Luca! Congratulations!

Luca Giorgetti lab @FMI @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · 16d

Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alex Stark @alex-stark.bsky.social · 23d

deadline tomorrow, Sept 19! www.csh-asia.org?content/2767

WELCOME-Meetings-Cold Spring Harbor Asia

www.csh-asia.org

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 24d

usually. but not generally.
Here is to the hope that dies last!
(One just has to love the morbid German version.)

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 24d

Oh, look! What a special treat! One whole day without meetings! Not a single one in sight. i might even get around to get something done today.

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 25d

I would love to hear ideas. We preprint everything, chose many preprints to discuss in our journal club, but ultimately are bound by funders to demonstrate productivity that often involves the full peer review journal model.

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Alex Stark @alex-stark.bsky.social · Sep 11

Join this year's CSH Asia Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing meeting in beautiful Suzhou, China, Oct 20-24. Let's bring the international communities together! Abstract deadline Sept 19! Infos and registration at csh-asia.org?content/2767. Please repost!

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Sep 10

Just one more week left to get an application in! Starting my lab at the Perutz and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has been a fantastic opportunity that shaped me as a scientist!

Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 23

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

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László Tora @tlaszlo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Do not forget to apply to the FEBS Advanced Lecture Course: 6th Danube Conference on Epigenetics (19–22 October 2026, Budapest, Hungary. Will be a great meeting as always. Check out the site: network.febs.org/posts/febs-a...

FEBS Advanced Lecture Course: 6th Danube Conference on Epigenetics

The FEBS Advanced Lecture Course: 6th Danube Conference on Epigenetics will take place 19–22 October 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. Here we give a taste of the scientific content, flag some of the speaker...

network.febs.org

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Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Really excited to get our seminars back up and running. @gracebower.bsky.social is going 1st and if you haven't read her range extender story, you're in for a treat!
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@creminslab.bsky.social has the 2nd talk and will tell us about the amazing work happening in her lab!

FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 5

Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Sep 9

Im Austria, the main funding body does not have deadlines for its regular project grants for longer than I run my lab. I am quite torn on it since having a deadline also gives you an end point and date to work towards.

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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 5

Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Sep 5

And we are one of the labs offering a position! If you are interested in enhancers, distal regulation and want to live in a wonderful city, then apply!

Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at

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