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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · 14d

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain have been regarded as a kind of "GPS in the head." However, scientists at DKFZ and Heidelberg University Hospital have now shown that grid cells work much more flexibly than previously assumed. @nature.com Neuroscience
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No GPS in the head: How the brain flexibly switches between internal maps

Since their discovery in 2004, the grid cells in the brain, which are important for our orientation, have been regarded as a kind of “GPS in the head.” However, scientists at the German Cancer Researc...

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Winkler Laboratory @winklerlab.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Registration deadline for the EACR conference on #cancerneuroscience is September 15 ‼️

Please join us in beautiful Bilbao for exciting discussions on the dialogue between the nervous system and cancer 🔬🧠

See you soon!

Introduction | Cancer Neuroscience | The European Association for Cancer Research

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks Leo!

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks, Sandra!

Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you @gscnoffice.bsky.social and the selection committee for the GSCN 2025 Best Publication Award recognizing our joint work: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Proud of the team & all co-authors. Grateful to @dkfz.bsky.social and @embl.org for the support. See you in Munich!

Active repression of cell fate plasticity by PROX1 safeguards hepatocyte identity and prevents liver tumorigenesis - Nature Genetics

This study identifies candidate safeguard repressor transcription factors that repress alternate lineages in mature cell types and provides functional evidence that Prox1 performs such a function in h...

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German Stem Cell Network GSCN @gscnoffice.bsky.social · Aug 22

‪GSCN 2025 Best Publication Award goes to B. Lim, @moritzmall.bsky.social, J. Zaugg, A. Kamal @biomedizin.unibas.ch for joint publication in @naturegenz.bsky.social All infos on www.gscn.org @dkfz.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de @embl.org @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @bihatcharite.bsky.social

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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Den GSCN 2025 Publication of the Year Award erhält @moritzmall.bsky.social zusammen mit Bryce Lim und weiteren Co-Autoren für ihre Veröffentlichung "Active repression of cell fate plasticity by PROX1 safeguards hepatocyte identity and prevents liver tumorigenesis". 👏
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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎉 Herzlichen Dank für den @gscnoffice.bsky.social-Preis „Publication of the Year 2025“ zu unserer @natgenet.nature.com Publikation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Diese Auszeichnung ist echte Teamleistung—danke an alle Mitwirkenden. Auf zu den nächsten Schritten im Kampf gegen Krebs!

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks, Frank!

Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨 @dkfz.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 — Postdoc opening (Mall Lab)
Work at the interface of neurodevelopment, epigenetic repression & cancer neuroscience.
Apply: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1679...
#Postdoc #Plasticity #Neurodegeneration #CancerNeuroscience

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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · Aug 5

We're seeking a PhD student passionate about ML, biology, and driving impact in healthcare!

You'll be working on multi-omics factorization models for personalized medicine, co-supervised by @junyanlu.bsky.social.

👉 Project: www.helmholtz.de/assets/hidss...
✍️ Apply: hidss4health.de/application

Application - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 25

Hands down the best meeting this year so far! Thanks for the fantastic organization @matlupien.bsky.social @shenhui1986.bsky.social Bonus was a musical finale - who said science cannot be fun :)

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

An insightful thread for the second study by the one and only @manusaraswat.bsky.social that spearheaded this superstar team effort together with @lauraruedag.bsky.social and Elisa Heinzelmann in the labs of @oliverstegle.bsky.social and me:
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Manu Saraswat @manusaraswat.bsky.social · May 16

🧠 Excited to share my main PhD project! We mapped the regulatory rules governing Glioblastoma plasticity using single-cell multi-omics and deep learning. This work is part of a two-paper series with @bayraktarlab.bsky.social @oliverstegle.bsky.social and @moritzmall.bsky.social, Preprint at end🧵👇

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

Detailed thread for the first study from the overall leader of this truly collaborative effort, the amazing @bayraktarlab.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/bayr...

Omer Ali Bayraktar @bayraktarlab.bsky.social · May 16

How does tumour heterogeneity arise? How can we predict cancer cell plasticity? In 2 new studies, we trace #glioblastoma heterogeneity to a spatial cancer cell trajectory w. multimodal cell atlassing bit.ly/4mkrWgs & predict plasticity w. snRNA/ATAC+deep learning bit.ly/3FbI6Ic 🧵

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

What keeps cancer cells in check—and can we tame them? In 2 collaborative preprints, we trace glioblastoma cell transitions in space and decode what regulates their plasticity 🧠👇
📍 Spatial & multi-omic atlas: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📍 Regulatory logic: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Manu Saraswat @manusaraswat.bsky.social · May 16

13/ Want to learn more? Read our regulatory paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and companion spatial multi-omics study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Watch out for thread from @bayraktarlab.bsky.social on mapping conserved spatiotemporal trajectories of GB

Decoding Plasticity Regulators and Transition Trajectories in Glioblastoma with Single-cell Multiomics

Glioblastoma (GB) is one of the most lethal human cancers, marked by profound intratumoral heterogeneity and near-universal treatment resistance. Cellular plasticity, the capacity of cancer cells to t...

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Manu Saraswat @manusaraswat.bsky.social · May 16

🧠 Excited to share my main PhD project! We mapped the regulatory rules governing Glioblastoma plasticity using single-cell multi-omics and deep learning. This work is part of a two-paper series with @bayraktarlab.bsky.social @oliverstegle.bsky.social and @moritzmall.bsky.social, Preprint at end🧵👇

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Omer Ali Bayraktar @bayraktarlab.bsky.social · May 16

How does tumour heterogeneity arise? How can we predict cancer cell plasticity? In 2 new studies, we trace #glioblastoma heterogeneity to a spatial cancer cell trajectory w. multimodal cell atlassing bit.ly/4mkrWgs & predict plasticity w. snRNA/ATAC+deep learning bit.ly/3FbI6Ic 🧵

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

Thank you, @hlsalliance.bsky.social! Your backing lets junior teams like ours pursue fundamental, high-risk research to better understand cancer. Excited to keep advancing the frontiers together with many collaborations within the Alliance.

Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim @hlsalliance.bsky.social · May 14

👏Congratulations to👏

🎉@moritzmall.bsky.social and
🏆@venkataramanilab.bsky.social at @UKHD for receiving the Hella-Bühler Price for their outstanding contributions to cancer research.
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Their research groups are supported by the @hlsalliance.bsky.social.

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Research

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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

I am very grateful to @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and the Hella Bühler Foundation for this honour. Sharing the prize with the brilliant @venkataramanilab.bsky.social and our amazing teams makes me extremely proud. I am excited to channel this prize into the next wave of cancer-fighting ideas!

Universität Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · May 13

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Research: Dr Dr Varun Venkataramani and Dr Moritz Mall share the 100,000-euro Hella Bühler Prize www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Research

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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · May 14

Ausgezeichnet für herausragende #Krebsforschung: Den mit 100.000 Euro dotierten diesjährigen Hella Bühler-Preis teilen sich Moritz Mall, DKFZ und Hector Institut für Translationale Hirnforschung, und Varun Venkataramani vom Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. 👏 @moritzmall.bsky.social
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Moritz Mall @moritzmall.bsky.social · May 16

Vielen Dank für die große Ehrung und die starke Unterstützung durch das @dkfz.bsky.social
, das Hector Institut & alle Partner! Gemeinsam treiben wir in Heidelberg die Krebsforschung voran – die spannendsten Entdeckungen kommen erst noch. 🙏🔬 #HellaBühlerPreis #TeamScience

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · May 14

Ausgezeichnet für herausragende #Krebsforschung: Den mit 100.000 Euro dotierten diesjährigen Hella Bühler-Preis teilen sich Moritz Mall, DKFZ und Hector Institut für Translationale Hirnforschung, und Varun Venkataramani vom Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. 👏 @moritzmall.bsky.social
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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · Apr 22

Do you want to do your #postdoc in #cancerresearch with the most prestigious #fellowship in Europe? Apply to DKFZ Marie Skłodowska Curie MasterClasses by May 19. Projects in #cellandmolecularbiology #genomics #bioinformatics #immunology #medicaltechnology, #epidemiology.
Apply here: t1p.de/nx6tu

Apply to DKFZ Marie Skłodowska Curie MasterClasses

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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · Apr 23

Warum sind #Tierversuche in der #Krebsforschung notwendig? Das erklärt Andreas Trumpp, Abteilungsleiter am DKFZ und geschäftsführender Direktor HI-STEM in diesem Video von @tvvde.bsky.social.

Neue Methoden im Fokus: Organoide und Tierversuche in der Krebsforschung

YouTube video by Tierversuche verstehen

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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · Apr 30

@michael-platten.bsky.social has been selected and nominated as Ambassador for the ERC network. The @erc.europa.eu & the @ercgrantees.bsky.social launched the new Ambassadors on 28 April. This joint initiative aims to promote investment in frontier research and highlight the importance of #research.

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