Christa Buecker

Congratulations, Elphege and everyone involved! This will definitely lead to some good discussions!

Final registration reminder for SY-Stem 2026. The deadline is on Monday, February 16.

This is such a beautiful preprint! Congrats on the work!

THANK YOU! I share your frustrations, and it is great to see you put it to good use. I normally just rant to myself.

The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek

It was so much fun!

Congratulations to Dr Feng! Songjie is the genome whisperer who is simply amazing when it comes to editing the genome! And one of the nicest person to have around!

Activator-promoter compatibility in mammals: a CpG-Island-specific co-activator directly bridges transcription factors to TFIID Transcription from CpG island (CGI) promoters controls the expression of two-thirds of mammalian genes, yet despite their prevalence, it remains unknown whether CGI-specific co-activators with intrins...

Activator-promoter compatibility in mammals - Hcfc1 is a key and intrinsically CGI-promoter-specific co-activator that cannot activate non-CGI promoters. Lead by @nemcko.bsky.social & Kevin Sabath in collab. with @plaschkalab.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/2)

This is such a beautiful piece of work, Filip! Congratulation on the preprint!

Join @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social,
@moffittlab.bsky.social, @saramostafavi.bsky.social, me and all speakers for the 2026 CSHL meeting Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, March 11-14. Abstract deadline January 9! More infos and registration at meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Intrigued by a long-standing conundrum in small RNA biology—how nuclear Argonaute proteins silence transposons when they *need* target transcription for their own recruitment—we studied the piRNA pathway.

And found a hidden RNA-decay axis from Piwi to the RNA exosome.

Page from Katabasis reflecting the academic job market.

Now that I am off for Christmas, I started my first book for the holidays: Katabasis. And every other page has a few memorable phrases about academia to ponder...

🔬 Love science and keeping a lab running smoothly? Join the @leeboratory.bsky.social as a lab manager/research technician and help uncover how cells choose and maintain their identity 🧫 More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7a8he88

Two outstanding group leaders to watch!

This looks fantastic! Congratulations to everyone involved!

So deserved! Congratulations, @plaschkalab.bsky.social

I get between 3 and 10 emails like that every day. Many if these students are probably good. But I don't even get to answer all of them because it is such an avalanche and has only gotten worse lately.

Another good one is when it us not my name in the address. I understand that reusing of text blocks is important and saves time.

I get it, 90% of students writing to enquire about a research possibility will use ChatGPT. But at least don't end it with
Sincerely,

[Your Name]

I am just so over these emails that say do little, are so generic and just try to flatter me.

I made an entry in my calendar labelled "Meeting on" I have a slight recollection that it was important and I blocked three hours for it. But I have no idea who I will be talking to, whatever this is about.

The Vienna BioCenter Out of the Box Award celebrates collaboration & creative thinking. This year 2 teams received the annual stipend, as both stood out for their creativity, collaboration & potential.
Learn more: lnkd.in/dz3iBU2E
@maxperutzlabs.ac.at @imbavienna.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

And then? More not so junior people complaining about even less funding opportunities? I don't agree that this is the right move, but just going for more juniors will create a massive problem down the road.

This is probably my favorite paper of 2025. Beautiful work by @elphegenoralab.bsky.social and @karissalhansen.bsky.social that should be on the top of the reading list for everyone with even a slight interest in gene expression!

Want to analyze the role of endogenous retroviruses in early human development or investigate their regulation in pluripotency and early development for your PhD?

Join the lab of @fueyoraquel.bsky.social via the IMPRS-BAC #gradschool!

👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...

Never got to say goodbye! Well, you just have to come back then.

Engineered chromatin readers track damaged chromatin dynamics in live cells and animals All singleton BRCT domains from Mus musculus (Fig. 1a) were manually retrieved from Uniprot. Tandem BRCT domains, comprising two or more closely located BRCT domains linked by a variable linker region, were manually retrieved, and their association in tandem was...

Engineered chromatin readers track damaged chromatin dynamics in live cells and animals
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Buecker lab members in front of the Keleti train station in Budapest.

It was cold and wet, but nevertheless the lab retreat to Budapest was a success!

We are excited to participate this year again in the VBC summer school! If you want to work with me and my amazing student Maria, apply!

Congratulations again, Clemens!