🟥Zwei Postdocs an Charité & @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social stärken am EC Early Disease Interception die Expertise zu Biomarker-Validierung & kohortenbasierter translationaler Forschung.
🟥 Am EC Youth Mental Health arbeitet ein Charité-Postdoc zur MRI-gestützten Früherkennung psychiatrischer Erkrankungen.
🤩💪 Out now! 3D regulatory hubs in sex determination
With @mamartirenom.bsky.social & Capel labs, led by @imotagom.bsky.social & @jrotwitguez.bsky.social
1️⃣ METALoci – explore #3DGenome 🧬
2️⃣ Non-coding region controlling Fgf9 🧩
3️⃣ Meis genes = new key players 🌟
👉 rdcu.be/e5sm2
1/n Bluetorial 👇
Links das ehemalige Gebäude der "Ständigen Vertretung der BRD in der DDR", rechts wohnte Wolf Biermann.
Geschichte auf dem Weg ins Labor: im weißen Gebäude links war die "Ständige Vertretung der BRD in der DDR", rechts wohnte bis zu seiner Ausweisung Wolf Biermann. Eine "Botschaft" durfte es nicht sein, das hätte die DDR zu sehr aufgewertet: www.spiegel.de/geschichte/s... – heute ist darin ein… (1/2)
23.02.2026 08:29 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Guten Morgen in die Runde! Diese Woche gibt es meinen Wissenschaftsalltag als Molekularbiologie am @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social / @mdc-berlin.bsky.social, allerlei Hintergründe zu unserer Forschung und natürlich (Versuche von) Antworten auf eure Fragen. Falls jemand da reinschauen will: meine … (1/2)
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Sheet of paper with the quote: “it does not stop being magic just because you know how it works”
Seen yesterday at the door of a PI office at our institute @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social
I agree 💯 - and good to know that even PIs feel the same after many years of research…
🎶✨ SPARK #12, Feb 26, 2026
For the 1st time, SPARK will feature visual art: internationally renowned video artist Lillevan presents a world premiere video interpretation of O. Messiaen’s Complete Preludes (1929), performed live by S. Anjou.
Panel discussion: “Seeking the mysterious in art & science”
We’re excited to host Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) at MDC-BIMSB.
Talk: How do cells learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer
📅 Friday, Feb 20, 2026
🕝 2:30 PM
📍 MDC-BIMSB @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Host: Jan Philipp Junker
Join us!
#mdcBerlin
Group photo Text: Immunology & Inflammation Symposium Berlin Mar 17, 2026
Registration now open for the I&I Berlin Symposium 2026!
Are you part of Berlin’s immunology community or planning to become one?
On March 17, 2026, the symposium bringing together researchers, clinicians, & early-career scientists working on immunology and inflammation.
🧠 How do brain organoids help researchers study the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease?
#mdcBerlin's Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf explains what drives her and how advanced brain organoid models help her team explore how the disease may be initiated.
🔗 Full article: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ag...
🚨 1/ Preprint Alert!
Sex determination outcome is conserved across vertebrates (i.e. generating 2 compatible sexes) ♀️♂️
But are the cell types and gene programs behind them conserved too? 🧬
Spoiler: not really 👀
Find out in our new preprint ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
woman, text: "Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf wins Alzheimer’s research grant"
🎉 Congratulations to Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf on winning a €200,000 Alzheimer’s research grant from the Stiftung Alzheimer Initiative!
👉 Detailed insights: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ag...
We mourn the sudden unexpected loss of Peer Bork who helped shape our commitment to innovative life science.
Read the full obituary by Detlev Ganten: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/me...
Photo: Jeff Dowling/European Bioinformatics Institute | @ebi.embl.org
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#jobalert We have open position/s in genomics and explainable/generative AI @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social
www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...
More info also on linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/posts/uwe-oh...
please share!
PhD in Berlin? The city offers a broad spectrum of doctoral programs w/ funding opportunities & collaborations w/ research institutions.
www.doctoral-programs.de/welcome
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social,
@tuberlin.bsky.social, @unipotsdam.bsky.social, @udkberlin.bsky.social
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1️⃣2️⃣ top institutions. One goal: advance early disease interception in Berlin.
The Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception brings new technologies together to detect disease long before symptoms occur. We sat down with two of its speakers.
Full interview: 👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ne... 👈
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Artificial intelligence raises new responsibilities for science and society.
At Salon Sophie Charlotte, #mdcBerlin researcher and group leader Uwe Ohler and Mathijs Vleugel (#Helmholtz Open Science Office) discuss data ownership, AI models, and data sovereignty.
More info: 👉 salon.bbaw.de/start 👈
Exciting news: The Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception (EC-EDI) has received €6M in funding from @einsteinberlin.bsky.social
In this interview, the 2 EC-EDI spokespeople—MDC-BIMSB Director Nikolaus Rajewsky & Leif Erik Sander (Charité/BIH)—discuss the initiative: bit.ly/4qp39t2
#MDCBerlin
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🚀 We’re hiring – join us at the #mdcBerlin!
We are looking for a Science Strategy Manager in Bioengineering & Precision Prevention to help connect people, ideas, and disciplines across biology, AI, and medicine.
🗓 Apply by Jan 20, 2026
More:
👉 www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/... 👈
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Yesterday's Predictive Systems Medicine Partnering Event at #mdcBerlin brought together leaders from science, industry, investment, and innovation.
Pitches, 1:1 matchmaking, and networking set the stage for new collaborations in diagnostics, therapies, AI-driven medicine, and more.
Take a look! 👇
Join us for an MDC Afternoon for Immunology at the @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social on December 8th with student/postdoc talks and two keynotes, Jeffrey A. Hubbell and Stefano Casola 🙂
🔗 Register: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/...
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🤝 Science meets industry at #mdcBerlin!
Join the Predictive Systems Medicine Partnering Event on Dec 4, 2025, at #CampusBuch – connecting innovators, start-ups, and industry leaders in #AI, omics, drug discovery, and other fields.
Info & registration:
👉 www.b2match.com/e/predictive... 👈
NIMSBinars continue on Nov 25, 13:00 CET - another look into systems biology research highlights.
This episode features Emanuel Wyler from the MDC-BIMSB and Carlos Minutti from the Champalimaud Foundation.
🔗 Register here: mdc-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Wie Malaria ungeborenen Kindern schadet: mit Kolleg*innen der Mount Kenya University (Thika/Kenia), @cam.ac.uk und @lshtm.bsky.social werden dank einer großen Förderung des britischen @wellcometrust.bsky.social die "Plazenta-Malaria" erforschen.
www.mdc-berlin.de/de/news/pres...
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Meeting @mdc-berlin.bsky.social alumni: Yongbo Wang (Fudan U), @munschauerlab.bsky.social (Heidelberg U), and Wei Chen (SUSTech) at Sino-German RNA Symposium in Shenzhen
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🌍 Global recognition for two #mdcBerlin scientists!
Friedemann Paul and Nikolaus Rajewsky are listed among Clarivate’s #HighlyCited2025 researchers for their influential work in neuroimmunology and systems biology.
👉 More information: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/in... 👈
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Graphic announcing a talk: The image has a white background with a blue border. On the left is a portrait photo of a person [Martin Penny] in a blue shirt and tie, framed in dark blue. To the right of the photo, the name “MARTIN PENNY” is written in all-capital white sans-serif text on blue rectangular text boxes. Below, large dark blue sans-serif text reads: “ERC Funding Opportunities and Evaluation Procedures.” At the bottom are the logos of the European Research Council (ERC) and the Max Delbrück Center, separated by a thin black vertical line.
📣 Applying for an #ERC grant?
Join us at #CampusBuch on November 19 (9:30–11 a.m.) for a talk by Dr. Martin Penny from the @erc.europa.eu Executive Agency on #ERC funding opportunities and evaluation procedures.
👉 More information: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/...
🖼️ Plus, photographer Pablo Castagnola’s "Discoverers" exhibition showcased the human side of discovery through compelling portraits of MDC researchers, thereby celebrating the curiosity and creativity driving biomedical research.
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🎶 Pianist SooJin Anjou and cellist Cicely Parnas premiered Wolfgang Köhler’s new Cello Sonata, followed by a captivating discussion on beauty and truth with the artists, scientists Nikolaus Rajewsky, @stefaniegrosswendt.bsky.social, and Georg Braune, as well as the audience.
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✨Our latest SPARK: creative processes in the arts and sciences brought together music, science, photography and philosophy during @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social
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#SPARK #ArtMeetsScience #BerlinScienceWeek25 #mdcBerlin (1/3)
