@mpi-ie.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary research institution that conducts basic research in two key areas of modern biology: Immunobiology & Epigenetics in #Freiburg, Germany https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de
Poster calling for applications for fully funded Max Planck PhD positions in Freiburg, Germany, listing research areas and benefits, deadline February 6, 2026.
Our PhD program IMPRS-EBM of #Epigenetics, #Biophysics & #Metabolism will open for applications next week. 📢
Want to work at the forefront of epigenetic research at an MPI? Looking for a fully-funded #PhDposition at Max Planck? Here is your chance: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
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10.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field !
▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i
Join us for tomorrow´s 📢 CIBSS Seminar Series
🗓 09 Dec 2025 | 12:00–13:00
👩🔬 @julianeg.bsky.social, (@mpi-ie.bsky.social)
🎙 Endogenous retroviruses and mouse developmental malformations
📍 Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1
See more: kurzlinks.de/iplv
#CIBSS #Science #Immunobiology
Starter Pack: Max Planck scientists on Bluesky
Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack
17.11.2025 11:15 — 👍 107 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 2
Seminarankündigung des Max-Planck-Instituts Freiburg mit Thema zur DNA-Sequenz und Chromatin, Datum, Uhrzeit und Ort, Porträt von Philipp Korber. MPS: Philipp Korber - The role of DNA sequence, chromatin remodelers, barriers and their intrinsically disordered regions in nucleosome positioning Max Planck Seminar DATE: Nov 20, 2025 TIME: 01:00 PM SPEAKER: Philipp Korber AFFILIATION: Biomedical Center (BMC) of LMU Munich, Germany LOCATION: MPI-IE ROOM: Lecture Hall HOST: Nicola Iovino
This Thursday, we’re pleased to welcome Philipp Korber.
Prof Korber leads a research group on “Nucleosome Positioning & Remodeling in Yeasts” at the @bmc-lmu.bsky.social in Munich. His work has identified ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers as major determinants of nucleosome positioning.
Join us!
And there is also our Institute starter pack in which we collect all members, employees – but also alumni. Feel free to check it out as well.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Here are a few must-haves we highly suggest: @denbobalab.bsky.social, @flurylab.bsky.social, @julianeg.bsky.social
18.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In case you missed it. @natsmb.nature.com is currently offering all its reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 We are seeking an experienced computer scientist (m,f,d) to lead our Bioinformatics Core Facility
But there is more… have the opportunity to develop and lead your own independent research project & build a research team by hiring PhD students and Postdocs.
jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/6...
Congratulations! In the current call of the European Research Council, Max Planck researchers have secured five Synergy Grants. Together with the University of Cambridge, we are among the top three most successful #research institutions in #Europe ! 🙌 www.mpg.de/25684336/erc... @erc.europa.eu
06.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2
This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social
Day 20/31
Prompt RIVALS
Pdb: 8V27 & 8G6S
Two rival histone modifications on a nucleosome. Ubiquitination of H2BK120 activates genes while H2AK119 represses them.
Next: BLAST
Suggestions?
🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷.
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
Programme of the upcoming TriRhena Gene Regulation Club in Basel on November 5, 2025 https://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/gene-regulation-club
Here is the schedule for the next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club at the FMI @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel 🇨🇭 next week (5 Nov 2025; 14:00-18:45).
Exciting topics ahead & we are looking forward to the #newPI talks by @julianeg.bsky.social (MPI) & Anupama Hemalatha (FMI).
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/grc
🚨 The Power of Wellbeing
🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins
We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks.
➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s
➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1
Entrance door of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, flanked by two beach flags bearing the Institute's logo
✨ Grand Opening of Our New Premises
Today we will open the doors to science at HERZOG MAX — right in the heart of Munich.
We expect guests from science, politics, and society to attend the grand opening. The highlight will be the panel discussion.
@maxplanck.de
📣 Apply now for the 🌵CaCTüS 3-month fully funded internship in Germany in 2026!
Work on ML, theor. neuroscience, computational psychiatry, behavioral experiments or data analysis at a top institution in Tübingen. For students facing barriers in higher education. 👉 cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de
Registration closes today. Hurry up. ⌛
👉 The next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club takes place at the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel 🇨🇭.
📅 Nov. 5th, 2025 (14:00-20:00)
📌 FMI, Basel
✍️ Registration deadline: Oct. 20th, 2025
KANSL3 controls hepatocyte differentiation and metabolism via histone acetylation. Loss of this epigenetic regulator leads to hyperplasia and liver fibrosis.
🚨 Paper alert: Using liver organoids and in vivo models, the Akhtar lab and first-author @mwiese.bsky.social revealed how the epigenetic regulator KANSL3 shapes transcriptional programs driving liver function and development.
More in @lsajournal.org:
www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
Feeling inspired after presenting some #3Dgenome & #single-cell data at the #EDRC2025 in the beautiful #Alicante🇪🇸🧬🪰
Looking forward to the next amazing sessions to exchange ideas and connect with the community!
👉 The next TriRhena Gene Regulation Club takes place at the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel.
📅 Nov. 5th, 2025 (14:00-20:00)
📌 FMI, Basel
✍️ Registration deadline: Oct. 20th, 2025
Attendance is free 💸 , but registration mandatory:
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/gene-regulat...
Congratulations 🎉, Thomas Boehm. Our emeritus Director was appointed Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina!
25.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our Alumna Felicia Basilicata became Professor for Chromatin & Neurodevelopment in Munich. 🥳 — here is an interview with Felicia.
25.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Technical Assistant »Developmental Epigenetics« (M/F/D) in Freiburg, Germany - Join the Iovino lab at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg
We are looking for a team player: - BTA, CTA, MTA or comparable - Good English & German language skills, good communication abilities, high self-motivation - Experience in at least ONE of the following areas: Drosophila maintenance (stock care, cross-breeding), Protein biochemistry, Basic molecular techniques (DNA/RNA extractions, PCR), Experience in the field of cell culture with mammalian cell systems
We offer: Full-time position / Initial 2-year-contract Payment according to TVöD including social benefits (VBL) Additional performance-related bonus component & Job ticket Professional training & career development State-of-the-art research environment Family-friendly offers including day care center at the institute, parent-child room) Freiburg (☀️) & the Black Forrest (🌲) and more…
Apply now - Deadline 22 October 2025 - www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobs
Job alert 🚨 – Technical Assistant (m/f/d) – Developmental Epigenetics
Help uncover how epigenetic information is set at life’s very beginning. Join @iovino-lab.bsky.social to study gamete formation & the zygotic epigenome using 🪰, 🐭 and 🧫.
jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/2...
Proteins can form condensates to boost interactions and gene control. This week @gjjang.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) shows how plants use them in transcription and epigenetics, and how super-resolution microscopy reveals them in vivo.
📅 Fri, Sep 26 | 🕥 10:15 |📍KS 00.009
#PlantScience
Portrait of Davor Solter on the right, name and prize name on the left
Congratulations to Davor Solter!🎊
Our Emeritus Director receives the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for the groundbreaking discovery of genomic imprinting!
He shares the prize with Azim Surani (@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social)
All the details: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6058738/2025...
TODAY at 12:00 ➡️ We are are excited to host Dr. Tanja Mittag in our Seminar Series! @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social www.stjude.org/research/lab...
15.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
A group of people standing in front of a brick-build building. – Welcome to the International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM) – a joint international PhD program of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg
A big welcome to the new PhD students in our IMPRS graduate program for Epigenetics, Biophysics & Metabolism in Freiburg! We’re excited to see where their curiosity will take them. Have good start!
More about the program here:
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
(new call in Dec. 2025 👀)
NEXT WEEK we are at #EESMicrobiome in Heidelberg @events.embl.org
Full program: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
On Tuesday, 16 Sept.
see you at Session 1
from 15:30
✨Liviana Ricci will give a talk "Microbial strain transmission between infants in nurseries drives gut microbiome development"
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🚨 New Review Out 🚨
Thrilled to share our latest review in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research:
“Dad’s Diet Shapes the Future: How Paternal Nutrition Impacts Placental Development and Childhood Metabolic Health”
👉 lnkd.in/g8_VWKCp
