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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One good reason to travel to Spain

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Looks like this sail has something to say….snail whispers.

Sculpted head of a woman with an actual live snail stuck to its ear.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For the first time, I ordered a bunch of salsas and tortillas from a Mexican online store (local stopped selling tortillas). Package just arrived, no salsa whatsoever but an insane amount of tortillas and a bottle of Mezcal (I did not order, I double checked). Remark F1: c’mon, that’s not so bad. 🍸

A bottle of Oaxaca mezcal with packaged corn tortillas.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

To everyone out there who need some flowers today, I for sure did.

Rhododendrons in full bloom in pink, yellow, orange purple, and white in the hills above Heidelberg.

Close up of some pink rhododendron flowers

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Waited for this all winter: The ‘Erdbeerhäuschen’ on my way to work is back! local berries 🍓 for breakfast from now on!

Little hut that looks a bit like a strawberry (green roof, red walls) selling berries and asparagus on the side of the road. Red and white striped umbrellas in front of of it.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today’s tasteful celebratory cake of a successfully defended PhD thesis … congrats Aga!

Nice white butter cream cake with an image in the middle of a blue cartoon figure with blood shot eyes, an academic hat and the text: ‘you did it’

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🧪 My lab has an opening for a postdoc position soon! Please share/get in touch!

Ad for a postdoc position in centromere biology with colorful chromosomes and centromeres made out of FIMO.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Special issue: The discovery of CENP-A, the centromere-specific histone H3 variant turns 40 years! Sam Corless @scorless.bsky.social and Goks Thangaval @gokilavani.bsky.social are Revisiting the question: When is a centromere not a kinetochore? Check it out. rdcu.be/eMJkd

General framework for centromere organisation built on a model of the internal stratification of the Earth

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Left work and 30 sec later it came down hard…but got to see a nice rainbow. Karlsruhe Schlosspark.

Rainbow over the Schlosspark in Karlsruhe.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Temperature in my office at 11am - great reason to spend my day in the fly room (A/C) instead of writing a grant proposal

Digital thermometer shows 29.5C on a desk.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🧪 Open PhD or Postdoc position 🧪 The project is in collaboration with my new collegue Miha Modic. If you are interesed in RNA modification, centromeres and bioinformatics this is for you! Miha has more positions to fill, infos on his linkedin: linkedin.com/in/miha-modic-9aa8a752.

advertisment for a phd or postdoc position in epitranscriptomics of genome integrety at the KIT in Germany

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Cherry havest day dinner: kids and friends get the cherries off the tree to then get Kaiserschmarren with fresh cherry compote…some traditions are worth it!

Picture of a frying pan with Kaiserschmarren next to a bowl of bright red cherry compote.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🧪 Symposium of the German Society for Genetics, a very special event this year! Max Delbrück Lecture by Peter Becker and with a focus on Epigenetics and Chromatin. Sept 24 – 26, 2025 | JLU Giessen, Germany Abstract deadline: July 15, 2025

Poster announcing the symposium of the German society of Genetics in 2025 on epigenetics and chromatin. Abstract deadline July 15th.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

50 Years of Cell Biology: German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, October 26 – 29, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany Early bird registration deadline: June 15, 2025

Flyer of the international meeting of the German society for Cell Biology in Heidelberg Oct 26-29 with all topics and speakers listed.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🧪 Our Synthetic Genomics Center SynGen at @kit.edu will be at the KIT open day tomorrow. Join @lennarthilbert.bsky.social @erhardtlab.bsky.social @paraspeckle.bsky.social + many more, hear what we're up to and play with our cool animations and 3D models!

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I was faster than the lice this year…elderflowers! 🍹

Pile of white elderflowers ready for being turned into sirup.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

beautifully weird when fern uncurls

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Time line cleansing: spring has arrived and with it a huge and super pretty hummingbird hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) on my apricot tree.

A hummingbird hawk moth with spread wings between light pink apricots flowers in the sun.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If anybody’s looking for a good reason to visit Heidelberg: registration starts in 3 days.

Ad in German for the 2025 half marathon in Heidelberg on April 27. Registration starts on Feb. 22.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Full moon on a (very cold) bike ride home.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

German winters can be depressing but the forest was quite magicial today (this is a color picture in ‚broad daylight‘).

Forst path with bare, dark trees in dense fog.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Seen not at the Louvre but in Paris …

Miss France 1897. Picture of a dude with a beard and a tiara,

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Damn, the Christmas market at my mom’s small town has style

Christmas market in front of a baroque castle lit in festive colors at night.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Festive decoration straight out of the lab onto the institute’s 🎄

Eppendorff tubes glued together to a star on a Christmas tree.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

here is a good reason to visit Paris next spring 🌷!

EpiGene3Sys meeting save the date flyer. March 11-12 2025

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

It‘s that time of the year already…🍄

Big yellow mushroom on a tree trunk (I think it‘s chicken on the woods but I am no expert)

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Nice to come home after a long trip and find that the neighborhood chapel got a new mural!

Mark-Twain chapel in Heidelberg with a new mural of a rooster.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Sitting on a porch swing watching this little guy adds more beauty to a already beautiful vacation morning

Hummingbird flying near a feeder on a sunny morning in San Diego.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Beautiful Maine/US! Clearing my head with a morning run to get ready for the GRC on Centromeres later today 🧪

Shoreline in Maine, US, early in the morning.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Breakfast today (… yes, figs grow well in the South of Germany…)

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Some seriously impressive tomatoes at a market stand in France this morning (I put a melon there for scale)

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I am getting an almost daily picture of flowers from my oldest kid who is on an 8 months long trip through Asia. Today's is a particular nice one from the Langtang National Park in Nepal. No idea what they are but would like to know. Anyone any idea?

pink flowers taken somewhere in the Langtang National park, Nepal.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Days of torrential rain but the Rhododendrons looked like they couldn’t have cared less this morning. @Sprunghöhe, Heidelberg hills.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Northern lights over Heidelberg. Crazy beautiful & visible even without camera.

Northern lights in red and green over Heidelberg/Germany

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

There is now a European plasmid repository where you can distribute and/or obtain plasmids to non-profit prices with easy MTA and simple customs. Check it out and help it grow: www.plasmids.eu

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

And then, there are those buggers

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Many new things to be discovered in my old home town Cambridge, like the (not so new anymore) Corpus Clock or statues of giraffes everywhere (!?!). But the best was seeing all the past and present Surani lab members to celebrate Azim and the 40th anniversary of the discovery of genomic imprinting.

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Checked out the museum of modern art in Paris with my younger one today and she did not enjoy me telling her all the things wrong with this ‚La mouche morte‘…

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

13th edition of the NON-CODING GENOME training course from May 22 to May 29, 2024 at Institut Curie in Paris. Registration open until March 31. training.institut-curie.org/courses/non-...

ad for the Non-coding Genome training course in Paris from May 22-29

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Sylvia Erhardt @erhardtlab.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Our neighbor’s magnolia! Way too early but beautiful nevertheless.

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