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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please share widely, especially to researchers in disaster and war zones. Proud to launch the 2nd round of the Max Planck mentoring program for researchers (including students) at risk due to natural disaster or war. Deadline 18 October. www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are very proud that Sophie de Vries and Elisa Oberbeckmann have been awarded ERC Starting Grants!✨ Congratulations to both on this well-deserved recognition of their research!🧬 We look forward to welcoming their students into our program! #ERCGrant #AcademicAchievement #WomenInSTEM #GenomeScience

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excited to start our joint Summer School on "Gene Expression Across Scales"! 🧬 A great collaboration between Berlin and Göttingen (IMPRS-BAC, GS, MOLBIO, and NEURO). 5 days of innovative science and networking ahead, starting with @sedonamurphy.bsky.social! @molgen.mpg.de @mpi-nat.bsky.social

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Amazing news! 🎉 Many congrats to our alumna Jacco @jaccolinezegers.bsky.social on winning the prestigious Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize from the DBG! 🏆🌿 A brilliant achievement and a proud moment for us. 👏✨ #PlantScience #DBG #PhD

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Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research @cga-age.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚀 Apply now for 12 fully funded PhD positions at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research! Join us and start your PhD in an international community at the forefront of ageing research. 🧬🔬 🗓️ Deadline: November 3, 2026 Explore the projects & apply: www.ageing-grad-school.de 📣 Spread the word!

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Special thanks to our guests for the inspiring talks and the fantastic interaction @maiwen-ch.bsky.social @tschwammle.bsky.social and Salma Balazadeh! Your insights added so much value to our retreat. And to Hanna Sänger for the vital talk on mental health during the PhD! 🧠✨ #ScienceRetreat #PhDLife

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hard work can't have a great view? 🏔️🔬 Of course, it can! Our retreat in Braunlage is in full swing! We're spending our time exchanging our research, new ideas, but also networking, and bonding over volleyball in the evenings. 🏐✨ #PhDLife #IMPRSGS #ScienceRetreat #TeamBuilding #Harz

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goenomix.bsky.social @goenomix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📣 Join us for the Spirit Summer School "Molecular Genetics in Zoology" with three days of hands-on training and consulting in #RNAi, #CRISPR genome editing, in-situ hybridization, #imaging and #RNA-seq for emerging model systems. 🐌🪰🪱🐞🧬 Registration is open until June 30: events.gwdg.de/event/1457/

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Ufuk Günesdogan @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢Magda Koziol @epigenome.bsky.social will be speaking at the DPZ @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen this Wednesday. 🗓️11 March ⏰13:00 Join us for an exciting seminar! 👇👇

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congrats to our alumna! 🎉 That's a fantastic achievement, and a well-deserved recognition!👍🥂

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s-monteiromartins.bsky.social @s-monteiromartins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Honored to receive the 2026 KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award (Basic Science) for our paper "Genetic screens of imaging-derived kidney volumes identify genes linked to kidney function" Grateful to an amazing team behind our study published in @kidneyint.bsky.social www.theisn.org/wcn/member/s...

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Sara Patricia Monteiro-Martins - World Congress of Nephrology 2026

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Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de · 11/02/2026

Today we mark UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science And remember: opportunities to meet inspiring women in a range of disciplines and careers at Göttingen’s Postdoc Fair on 19 March, a family friendly event aimed at all researchers: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair #MeetYourMentor

Image shows a cartoon representation on a blue background showing two female researchers in a lab with a microscope and giant flasks of chemicals behind them. The text reads: "The world needs science science needs WOMEN!"

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And also thanks to our successful female scientific group leaders! They are a huge inspiration to our junior scientists. #Inspiration #RoleModels #Science 4 from our 18 female PIs are on bluesky: @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social @sonjalorenzlab.bsky.social @schuhlab.bsky.social @zafeirioulab.bsky.social

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Inspiring the Next Generation 🎉Happy International Day of #WomenInScience 🎉 We had many amazing female scientists – like our two alumnae, who recently received prestigious postdoctoral fellowships: @sophiesiems.bsky.social (Marie Curie) & @nishahemandhar.bsky.social (Walter Benjamin) Congrats! #STEM

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Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de · 05/02/2026

Göttingen Campus Postdoc Fair 2026 Thurs 19 March from 14:30. Registration now open. Book onsite childcare by 6 March. Postdoc Fair: organised by Postdocs for Postdocs and everyone welcome. Get informed, shine a light on your career and meet your mentor: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

Image: This is a blue and turquoise poster with text included in the post - with the exception of join us for pizza at 17:30 and the following: Chat with experts: get inspired and inform your next career steps, discover opportunities at the Campus and beyond, meet other postdocs and build your network. There is also a QR code which leads you to the website here: https://goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fully-funded #PhD positions in #epigenetics, #biophysics & #metabolism, gene regulation, cell biology and more… Are you already on track to start an exciting research career @maxplanck.de & @uni-freiburg.de? This is your timeline. Apply by February 6th, 2026 www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/apply-imprs-...

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MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences @mpi-nat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📣 Talented PhD students wanted: The IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social and the DFG Research Training Group GönomiX are looking for you!

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New in #SubtiWiki: Clusters of structural homologs! Enjoy the new feature! Thank you, Oskar Geissel & @c-elfmann.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @imprsgs.bsky.social

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Want to shape the future of genome science? 🧬 PhD positions available at Max Planck Institute & Uni Göttingen (IMPRS-GS/GönomiX)! Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community. Apply by Jan 14, 2026: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... #GenomeScience #Research

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

💻 The Project: We will integrate multi-omics (bulk/scRNAseq, long-reads, ATAC-seq) to explore how duplicated genes diverge in regulation and function. 🤝 You will be part of the DFG SPP 2349 @gevol.bsky.social consortium & the @imprsgs.bsky.social, with research visits to collaboration partners (👇).

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Marieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Happy to share our latest publication, in which we show that the arrangement of nucleosomes around CTCF sites contributes to higher-order organisation of chromatin into TADs: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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jandevries.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html Apply here: obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

How can scientific evidence guide political decisions? And how can researchers take an active role in democratic debate? These are the central questions of the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School (MP-SPWS), taking place January 25–30, 2026, in Berlin! Learn more: www.fkf.mpg.de/mpsps

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Starting science at our retreat 2025 at Harnack Haus with the first talk by our guest @keyfm.bsky.social on evolutionary genomics of microbial pathogens. Interesting topic distracting from knowing the nice weather and surrounding.

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henrietteirmer.bsky.social @henrietteirmer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great start of our @imprsgs.bsky.social retreat 2025, with a kind “thank you” from our PhD students. It is such a pleasure to guide you throughout you project! Looking forward to three energetic and fruitful days, with lots of science and fun.

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

All metabolites have now been assigned to categories in #SubtiWiki! This helps to get a rapid overview on all molecules that are Part of a pathway or that group together for other reasons, Check it out! Thank you, @c-elfmann.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @imprsgs.bsky.social

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

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ATAC‐seq in Emerging Model Organisms: Challenges and Strategies

Principle of ATAC-seq (left), overview of arthropod species with published ATAC-seq data (middle), summary of experimental design (right).

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Akis (Argyris) Papantonis @akispapantonis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Always an emotional moment when one of your trainees graduates. Here, Dr. Adi Mackay (Danieli), 10th PhD from our lab, after an impeccable defense and a well-deserved "summa cum laude" distinction. ...paper will hopefully follow soon and it will become very clear why the distinction was awarded.

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Akis (Argyris) Papantonis @akispapantonis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Most important: Adi was supported in her journey to the doctorate title, which included motherhood and an incredible amount of work, by our @imprsgs.bsky.social PhD program and by the UMG's @kfo5002.bsky.social consortium on PDAC research.

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Akis (Argyris) Papantonis @akispapantonis.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Very happy to see that the work by Magdalena Karpinska from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social's lab at @mpi-nat.bsky.social is now out in NSMB! Mariano Barbieri from my lab contributed modeling that (we think) nicely explain CTCF contribution to multiway E-P interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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CTCF depletion decouples enhancer-mediated gene activation from chromatin hub formation - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Karpinska, Zhu and colleagues characterize the structure-function relationship of the genome during cellular differentiation and demonstrate a role for enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulatio...

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MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences @mpi-nat.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How can we make better use of research data?💻 Our new Facility for Data Sciences and Biostatistics, led by Juliane Liepe, supports our scientists with bioinformatics, proteomics, transcriptomics, modeling, & statistical planning📊. Read more in our INSIDE NAT 1/25:⬇️ www.mpinat.mpg.de/4965372/INSI...

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Göttingen Campus @goettingen-campus.de · 06/05/2025

Deadline to register fast approaching #WoCaNet2025! Women’s Careers & Networks, inspiring #workshops #CareerFair #Speakers #Networking @WoCaNet: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/203891.html Be a part of it: #Wocanet 4 & 5 June. #StopTheLeakyPipeline #WomenInSTEM #Networking #MothersInScience

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Interested in some emerging model system research updates? Join us for the hybrid #Goenomix Seminar Series. We have you covered in May/June with exciting talks covering worms and #insects, #development, #genetics, #imaging and #venoms. @unigoettingen.bsky.social, @mpi-nat.bsky.social, #UMG

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Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 08/03/2025

#InternationalWomensDay2025 You'll meet inspiring women in a range of fields at our Postdoc Fair, 13 March: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair. Info-stalls #Equity&Diversity #ResearchCareers, all welcome. Researchers, Academics & Admins supporting #GCPostdocs #GenderEquality #StopTheLeakyPipeline

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Max Planck Institute for Brain Research @mpibrain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great talks and inspiring discussions - The IMPRS coordinators meeting at Schloss 🏰 Ringberg is in full swing, bringing together great minds in a truly spectacular setting. 🌞 @maxplanck.de

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Annual IMPRS coordinators meeting starts soon at Schloss Ringberg in Bavaria. Great opportunity to exchange ideas! @maxplanck.de

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Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de · 21/02/2025

Die #Forschungsfreiheit in den USA steht unter Druck – mit Folgen für die #Wissenschaft weltweit. Gerade jetzt braucht es offene Zusammenarbeit. Wir stehen zu unserer transatlantischen Partnerschaft. Mein Gespräch mit dem SWR dazu ⬇️ www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: US-Wissenschaftler "in Schockstarre" wegen Trump

Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft will Forscher, deren Arbeit durch die Trump-Regierung eingeschränkt wird, nach Europa holen.

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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Muenster, Germany offers postdoc positions in stem cell mechanobiology. www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/departments/... drop me an email

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Cell and Tissue Dynamics (Wickström)

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IMPRS Physics from Light to Life @imprs-pll.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

👉 If you´d like to find out more about our reserach school and are interested in a Master stipend or PhD position, please visit our website: mpl.mpg.de/imprs

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Ufuk Günesdogan @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🚨Exciting lecture alert!🚨 If you're in Göttingen on Feb 19 at 1:15 PM, don’t miss this year’s Ernst Caspari Lecture by Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social from MPI Dresden @mpicbg.bsky.social - join us for an inspiring talk!

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MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences @mpi-nat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This year, the sixth Science Night will take place on June 21 – an event featuring various research topics to explore or join in👀👐 throughout Göttingen. Our institute will again offer booths and talks @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social together with MPI-DS & @mpimmg.bsky.social. #Outlook2025

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Akis (Argyris) Papantonis @akispapantonis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hear, hear! The Universtiy Medical Center Goettingen is inviting applications to its new Medical Scientist Program “Genomic responses to disease plasticity” funded by the EKF Stiftung. The program will support early-career bioscientists with a PhD eager to do clinically-oriented research... 1/n

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Yaser Atlasi @yatlasi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Almost 1 month left to submit your abstract for the #Epigenetics2025 conference, organized by @gensocuk.bsky.social We’ve put together a fantastic scientific program, and Northern Ireland is a wonderful destination to explore.

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Eugenio F. Fornasiero @forna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

With Ben Cooper I am excited to announce the 8th Schram Foundation Symposium (Göttingen 25th of March 2025 as a satellite of the German Neuroscience society). It is free of charge and we have distinguished speakers including @alex-filosa.bsky.social and @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social. Please circulate!

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IMPRS for Genome Science @imprsgs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Interested in starting a #PhD in Genome Science? We are recruiting for Fall 2025. Deadline of application is January 14, 2025. You find the projects and PIs on our website: uni-goettingen.de/de/applicati... @mpi-nat.bsky.social We are a PhD program at Göttingen University

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