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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Read about PhD student Fabienne Dreier’s scientific journey, interests, and recent work optimizing an HCR protocol for planarians in her First Person Interview with @biologyopen.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lab members are presenting at upcoming conferences! Don’t miss . . . Lucie Souriac’s poster “Uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying genomic plasticity in planarians” at the EMBO YIP Genome Stability Sectoral Meeting

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And that’s a wrap! We hope everyone had as enjoyable and productive a time at ISFB XVI as we did. Thanks for attending, and we’ll see you again in Sant Feliu in 2029!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The final event for ISFB XVI is today's taxonomic satellite symposium, organized by Lukas Schärer, at the Biodiversitätsmuseum in Göttingen (ZMUG).

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Day 4 of ISFB XVI was devoted to taxonomy and systematics. Great talks capturing flatworm diversity by Lukas Schärer, Miquel Vila-Farré, Alejandro Catalá Jimenez, Marta Riutort (@riutortlab.bsky.social), Aoi Tsuyuki, Srishti Arya, Vitor Milanese, and Marta Álvarez-Presas (@martaalvarez.bsky.social).

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A few shots from the two fantastic poster sessions at ISFB XVI. Congratulations to award winners Janan Gawra and Emilia Failache, and thanks to all the presenters for sharing their exciting work!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our final session for day three of ISFB XVI featured more exciting talks on flatworm cell biology by Ludwik Gąsiorowski (@lgasiorowski.bsky.social), Simone Häberlein, Steffen Werner, and George Wendt.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jeremias Brand (@brandgefahr.bsky.social), Christopher Laumer (@tendersombrero.bsky.social), Ignacio Tenaguillo-Arriola, and Ulf Jondelius shared the latest in flatworm genomics for our second session of day three at ISFB XVI.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Exciting new tools for researching Macrostomum presented by Nelson Hall, Eugene Berezikov, and Matthew Voas, along with new molecular insights into bioadhesion by Peter Ladurner in the morning session of ISFB XVI.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Day 2 PM talks at ISFB XVI addressed clinically and agriculturally significant flatworm parasites. Fascinating work from Jim Collins, Tania Rozario, Inés Guarnaschelli, Christoph Grevelding, Klaus Brehm, and Uriel Koziol.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Session 2 at ISFB XIV covered the germline (Phil Newmark), stress responses (Blair Benham-Pyle; @blairbenhampyle.bsky.social), stem cell competition (Uri Weill; @uriweill.bsky.social), and alternative regeneration mechanisms (Shuchang Hu).

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

ISFB XVI kicked off with a keynote by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) on the evolution of animal phylogeny. Session 1 on planarian cell biology featured talks by Peter Reddien, Hanh Vu (@hanhtkvu.bsky.social), Jordi Solana (@jordisolana.bsky.social), and Leo Drees (@auricle1.bsky.social).

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The first International Symposium on Flatworm Biology took place in Chicago in 1970. Today, we’re excited to welcome our colleagues to Göttingen for the 16th Symposium. Registration is open, and the program begins at 18:00. See you there! events.gwdg.de/event/1168/p...

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Only four days left until the XVI International Symposium on Flatworm Biology! Wishing all attendees a good trip. We look forward to welcoming you to Göttingen! events.gwdg.de/event/1168/

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our work optimizing HCR to visualize gene expression in planarians, led by Ph.D. student Fabienne Dreier, is now online at Biology Open. HCR allows simultaneous visualization of multiple probes and is a valuable addition to the planarian toolkit. journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rumors of our social media demise have been greatly exaggerated!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Just back from the European Planarian Conference, #empb2024 - obviously, we found the perfect location ;) Thanks everyone for the collaborative spirit and for sharing lots of exciting work; @solana_jordi for spotting the elephant in the room and @teresa_adell for organizing.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Welcome to the lab, Arkadeep, Somdatta and Kalyani! The three are members of the IISER-MPG joint master's programme, which allows students from one of India's leading research institutions to carry out their thesis research at Max Planck Labs. Glad to have you on board!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Thank you - I am honoured and delighted to have been elected as an EMBO member.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

An internalising epidermal cell caught in the act (disclaimer: this is in Atrioplana). Coodoos to Tobi, Albert and Jun-Ru for persistently pushing the boundaries of live imaging in the system-this is key to understanding planarian tissue dynamics and the future is bright :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Planarians never cease to surprise - we show that epidermal cells undergo basal extrusion and a 'death march' to be digested by gut phagocytes. Thus, self-digestion is not only part of pathological cell clearance, but also of steady-state tissue turnover. How? Lots to discover :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

In flatworms, Neoblasts are the only dividing cells outside the reproductive system... REALLY? In collaboration with @PhysPlanaria, we show that things are not so simple. Here's our preprint on the intriguing stem cell system of the Catenulid Stenostomum

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Happy to announce the 6th European Meeting on Planarian Biology this year-October 13-15, right by the beach and right after the EMBO regeneration meeting over in Nice. The website with more info will go up soon. Please join us for the latest and greatest in planarianology!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

We had the pleasure of hosting a practical of the Goettingen Developmental Biology Masters program in the department, including (winter!) field sampling, bar-coding, inter-species transplants, and imaging. Great bunch of students & instructors!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Amazing- planarians really are everywhere! And we may have to up our sampling game somewhat :) Thanks to @L_Gasiorowski for sharing the link.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Our bioinformatics staff scientist position is still open! We are looking for someone passionate about genome mining and community science to help revitalize PlanMine. Please look at the ad (or message me) and consider retweeting (re-X-ing...?).

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Happy to announce the lab's first graduation in Goettingen: Thomas successfully defended his PhD and kindly brought flowers to "Gaenseliesel" on Market Square per the local rite-of-passage custom. Congratulations, Thomas- we're extremely proud of you :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

New genomes for Christmas :) Check out our new preprint, featuring the haplotype-phased S. mediterranea assembly, chromosome-scale assemblies of three additional Schmidteas, and the surprising discovery that flatworm genomes appear to evolve without syntenic constraints.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Worms in the wild- Planarians going about their business in broad daylight. We encountered these guys during our Australia field sampling campaign earlier in the year.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Model system genome database manager (f/m/x) We are hiring! If you are an experienced model system genome researcher looking for a long-term position with flexible work arrangements, this one might be perfect. Please RT!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Many exciting PhD opportunities in gene expression/*omics in Goettingen (and yes, also in worms)- take a look 👇

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

And: Even presents, already :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Christmas spirit in the department...

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

The Max Planck research group leader call is out- 6 + 3 years of generous funding (~2 Mio EUR for first 6 years) in a Max Planck institute of your choice- a great opportunity for starting your lab and for pursuing your own research ideas. Please RT

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2023

Postdoc opportunities in the comparative analysis of planarian regeneration! We’ve got a worm Zoo and high-quality genomes; we need you to explore gene regulatory mechanisms by scSeq, CHIP/ATACseq and/or comparative genomics Questions? Please PM Please RT

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 14/02/2023

We are hiring a software engineer/model system database manager for the upkeep and further development of PlanMine, the planarian model system database. Comes with the opportunity of making a lasting difference to our research community. . Please RT!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 19/01/2023

…on the train to give a talk and already 2 h delayed 😡. Wondering whether and which design principles of biological systems might help fix the system- parallel pathways? Redundant components? Load-based remodeling?….?

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 15/01/2023

Beautiful illustration of the power of comparative genomics- Congrats Prof. Dr. Hiller & team!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 15/01/2023

Our tiny mini-review on planarians is out . Bottom Line: A fascinating model system and intriguing times for the field. Let us know if you want some worms- we've got plenty and are happy to share :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 21/12/2022

Why can some animals regenerate, while so many cannot? We collected planarians from around the world, quantified and mapped head regeneration onto a new phylogeny and explored potential selection mechanisms via our planarian zoo-

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 10/11/2022

Lab members @UriWeill and @L_drees as course instructors- glad it’s working and I repeat myself: the future of planarian research is bright :)

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 05/10/2022

Congrats, Ludwik @L_Gasiorowski!, and: Happy Birthday!

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 05/10/2022

One of my personal highlights at #EMPB2022: Planarian citizen science truly “on steroids”, presented by Martin and Karolina @sumie-dh from Czech republic. For example, check out part of their work at

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 04/10/2022

Our departmental delegation to #EMPB2022- Real privilege traveling with this crew & zoom‘s just no permanent substitute for real world meetings.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 21/09/2022

Finally: Orthogonally verified reporter expression in Planarians! Great collaboration with the Wang lab @PhysPlanaria and congrats to all the authors. Check out the paper at Makes the future of planarian research a wee bit brighter and more glowy😀

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 13/09/2022

All yee aquatic invertebrate afficionados out there: We are hiring a new planarian species collection manager. Lots of worms, long-term prospects and paid world-wide field sampling trips. Maybe your dream job...? Please RT

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 13/09/2022

Our theory paper on the conceptual challenge of long-range morphogen gradient formation is out: . Another collaboration with the Julicher lab at MPI-PKS- Congrats, Johanna and Frank!

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Long-range morphogen gradient formation by cell-to-cell signal propagation - IOPscience

Long-range morphogen gradient formation by cell-to-cell signal propagation, Dickmann, Johanna E M, Rink, Jochen C, Jülicher, Frank

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 28/08/2022

Time to register for the 5th European Planarian meeting! 50 participants and plenty more rooms in our beautiful beachside conference location The great Mansi Srivastava @acoel_hofstenia and Carrie Adler @carrie_adler as int. guests- don't miss out...

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 24/08/2022

Welcome to the lab, Ziheng Zhang @Zhangzh2015! Ziheng recently graduated from ShanghaiTech University and joins our quest for planarian transgenesis.

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