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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 11/09/2026

ZMBH research group leaders Nora Vögtle (@voegtlelab.bsky.social) and Michael Knop are part of an international consortium funded by the UK’s Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA), working to develop new approaches for engineering the mitochondrial genome.

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 03/09/2026

The ZMBH is organizing a joint symposium with NAR on Molecular Aging Research. 📅 19.11.2026, 🕑 2:00 pm, 📍 Bergheimer Straße 20, Heidelberg Join us for an afternoon of scientific talks, new perspectives, and interdisciplinary exchange in molecular aging research. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 03/09/2026

The Kaessmann Group is hiring! Experimental #Postdoc and computational and/or experimental #PhD positions in evolutionary genomics are available in our lab in Heidelberg: home.kaessmannlab.org/openPositions Please repost and spread the word!

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 15/07/2026

Here is the direct link to the recent Advanced Science paper from the lab of Daniela Duarte Campos describing a methodology for generating and evaluating acoustically patterned 3D vascular tissue: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Quality Thresholds for Angiogenesis Under Acoustic Manipulation in Engineered Vascular Tissues

Defined biological and physical quality thresholds achieved through acoustic manipulation regulate cellular alignment and spatial organization, promoting self-assembling vasculature, extracellular ma...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 15/07/2026

This is work on vascular tissue engineering from the labs of Daniela Duarte Campos @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de . We will share the paper in the follow-up post.

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 11/06/2026

Get an update on the research of the @voegtlelab.bsky.social at ZMBH by joining the virtual GBM Lunch Talk next Wednesday. Also open to non GBM members but the GBM always welcomes new members supporting their work.

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 29/05/2026

The ZMBH welcomes Dr. James Sáenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social as new Professor in Molecular Biology. James previously led a research group at B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering of Dresden University of Technology.

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 28/05/2026

The Vögtle lab @voegtlelab.bsky.social and collaborators discovered that physiological stress signals are directly detected by intra-mitochondrial surveillance mechanisms triggering the mitochondrial unfolded protein response UPRmt. The study is online in Mol Cell: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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Uncovering the initial response: Intra-mitochondrial surveillance activates the UPRmt

Taskin, Shankar, Peselj, et al. demonstrate that mitochondria possess an intrinsic surveillance system that senses mild oxidative stress and activates the UPRmt before damage signals reach the cytosol...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 27/05/2026

The ZMBH community congratulates Henrik Kaessmann on being awarded the Ernst Schering Prize 2026!

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 20/05/2026

Congratulations to Henrik Kaessmann having been appointed to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as a member of the section "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology"!

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Universität Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“Ideal Facilities for State-of-the-Art Teaching”: Official opening ceremony for audiMAX, the new lecture hall and study center on the Im Neuenheimer Feld campus www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 05/03/2026

We are are searching a scientific manager for the ZMBH. This position requires a life sciences PhD & excellent German skills, therefore the advertisement is formulated in German. Very good English skills are needed as well. You are welcome to share the ad: www.academics.de/jobs/wissens...

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Wissenschaftliche*r Geschäftsführer*in (w/m/d) - Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg - Universität Heidelberg

Universität Heidelberg bietet Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Geschäftsführer*in (w/m/d) - Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg - jetzt bewerben!

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 19/12/2025

We invite applications for a Tenure Track Professorship (W1->W3) in Molecular Biology @ZMBH. We are looking for excellent postdocs, ready to start their own research group. Feel free to spread the news by reposting. Applications can be filed until January 18th. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668

The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a Tenure Track Professors...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 30/10/2025

Congratulations to former ZMBH Research Group Leader & Professor Dirk Görlich on receiving the 2025 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work that he and his team started when working at ZMBH. laskerfoundation.org/winners/stru...

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Structures and functions of low-complexity domains - Lasker Foundation

For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 17/07/2025

@kaessmannlab.bsky.social has for the first time shown in an international collaboration, that survival of male birds crucially depends on a micro RNA for sex chromosome dosage compensation. The paper just has been published by Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation - Nature

Birds have evolved a unique sex chromosome dosage compensation mechanism involving the male-biased microRNA (miR-2954), which is essential for male survival by regulating the expression of dosage-sens...

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 20/06/2025

Congratulations to Claudio Joazeiro @labjoazeiro.bsky.social being awarded an ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu. He is one of five scientists from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social who were successful in this round. www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #ERCAdG #uniheidelberg #Universität #heidelberg

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Valuable Funding for Five Researchers at Universität Heidelberg

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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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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 13/05/2025

The ZMBH welcomes Daniel Schindler @danielschindler.bsky.social as new Professor in Microbiology joining us from Marburg's Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology.

Daniel Schindler being appointed as Professor in Microbiology

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 25/04/2025

ZMBH research group leader Henrik Kaessmann @kaessmannlab.bsky.social has given a talk on the origin of humans for a general audience. This presentation is available on YouTube (in German): www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuYl...

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Henrik Kaessmann: Der Ursprung des Menschen – ein Unfall der Evolution?

YouTube video by DAI Heidelberg

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ZMBH @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de · 14/02/2025

Today's Science paper by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and two additional papers in the same iusse analyze the development of complex neural circuits in reptiles, birds, and mammals. These studies suggest that observed similarities result of evolutionary convergence. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Developmental origins and evolution of pallial cell types and structures in birds

Innovations in the pallium likely facilitated the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities in birds. We therefore scrutinized its cellular composition and evolution using cell type atlases from chick...

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