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Huge congratulations to Clara Nuninger for successfully defending her PhD last week! Her research used Hydra—a tiny freshwater creature famous for regrowing its body parts—to reveal how cells decide what to become 🎓🥳

🌈As part of our EDI & Pride Ambassador program, led by Laurent Gelman & Sera Weevers, we're excited to host trans advocate and author Liam Klenk for an open, informal talk on gender, identity and career development as a trans person. 🗓 July 15, 15:00 with Apéro to follow

RT @MarcBhler4: Preprint alert:

Thrilled to recently welcome @FionaHMarshall to the FMI! She toured our labs, including the new FMI-Novartis Applied Tissue Models Center, and had engaging conversations with group leaders & senior admin. Thanks for visiting and fostering collaboration!

RT @MarcBhler4: Novel insights into the silencing of an understudied transposable element - check out our latest preprint by Jakob Schnabl-….

Huge congratulations to Lisa Frugoli on successfully defending her PhD this week! She developed a lab-grown model of the uterus lining to study endometrial receptivity—the brief window when the uterus is ready to accept an embryo 👏🎓

RT @EMBLEvents: 🚨 Application for #EMBLCRISPRcas is now OPEN!. Learn to master CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing in mammalian cells and mouse….

RT @BernsteinNeuro: ⌛ Two weeks left to submit your poster abstracts and travel grants for the #BernsteinConference 2025!. 🗓️ Deadline: Jul….

RT @TsiairisLab: Ever wondered how a tiny Hydra blob figures out where its head goes? Turns out, it's not just chemistry — it's feeling the….

Last Friday, we celebrated the scientific legacy of Patrick Matthias at his Farewell Symposium. Colleagues & friends gathered to honor his contributions to science, leadership and mentorship over the years. Thank you, Patrick, for your vision, dedication and lasting inspiration!

Huge congratulations to Sucheta Ghosh for successfully defending her PhD this week! Her work on dynamic profiling of the Aggresome Processing Pathway is helping us better understand how cells clean up their protein "junk" 🎓

Thank you to everyone who joined our inaugural Bridges Over Basel event yesterday! Our panel of Novartis experts shared valuable insights on moving from academia to industry, followed by great conversations over apéro 🚀

We're seeking a Research Associate in stem cell biology to join a global, interdisciplinary team investigating organoids and tissue organization. This unique role is part of a collaboration between the @priscaliberali lab & the @AllenInstitute. Apply at:

🚨We're hiring! Join a global team at the @priscaliberali lab & the @AllenInstitute to build cutting-edge image analysis workflows for complex biological datasets, including light-sheet microscopy images. Apply at:

RT @EMBLEvents: 🧬✨ Don't miss the chance to submit your abstract for the EMBO Workshop 'Developmental metabolism: flows of energy, matter,….

RT @hisspikeness: 1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? .Our new preprint explores a provocative idea….

RT @mpi_ie: 🚨 Only a few more days to REGISTER for the TriRhena Gene Regulation Club #Freiburg. Whether you are new or an established rese….

Neurons deep in the brain don't just start movement — they also precisely suppress it, finds a new @Nature study from Silvia Arber’s team at the FMI and the @biozentrum. The findings may shed light on disorders like Parkinson’s.

Happy #PrideMonth! We celebrate LGBTQ+ voices in science and beyond—but many still face discrimination & violence. We stand for dignity, safety & equity for all 🌈

In a @eLife study, FMI researchers show that memory storage may rely on dynamic interplay between excitatory and inhibitory neurons — challenging the idea of stable activity patterns in memory networks.