Welcome Chaitra
Chaitra Rao from ETH joined our lab for a bioinformatics practicum.
Welcome to the team!
Chaitra Rao from ETH joined our lab for a bioinformatics practicum.
Welcome to the team!
Davide Recchia joined us for his PhD studies. Davide studied biology at the University of South Carolina and did his Masters in Nadine Vastenouv’s Lab at the MPI-CRG Dresden, working on zygotic genome activation in zebrafish.
Welcome Davide!
Congratulations to Rodrigo Villaseñor for winning the Best Poster Prize at the MPI Epigenetics conference in Freiburg.
And here are the awardees of this years #MPIEpigenetics2018 Poster Prize presented by the #CRC992 MEDEP: Rodrigo Villasenor, Postdoc in @TuncayBaubec (@UZH_Science), Sabine Lagger, Post-Doc at @VetmeduniVienna and Claire Dupont from the Feil lab @IGMM_Montpel – Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/4NHuCdV59t
— MPI-IE Freiburg (@mpi_ie) December 7, 2018
Congratulations to Jahnavi and Colin on successfully defending their MSc theses!
Sara Giuliani has returned to our group for her MSc thesis. Welcome back!
We have been most successful in securing a large Sinergia grant together with the labs of Christina Nevado (chemistry), Amedeo Caflish (biophysics/ biochemistry) and Christian Mosimann (developmental genetics), all from The University of Zurich.
More info can be found in the news release from UZH: English version, German version.

f.l.t.r.: Caflish, Baubec, Mosimann, Nevado
Join us!
We have an open position for a postdoctoral fellow to join our group working on an interdisciplinary SNF-Sinergia project. This project involves four laboratories at the University of Zurich, spanning functional genomics, medicinal chemistry, structural biology, biophysics and developmental biology.
more information here: PD_epichem_BaubecLab
We are celebrating three years since starting the lab. There is nothing better than BBQ and beer at the Zurich Lake.
Bruna Rodrigues from University of York (UK) has joined our group as a summer student, and will work together with Stefan on ICR regulation. Welcome to the group!
Then have a look at our protocol:
from a recently-released Springer book on CpG Islands (Methods and Protocols)