New Publication
… from a collaboration with Wolfgang Fischle published in Nature Communications!
Dynamic and flexible H3K9me3 bridging via HP1β dimerization establishes a plastic state of condensed chromatin
STWF grant from UZH awarded!
We have secured a grant from the Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung at the University of Zürich to support our DNA methylation research.
New Paper
… published in Mol Cell with contributions from our lab!
EpiGeneSwiss Kick-Off Meeting – call for abstracts
Call for abstracts and registration, now open.
More infos here: epigeneswiss.ch/kick-of
Welcome Isabel!
Isabel Schwarz joined our lab as a MSc Student from the UZH Science Faculty.
Welcome Christina!
Christina Ambrosi joined our lab as a new PhD student. Christina did her MSc at the Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.
SystemsX grant awarded
Proudly announcing that we have successfully secured funding from the Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology (SystemsX)
EpiGeneSwiss.ch
EpiGeneSwiss.ch is a network of young research groups working on chromatin biology, epigenetics and gene regulation in Switzerland.
The group is growing !
Joel Wirz joined the lab as technician. Joel joined the institute already in May and helped setting up the lab and getting everything ready for a good start.
Massimiliano Manzo is the first PhD student to join the lab! Massimiliano did his MSc at the LMU Munich in the group of Heinrich Leonhard.
Bruno Speck Award 2015
Tuncay receives The Bruno Speck Award for Basic Research from the “Stiftung für Hämatologische Forschung” and the Basel Stem Cell Network for his recent studies published in Nature. The award will be presented on April 20th, at the BSCN Annual Meeting 2015.