Over the summer several members and guests have left us to start new positions or to return to their home institutions:

Gintare Sendzikaite (PhD Student in Gavin Kelsey’s Lab @ Babraham Institute, UK) will return to the University of Cambridge to finaliser her successful PhD studies.

Jahnavi Bhaskaran (MSc student from ETH Zurich) will start her PhD in Juanma Vaquerizas’ Lab at MPI Muenster, Germany.

Ramon Pfänder (MSc student from Uni Zurich) will continue his career as a PhD Student. Currently he is looking for exciting positions in Systems Biology.

Chaitra Rao (Undergrad student from ETH) will join Judith Zaugg’s group at EMBL Heidelberg for her Masters.

We were happy to have you around and we are proud of you. All the best for the future!

We have been awarded a collaborative grant from the Cancer Research Center Zurich. This collaboration between Michael Wellers group at the University Hospital Zurich and our group, bridges epigenomics and translational brain tumor research to understand the gene regulatory landscape that drives cancer evolution and treatment resistance in glioblastoma.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oa6mjsn9cfdcxa3/Postdoc_CRC.pdf?dl=0

Congratulations to Nina Schmolka for receiving a Postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Zurich.

Our first and brave PhD student leaves the lab after a successful PhD. Sad to see you go, but we wish you all the best for the future!

Gintare Sendzikaite from Gavin Kelsey’s Lab at The Babraham Institute (Cambridge UK) joins us for the summer months for a lab visit. Great to have you on board, and thanks to the MRC for funding this.

Tuncay received The Georg Friedrich Götz-Award 2018. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of biomedical research.

Read more about it here

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. 

Congratulations to Jahnavi and Colin on successfully defending their MSc theses!