Merry Christmas and peace to all from the bat stars in Monterey intertidal

It may look like fireworks, but it's actually the stages of mitosis. Happy New Year from all of us at the Marine Biological Laboratory! Credit: Joel Beaudouin, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Read the full Research Report, ‘Acquisition of the spindle assembly checkpoint and its modulation by cell fate and cell size in a chordate embryo’ here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

When I just started at the IMP I had a short side discussion with @PauliGroup about one of her ideas and we decided to join forces. Truly collaborative we went on an adventure driven by FriedaLeesch and Laura Lorenzo-Orts, published today rdcu.be/c3Ia3 nature.

There it finally is!! It has been wonderful journey of discovery. Thanks again to my team, and collaborators StorkLab Michael Meinecke Lab and Henning Urlaub! Molecular Cell MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences #autophagy authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…

#BOARD23 (3/6) – Our jellyfish of the species #ClytiaHemisphaerica grow to about 1 cm in size and are naturally found in the Mediterranean Sea and the Northeast Atlantic. ⬇ EARA

#BOARD23 (6/6) – Whenever possible, we replace animal experiments at our institute with alternatives such as cell cultures or computer simulations. However, these alternative methods are not always sufficient to understand complex biological processes in the organism.⬇ EARA

We are excited to share our lab’s @PauliGroup most recent work on a conserved fertilization complex mediating sperm egg interaction in vertebrates! (1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At last, the lab group picture has been updated. I am truly delighted to be a part of this exceptionally amazing group, surrounded by amazing people. mpinat.mpg.de/de/lenart

This has been such a fun project to work on, and I am so grateful to all the amazing people who have made this work possible Ruben Fernandez Felix Bäuerlein Arsen Petrovic So Lab Sarah Penir Juliane Liepe yehorokhovskyi Tommaso Cavazza Peter Lenart and all co-authors!!

Join us on December 15th for a seminar with Prof. 𝐙𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐳, entitled "Making eggs and dividing cells in a changing ocean: lessons from sea stars”. LIVE in the SZN Conference room or to the link ZOOM: rb.gy/jws8bg #SZNseminar #SZNEMI #highereducation

If there was ever a prize I wanted, this is it. Thanks nature for selecting me as one of the joint winners of the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science 2023, in the Mid-Career category!

#Cohesin is famous for its role in folding our #genome... but not in all cell types, according to the latest study by the lab of Jan-Michael Peters, now published in Genome Research. Sperm does it differently! ⬇ News: imp.ac.at/news/article/s… Paper: genome.cshlp.org/content/early/… (1/2)

Amazing news! Congratulations!

👉12 fully funded #PhD positions available Uni Göttingen and MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences within the #RTG2756 #CYTAC DFG public | @[email protected]. Visit the website for more details uni-goettingen.de/rtg2756 #biophysics #jobs Applications welcome!

We are so excited! Thank you for your support!

This seems on topic: Göttingen was once the center for mathematics in the world - until their gov had no more need for them. The profs that went to Princeton and other institutes in the US laid the foundation for the digital world. Massive brain drain. sites.tufts.edu/histmath/files…

Absolutely mesmerizing! The meiotic astral microtubules in clam oocytes are a thrilling to image. My exploration of diverse marine species at MBL, Woods Hole, was a thrilling and highly successful adventure for any marine biologist!

Very excited to share the first preprint "Reconstitution of chromatin reorganization during mammalian oocyte development" from our lab🤞 Most of the experiments were done by my first PhD student Jing, who joined our lab at the second year of his PhD 😆 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵