Congratulations to group leader Zack Smith on the Hermann Neuhaus Prize 2025 and to postdoc Sara Hetzel who receives the Otto Hahn Medal. These prizes recognize their work on different aspects of epigenetic regulation in early development and cancer.
Cassandra Extavour is a developmental biologist and a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard. On the occasion of her talk at our institute in May, we interviewed her about her scientific journey, inclusion in academia, and how her second career as a part-time soprano singer shapes her scientific work. The interview was conducted by Daniel Ming-Kang Lee, a postdoc in the Meissner Lab.
The Institute regularly invites internationally renowned researchers to give lectures as part of the Dahlem Colloquia series. Everybody is welcome to attend!
The International Max Planck Research School for Biology And Computation IMPRS-BAC is a graduate program at the interface of molecular life sciences and computational sciences.
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