Day of Science 2025

Program

28 November 2025

08:30	Registration	Planck Lobby
09:00	Welcome Address by Alex Meissner	Goethe Hall
09:15	Presentations by new PIs Chair: Alex Meissner Johannes Stein: Decoding the molecular mechanisms of nuclear organization via multiplexed nanoscop Sedona Murphy: Can chromatin organization store memories?	Goethe Hall
10:15	Chalk Talk Graffiti Wall & Coffee Break Chair: Matt Kraushar	Meitner Hall
10:45	Selected Talks Chairs: Nooshin Omranian & Silvia Carvalho Gunwant Patil (Bulut-Karslıoğlu Lab): The dormant genome: Nuclear macro-organisation connecting locus-specific gene regulation to cell growth Anna Monaco (Mundlos Lab): Resolving cis-regulatory variation through improved allele-specific quantification Celina Adalem (Kraushar Lab): Differential transcription and translation activity in the chicken pallium Anja Hess (Meissner Lab): From cell-free DNA methylation monitoring of bioengineered systems to translational fragmentomics	Goethe Hall
12:45	Major Groove Award Ceremony Chair: Tuğçe Aktaş	Goethe Hall
13:00	Lunch	Restaurant
14:00	Selected Talks Chairs: Cecília Llaó & Natalia Benetti Ekta Shah (Vingron Lab): BaM-SVA improves batch correction for better scRNA transcriptomics data integration Kevin Tse (Smith Lab): Dissecting regulatory features of LINE-1 ribonucleoprotein biology in mouse zygotes Henri Niskanen (Hnisz Lab): Parallel mapping of protein and nucleic acid composition of endogenous nuclear condensates	Goethe Hall
15:30	Chalk Talk Graffiti Wall & Coffee Break Chair: Matt Kraushar	Meitner Hall
16:30	Panel Discussion “The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence in Science” Cecilia Clementi ( Freie Universität Berlin) Martin Vingron Thorsten Mielke Donal Buczek Moderation: Matt Kraushar	Goethe Hall
17:15	Best Talk Award Ceremony Chairs: Sedona Murphy & Johannes Stein	Goethe Hall
17:30	Social Hour hosted by our new PIs	MPIMG