Happy to share our recent work on transcription-coupled repair of DNA-protein crosslinks. A joy to work with the Twitterless Aleida Acampora and Julian & co Julian Stingele & Lab, among many others across Steve Jackson Lab CRUK Cambridge Institute, Martijn Luijsterburg, Sheera Adar.

nature.com/articles/s4155…

No space for antisemitism at our university Universität zu Köln. The dark days are over and must never return.

🤔🧬 Is eternal life just a dream? Is aging a disease?

🎙️ Join CECAD Cologne Professor Björn Schumacher as he discusses the #future of #medicine on the #ARD1 Hessischer Rundfunk podcast hr-INFO 'Das Thema'. #MedicineTomorrow

[Audio content available only in German 🇩🇪]

plus.rtl.de/podcast/hr-inf…

Analyzing single cell sequencing data

Our latest work is out in Neuron! We show that a surge in dendritic mitochondrial fusion during the critical period is required for synaptic plasticity in adult-born neurons. Big thanks to CRC_1218, CRC1451, CECAD Cologne and European Research Council (ERC)!

cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Monthly MDPI paper output

Always balance the centrifuge

How to start a PhD

🚨Scholarship Alert! 🚨You have a BSc degree and want to start your MSc studies in #biology or #biochemistry in Cologne? You want to explore the field of #AgingResearch with us? Apply now and get your CGA Master Fellowship! 👩🏽‍🔬💰 More info in 🧵ageing-grad-school.de/master/master-…

Our new work lead by Lorenzo Galanti is out in Nature Communications. New function of DDK in regulating HR and DSB resection in budding yeast and human cells. Check it out here nature.com/articles/s4146…

Nature Cancer is hiring. Interested? nature.com/naturecareers/…

In this video, MSNBC are chopping into tiny pieces the Israeli minister of economics and the Netanyahu regime in general by asking all the tough (yet justified) questions. What a disgrace of a government we have in this country right now 🤦🤦🤦

Be your model organism

Is forgetting a bug or a feature? Can you delay it and remember longer? Our 🥶COOLEST paper to date (and our most poetic abstract…) Show LOVE ❤️and please SHARE! Thread (1/N)👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My PhD work is finally out as a pre-print. I’m so excited 🤩 a longer, more touchy feely post soon 🫡🌻

The bioinformatician in a wet lab

via ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opi…

Mendeley used to be a good reference manager, now it has become absolutely useless making tons of errors in citation listing.

Trying to publish in Nature when not affiliated with a famous US institution

The just couldn’t hear Noah preaching any longer