Jo’s and Prateek’s manuscript is online on bioRxiv:
How do adult cells acquire plasticity after injury? The Junker (MDC) and Ninov (CRTD) labs show that zebrafish δ1-cells restore insulin production after β-cell loss. δ1-cells occupy a permissive chromatin state before injury, and meis1a/b is required for the response.

Fantastic news: The Junker lab is among the 15 groups chosen for the “Best Research Environment 2026” award of the Junge Akademie.

How does regeneration begin after heart injury? In a new Nature Communications paper, Janita used in vivo single-cell RNA metabolic labeling to identify early transcriptional responders in the regenerating zebrafish heart

Congrats, Janita! Great job!

Iman and Aryan join the lab for their Master thesis (Molecular Medicine program, Charité). Welcome!

Janita presents her PhD work at the “Single Cells in Focus” meeting in Berlin

Jo and Emi present their work at “Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing”, Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China

Two days of inspiring science at our lab retreat on Schwanenwerder island

Nora’s manuscript is available on bioRxiv. Fantastic work deciphering the influence of the cell of origin on tumor expression states in neuroblastoma.