In some wildtype zebrafish the heart is on the wrong side. Roberto figured out that this is caused by stochastic fluctuations of an early developmental cell population. Check out his preprint on bioRxiv.

Our Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence grant gets funded (MDC press release). Looking
forward to collaborating with Maria Colomé-Tatché‘s lab at Helmholtz Center Munich.

Philipp gives an (online) talk at the European Society of Human Genetics meeting.

Philipp gives a Zoom talk at the Minerva-Gentner Colloquium 2020: Single Cell Analysis – from Development to Disease

Our joint publication with the Robin group (Hubrecht Institute) is online: Multispecies RNA tomography reveals regulators of hematopoietic stem cell birth in the embryonic aorta

We can finally resume experimental work! The strict lockdown is ending, and the institute is now open again (albeit at reduced density).

Janita joins the lab as a new PhD student. Welcome!

Inclusion of temporal information in single cell transcriptomics: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1av1J4qcwYRvXH

Like most other research institutes, the MDC is shut down (almost) completely to limit the spread of the corona virus. The lab continues to operate via home office – including a daily meeting in our online coffee corner for a virtual espresso…

Some impressions from the empty lab