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
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April 14, 2026 – PhD defense Janita
Congrats, Janita! Great job!






Feb 1, 2026 – Iman and Aryan join the lab
Iman and Aryan join the lab for their Master thesis (Molecular Medicine program, Charité). Welcome!
Nov 11, 2025 – Conference presentation
Janita presents her PhD work at the “Single Cells in Focus” meeting in Berlin
Oct 21, 2025 – Conference presentations
Jo and Emi present their work at “Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing”, Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China
Oct 15/16, 2025 – lab retreat
Two days of inspiring science at our lab retreat on Schwanenwerder island

Oct 14, 2025 – Preprint online
Nora’s manuscript is available on bioRxiv. Fantastic work deciphering the influence of the cell of origin on tumor expression states in neuroblastoma.
Sep 25, 2025 – Conference presentation
Philipp gives a talk at the GfE school in Günzburg
Sep 12, 2025 – Conference presentation
Philipp gives a talk at the DZHK retreat in Heidelberg