Whoever you are, at least I was invited to talk at the event as a successful grantee.
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Whoever you are, at least I was invited to talk at the event as a successful grantee.
However, what really stung was the guy who had to comment out loud: well, it just was not a good grant.
I mentioned that I submitted the grant to a different, national funding scheme, where it was initially also rejected but ultimately I was successful, project is by now published.
Today I was asked to talk at a mentoring event for people preparing an application for the ERC. Of course I spend some time on how I prepared for the successful application. However most of the time I spend on the times when it did not work out, grant was rejected.
*New pre-print* I’m delighted to share the second story from my PhD 🥳 We identify 29 severe COVID-19-associated human genetic risk variants that modulate enhancer activity in lung epithelial cells
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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, IMP, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
New colleague at the Perutz! Welcome, Danny!
We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team!
Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬
Then please apply!
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Congratulations, Elphege and everyone involved! This will definitely lead to some good discussions!
Final registration reminder for SY-Stem 2026. The deadline is on Monday, February 16.
This is such a beautiful preprint! Congrats on the work!
THANK YOU! I share your frustrations, and it is great to see you put it to good use. I normally just rant to myself.
The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
It was so much fun!
Congratulations to Dr Feng! Songjie is the genome whisperer who is simply amazing when it comes to editing the genome! And one of the nicest person to have around!
Activator-promoter compatibility in mammals - Hcfc1 is a key and intrinsically CGI-promoter-specific co-activator that cannot activate non-CGI promoters. Lead by @nemcko.bsky.social & Kevin Sabath in collab. with @plaschkalab.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/2)
This is such a beautiful piece of work, Filip! Congratulation on the preprint!
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@moffittlab.bsky.social, @saramostafavi.bsky.social, me and all speakers for the 2026 CSHL meeting Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, March 11-14. Abstract deadline January 9! More infos and registration at meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Intrigued by a long-standing conundrum in small RNA biology—how nuclear Argonaute proteins silence transposons when they *need* target transcription for their own recruitment—we studied the piRNA pathway.
And found a hidden RNA-decay axis from Piwi to the RNA exosome.
Page from Katabasis reflecting the academic job market.
Now that I am off for Christmas, I started my first book for the holidays: Katabasis. And every other page has a few memorable phrases about academia to ponder...
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Two outstanding group leaders to watch!
This looks fantastic! Congratulations to everyone involved!
So deserved! Congratulations, @plaschkalab.bsky.social
I get between 3 and 10 emails like that every day. Many if these students are probably good. But I don't even get to answer all of them because it is such an avalanche and has only gotten worse lately.
Another good one is when it us not my name in the address. I understand that reusing of text blocks is important and saves time.
I get it, 90% of students writing to enquire about a research possibility will use ChatGPT. But at least don't end it with
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
I am just so over these emails that say do little, are so generic and just try to flatter me.
I made an entry in my calendar labelled "Meeting on" I have a slight recollection that it was important and I blocked three hours for it. But I have no idea who I will be talking to, whatever this is about.
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