News 2022
December 2022
Christmas-Party at the Institute for Genetics
After a long - and at times lonely - pandemic period, all employees of the Institute of Genetics finally came together for a Christmas party. We spent a wonderful evening together with games, secret Santa gift, lots of laughter and a concluding dinner in a restaurant in the city.
December 2022
Welcome, Franzi!
The 'Hake team' welcomes Franziska Hintermeier as a new doctoral student. Franzi will work on the biological function and chromatin incorporation of a newly discovered histone variant in collaboration with the team of Prof. Kaustuv Sanyal (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India).
We wish Franzi a successful and happy time at the institute!
November 2022
Welcome Melanie Bingel and Dennis Koch: new technician in the Hake group and secretary at the Institute for Genetics
All members of the Institute for Genetics are thrilled to welcome Dennis Koch as new secretary of the Institute as well as Melanie Bingel as new Technician in the Hake group! Welcome, Dennis and Melanie! We are super happy to have you as new team members and are looking forward to a great teamwork!
October 2022
Retreat of the Institute for Genetics to Frankfurt
Finally, members of the Institute for Genetics (Braun, Dammann & Hake teams) did participate in a long-awaited retreat together. This year we traveled to Frankfurt and visited the beautiful palm garden (Pamengarten), had delicious Burgers for lunch and ended the visit high up in the sky on the Main-Tower. The sun was shining and we enjoyed every minute of the day together!
September 2022
6th SFB/TRR81 Symposium
The last international SFB/TRR81 Symposium “Chromatin Changes in Differentiation and Malignancies” took place in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. The PhD students Lena Paasche, Andreas Herchenröther and Tim-Marius Wunderlich from the Hake team successfully presented their work on interaction partners of the histone variant H2A.Z on posters and in talks (Lena & Sandra). We all learned a lot, found new collaboration partners, discussed many things, had lots of fun and will miss our meetings, when the SFB/TRR81 finishes end of 2022.
September 2022
Good-bye Lena!
After four years at the Institute for Genetics in the Hake group, our technical assistant Lena Vogel, who always helped us with lab organisation duties, is leaving us! Thank you for your help, Lena! Lena starts a completely new stage in her life outside of Giessen. We wish Lena all the best for her new tasks and challenges.
September 2022
SFB/TRR81 Seminar of Prof. Dr. David Tremethick
Fantastic lecture on H2A.Z and H2A.B in genome organization and transcription regulation by David Tremethick - one of THE key leaders in the field of histone variants. Thank you, David, for visiting us here in Giessen as invited speaker from the SFB/TRR81 consortium.
August 2022
Summer-BBQ of the Institute for Genetics
We had to wait a long time, but finally it happened: we again had a summer BBQ with all members of the Institute for Genetics. What do you want more: sunshine, temperatures above 300C, lots of delicious food as well as lots of laughter and fun!
July 2022
Review “H2A.Z’s social network: functional partners of an enigmatic histone variant” from Carlotta Kreienbaum and Lena Paasche published
Beautiful and insightful review by Carlotta Kreienbaum and Lena Paasche, PhD students in the Hake group, about interacting proteins of the histone variant H2A.Z has been published in Trends Biochem Sci. Great read for everyone interested in histone variants and beyond!
See also:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0968000422001141?via%3Dihub
July 2022
SFB/TRR81 Seminar of Dr. Marcus Buschbeck
Dr. Marcus Buschbeck from the ‘Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute’ in Badalona, Spain, has given a ‘Hybrid-Talk’ in the framework of the SFB/TRR81 Seminar at Institute for Genetics. Everyone in the audience was thrilled by his newest insights about histone variants and epigenetic mechanisms in leukaemias. Marcus spent his day in Giessen talking to members of the Institute, where many ideas were discussed and possible collaborations started (also over a ‘Pizza-Lunch’).
June 2022
„Team-Building Activities“ of the Braun & Hake groups
After more than two enduring years of the Corona pandemic, it was finally possible again: We all could get together! With so many new members at the Institute, we decided to have a “Team-Building” Day to strengthen the team spirit. With lots of fun, ideas and creativity, many challenges were collectively solved:
“Egg Roll”: how to fastest move one egg from one floor to the next without touching and cracking it (see movie)?
“Newspaper Tower”: how to build the highest but still stable newspaper tower?
“Research Term Presentation”: how to present a research term without talking (see “Mitosis Dance” video)?
And, of course, many, many other challenges (see picture). This successful day was completed with a joint dinner and lots of laughter at the river ‘Lahn’.
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May 2022
Good-bye Julia and Welcome Joline!
Everyone at the Institute for Genetics is sad that our secretary Julie Paul (right) is leaving us. We thank her for her commitment, her help, great spirit and happiness. We will miss her and wish her all the best for her new job!
Yet, there are also good news to celebrate: Joline Bergel (left) is Julia’s successor. We are very excited and are looking forward to our cooperation with Joline and are sure that we are going to become a great team. Welcome to the Institute, Joline!
April 2022
Review “Spotlight on histone H2A variants: From B to X to Z” from Andreas Herchenröther, Tim Wunderlich and Jie Lan published
Highly informative review about the recent discoveries on the function of histone H2A variants H2A.B, H2A.X and H2A.Z has been published in Semin Cell Dev Biol. Andreas Herchenröther, Tim Marius Wunderlich and Jie Lan, members of the Hake group, have put together this great work! A must read for all chromatin and H2A variant fans.
See also:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1084952122000970?via%3Dihub
