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How to succeed in science without superpowers - interview with Asifa Akhtar Asifa Akhtar Max Planck Society MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics winner of the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award on her research and on challenges for female researchers #womeninscience embo.org/people/how-to-…

It was wonderful to be part of the group honoring the memory and contributions of David Allis and Gary Felsenfeld to the field of chromatin biology and epigenetics at the National Cancer Institute. National Cancer Institute Thanks to Shiv Grewal Shiv Grewal, and the organizing committee at NCI for

Dr. Asifa Akhtar of Max Planck Society joined the #MiamiEpigenetics and Cancer Symposium to discuss the role of MOF/KAT8 acetylation in health and disease. 🔬

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Thomas Jenuwein and Asifa Akhtar kicked off the 7th Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting. events.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

We are in the middle of the first sessions at the 2024 Epigenetics Meeting. Find here some impressions from the welcome and warm-up. 🔥 1/X

And some images from the first session with Asifa Akhtar, Thomas Jenuwein, Marc Timmers and Bing Ren from San Diego and Stefan Niekamp from Boston. 2/X

Asifa Akhtar We had fantastic talks by Amanda Fisher from Oxford, Vijay Ramani from UCSF and Haruhiko Koseki from RIKEN and by our Director Ibby in the first two sessions.

Asifa Akhtar Ibby More images from the day with Ramin Shiekhattar Shiekhattar Lab giving a wonderful talk on RNA Integrators as well as Stirling Churchman (Stirling Churchman). We are also super proud on Yi-Hsuan Lo Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia from the Jenuwein Depart. who gave a fantastic talk!

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Wrapping up the highlights from day one of the Epigenetics Meeting as we dive into day two! We enjoyed insightful talks by Ali Shilatifard Lab and Asifa Akhtar, followed by a wonderful conference dinner to close out the day before the last session. 5/X

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab We ended day one on a high note with fantastic talks from Rong Fan and Marieke Oudelaar (MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences), covering topics ranging from 3D genome folding to spatial multi-omics. It was a blast.

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab Rong Fan Marieke Oudelaar MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Day two of the 2024 Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting started with talks by Danny Reinberg , Dirk Schuebeler Schübeler Lab (FMI science), Sara Hägg and Roberto Bonasio. Many questions and good feedback for all speakers. 😆 Still a lot awesome science ahead. 7/X

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab Rong Fan Marieke Oudelaar MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Danny Reinberg Schübeler Lab FMI science Sara Hägg We are a litte bit behind reporting from the 2024 Max Planck #Epigenetics Meeting. Yesterday, we continued with a large poster session. Thank you to all who presented and all who intensively discussed shown data and projects. A short video clip from the session. 8/X

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab Rong Fan Marieke Oudelaar MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Danny Reinberg Schübeler Lab FMI science Sara Hägg Our session on Inheritance on Thursday featured more great science by Geeta Narlikar, Philipp Voigt, Gary Karpen and Wendy Bickmore

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab Rong Fan Marieke Oudelaar MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Danny Reinberg Schübeler Lab FMI science Sara Hägg Wendy Bickmore Here are few more impressions from Thursday showing Shelley Berger (Berger Lab), Gerda Egger from Vienna and Abid Khan from Chapel Hill 9/X

Asifa Akhtar Ibby Shiekhattar Lab Stirling Churchman Yi-Hsuan Lo | Alecia Shilatifard Lab Rong Fan Marieke Oudelaar MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences Danny Reinberg Schübeler Lab FMI science Sara Hägg Wendy Bickmore Berger Lab Abid Khan The Epigenetics Meeting in Freiburg is known for being pretty packed. Thus, right after the keynote by Patrick Cramer, we continued with Rob Martienssen, @hitenmadhani, Valérie Hilgers (Hilgers Lab @hilgerslab.bsky.social), Ayele Denboba Ayele A.Denboba as well as Yoichi Shinkai from RIKEN)

🎉 Excited to share that I've been awarded the #EMBOFellows Postdoctoral Fellowship! Immensely grateful to my current host lab Asifa Akhtar MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics and to my former PhD lab Metabolism and Development Lab iBRIC-inStem for all the support. Looking forward to the new discoveries! 🔬✨

We wish you happy holidays and a happy new year. We already had our Institute Christmas Get-together a few days ago. The famous Max Planck Freiburg Christmas Apéro with an international cookie fair & mulled wine. Stay safe. 🎄

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we congratulate Asifa Akhtar Asifa Akhtar, who receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award: embo.org/press-releases… #11Feb #February11 #WomenInScience FEBS MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics Max Planck Society

Congratulations. 🎊 The The Royal Society has elected Asifa Akhtar as a Foreign Member in recognition of her contributions to advance the field of gene regulation. The #Freiburg epigeneticist also serves as Vice President of Max Planck Society More: ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6039463/2025_0…