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Congratulations to Ana Cristina Laranjeira, Simon Berger, Tea Kohlbrenner and Nadja Greter for their publication "Nutritional vitamin B12 regulates RAS/MAPK-mediated cell fate decisions through one-carbon metabolism"!doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42644-1

Congratulations to Tea Kohlbrenner, Simon Berger, Ana Cristina Laranjeira, Tinri Aegerter-Wilmsen and Laura Filomena Comi for their publication "Actomyosin-mediated apical constriction promotes physiological germ cell death in C. elegans"! 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002775

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Congrats to Simon Berger for getting the Innosuisse grant Innovation Project without implementation partner with the project title "High-resolution C. elegans screening for pre-clinical drug discovery"!

Congratulations to Ana Laranjeira who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Vitamin B12 Metabolism is a Conserved Regulator of MAPK-dependent Cell Fate Decisions”!

Congratulation to Svenia Heinze, Simon Berger, Stefanie Engleitner and Michael Daube for their publication "Prolonging somatic cell proliferation through constitutive hox gene expression in C. elegans"! 10.1038/s41467-023-42644-1

Check out our newest preprint in bioRxiv with the title "Nutritional vitamin B12 regulates RAS/MAPK-mediated cell fate decisions through the one-carbon metabolism".  doi: doi:10.1101/2023.10.12.562015

Check out our newest preprint in bioRxiv with the title "Actomyosin-mediated apical constriction promotes physiological germ cell death in C. elegans".  doi: doi:10.1101/2023.08.22.554140

Congratulations to Svenia Heinze who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Constitutive expression of the C. elegans hox gene lin-39 prolongs proliferation of somatic cells to adulthood ”!

Congratulations to Tea Kohlbrenner who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Actomyosin-mediated Apical Membrane Constriction Promotes Physiological Germ Cell Death in C. elegans”!

Congratulation to Aleksandra Fergin, Gabriel Boesch, Nadja Greter and Simon Berger for their publication Fergin et al. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009978.

Congratulations to Silvan Spiri who successfully defended his PhD thesis “New Insights into the Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling Network in Caenorhabditis elegans”!

Welcome to Nadja Greter who joined the lab as a PhD student coming from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Welcome to Wei Chen Kao who joined the lab as a PhD student coming from the Tohoku University, Japan.

Congratulation to Evelyn Lattmann, Ting Deng and Michael Walser for their publication Lattmann et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001317

Congratulations to Silvan Spiri, Simon Berger and Louisa Mereu for their publication Spiri et al. doi:10.1242/dev.199900

Congratulations to Simon Berger and Silvan Spiri for their publication Berger et al. doi:10.1242/dev.199674

Congratulations to Aleksandra Fergin who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Tissue-specific approach to study the role of sumoylation pathway in C. elegans"!

Congratulations to Ting Deng who successfully defended her PhD thesis “The Pre-Replication Complex and EGL-43/EVI1 Coordinate Cell Invasion with Cell Cycle Arrest”!

Our Paper „The Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of the Evi1 proto-oncogene, egl-43, coordinates G1 cell cycle arrest with pro-invasive gene expression during anchor cell invasion“ has been accepted for publication

Our paper "The CHORD protein CHP-1 regulates EGF receptor trafficking and signaling in C. elegans and in human cells" has been accepted for publication.