Asifa Akhtar

Wrapping up the highlights from day one of the Epigenetics Meeting as we dive into day two! We enjoyed insightful talks by Ali @ShilatifardLab and @AsifaAkhtar1, followed by a wonderful conference dinner to close out the day before the last session. 5/X

Congratulations. 🎊 The @royalsociety has elected @AsifaAkhtar1 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 @maxplanckpress More: ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6039463/2025_0…

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we congratulate Asifa Akhtar @AsifaAkhtar1, who receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award: embo.org/press-releases… #11Feb #February11 #WomenInScience @FEBSnews @mpi_ie @maxplanckpress

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. 🎄

🎉 Excited to share that I've been awarded the #EMBOFellows Postdoctoral Fellowship! Immensely grateful to my current host lab @AsifaAkhtar1 @mpi_ie and to my former PhD lab @tinalab_inStem @DBT_inStem for all the support. Looking forward to the new discoveries! 🔬✨

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

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), Ayele Denboba @a_denboba as well as Yoichi Shinkai from @riken_en)

Our session on Inheritance on Thursday featured more great science by Geeta Narlikar, Philipp Voigt, Gary Karpen and @wendy_bickmore

Here are few more impressions from Thursday showing Shelley Berger (@berger_lab), Gerda Egger from Vienna and @AbidKhanEpigen from Chapel Hill 9/X

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

We ended day one on a high note with fantastic talks from @RongFan8 and @MariekeOudelaar (@mpi_nat), covering topics ranging from 3D genome folding to spatial multi-omics. It was a blast.

Day two of the 2024 Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting started with talks by @ReinbergDanny , Dirk Schuebeler @SchubelerLab (@FMIscience), @HaggSara and Roberto Bonasio. Many questions and good feedback for all speakers. 😆 Still a lot awesome science ahead. 7/X

And some images from the first session with @AsifaAkhtar1, Thomas Jenuwein, Marc Timmers and Bing Ren from San Diego and Stefan Niekamp from Boston. 2/X

Thomas Jenuwein and @AsifaAkhtar1 kicked off the 7th Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting. events.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

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

More images from the day with Ramin Shiekhattar @ShiekhattarLab giving a wonderful talk on RNA Integrators as well as Stirling Churchman (@fiddle). We are also super proud on Yi-Hsuan Lo @AleciaYHLO from the Jenuwein Depart. who gave a fantastic talk!

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Dr. @AsifaAkhtar1 of @maxplanckpress joined the #MiamiEpigenetics and Cancer Symposium to discuss the role of MOF/KAT8 acetylation in health and disease. 🔬

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. @theNCI Thanks to Shiv Grewal @grewalsh, and the organizing committee at NCI for…

How to succeed in science without superpowers - interview with Asifa Akhtar @AsifaAkhtar1 @maxplanckpress @mpi_ie winner of the @FEBSnews | EMBO Women in Science Award on her research and on challenges for female researchers #womeninscience embo.org/people/how-to-…