Anna Poetsch

🎉 We are excellent The #UniCologne has succeeded with its proposal “Neue Universität: Continuous Change – Successful Renewal” and has been awarded the status of a ‘University of Excellence’ as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments ➡️uni.koeln/SWUK7

Do you want to start your PhD at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research in 2027? 🗓️ Don't miss our deadline: November 3, 2026. To help you get started with your application, our wonderful PhD students and faculty members have some tips for you in our short video. Enjoy! 🍿

🚀 Applications now open for the CECAD Postdoc Academy for Aging Trajectories! We are thrilled to share the first call for applications for our new CECAD Postdoc Academy for Aging Trajectories. www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/career/postd...

Apply now! This is a great opportunity for truly interdisciplinary research.

Check out the STAR publication: "Click-code-seq protocol for genome-wide single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of major types of DNA modifications" ⭐ www.cell.com/star-protoco... 🧬 Whole #genome instability 💻 #Computational pipeline

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 New study from #CRC1678 members @beyerlab.bsky.social and @muellerrom.bsky.social maps kidney and liver disease using cell‑type‑specific damage scores. PDS/HDS track cell injury and reveal circadian disruption and a MASLD/NASH threshold. 🍾🥳 👉 www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

🚀 Apply now for 12 fully funded PhD positions at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research! Join us and start your PhD in an international community at the forefront of ageing research. 🧬🔬 🗓️ Deadline: November 3, 2026 Explore the projects & apply: www.ageing-grad-school.de 📣 Spread the word!

We are looking for a Data and IT manager. You would set up the group’s data infrastructure, data flows, and overall organization on HPC. We aim to understand genomes 🧬 and ageing 👵 with Big Data and Machine / Deep Learning. Interested? Please apply through jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

🎉Zwei Sonderforschungsbereiche an der Universität zu Köln werden verlängert 🌱🧬Der Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1530 „Aufklärung und Targeting pathogener Mechanismen bei B-Zell-Neoplasien“ und der SFB/TRR 341 „Ökologische Genetik der Pflanzen“ gehen in die zweite Förderperiode ▶️ uni.koeln/J5KLR

A bit more than a week to apply 🧬💻 Also stay tuned for more adds, there will be one for a single cell multiomics postdoc 🧫and one for a Data & IT manager 📈

Our field has lost a giant. I will never forget his talk I heard as a master student in Tokyo. It was very inspiring for someone so young. However, I am not sure how much the rest of the audience benefited - the French accent was superb, too 🇫🇷 Anyway, I asked the only question 🤭

SLX4IP acts as a genome-wide brake on BLM helicase activity to preserve replication fork stability under stress – both globally and at ALT telomeres Stephanie Panier @spanier55.bsky.social, Kavi Mehta @k4v1.bsky.social and coworkers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Connecting fragmented aging research through the European Federation for Aging Research | Nature Aging. Read here how EFAR will provide a new platform for the geroscience community ⁦‪Morten Scheibye-Knudsen ‬⁩, Lene Rasmussen, Folkert Kuipers www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Are you looking for a new challenge? We are looking for a Deep Learning Engineer. With this role you would set up deep learning infrastructures with the goal to understand genomes 🧬 and ageing 👵 .

Medical data protection is important and I do understand that the German laws for doing research with them are rather strict. But why is it allowed that private health insurances insist on you signing to lift all restrictions and allow them to store everything forever?

I am delighted, humbled, proud, and grateful to let you know that I became a professor for life today. I am very aware of the privilege that this position now brings to my life. I will do my best to pay forward the kindness and support of the people who got me here.

I love this initiative. I think generally it would be great to have a grant system for providing basic income, if private citizens propose something that enriches society. This could be art, literature, building up something. It may even make sense for doing science or humanities.

🚨 Speaker Alert! 🚨 We’re excited to welcome Dr. Anna Poetsch to our upcoming #CRC1678 Seminar 🧬DNA Language Models to Understand the Biology of Genomes 📅 March 5 📍 CECAD Lecture Hall ⏰ 2:30 PM Join us for fresh insights at the intersection of computational biology and genomics. Don't miss out!

Lieber @bundestag.de , für viele ist der #ÖPNV essenzielle Infrastruktur. Warum darf der überhaupt bestreikt werden?

🧬🧬🧬 REGISTRATION JUST OPENED! Make sure you join our DNA REPAIR MEETING 2026 ON PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENOME INSTABILITY in Cologne, September 7-9, organized by the German Society for DNA Repair (DGDR) and the @dfg.de Research Unit 5504. www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...

Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

You did not get your #MSCA and you are upset, because you really wanted to work on somatic cell evolution on the way to malignancy with single cell data and 🧬machine learning 💻? Then get in touch! There are other ways to fund a postdoc ;-)

Are you interested to hear about DNA Language Models (in German)? Then I would have apodcadt for you. It was a really nice conversation and I hope you’ll like it! www.ghga.de/de/codedesle...

Come to Germany and do a PhD with DKFZ. You'll be supported by an international community doing amazing science in a fantastic place. I joined the DKTK from the UK 3 months ago and couldn't be happier with how easy it has been fitting in. The quality of work here is phenomenal and you should apply!

Congratulations @vakil-takhaveev.bsky.social @sturlalab.bsky.social and everyone else involved. It was really a pleasure to play a small part in it. I am looking forward to celebrating the next time we meet!

Click-code-seq reveals strand biases of DNA oxidation and depurination in human genome. #DNAoxidation #HumanGenome @natchembio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am looking to get my hands on some #Illumina 5-base methylation data - does anyone have a bam file that I could use for some testing? Please RT for reach!

It was a pleasure to talk Genome Stability for a few days with the DFG - FOR5504 for. It is really exciting to see the community in and around Cologne looking for genome stability in whole organisms and the context of the sequence. I am excited about what else is going to come.

Me: I got a new type of compliment from an audience member: "Your talk was so Gen Z" My lab: This was not a compliment... Me: 🥲 (but..., but..., I still think it was meant to be one...)

I am happy to share some thoughts on using AI to generate viruses (in German). www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

The ARD Wissenschaftsredaktion talked to me about AI generated viruses. Interested? Here you can listen to it (in German). www.swr.de/leben/gesund...

There is a new Master of Physics of Life in the house. Congratulations, Adnan! Well done! It was really a superb Defense! @poldresden.bsky.social

The ARD Wissenschaftsredaktion talked to me about AI generated viruses. Interested? Here you can listen to it (in German). www.swr.de/leben/gesund...

I am happy to share some thoughts on using AI to generate viruses (in German). www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Dear CRC TRR 341, thanks for having me. It was fascinating to learn more about the genomes of plants in their ecological context!

Would you like to do some unique experiments in cancer genomics and mutagenesis, in beautiful Munich? Well then apply for this PhD position: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1679... You'll learn a lot and it'll be fun and interesting! #DKTK @dkfz.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

Exciting to see the @grunewaldlab.bsky.social finding new target candidates against metastases of Ewing sarcoma. It makes one wonder how general this pathway disruption might be and whether it may work with other sarcomas or metastatic cancers in general… 🤔