NEWS
11.2025: Heidelberg University 2025 iGEM Team Success!
Congratulations to Center SynGen Seed Funding recipients - the Heidelberg University 2025 iGEM Team, supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Wölfl - for their success! They were awarded second place in the “Overgraduate” category, among other awards including the “best oncology award”!
Title: Transcriptional recording by CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA
Seed funding 2026
with Ricky Fröhlich
Using synthetic genomics as an example, bachelor's students learn how to prepare and deliver a good talk.
Recently, we celebrated the official kick-off of the Center for Synthetic Genomics (SynGen), bringing together researchers from Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, and Mainz, as well as international guest speakers.
Press release by Prof. Hilbert: Cellular information processing as inspiration for biotechnology
Title: Spatial Biology Meets Synthetic Biology: Engineering and Sensing Microenvironmental and Cellular States in Disease
Title: The branching topology of RNA
17.05.2025: The KIT Open Day
We were at the KIT Open Day! As part of its 200th anniversary, KIT opened its doors to the public.
Professor Lennart Hilbert wants to understand exactly how the processes in the cell nucleus work
LooKIT-Magazin
Title: Synthetic Genomics
Title: Using Synthetic Genome Modules to Tidy-Up Evolution’s Mess
Dr. Konrad Herbst starts as the new Head of the Synthetic DNA Lab at the Center SynGen in Heidelberg.
Genetic material from the lab - Heidelberg researchers artificially recreate DNA
Scientists in Heidelberg are also working on the artificial production of the genome.
One goal: programming immune cells.
- Interview with Prof. Dr. Michael Knop
Opening of the Center SynGen
The first trans-regional Center for Synthetic Genomics was founded on March 04, 2024...