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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

12. Oct 2026

14:00

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Guest Seminar: Dr. Akos Nyerges

Dr. Akos Nyerges (Harvard Medical School) will present a hybrid Center SynGen / ZMBH seminar in Heidelberg entitled "Synthetic Genomes and Genetic Codes for Virus Resistance, Biocontainment, and Therapy", hosted by Prof. Dr. Daniel Schindler.

12. Oct 2026

17:30

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Guest Seminar: Prof. Dr. Markus Landthaler

Prof. Dr. Markus Landthaler (Max Delbrück Center Berlin) will present a hybrid Center SynGen / Bio-kolloq Biology seminar in Karlsruhe entitled "Revisiting mRNA surveillance and translation initiation", hosted by Prof. Miha Modic.

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Latest News

Latest News

See below for a list of our recently held and upcoming events, seminars, teaching and outreach activities.​

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LaborJournal article on Synthetic Biology

Center SynGen members Dr. Konrad Herbst (SynDNA Lab) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Schindler feature in a LaborJournal blog about DNA cloning and synthetic biology.

17 Mar 2026

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Guest Seminar: Assc. Prof. Dr. Peter Koo

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Koo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) presented a hybrid seminar in Heidelberg. His talk was entitled"Interpreting and designing regulatory DNA with deep learning".


Hosted by Dr. Alexander Sasse

13 Mar 2026

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Course on Molecular Dynamics for Biomolecular Systems

Researchers from all Center SynGen locations participated in a three-day course on Molecular Dynamics simulations organized by Dr. Mariana Kozlowska - the head of DNA VirtMat Unit - in Karlsruhe. 

17 Dec 2025

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New RNA Class Helps Keep Cells Organized

Press release from Prof. Modic:

Discovery of smOOPs sheds light on why certain RNAs cluster into  condensates.

28 Nov 2025

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Guest Seminar: Dr. Florian Schmidt

Dr. Florian Schmidt (ETH Zürich) delivered a hybrid seminar for Center SynGen from Heidelberg: Transcriptional recording by CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA.


Hosted by Dr. Konrad Herbst.




24 Nov 2025

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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”!



14 Nov 2025

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