Upcoming presentations by the Yun lab

  • ISRB 'Regeneration Around the World', 19-20 April '22 (virtual) 

  • EMBO 'Molecular Mechanisms of Developmental and Regenerative Biology', 26-29 April '22 (virtual) 

  • IPMM Lecture series in Molecular Medicine (CMMC/CCRC/IPHS/CECAD), 5th May '22, Cologne

  • Physics of Life day, 6th May '22, Dresden

  • ATS 2022, 15 May '22, San Francisco

  • ALTOS Labs, 17th May '22, San Diego

  • TERMIS European Conference 2022, 28 June-1 July '22, Krakow

  • Long Night of Science, 6th July 2022, CRTD, Dresden

  • ESE Summer School 2022, 17 - 20 July '22, Innsbruck

  • Salamander meeting 2022, 22-24 August '22, Istanbul

  • EMBO 'Molecular Basis of Regeneration and Tissue Repair', 26-30 September, Barcelona

  • NYUAD seminar series, 27th October '22, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, 17th November '22, Edinburgh

  • Jacques Monod Conference on “Comparative Biology of Aging”, 21-25th November '22, Roscoff

 

News

The Iberian Ribbed Newt Genome

October 2022 - Together with the Simon and Leigh labs and thanks to the unparalleled skills of genome guru Tom Brown and a fantastic team of researchers, we completed the HiFi sequencing and chromosome level assembly of the P. waltl newt. Congrats!

And the DAAD Prize 2022 goes to ... Yuliia Haluza

October 2022 - A prize for outstanding achievements by international students at German universities, every year TUD honours one student with it - congrats to Yuliia!

Congrats to Anna Czarkwiani on the German Unesco-L'Oreal funding programme award

October 2022 - The German Commission for UNESCO and L'Oréal Germany, in partnership with the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation, award prizes every year for excellent young female scientists with children

Yuliia Haluza awarded the 'Best poster presentation' prize at EMBO Regeneration 2022

September 2022 - On how salamanders maintain their telomeres in regeneration and ageing - well done, well deserved!

Find out how salamanders are contributing to research

April 2022 - Our review of the 3rd Salamander models in cross-disciplinary biological research meeting, co-organised by us, is out here.

Congratulations to Yuliia Haluza and Diana Zhilina on receiving FOSTER awards

March 2022 - Our students Yuliia and Diana are awarded independent research funds to pursue their MSc projects, well done!

Our work on the determination of positional identity in regeneration is out

March 2022 - How much to regenerate? Tig1 is key, find out more here and from institutional news. A great effort from Catarina, former/present lab members, and a fantastic team of collaborators.

Hannah Walters awarded postdoctoral research funds

December 2021 - Congrats to Hannah on receiving a TUD postdoctoral starter grant. Stay tune for exciting research as a result!

Welcome to this year's MSc students: Yuliia Haluza, Kanish Siddarth, Tolga Danismaz

October 2021 - Welcome to the Yun lab: learn, explore and make the most out of this experience.

The Yun lab becomes affiliated to PoL

September 2021 - The YUN lab is now affiliated to the new Physics of Life Cluster of Excellence, which will allow us to tackle the laws of physics that underlie regenerative processes in cooperation with world leading researchers.

Salamander models for understanding ageing and rejuvenation

June 2021 - Our perspective on how salamander models can aid our understanding of ageing and rejuvenation is published here, happy reading!

Congrats to Lizbeth on winning the DIGSBB Fellow award

May 2021-The DIGS-BB Fellow Award honours outstanding achievements of DIGS-BB PhD students after the 1st year of thesis - Well deserved, Liz!

Standardising salamander nomenclature

April 2021 - The axolotl community finally gets a clear set of nomenclature guidelines thanks to the nice work of the Nowoshilow, Fei, Tanaka, Voss and Murawala labs. We support their adoption among the P. waltl community and beyond, in our latest paper!

Preethi Kesavan awarded a CRTD eV Scholarship

March 2021 - Congrats to Preethi for obtaining support for her upcoming MSc Thesis at the Yun lab

Max Yun appointed TUD Young Investigator

March 2021 - This recognition offers support for the development of Dr Yun's academic career and will strengthen her integration into the Biology Faculty of TU Dresden.