Cracking open the nucleus to unlock the cell’s true potential.
Our mission is to understand how cells remember their function in our body, how we can erase such memory, and how we can predict fates using artificial intelligence, in order to manipulate them to perform new functions. We do this by understanding how cells package their genome, how they protect their chromosomes and how they acquire fitness.
Infinite cells, Infinite innovation, Infinite potential
Our goal is to generate cells that can make any cell type in the organism and to discover strategies to protect their genome against damage. Research within the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells aims at establishing epigenetic principles behind changes in cellular plasticity, genome reprogramming and cellular decision making. Tell me more...
02.04.2022 Helmholtz Munich is part of the new Innovative Training Network “RepliFate”
22.03.2022 Always follow your nose – On the trail of the anatomical logic of smell
18.03.2022 EpIC - EpiGene3Sys meets INC_Spain to ChromDesign the Genome
07.03.2022 Changing the speed of DNA replication - a new way to improve the cellular reprogramming efficiency
02.02.2022 Summer School on Chromatin Biology: A hands-on expedition
03.01.2022 Eva Hörmanseder receives DFG grant to investigate cell-fate changes during reprogramming
18.11.2021 A milestone for developmental biology - Scientists publish the first single-transcriptome of a...