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Another Birthday Cluster in Sight! 🔭🎉
In the Vastenhouw Lab, we know it’s not just transcription factors that form clusters—birthday celebrations do too! Keeping in theme with...
Feb 15


N=3 (Triple Birthday Bash)
In the Vastenhouw Lab, we do very serious science. And serious science is done in triplicate — including birthday celebrations! This...
Feb 13


🎉 Exciting News! Martino's Paper Published in Nature Cell Biology 🎉
Happy 2024 ! We're thrilled to share some fantastic news – Martino's paper has been published in Nature Cell Biology! 📚🔬 You can read...
Apr 9, 2024


Happy Birthday, Maciej! 🎉
Lab mates, it's time to break out the confetti and light up the candles because today we're celebrating Maciej's birthday! Guess what?...
Jan 24, 2024


Hann's public defence!
Following the successful private defense, it was time for public presentation of Hann's thesis work! On the 1st of December, Hann...
Dec 8, 2023


Vastenhouwies on a celebration spree!
Goodbye pumpkin spice, hello Birthday Cake!!! Winter is coming and bringing with it "older, wiser and hotter" Vastenhouwies (see Figure...
Dec 8, 2023


New kid on the block!
This week we welcomed Eliott Bron, who is doing his final year of apprenticeship as an animal caretaker! He is being trained by our very...
Nov 30, 2023


Celebrating Dr. Noémie: Our Nanog Ninja!
Hold onto your lab coats, folks! We're thrilled to announce that just yesterday, Noémie gave her private PhD defence, with an...
Nov 22, 2023


Dr. Hann in the house!!!
On the 2nd of November, Hann presented the results of his thesis, which was titled "The timing of zygotic transcription is encoded by...
Nov 3, 2023


🐠 Fun Times at the Swiss Zebrafish Meet in Geneva! 🐠
Martino, Arsenii, and Nadine recently attended the Swiss Zebrafish Meeting 2023 on the 30th of June, in Geneva. The event provided a...
Jul 3, 2023


Welcome Jana and Alicia!
On the 3rd of April, the Vastenhouwies welcomed two new Master's students Jana Brenner and Alicia Li. Keeping up with the lab...
Apr 19, 2023


Spring cleaning in the Vastenhouw Lab!
Spring is here!!! To celebrate, all the Vastenhouwies put aside their lab gloves and put on their cleaning gloves. A productive morning...
Apr 19, 2023


Social night out with our colleagues: Laser Tag + Pizza
Even scientists just want to have fun! Dora & Edlyn organized a social evening for our friends and fourth floor lab mates from the groups...
Mar 6, 2023


Merry Christmas!
The Vastenhouwlab took part in their very first institute Christmas party this year. This year's theme was hygge - the Danish concept of...
Dec 16, 2022


Ksenia's paper on Nanog organizing transcription bodies is published!
Ksenia's very first first-author paper and PhD work is now out in Current Biology! Congrats soon-to-be Dr. Kuznetsova! Ksenia will be...
Dec 6, 2022


Vastenhouwlab Retreat 2022
After COVID and its many restrictions, lab move to Lausanne, and new lab members joining one after another, the Vastenhouw Lab was...
Oct 12, 2022


Welcome Maciej!
Welcome Maciej
Jul 10, 2022

Vastenhouwlab Vienna Ventures
The Vastenhouwies are back from their trip to Vienna! The EMBO Workshop, Awakening of the genome: The maternal-to-zygotic transition,...
May 23, 2022


Snow day for Vastenhouwies
Vastenhouwies hit the Swiss slopes
Feb 17, 2022
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