Sanyami & Maria's review on "Principles of long-range gene regulation" is online

Congratulations to Sanyami on his first author review where we highlight new findings from the past 2 years on how genes are regulated at long range - also across TADs - in both flies and...

Nana's STAR Protocol included in Editors' Collection 2024

Congratulations to Nana on the inclusion of her STAR Protocol in the Editors' Collection 2024! The editorial team selected her protocol based on its reproducibility and potential impact for the research community. Nana wrote this protocol herself and...

Exploring the depths of a cave in Vallorbe

Lab pic summer 2024!

Congratulations to Jonas!

Working in a lab is hard enough ... try studying and passing your high-school diploma in your "spare time"! 

Congratulaions to Jonas for a fantastic job at the bench and at the desk !

Swiss Drosophila Meeting 2024

The annual Swiss Drosophila Meeting, organised and hosted each year by a different university in Switzerland, took place on June 20th in Lausanne this year.

We represented the lab with four posters and one talk, and enjoyed...

Fly population preparations

This week the lab is getting ready to start population cages.

To prepare comfortable lodging and feeding area, necessary to keep our flies happy, we start with cooking large egg-laying plates with the base of agar, organic...

Admiring Anastasiia's insulator-seq data

Nana established a protocol and an analysis pipeline to perform the first unbiased screening for regulatory insulators in any genome! Her results led to surprises about how we think insulators function.

Joint lab retreat with the Andrey lab in 2022

Mice and flies meet to discuss their similarities and differences.

Escape game in 2022

Big lab achievement - we broke into a bank and stole 1 dollar!