October 2025
The article graces the cover of the journal Development: Maximum intensity projection showing dorsal vasculature of the first gill arch of a CUBIC-cleared adult kdrl:mCherry zebrafish. Fluorescent signal was pseudocoloured using the PBIYC lookup table in ImageJ. Analysis of this endothelial reporter enabled detailed mapping of gill vascular development and revealed distinct medial and lateral filament types. See Research Article by Preußner et al. https://journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/152/20
August 2021
March 2021
"The "Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Science" supports young scientists to specifically deal with another discipline related to their own research, its topics and methods". With this grant, Alicia will decipher the relative contribution of biochemical versus mechanical properties of cells and tissue during the zebrafish lateral line.
Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life ScienceFebruary 2021
Our Postdoc Alicia Lardennois received the "Prix Bettencourt pour les jeunes chercheurs" from the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, which is awarded to young french researchers to help them going abroad and perform their Postdoc.
Congrats Alicia!
February 2021
Check out our new book chapter! We describe new methods to visualize the micropylar cell, a unique follicle cell that is required for fertilization in zebrafish. Our method combines immunostaining on whole follicles or cryosections with RNA in situ hybridization.
December 2020
Our PhD student Constanze Heinzen has been awarded the best master degree in the master PBioC. She
carried out her master thesis at the MPI in Bad Nauheim under supervision of Prof. Dr. Christian Helker before joining our lab.
Nicole Goede, awarded for one of the four best bachelor degrees, performed her Bachelor thesis last year in our group.
Congratulations to both of you!
Awards 2019/2020 Faculty of Biological Sciences