Stem cells are key for the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Some animals in addition have remarkable regenerative capacities, which also rely on the activation of stem cells. In this research platform we aim to study the regulation of stem cells during development, regeneration and maintenance in a variety of animals with different life history strategies in order to unravel the mechanisms of regulation that lead to the activation of stem cells. We employ modern single cell technologies in combination with functional genomics approaches.  We also seek to develop new bioinformatic tools for the analysis of single cell transcriptome data.

04.12.2017
 

FWF grant awarded to Alison Cole!

13.10.2017
 

Oleg Simakov received a FWF grant

11.10.2017
 

Development Paper for Ulrich Technau and Grigory Genikhovich: "On the evolution of bilaterality"...

05.10.2017
 

The new program of the CSOB Colloquium (winter semester 2017/18) is now released

18.09.2017
 

New Paper: Gut-like ectodermal tissue in a sea anemone challenges germ layer homology

01.08.2017
 

Prof. Technau and Eduard Renfer published a paper describing how to create transgene Nematostella using I-SceI meganuclease.