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Illuminating the beginning of life at the Department of Meiosis, @mpi_nat. Account managed by Melina and Vanessa @SchuhLab.

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Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025 (Life Sciences)! 🧬

With Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our team, we filmed ovulation in real time — a dream come true.

👉 https://t.co/YgQx4loEk0
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25

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I am deeply honored to have been elected as a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety.
Very grateful to all members of the lab, past & present. Their curiosity & commitment to science shaped the work in countless ways. It's been a privilege to work with them.
https://t.co/GNBzqQ9vYT

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Photo by: Stadt Schweinfurt, Kristina Dietz

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A very special evening at the Rathaus in Schweinfurt, where I officially received the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

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Many congratulations to our PostDoc @palmrinmoy on receiving the Best Poster Award at the @EMBLEvents Practical Course “Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue” last month! 🎉👏
A great achievement — very well deserved!

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Grateful to receive the Pearse Prize from the @RoyalMicroSoc.

A big thank you to my amazing team and collaborators — this is truly a shared recognition. 🌟

https://t.co/Nr7zcSBVqZ

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For #FutureDay2026, we welcomed 5th & 6th graders for a hands-on day exploring science up close. They got a first look at lab work, from observing #egg cells under the microscope to pipetting and liquid nitrogen experiments 🔬🥼.
A small step into the world of research!

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Honored to receive the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences @Leopoldina.

Very grateful to my lab and all collaborators - this recognition belongs to all of us. ✨

https://t.co/jVhBw3WNHC

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@derspiegel Read the full Der SPIEGEL article on Germany’s Embryo Protection Act: https://t.co/9wYVTdyue9

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The German Embryo Protection Act (1990) sets the legal framework for research involving human embryos, adapted long before much of today’s knowledge of human development was available.
In a @derspiegel interview (in German, paywall) Melina discusses its impact on research today.

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A warm welcome to Roni, who joined the Schuh lab in December 2025 as a new Postdoc!
She completed her PhD in Genetics focusing on the development and aging of #oocytes in C. elegans.
Now she‘ll investigate the role of actin in #meiosis.
Great to have you with us, Roni 🎉

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Huge congratulations to @OvoLabsGmbH on receiving the Max Planck Startup Award! 🎉
https://t.co/ZlZWk5roT5

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Spotify: https://t.co/GtYwvOzRLJ

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What does it take to translate fertility research into a biotech company?
@MissMeiosis and Melina joined "Holding on to Unicorns and Rainbows" podcast to tell the story behind @OvoLabsGmbH.
🎧 Listen to the full episode:
(Apple Podcasts) https://t.co/ECa3qAglJ6

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The Schuh lab just got a new postdoc—welcome @venus_gaela! 🎉

Venus studied telomere regulation in cancer during her PhD and will now explore telomeres in meiosis.

Excited to have you on the team, Venus! ✨

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Following up on the previously shared links, here are some major articles from respected newspapers:
The Times: https://t.co/OcsrJLVqI1
Boston Globe: https://t.co/MFYnmEFMCJ
The Guardian: https://t.co/xpOBExRiP4

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🚀 Our research on human egg quality and #fertility is making headlines worldwide! 🌍
Thanks to @Debojit_Saha03, our co-authors, clinical collaborators, and the patients who made this study possible - and to Ovo Labs for advancing this work.
#IVF #womenshealth

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find some articles here:
📰Reuters: https://t.co/Rl51apYtZv
📰Washington Post: https://t.co/Podcn4YBXX
📰The Chosun Daily: https://t.co/wEex3Nbb7p

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Why do women’s eggs deteriorate as they age? 🥚
The @washingtonpost reports on this question and features our study on Shugoshin 1.
📰 https://t.co/Podcn4YBXX

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Our work on improving human egg quality was featured in @guardian.
We hope this will help to make #IVF more successful and allow more couples to conceive. 💜

https://t.co/IxmqBYdHaH

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Huge thanks to @Debojit_Saha03 for leading this work — & to an outstanding team of co-authors: @ManshaeiSaba, @CavazzaLab, Z. Holubcová, B. Maierova, @MissMeiosis, L. Wartosch, M. Blaney, K. Elder & our clinical collaborators at Bourn Hall Clinic & Reprofit International (10/10)

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Human eggs must segregate their chromosomes with exquisite precision — yet errors rise with maternal age, causing miscarriage & infertility.
Our new article on @biorxivpreprint shows why chromosome cohesion fails in aging eggs & how to improve it.
https://t.co/ZQTjp14lxN (1/10)

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Our findings identify centromeric cohesion protection as a modifiable determinant of egg quality.
This is, to our knowledge, the first molecular intervention shown to improve chromosome cohesion in human eggs. (9/10)