Once upon a time, there was a lab named Vastenhouw. One spring morning in 2025, they packed their pipettes, left their zebrafish behind,...

Happy 2024 ! We're thrilled to share some fantastic news – Martino's paper has been published in Nature Cell Biology! 📚🔬 You can read...

Exciting news, everyone! 🎉 Our lab has stepped into the limelight with a feature article in 24 Heures, shedding light on the advantages...

Martino disrupted the formation of two endogenous prominent transcription bodies to study the effect on gene expression! This was the...

Congratulations to Noémie for her participation and amazing 3-minute presentation of her thesis work! On March 17th, 2022, Noémie was...

Last Friday, it was Ksenia's turn to present at the MPI-CBG Friday Seminar series in Dresden. The whole Vastenhouw gang gathered in the...

Moving the lab to a new country also means learning about the Swiss animal welfare legislation, and refreshing on the general principles...

Vastenhouwies visit the University of Lausanne and the Center of Integrative Genomics.

Martino is awarded a BIF Fellowship

Two review articles from lab members Edlyn and Ksenia: Edlyn and Nadine cover the molecular aspects of ZGA during embryo development....

Máté’s PhD work on the regulation of chromatin accessibility during zygotic genome activation is now published! Check out Máté’s work in...

Congratulations to our collaborators Yuko and the rest of the Kimura labfor their work on active transcription and histone acetylation...

Congrats Diana on successfully defending your Master's thesis!

New review on MZT from Nadine in the journal of Development

Vastenhouwlab returns from the EMBO workshop "Awakening of the genome: the maternal-to-zygotic transition"

Edlyn is awarded a fellowship

Vastenhouwies present at the "Pizza Science and Beyond" event series for Predocs

Congrats Lennart on his professorship!

Congratulations to Nadine & Jan on being awarded a Volkswagen Foundation grant!

Congratulations Máté on his PhD defense!