Congratulations to Nadine and Jan Brugués!
Nadine and Jan received a 1.5 million Euro grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung), as part of the funding initiative "Life? - A Fresh Scientific Approach to the Basic Principles of Life".
The two groups will collaborate on the project “The spark of life: initiation of transcription in embryos, and recapitulating such in synthetic nuclei”.
The Germans have a perfect word (and attitude) for how one should end their work day: Feierabend (literally translates to "party evening"). Together with the Brugués lab, we hung up our pipettes, turned off those microscopes, bade farewell to our pet fish and frogs for the day, and partied together to celebrate Nadine and Jan's achievement.
Contact us if you're interesting in joining our team to investigate the physical principles that govern transcription initiation during early embryo development.
