November 2022
- They keep on coming. Another job well done. Congratulation on the defense Therese!
- We have a new PhD! Congrats to Fukai on his successful defense!
- welcome to Adrian who joins for a Postdoc
September 2022
- welcome back Tina who rejoined the lab
August 2022
- check out the interviews of Lyna and Sebastian describing their recently published work.
June 2022
- Lyna defended her PhD – great work – many congratulations and good luck with your move overseas!
March 2022
- new personnel changes: welcome back Sebastian! and goodbye Elvis – good luck in your new Position at the FHNW!
November 2021
- welcome to Fabienne and Yongqiang who joined the Nowacki Lab for a Master and PhD Project.
September 2021
- welcome to Corina and Xiadong who just joined the Nowackis.
- we have a new PhD! Congratulations Sebastian! Pictures
June 2021
- Congratulations to Iris for successfully defending her PhD! Great work. Pictures
- Xyrus moved on to work at the AMNH in New York – all the best!
September 2020
- While we say goodbye to Chundi we welcome Jenna, our new Master student.
March 2020
Yes – we are also digital these days! The Nowacki Lab wishes everyone healthy and productive stay at home days!
December 2019
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- Congratulations Tina for receiving the Dr. Lutz Zwillenberg price from the University of Bern for her PhD thesis – Great work!
November 2019
- Sad to see some lab members, including very long-time member Tina (she did Bachelor, Master, PhD and Postdoc in the lab!), leaving us: all the best Tina and Zach for your future adventures!
October 2019
- Fukai and Eldi joined the lab.
June 2019
- We welcome our new Postdoc Victor and Master Student Shruti to the lab.
March 2019
- We had a great skiing day in Grindelwald. Check out some pictures.
- Welcome to Stefano from Italy who joins us for a rotation!
February 2019
- Zach and Mariusz recently wrote a simple summary about the lab’s research topic: RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance. Have a look! The in depth version can be found here.
October 2018
- The Nowacki gets some French influence thanks to Perwin joining the lab – welcome!
September 2018
- The Nowacki labs welcomes Chundi!
- Iwona left us to go back to Poland. Good luck in your new position at Rzeszów University.
August 2018
- Another successful PhD defense by Iwona!
Congratulations!
- Tina defended her PhD!
Congratulations and well deserved.
July 2018
- The Nowacki labs spends a week in Washington DC at the Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference organized by the GSA. And by the way: Iris won a Poster prize!
- And on a sad note: Goodbye to Flurin, but all the best in the UK for your PhD studies.
June 2018
- The best time to visit our lab is now: after our lab-cleaning day it is not only spotless but even the incubators smell like fresh flowers! Fantastic!
- and welcome to Lyna to the ranks of PhD candidate!
Mai 2018
- Ryuma our new postdoc from Japan started working with us: good luck and thanks for the Japanese treats!
- our longtime lab member Aditi left us for a Postdoc in Tübingen – all the best!
March 2018
- Read about Tina’s discovery of a cleavage preference for Dicer-like proteins – Congratulations to her and Iris! you can also read about its significance here or here.
February 2018
- “A happy: Hello!” to our newest members Flurin and Elvis
- and welcome to Therese to the ranks of PhD student!
January 2018
- Congrats to Zach (and Mariusz!) for their insight into transgenerational inheritance. Read their review here.
December 2017
- welcome to our newest member Xyrus who joins us from Massachusetts
November 2017
- our
crew leaves us with an another amazing apéro – thank you and arrivederci!
- come next time when the Nowacki group organizes the institute apéro – if not you’re missing something!
October 2017
- Congrats to Iris for winning a poster prize at the Paramecium meeting
September 2017
- did you visit us at the “Nacht der Forschung”? see events
- we welcome Anxhela and Jan to the lab for their Erasmus/student exchange programs.
August 2017

Aditi successfully defended her PhD – well done!
July 2017
- Yeay – Dominique’s paper about Piwi Proteins is now online. Great work!
Mai 2017
- On international workers’ day we welcome our newest PhD student Sebastian.
March 2017
- Congrats to Iwona for a successful midterm evaluation
- Congratulations to Sarah and her crew for their just released Cell paper!
- Welcome Angela Piersanti, a PhD student who visits us from University of Camerino for a few months.
- Congrats to Iris for her successful Master thesis. Well deserved – and now welcome to our next PhD student!
February 2017
- welcome to the lab: Annina, Fabian and Johan.
- congrats to us for making a lab homepage!