Team
Juliane Glaser
Group Leader Juliane Glaser

Dr. Juliane Glaser studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Paris-Cité University (France). After two research stays abroad, she became passionate about mechanisms governing embryonic development, which brought her to pursue a Ph.D studying the epigenetic regulation and physiological impact of genomic imprinting. Under the supervision of Dr. Deborah Bourc’his (Institut Curie, Paris), Juliane’s Ph.D thesis showed that a transcript expressed only during the first four days in the mouse embryo sets an epigenetic state that has a life-long impact on feeding behavior in neonates. This emphasized the importance of the first few days of development for vital physiological functions such as feeding and growth.
Juliane performed her postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin) in the lab of Pr. Stefan Mundlos. There, as an independent HFSP postdoctoral fellow, she investigated the importance of the non-coding genome in the context of developmental diseases. Her early postdoc work identified how changes at the level of the 3D genome affect the usage of regulatory elements, causing a human congenital malformation. She also demonstrated how a retrotransposon insertion causes a mouse limb malformation, identifying aberrant production of viral-like particles during organ formation as a yet unexplored mechanism leading to congenital disease.
In 2024, Juliane was appointed as a Group Leader at the MPI-IE and her lab will open in March 2025.
Qualifications and history
- Born in Paris, France. Undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Paris-Cité University, France
- Research Intern at the EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany and the NYU Medical Center, New York, USA
- 2014-2018 PhD student at Institut Curie, Department of Developmental Biology, Paris, France
- 2019-2025 Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department of Development and Disease, Berlin, Germany
- From March 2025 Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany