TriRhena Gene Regulation Club
The TriRhena Gene Regulation Club is a one-day symposium that brings together researchers from France (IGBMC), Germany (MPI-IE) and Switzerland (FMI) who share a common interest in gene regulation, and gives PhD students and postdocs the opportunity to share their unpublished work with the community, thereby strengthening international collaborations.
Next club event
- Date: Wednesday, 4 November June 2026, 14:00-18:00
- Registration: Registration and abstract submission opens October 1st, 2026.
- Venue: This meeting will be held at the FMI Basel, Switzerland.
Program (Freiburg, June 2026)
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Opening remarks |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Manfred Jung (University of Freiburg) Development of high-affinity CHD1 chromodomain inhibitors |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Yixuan Fu (University of Zurich) Dynamics of polycomb and trithorax group activities in Arabidopsis embryos |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Julian Obid (IGBMC, Strasbourg) Targeting transcription elongation to impair DNA repair and sensitize cancer cells to PARP inhibitors |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | #newPI talk: Julia Batki (FMI, Basel, link) Retain or remove: cell fate decisions during mouse organogenesis |
| 15:35 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20- 16:40 | Hanrong Hu (EPFL, Lausanne) A scalable Tn5-based method for genome-wide DNA methylation profiling |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Simona Capponi (German Cancer Consortium, DKTK, Freiburg) Non-canonical BRD4 function rescues the molecular disease signature of X- linked dystonia parkinsonism |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Umut Erdodgu (MPI-IE, Freiburg) Non-linear functions of histone acetylation in the spatiotemporal control of transcription |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Fabio Mohn (FMI, Basel) Exploring the co-factor repertoire of transcription factors |
| 17:40 | Closing remarks & Apéro |
Talks = 20’ (incl. Q&A)
Practical Information
Register now
Participation is free, but registration is required. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The symposium offers no virtual participation via streaming.
Abstracts: present your work
A limited number of talk places are available. Everyone, especially young researchers and PhD students, are encouraged to submit their exciting new and unpublished work* for presentation.
*Abstracts will not be reproduced or made available to participants at the meeting.
- Abstract submission & registration start and deadline
Start: 1 October 2026
End: 19 October 2026
The FMI is located at the Novartis Campus in the northern corner of Basel, just minutes from the French and German borders. The main entrance of the Campus is easily accessible by public transport, bicycle or car.
Fabrikstrasse 24 | 4056 Basel | Switzerland
Get the directions to the FMI here.
About the event
The “Gene Regulation Club” is a one-day symposium that unites groups at three research institutions for biomedical research on a regular basis:
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC, Strasbourg, France)
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI, Basel, Switzerland)
- Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics (MPI-IE, Freiburg, Germany)
The event has an intimate, interactive atmosphere with typically 100-120 participants from the TriRhena region. Each Gene Regulation Club will be dedicated to topics that revolve around the regulation of gene expression, such as chromatin, transcription, or RNA processing. In addition, PhD students and postdocs will present near-final but unpublished work from groups at each of the institutes. With an informal but high quality character of the meeting, we aim to stimulate discussion and inspire new collaborations within the Tri-Rhena area.
The Gene Regulation Club is the successor event for the popular TriRhena Chromatin Club.