Lab News

Pauli Lab members at the zebrafish course in Woods Hole

06 Aug 2025

This summer marked a special milestone for the Pauli Lab: after many visits to Woods Hole, Andi took on the role of co-director of the Zebrafish Development and Genetics Course for the first time.

Incoming postdocs Theresa and Ezra learned the ropes of zebrafish research, from microinjections to transplantations, behavioral assays and live-imaging under the expert guidance of Amy, who joined the course as a teaching assistant, and established zebrafish faculty members and their TAs. Beyond zebrafish, they got to explore the incredible marine biodiversity that Woods Hole has to offer, from catching pufferfish to experiencing the magic of nighttime bioluminescence.

And we even managed to have a little ‘Pauli lab Woods Hole reunion’ with former PhD student Jessica Stock (now postdoc in the Albertin lab at Woods Hole) and Victoria, who took the opportunity to visit before heading to the GRC!

Johannes and Victoria attend the 2025 GRC on Fertilization and Activation of Development

28 Jul 2025

Johannes and Victoria attended the 2025 GRC on Fertilization and Activation of Development. Johannes presented a poster and Victoria gave a talk on our most recent fertilization projects.

As always, it was a fun meeting packed with science, kayaking and meeting GRC friends, including our long-term collaborators and friends from Masahito Ikawa’s lab in Japan!

Lab retreat in Styria - first annual PAULIs!

18 Jul 2025

For this year’s lab retreat, we headed to St. Lambrecht in picturesque Styria. After we acquired enough snacks on the way we kicked the retreat off with a knowledge sharing session (thanks Laura for organizing!).

The next two days were filled with hikes, preparing and presenting ‘700 Billion dollar’ team projects, each of which would greatly contribute to solving global problems, freshly baked pretzels in the morning, an arts and crafts session and some intense games of werewolf.

The highlight of the retreat was the first edition of the annual PAULIs lab awards – hosted in style by Amy and Josef, featuring awards from ‘Best lunch-time talk’ to ‘Most plasmids cloned’ and ‘Most GenZ lab member’.

A huge thank you to this year’s expert organizers of the whole retreat, Vivien, Phyl, Theresa B., Joerg and David!