News Archive Well done, Lorena! 06 Jun 2024 Welcome to our new PhD student Sachin! 01 Jun 2024 Denise P. Barlow award for Bernardo, congratulations! 29 May 2024 Congratulations, Filip! 04 Apr 2024 Welcome to our new PhD student Myrto! 01 Apr 2024 Welcome to our new visiting student Ken! 01 Apr 2024 New paper reporting the design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo! 12 Dec 2023 Welcome to our new Postdoc Kevin! 01 Nov 2023 Welcome to our new PhD student Nikolaus! 01 Oct 2023 Welcome to our new PhD student Shenzhi! 01 Sep 2023 New paper on regulatory specificities between transcriptional co-repressors and enhancers out now! 14 Jul 2023 New paper on initiation mechanisms at functionally distinct promoter classes out now! 04 Apr 2023 New paper on enhancer sequence flexibility out now! 20 Mar 2023 We are hiring! 03 Mar 2023 All the best, Oliver! 28 Feb 2023 All the best, Loni! 17 Feb 2023 New paper on repressive domains in transcription factors out now! 22 Dec 2022 Christmas Dinner 2022 29 Nov 2022 All the best, Vanja! 18 Nov 2022 New preprint on enhancer-corepressor specificity out now! 07 Nov 2022 Welcome to Monika and Annie 03 Oct 2022 Preprint on initiation mechanisms at promoter types out now! 01 Oct 2022 All the best, Oliver! 24 Sep 2022 Award for Bernardo 20 Sep 2022 New paper on chromatin remodelers at distinct transcriptional programs out now! 15 Sep 2022 Lab Outing 2022 14 Sep 2022 New Group Picture 12 Sep 2022 New preprint on enhancer sequence flexibility out now! 01 Sep 2022 All the best, Mathilde! 31 Aug 2022 New preprint on repressive domains in transcription factors out now! 27 Aug 2022 Dodos at the GMI Summer Party 23 Jul 2022 New paper on cofactor dependencies at distinct enhancer types out now! 01 Jun 2022 DeepSTARR paper out now! 12 May 2022 Welcome to Felix 02 May 2022 Welcome to Tomas 01 Apr 2022 Welcome to Mathilde 28 Mar 2022 Welcome to Kavya 01 Mar 2022 All the best, Leo! 15 Feb 2022 Welcome to Sebastian 03 Jan 2022 Thank you, Mamduh! 20 Dec 2021 All the best, Peter! 17 Dec 2021 Christmas Snack 13 Dec 2021 DeepSTARR ISCB webinar 11 Dec 2021 Who let the Starkies out? *Woof* 29 Oct 2021 Congratulations to Fanny for winning the Best Poster Award! 11 Oct 2021 New Preprint out now! 07 Oct 2021 Best Group Costume at the GMI Summer Party 27 Aug 2021 VBC Social Hour 23 Jul 2021 Lab Outing Treasure Hunt 20 Jul 2021 Welcome to our new postdoc Matus 05 Jul 2021 Congratulations to Fanny for receiving a fellowship! 09 Jun 2021 All the best, Cosmas! 07 May 2021 Welcome to our new member Peter 01 Apr 2021 New Postdoc position available! 19 Feb 2021 Joint Group Retreat with the Schuebeler Lab 11 Feb 2021 New Review out now! 04 Jan 2021 Our first virtual Christmas Event 11 Dec 2020 Congratulations to Franzi for receiving a fellowship! 06 Nov 2020 All the Best, Christoph! 30 Oct 2020 Welcome to our new postdoc Franziska 16 Oct 2020 We will miss you Martina and Anna! 16 Oct 2020 Congratulations to Loni and Oliver! 22 Jun 2020 Congratulations to Alex and the whole lab for being awarded the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant! 20 Dec 2019 Congratulations to Lorena and Vincent for receiving fellowships! 20 Dec 2019 Welcome to our new intern 29 Oct 2019 Welcome to our new intern 09 Oct 2019 All the best, Lin! 09 Oct 2019 Group photo from the IMP/IMBA Recess 08 Oct 2019 Photos from the CSHL meeting "Mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription" 18 Sep 2019 New paper with STARR-seq protocols, including UMI-STARR-seq is out! 09 Sep 2019 Welcome to our new postdoc Vincent 07 Aug 2019 Welcome to our new summer student 10 Jul 2019 STAP-seq paper on activation of gene promoters now out in Nature! 20 May 2019 Congratulations to Filip for being awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim PhD fellowship! 02 Apr 2019 Welcome to our new member 06 Mar 2019 Congratulations to Jelle for receiving EMBO postdoctoral fellowship 11 Jan 2019 Welcome to our new intern 07 Jan 2019 Welcome to our new Phd student Loni Klaus 15 Oct 2018 Welcome to our new Phd students 10 Sep 2018 All the best, Jeremy! 07 Aug 2018 Our new method tAD-seq is now out in the EMBO Journal 17 Jul 2018 Our new review on eukaryotic promoters is out 05 Jul 2018 Welcome to our new summer student 02 Jul 2018 VBC Social Hour 20 Jun 2018 Welcome to our new postdoc Jelle 05 Jun 2018 Welcome to our new intern 03 May 2018 RNA-DK Retreat in Retz 10 Apr 2018 Our new review on enhancers is out 13 Mar 2018 Master thesis in our lab 06 Mar 2018 Stark lab Beer Hour, table games and pizza 05 Feb 2018 Welcome To Our New Bioinformatician from EMBL 02 Feb 2018 We will miss you Felix! 20 Jan 2018 Welcome To Our New Bioinformaticians 14 Dec 2017 Group Enhancer activity assay 2.0 is now out in the Nature Methods 11 Dec 2017 We will miss you Ashley! 05 Dec 2017 Stark lab reunion 05 Oct 2017 We will miss you Mamduh! 20 Jul 2017 Now on bioRxiv: Enhancer activity assays 2.0 - resolving ORI-initiation and type-I-interferon response in human cells 18 Jul 2017 Welcome To Our New Summer Students 03 Jul 2017 Welcome To Our New Research Assistant 03 Jul 2017 Group N&Vs now out in Nature Genetics 28 Jun 2017 Muhammad Mamduh Bin Ahmad Zabidi PhD Graduation 19 May 2017 Daria's recent work probing the canonicity of the Wnt/Wingless signaling pathway featured on PLoS Genetics cover 01 May 2017 Bioinformatics open positions 07 Apr 2017 New group collaboration paper 03 Apr 2017 STAP-seq featured in Nature Methods Research Highlights 10 Feb 2017 STAP-seq featured in Nature Biotechnology News and Views 08 Feb 2017 Welcome to our new intern 01 Feb 2017 New group review article available 20 Jan 2017 New STAP-seq website available 17 Jan 2017 New group paper on sequence-intrinsic enhancer responsiveness 26 Dec 2016 The FWF prolongs our doctoral programme DK RNA Biology for another funding period! 05 Dec 2016 Lab moves to new IMP building 18 Nov 2016 Austrian FWF funds our work on TF function for the next 4 years 09 Nov 2016 New group review article available in Trends in Genetics 03 Nov 2016 Our first PhD student's first major postdoc paper is out in Cell 20 Oct 2016 New group preview article available in Current Biology 10 Oct 2016 Congratulations to Franziska for winning the IMP and IMBA 2016 recess best poster 07 Oct 2016 Welcome to our new PhD Student 01 Oct 2016 Welcome to our new Diploma Student 01 Sep 2016 Congratulations to Felix for winning the EMBL Transcription Chromatin Conference best poster 30 Aug 2016 Lukasz Boryn PhD Graduation 22 Jul 2016 Welcome to our new PhD Student 01 Jun 2016 Congratulations to Vanja for receiving her HFSP postdoctoral fellowship 18 Mar 2016 Tomas Kazmar PhD Graduation 29 Jan 2016 Our factors website improved 11 Jan 2016 Stark lab plasmids now available on Addgene 11 Dec 2015 Congratulations to Vanja and our former lab member Daria for receiving EMBO postdoctoral fellowships 09 Dec 2015 New STARR-seq website available 29 Nov 2015 New group paper on functional characterization of transcriptional regulators 09 Nov 2015 Mundlos lab goes STARR-seq 19 Oct 2015 Welcome to our new bioinformatician 01 Oct 2015 Group Retreat 19 Aug 2015 Welcome to our new postdoc 16 Jul 2015 Welcome to our new lab members 15 Apr 2015 Open positions 18 Mar 2015 Challenge Accepted! 21 Aug 2014 New group paper on the evolution of enhancer function across 5 Drosophila species 16 Jun 2014 Genome-scale characterization of developmental enhancers in flies 11 Jun 2014 Dinucleotide Repeat Motifs Featured in Nature Reviews Genetics 19 May 2014 Welcome to our new PhD Student 08 May 2014 DRMs: a new general enhancer feature 10 Apr 2014 Welcome to our new postdoc 02 Apr 2014 STARR-seq reloaded 31 Mar 2014 New Group Paper Reviewing Transcriptional Enhancers 12 Mar 2014 Circadian Clock Regulation Paper Highlighted in Current Biology and Biotechniques 18 Feb 2014 New Group Paper on Tissue-Specific Regulation of the Circadian Clock 19 Dec 2013 Two "Best PhD Thesis" Awards go to Stark Lab 08 Nov 2013 Jorge Omar Yáñez Cuna PhD Graduation 23 Oct 2013 Welcome to our new PhD Student 02 Sep 2013 New Group Paper Introducing a High Resolution ChIP-seq Peak Caller 30 Aug 2013 Group BBQ 27 Aug 2013 Group Retreat 13 Aug 2013 Cosmas Arnold PhD Graduation 19 Jul 2013 Welcome to our new Summer Student 01 Jul 2013 More Reviews And News Coverage On Starr Seq 16 Mar 2013 Starr Seq Featured In Nature Reviews Genetics 29 Jan 2013 Starr Seq Enhancer Screen Published In Science 17 Jan 2013 Our Review Makes It To The Cover 29 Dec 2012 Evgeny Kvon Phd Graduation 19 Dec 2012 Group Christmas Dinner 12 Dec 2012 Anais Bardet Phd Graduation 07 Dec 2012 Pictures From The Embo Conference 23 Nov 2012 Cosmas Wins Embo Conference Poster Prize 19 Nov 2012 Alex Receives Embo Young Investigators Award 15 Nov 2012 Meet Us At Upcoming Embo Conference 14 Nov 2012 Stark Group Extension Dinner 08 Nov 2012 Inside The Stark Lab 08 Nov 2012 Our New Review On Deciphering The Transcriptional Cis Regulatory Code Is Out 29 Oct 2012 Welcome To Our New Phd Student 03 Sep 2012 Imp Summer Outing 2012 27 Jul 2012 Group Retreat 2012 11 Jun 2012 Journal Club Page Public 20 May 2012 Hot Paper Featured In A Perspective By Michael Levine 02 May 2012 Group Lunch 02 May 2012 New Group Paper Uncovers Cis Regulatory Sequence Requirements 25 Apr 2012 New Group Paper Identifies Hot Regions As Developmental Enhancers 15 Apr 2012 Anais Bardet Wins Genau Award 29 Mar 2012 The Imp Carnival Party 21 Feb 2012 Welcome To Our New Phd Student 02 Jan 2012 Updates In The Meet Us Section 02 Jan 2012 New Group Paper On Comparative Chip Seq Analysis 22 Dec 2011 Group Christmas Dinner 12 Dec 2011 New Paper On Haploid Genomic Screens 06 Dec 2011 Group Retreat 2011 02 Dec 2011 Welcome To Our New Phd Student 02 Nov 2011 New Nature Paper Reveals Human Evolutionary Constraints Using 29 Mammals 18 Oct 2011 Welcome To Our New Diploma Student 03 Oct 2011 Summer Party Pictures 01 Aug 2011 Daniel Receives Aaas Membership 30 Jul 2011 New Event Pictures 19 Jul 2011 New Starklab.org Toplevel Domain Active 06 Jul 2011 Welcome To Our New Summer Intern 04 Jul 2011 Welcome To Our New Summer Student 24 Jun 2011 New Diploma Or Master Position In Computational Image Processing Available 03 Jun 2011 Meet Us At Conferences 20 Apr 2011 New Group Event Pictures 19 Apr 2011 New Group Paper Reveals High Conservation Of Transcription Factor Binding In Drosophila 11 Apr 2011 New Trainee Starts 14 Mar 2011 Group Event Carnival Party 07 Mar 2011 Group Event Ice Skating 25 Feb 2011 First Crustacean Genome Sequenced The Water Flea Daphnia Pulex 04 Feb 2011 Stark Lab Website Goes Online 26 Jan 2011