News

December 2025

Christmas 2025 at MBG

In our first Christmas season as a group, we enjoyed plenty of activities in our department, including the Nisse Run, Julefrokost, a Hygge afternoon with the DEB lab, our own special Christmas Group Meeting, and the first-ever MBG Christmas Football Match. where Denmark claimed a disputed victory against the Rest of the World.

This year has marked a wonderful start for our young group. As the projects take off, we are excited about what 2026 will bring. We will welcome new colleagues from January and dive into even more exciting experiments!

14 November 2025

Linderstrøm-Lang Centre Symposium  

First (almost) whole lab conference!

Son, Josefine and Irene (a postdoc visiting us from the UEx) attended the Linderstrøm-Lang Centre Symposium in Copenhagen.

The focus of this year's symposium was ""Protein Chemistry in a Cellular Context".

14 November 2025

Pablo visits IBFG in Salamanca

Pablo visited the Institute for Functional Biology and Genomics (IBFG) at his alma mater in Salamanca, Spain.

It was a wonderful and special visit. An opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues, and to hear about the exciting research at the institute.

Thanks a lot for the invitation!

November 2025

Danish Cancer Society grant

We are extremely grateful and excited to have received support from a new Knæk Cancer grant from the Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse).

This funding will allow us to expand our research scope and grow our team.

Stay tuned for an new opportunity to join us, and read more in our deparment's news feed here.
 

25-28 September 2025

Fanconi Cancer Foundation Symposium  

Pablo attended the Fanconi Cancer Foundation Scientific Symposium in (sunny!) Minneapolis.

It was a wonderful opportunity to make new connections and learn from researchers, clinicians and FA patients from all over the world.

Thanks to FCF for the kind invitation to this truly inspiring meeting!

August-September 2025

Erasmus+ student Aleksandra Czerkowicz  

As part of her master's studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, Aleksandra enjoyed the Danish summer with us, learning protein expression and purification, as well as cryo-EM sample preparation and data collection.

We were glad to host Aleksandra and wish her all the best in her next chapter!

September 2025

SMBio 2025 Nordics in Copenhagen

Pablo attended this fruitful two-day symposium bringing together single-molecule aficionados from all over Scandinavia.

It was fun to present in a movie theater in beautiful Copenhagen.

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Thanks LUMICKS for the invitation!

August 2025

Son visits EMBL Heidelberg

Son took part in the DANEMO Excursion at EMBL Heidelberg, along with other MBG colleagues. 

A wonderful trip to explore EMBL's imaging facilities, and connecting with researchers from across Europe.

Thanks to DANEMO for this opportunity!

21 August 2025

LHD at the DHL race

Our runners Pablo, Josefine, and Son joined forces with the DEB Lab to form the LHD (Left-Handed DNA) team at the DHL 5x5 km relay in Mindeparken, Aarhus.

We survived and enjoyed a great day of sports and team spirit!

26 May 2025

Shabih Shakeel visits MBG

Friend and colleague Shabih Shakeel (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia) stopped by during his European tour.

We enjoyed Shabih's seminar about his lab's work, focusing on their recent paper on MORC2.

29 March 2025

Fanconi Cancer Denmark Family Meeting

Pablo attended the Fanconi Cancer Denmark Family Meeting, where he had the opportunity to hear first-hand experiences from FA doctors and patients from Denmark and Germany. He also shared our research on the fundamental mechanisms of DNA repair and their implications for Fanconi Anemia and cancer.

It was a fantastic experience, and we are very grateful to Fanconi Cancer Denmark for the kind invitation.

More information about the association here:
fanconi.dk

March 2025

Excited to welcome the first members of our lab! 

Josefine joined us in February as a postdoctoral researcher, bringing expertise in biochemistry and structural biology.

In March, Son started his PhD journey with us, focusing on cryoEM of DNA repair complexes. 

And also this month, Joana is joining as a bachelor's student, eager to gain hands-on experience in protein expression and purification.

December 2024

Christmas time at MBG 🌲

We celebrated the holidays with a fun Nisse Run around the campus, followed by a festive Julefrokost, and a special group meeting and dinner with the DEB lab.

27 September 2024

The Lundbeck Foundation has prepared this video to present our project Unravelling the Structure and Dynamics of DNA Repair