Schuh Lab

Honored to receive the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025 (Life Sciences)! 🧬 With Tabea Lilian Marx, Christopher Thomas & our team, we filmed ovulation in real time — a dream come true. 👉 mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2518 #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25

Great news from our lab: Congratulations to Marios & @Debojit_Saha03 on receiving the 2025/26 Campus Seminar Awards at @mpi_nat! Marios was recognized in the PhD category, Debojit in the Postdoc category. Delighted to see their excellent research acknowledged — well deserved! 👏

For over 20 years I've studied how eggs develop & why chromosome errors rise with age. My lab & I have explored ways to reduce these errors. A portrait in @faznet reflects on my journey from cell biology to potential applications in reproductive medicine.faz.net/-3bnd5p?share=…

Last week, I had the great honour of being formally admitted as a Fellow of the @royalsociety & signing its historic Charter Book. Deeply grateful for this recognition of our work. None of this would've been possible without many wonderful lab members, colleagues & collaborators.

Congratulations to our Postdoc @palmrinmoy on receiving the Helmholtz Munich Doctoral Researcher Award 2026 for his outstanding PhD research. We are proud to now have you in our Schuh lab. A well-deserved recognition! 🎉🌟 📷credits: @HelmholtzMunich

We are glad to see Ovo Labs receive the Max Planck Society Startup Award today. Ovo Labs was founded to translate human oocyte biology research into therapies to improve IVF outcomes. A short film on the journey from basic research to biotech (German): youtube.com/watch?v=xIr2YI…

Great publication by our former Postdoc Nick (Chun) So, now PI at NIBS. Congratulations to So Lab @SpermnOocyte and the team! 🥳

What happens inside human egg cells as they age, and why are errors so common? In the new episode “Ach, Mensch!” of @detektorfm (in German), Melina talks about fertility, ageing egg cells, future fertility treatments and the motivation behind her research. detektor.fm/wissen/ach-men…

I am deeply honored to have been elected as a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety. Very grateful to all members of the lab, past & present. Their curiosity & commitment to science shaped the work in countless ways. It's been a privilege to work with them. mpinat.mpg.de/5261989/pr_260…

Photo by: Stadt Schweinfurt, Kristina Dietz

A very special evening at the Rathaus in Schweinfurt, where I officially received the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Many congratulations to our PostDoc @palmrinmoy on receiving the Best Poster Award at the @EMBLEvents Practical Course “Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue” last month! 🎉👏 A great achievement — very well deserved!

Grateful to receive the Pearse Prize from the @RoyalMicroSoc. A big thank you to my amazing team and collaborators — this is truly a shared recognition. 🌟 rms.org.uk/resource/dr-me…

For #FutureDay2026, we welcomed 5th & 6th graders for a hands-on day exploring science up close. They got a first look at lab work, from observing #egg cells under the microscope to pipetting and liquid nitrogen experiments 🔬🥼. A small step into the world of research!

Honored to receive the Carus Medal from the German National Academy of Sciences @Leopoldina. Very grateful to my lab and all collaborators - this recognition belongs to all of us. ✨ leopoldina.org/en/newsroom/de…

@derspiegel Read the full Der SPIEGEL article on Germany’s Embryo Protection Act: spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m…

The German Embryo Protection Act (1990) sets the legal framework for research involving human embryos, adapted long before much of today’s knowledge of human development was available. In a @derspiegel interview (in German, paywall) Melina discusses its impact on research today.

A warm welcome to Roni, who joined the Schuh lab in December 2025 as a new Postdoc! She completed her PhD in Genetics focusing on the development and aging of #oocytes in C. elegans. Now she‘ll investigate the role of actin in #meiosis. Great to have you with us, Roni 🎉

Huge congratulations to @OvoLabsGmbH on receiving the Max Planck Startup Award! 🎉 mpg.de/26166244/ovo-l…

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What does it take to translate fertility research into a biotech company? @MissMeiosis and Melina joined "Holding on to Unicorns and Rainbows" podcast to tell the story behind @OvoLabsGmbH. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: (Apple Podcasts) podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/fro…