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

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…

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2aEecF…

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…

The Schuh lab just got a new postdoc—welcome @venus_gaela! 🎉 Venus studied telomere regulation in cancer during her PhD and will now explore telomeres in meiosis. Excited to have you on the team, Venus! ✨

Following up on the previously shared links, here are some major articles from respected newspapers: The Times: thetimes.com/uk/science/art… Boston Globe: bostonglobe.com/2026/01/09/nat… The Guardian: theguardian.com/science/2026/j…

🚀 Our research on human egg quality and #fertility is making headlines worldwide! 🌍 Thanks to @Debojit_Saha03, our co-authors, clinical collaborators, and the patients who made this study possible - and to Ovo Labs for advancing this work. #IVF #womenshealth

find some articles here: 📰Reuters: reuters.com/business/healt… 📰Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/health/2026/01… 📰The Chosun Daily: chosun.com/english/indust…

Why do women’s eggs deteriorate as they age? 🥚 The @washingtonpost reports on this question and features our study on Shugoshin 1. 📰 washingtonpost.com/health/2026/01…

Our work on improving human egg quality was featured in @guardian. We hope this will help to make #IVF more successful and allow more couples to conceive. 💜 theguardian.com/science/2026/j…

Huge thanks to @Debojit_Saha03 for leading this work — & to an outstanding team of co-authors: @ManshaeiSaba, @CavazzaLab, Z. Holubcová, B. Maierova, @MissMeiosis, L. Wartosch, M. Blaney, K. Elder & our clinical collaborators at Bourn Hall Clinic & Reprofit International (10/10)

Our findings identify centromeric cohesion protection as a modifiable determinant of egg quality. This is, to our knowledge, the first molecular intervention shown to improve chromosome cohesion in human eggs. (9/10)

Human eggs must segregate their chromosomes with exquisite precision — yet errors rise with maternal age, causing miscarriage & infertility. Our new article on @biorxivpreprint shows why chromosome cohesion fails in aging eggs & how to improve it. biorxiv.org/content/10.648… (1/10)