News

  • 18/10/25: new preprint from the lab led by Ana Kutschat. We showed that ARID5B, a leukemia risk factor, coordinates HDAC-mediated transcriptional repression. doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.17.683040
  • 4/9/25: new lab member! Freya Jungen joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome Freya!
  • 29/7/25: Davide gave a talk at the IgG Meeting at MedUni Graz.
  • 26/7/25: new preprint from the lab led by Paul Batty – we showed collateral degradation of KAT2A upon targeting the SAGA CORE.
  • 4/6/25: the lab will attend to the Annual Meeting on pediatric oncology in Wilsede, Germany. Hannah, Sandra and Christina will give a talk.
  • 28/5/25: Sandra won the Best Poster Award at the 2025 YSA PhD Symposium. Congrats Sandra!
  • 25/4/25: new preprint from the lab in collaboration with the Halbritter group.
  • 17/3/25: the lab attended to the EHA Recon meeting in Malaga. Hannah and Sandra gave two great talks; Leonie and Emilia presented their posters. Leonie won a best poster prize.
  • 20/9/24: new lab member! Emilia Korczmar joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
  • 10/9/24: first pre-print from the lab! We develop CRISPR-CLEAR, an experimental and computational method to dissect enhancers at nucleotide resolution.
  • 1/7/24: new lab member! Camilla Leporace joined us under the VBC Summer School. Welcome Camilla!
  • 24/6/24: Leonie’s proposal was selected for a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Congrats Leonie!
  • 8/6/24: Davide and Ana will be at EHA in Madrid. Davide will present at the Molecular Hematology Workshop on 14/6
  • 8/6/24: the lab attended the 35th Kind Philipp meeting on pediatric oncology in Wilsede, Germany. Sandra presented her work on enhancer dissection.
  • 1/9/23: we welcome Paul Batty, new postdoc in the lab.
  • 23/4/23: the new CeMM Scientific Report is out, featuring our group and role model Oliver Smithies. Check the report here, and see a short video on our science and values.
  • 8/11/22: we welcome two new lab members: Sophie Müller joined as new lab manager/TA. Joel Wong from the Bergthaler lab will rotate in our group for 4 weeks.
  • 11/10/22: new grant! Our project on intergenic variants in pediatric leukemia received funding from the FWF.
  • 12/9/22: the lab is growing! Robert Paxton from the University of Virginia joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Robert!
  • 3/9/22: Davide will present at the 2022 TT meeting in Helsinki.
  • 24/8/22: we are looking for a lab manager and a technician, join us!
  • 14/7/22: new publication! We used dTAG to degrade BCL11A in human erythroid cells and in the mouse; check the paper here.
  • 7/7/22: new fellowship! Ana Kutschat awarded a prestigious MSCA PF fellowship for her B-ALLeles project. Congrats Ana!
  • 5/7/22: new grant! Our project on the SAGA complex in MYC-driven cancer received funding from the FWF.
  • 4/7/22: new lab member! Maura Hofmann joined us under the VBC Summer School. Welcome Maura!
  • 27/4/22: We are hiring! We are looking for a Lab Manager/TA to help us run the lab. More details here.
  • 10/1/22: Sandra Wittibschlager joined the lab for her Master project. Welcome Sandra!
  • 31/12/21: new paper out! We described a shadow enhancer, 3′ to Cdx2, that is relevant in intestinal metaplasia. Read the full article on Genes and Dev.
  • 4/12/21: The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2022 call is open. Positions available in our and 26 other labs at IMP, IMBA, CeMM, GMI and MPL. More information here.
  • 8/11/21: Yi Xiao, PhD student in the Maulide lab, joins us for a 4-weeks rotation: welcome Yi!
  • 1/9/21: Leonie Lehmayer is the first PhD student of the lab! Leonie joined us through the CeMM PhD Programme.
  • 1/9/21: Maciej Zaczek, PhD, joined the lab as Postdoc welcome Maciej!
  • 1/7/21: Ana Patricia Kutschat, PhD, joined the lab within the CeMM Pre-ERC Postdoc Programme.
  • 14/6/21: today Davide gave a presentation of the lab results at the department of Hematopoiesis and Regenerative Medicine (HERM) at Karolinska Institutet within the 2021 seminar series.
  • 3/5/21: Anzhelika joined the lab TA/Lab Manager
  • 7/3/21: Davide will present the projects of the lab at the Symposium “The Immune System: in sickness and in health” organized by the Josep Carreras Institute in Barcelona. Join the virtual event here.
  • 31/1/2021: We are looking for a Master Student to join our lab. If you are interested in molecular biology, curious about gene regulation, and want to learn how to apply CRISPR & NGS to study regulatory, non-coding DNA sequences, please visit this link and submit your application.
  • 19/12/2020: We are hiring PhD students to join our team. Please apply to the CeMM PhD Program. Deadline: Jan 27, 2021. Details about the position here. Details about the PhD Program here.
  • 1/1/2021: The Seruggia Lab opens doors at the St. Anna CCRI in Vienna.
  • 15/10/2020: Davide is one of the three finalists for the 2020 ISSNAF Young Investigator Awards. See press release here.
  • 16/9/2020: Great news! The lab received funding from ERC to study non-coding elements, 3D genome organization and sequence variation in leukemia (ERC-2020-StG; FIND-seq)
  • 2/9/2020: we received the 2020 WES Foundation Award to study the role of ARID5B in leukemia: see press release here

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We study non-coding regulatory elements, chromatin modifiers and other epigenetic factors in the context of pediatric malignancies