Julia Batki

Julia Batki is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, working in the Meissner Lab under Alexander Meissner since early 2020. Her research focuses on cell fate decisions and epigenetic regulation during early mouse development.

She earned her BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, transitioning to developmental and molecular biology during her studies to investigate nucleotide metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster and epigenetic silencing in fission yeast. In 2014, she joined Julius Brennecke's lab at IMBA Vienna for her PhD, researching small RNA-guided nuclear repression of transposons in Drosophila.

Dr. Batki's research bridges epigenetics, developmental biology, and molecular genetics, with expertise in RNA-mediated gene silencing and cell fate determination. Her work employs Drosophila and mouse models to dissect fundamental mechanisms of embryonic development and epigenetic inheritance, particularly in transposon control and early lineage specification.

Her 2024 Nature Cell Biology publication on programmed cell death in extraembryonic gut endoderm exemplifies her focus on developmental patterning and cell death mechanisms during embryogenesis, reflecting consistent themes in epigenetic regulation across model systems.

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Labs and Teams: She is an integral member of the Meissner Lab, which pioneers research on epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in mammalian development using cutting-edge genomic and stem cell approaches.