Congrats Jen, Adam, and the team!!🎉🥂Love this work.

🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3] 📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Know rising stars in biological, medicinal, or pharmaceutical chemistry? Nominate them for a feature. Link to a blog post and the nomination form below! axial.acs.org/biology-and-...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/172496

Linking Germline Telomere Removal to Global Programmed DNA Elimination in Tetrahymena Genome Differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677574v1

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Excellent work from @piotraz.bsky.social group demonstrating juxtaposition of heterozygous & homozygous regions in maize attracts meiotic recombination to het regions rdcu.be/eHmn9 @natplants.nature.com builds from work we did together in Cambridge on Arabidopsis way back in 2015. Great stuff Piotr!

Congrats @needhibhalla.bsky.social !!🎉🥂

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

”Please inhibit responsibly: Natural and synthetic actin toxins as useful tools in cell biology” I had a lot of fun going down different actin inhibitor rabbit holes with @onishilab.bsky.social on this perspective! www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... www.molbiolcell.org/cms/10.1091/...

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

🚨🚨🚨 Please repost We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH. Apply: www.nichd.nih.gov/research/atNICHD/Investigators/rocha/apply Learn more about training at NIH : www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

The dynamics of centromere assembly and disassembly during quiescence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674938v1

Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

Congrats Soni and the team!🥳

Our new preprint is out! We combined single-nucleosome imaging and 3D-SIM to reveal: 🔹 Euchromatin forms condensed domains, not open fibers 🔹Cohesin loss increases nucleosome mobility without decompaction 🔹Cohesin prevents neighboring domain mixing Full story & movies👇

小胞体ストレスと染色体異数性 小胞体ストレス(UPR)の欠損が特定の染色体の異数性を引き起こすことを発見。例えば異数性によってシャペロンの発現を上昇させて適応メカニズムとして働くらしい。UPR活性化や異数性の高頻度発生が知られるがん細胞との関連もあるかも UPRにBasalでそんな役割があるんですね genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Our latest is now available @jcellsci.bsky.social. The final research article from Bethany Campbell's thesis work. Endocytic patch dynamics are differentially regulated at distinct cell sites in fission yeast. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Flybase in fact is a key resource for people working on ANY #insects! So many folks developing non-model organisms get an idea of what a gene does based on what’s known in the closest model organism like flies. Help support this database for everyone interested in genes in 🦋🪲🐝🦟🪰🐜 … or ANY organism!

New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

First proposed in this seminal 2016 paper by Julian Hennessy, Axel Janke and co... www.cell.com/current-biol...

DNAエディターをRNAエディターに改変する RNA編集ツールであるCRISPR-Cas13は副次的なRNA切断活性があるらしい。今回Cas9及びその祖先型のIscBを基にRNA編集ツールに改変。副反応が抑えられた状態でCas13と同程度以上の活性。スプライシングやAtoI編集など多様なアプリケーション www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org

🎉 Another exciting contribution from our lab this summer! 🧬 Nearly complete, gapless genome of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) shed new light on the mystery of reptile sex determination. Proud to be part of this collaborative effort! academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

My alma mater is hiring a microbiologist! Assistant/Associate Prof. 👇👇

Beautiful mural honoring Henrietta Lacks painted by Baltimore community members popped up near Hopkins med campus recently.

The basic sciences are HIRING at UCSF: open recruitment in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Please share and please apply! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

Context is everything: The role of Polo-like kinase I during #Celegans oocyte #meiosis. Needhi Bhalla (@needhibhalla.bsky.social) @ucsantacruz.bsky.social discusses recent work from Narula and @sadiewignall.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

I am a big fan of this series and assign it for the Experimental Design course I designed but I missed this one from a few years ago: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

"if we do the work only for rewards and recognition, we have gone astray. It becomes hollow. Creative work of every sort (not just science) occurs in a niche where the inner drive to understand or express and the outer drive to be rewarded achieve some balance."

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

What a gem. A wonderful reminder of why we do this.

🚨New preprint from the lab🚨 🧬 What keeps certain chromatin domains anchored at the nuclear periphery? Our new genome-wide HiDRO screen uncovers a key role for RNA-binding protein hnRNPK. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to Sourav Ghosh (@souravsgw.bsky.social) of IIT Bombay & Kotaro Tomuro of RIKEN and The University of Tokyo - our 2025 Amon Young Scientist Award winners! They present Nov 6, 10 a.m. at the Koch Institute. MIT community & Amon Lab alumni welcome. buff.ly/nzhbwPp

NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at: osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

Insights into the origins of the #tubulin / #FtsZ superfamily: @syncellbiolab.bsky.social, Pananghat Gayathri et al show that two #Asgard archaeal paralogs OdinFtsZ1 and OdinFtsZ2 form distinct filamental structures, and employ different modes of membrane tethering www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t

Miriam Segura has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of CBE–Life Sciences Education, ASCB’s education journal. She begins her term August 1, 2025, bringing a bold vision to expand access and impact. www.ascb.org/society-news...

Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social @takashiakeralab.bsky.social

new out in Nature: cell cycle meets metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 2 × PhD positions @EPFL! 🚨 Help us push the boundaries of fluorescence microscopy - DNA nanotech, custom optics & spatial omics in Lausanne 🇨🇭. Start Jan 2026. Send CV + motivation + 2 refs → [email protected] #PhD #Hiring #microscopy #SuperResolution #SpatialOmics #DNAPAINT #FLASHPAINT

Delighted to see this story out and collaborate with amazing teams led by @jdegregori.bsky.social Mercedes Rincon & @roelvermeulen.bsky.social. Proud to see science propelled by our lab @cdi-einstein.bsky.social expanded to better understand cancer dormancy. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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