Glad to share our latest work that came out recently. We dive into the mechanisms of how Transcription Factors (TFs) like the nuclear receptor, ERα navigate the genome to find their targets.

Not that long ago, in vivo mouse enhancer design was a dream. Today, it's a reality! Using transfer deep learning to design de novo synthetic embryonic enhancers active in the heart, limb, and CNS. Great collab with @alex-stark.bsky.social lab! @ucibiosci.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

Excited for this work by Michael Cortazar, an @JagannathanLab Postdoc, to be out as a preprint. So much hard work went into it, but it was well worth it 🤓

A thread on our latest paper from the Whitehouse lab

@pravrutharaman.bsky.social got super intrigued about EZHIP/CATACOMB, previously identified as a histone H3K27M mimic of PRC2. You can read about her efforts here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We hope these analyses will help spur more analyses in this very cool gene! 1/

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Known for decades: DNA sequence drives nucleosome "rotational positioning" (which face of DNA contacts histones) But: How does this persist when remodelers & transcription constantly mobilize nucleosomes? Our new preprint 1/ : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Calling all archaeal enthusiasts! 🔬🔥 From molecular machines to microbial communities, Archaea never fail to surprise us! We are excited to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea, 6–10 July in Cambridge, UK! Sign up here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... #ArchaeaSky

New online: Evolution of promoter-proximal pausing enabled a new layer of transcription control

Rotational settings quantize nucleosome movement by chromatin regulators https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693854v1

Can one map the genome-wide binding (1) and its protein partners (2) simultaneously from the same sample? Yes, one can. with CUT&ID ✂️🪪 Spearheaded — singlehandedly — by @annanordin.bsky.social No need of transgenesis, cloning and overexpression. Check it out, it's fast and its works.

Took us a bit, but proud of this published version. We now examine the genetic interaction of phosphorylation with oligomerization and where bulk and phospho-Swi6 localize. Wonder if chromatin affinity tuning to enable Suv39 H3K9me3 spreading is a conserved mechanism ? doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Excited to share that this work is now published in its final form! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very happy with the final version of this work showing menin-MLL is a vulnerability in liver cancer and an interesting re-localization of NF-Y in response to menin inhibition. Menin-MLL1 complex cooperates with NF-Y to promote hepatocellular carcinoma survival: Cell Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

An early Christmas present for those interested in chromatin and transcription! Fantastic work from @au-ho-yu.bsky.social and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social . Thanks to Inge and Michiel for their help. Please repost! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Giovana Breda Veronezi, who also earned her PhD this year, was first author on a research article doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

🔔This Wednesday , in #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @ishtiaqueh.bsky.social of Pastor lab and Prof. Sarah Teichmann, @teichlab.bsky.social, to tell us about their exciting studies! 🗓️Register here for upcoming session and the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congratulations to Molecular Biology PhD student Giovana Maria Breda Veronezi of Srinivas Ramachandran's lab @4everbiochemist.bsky.social for successfully completing her PhD defense!

Some (+)ve news to lighten another heavy weekend: our latest preprint (c/o Mattiroli + Ramani labs) is up! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)

On our three year lab anniversary (give or take a few days!), I'm proud to share the first original work produced within the Meers Lab: Plate-CUT&Tag! Take a look: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/3

In yeast spores, polarity emerges from a different playbook. Dr. Michael McMurray (University of Colorado Anschutz) reveals how Bud8, Bud5, and Cdc42 machinery help spores establish polarity without relying on classic cortical landmarks. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #ASCB #CellBiology

Our paper is out in its final form! Back in April 2023, my coauthor Aleks Radakovic, then a PhD student, approached me after a talk in Chicago to ask what I thought an aminoacylated tRNA would look like if we pulled it through a @nanopore. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Why do #StemCells have lower levels of facultative #heterochromatin, defined by H3K27me3, compared to differentiated cells? By artificially lengthening G1 phase, @4everbiochemist.bsky.social &co show that G1 length is an essential determinant of H3K27me3 landscape @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lKfztO

In #G3journal, @4everbiochemist.bsky.social and colleagues assessed the role of essential histone chaperone Spn1 in maintaining #yeast chromatin structure. They found that Spn1 preserves nucleosomal, subnucleosomal, and non-nucleosomal protections across the genome. Read more: buff.ly/kRe9RH3

Really excited to have contributed (in minor part) to this study from the @SarthyLab on chromatin vulnerabilities in CBFA2T3-GLIS2 AMLs. A clever synthesis of chromatin profiling, single-cell RNA, and DepMap data to uncover both mechanism and target 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please read our preprint: "G1 length dictates heterochromatin landscape" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...