🧬Register for the GRS on DNA Damage, Mutation & Cancer🧬 Feb 28–Mar 1 2026, Ventura CA Accepting abstracts for oral presentations! 
📍 Apply here 👉 grc.org/dna-damage-mutation-and-cancer-grs-conference/2026 (www.grc.org/dna-damage-m...) #DNADamage #GRC#GRS #CallForAbstracts

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Out now in CSH Perspectives in Biology (Telomeres & Telomerase) : “Telomere crisis shapes cancer evolution.” cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...

SYMPOSIUM OUTLOOK: #Telomeres at the nexus of #aging, #tumor suppression, and #inflammation: toward an understanding beyond #senescence By Samuel Bloom & Jan Karlseder ➡️ https://bit.ly/410dJwg ##cshlsymp25 #DNAdamage #replicativesenescence #DNAreplication #crisis #cancer

Our lab’s latest “hot take” is out in Genes & Development! We argue for looking beyond senescence to understand how telomeres connect aging, tumor suppression, and inflammation. Great job @sambloom28.bsky.social! 👉 DOI: 10.1101/gad.353122.125 genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

New preprint out! We propose a “degradative flux” mechanism for tonic STING signaling in ALT+ cells, driven by IRF3-dependent trafficking and clearance of immunogenic extrachromosomal telomeric repeats—a process that could be targeted for cancer immunotherapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Huge thanks to Hannah Trost, Gabriel Matos Rodriguez, Roger Greenberg, and Hilda Pickett for an amazing Mammalian DNA Repair GRS/GRC in Ventura! Already excited for the next one!

With our lab’s inaugural Blue Sky post we celebrate our latest publication, a review in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (@natrevmcb.bsky.social) 🥳 Here, we review our current understanding of telomere biology, discussing differences between human and mouse. www.nature.com/articles/s41...