Happy to see our work published and glad to have contributed together with @maxraas.bsky.social ! Looking forward to all the projects that will come out of this work!

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes. 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

PRC1 and PRC2 proximal interactome in mouse embryonic stem cells

Ana Almeida, Helder Rocha, Maximilian Raas, Geert Kops, Reto Gassmann, Helder Maiato @i3suporto.bsky.social, et al. dissect the relationship between kinetochore size & CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

On the possibility of yet a third kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.06.606595v1

Online: our evolutionary interrogation of eukaryotic Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes @maxraas.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @lauraeme.bsky.social #SMCcomplexes #eukaryogenesis #LECA #condensin #cohesin #evolutionarycellbiology #chromatin 🧵(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024...

My second paper of the year finally out! While the Polycomb field is dominated by models based on a tight functional coupling between PRC1 and PRC2, we found compelling evolutionary support for the predominantly independent functions of PRC1 and PRC2. www.nature.com/articles/s42...