📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Publico un obituario sobre James Watson, fallecido el 6 de noviembre, en mi blog #gen_ética en @naukas.bsky.social James Watson era complejo, un científico enorme e irrepetible que nos metió en la biología molecular, pero también difusor de ideas indefendibles. montoliu.naukas.com/2025/11/09/j...

La única figura del artículo de Watson & Crick publicado en @nature.com en 1953 con la estructura correcta de la doble hélice del ADN nos recuerda que: 1. el ADN es dextrógiro (gira a la derecha) 2. El ADN tiene surcos menores y mayores que se van sucediendo. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12569935/

We recently reported that promoter competition can contribute to the robust insulation of gene regulatory domains (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). We now offer a 4-years PhD contract to investigate whether the dirsuption of this regulatory mechanism can lead to congenital defects. More details 👇

OFERTA DE EMPLEO (por favor difundir): Ofrecemos un contrato predoctoral de 4 años asociado a nuestro proyecto PID2024-157249OB-I00. El objetivo del proyecto es evaluar un nuevo mecanismo patológico según el cual la competición entre promotores puede llegar a ocasionar enfermedades congénitas 👇

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

To celebrate the most recently attributed José Luis Gomez Skarmeta prize #JLGS2024 we interviewed the prize winner @dariloops.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social on his research and his thoughts on #DevBio youtu.be/eldKr4MIrIU?...

➡️ Esta semana la Conexión Genoma #CSIC ha celebrado una jornada del Itinerario Cicerón para mostrar sus investigaciones en el campo de las ciencias genómicas 👩‍🔬El encuentro se ha centrado en su impacto en la agricultura, la alimentación, la industria y la salud Descúbrelo!🧵

Gracias a las empresas, medios de comunicacion y al @csic.es por ser parte del itinerario Ciceron de Conexion GENOMA: >170 grupos de investigación de todo el estado avanzando el conocimiento sobre la función, estructura y evolución del #genoma

Come join us in Geneva for everything epigenetics and gene regulation. It will be a great meeting! Please repost! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

The TArgeted Cohesin Loader (TACL) paper was just published. Happy that we were able to contribute to this really exciting project! If you want to learn how targeting cohesin to defined loci in the genome affects the local chromatin environment and transcription, look no further! rdcu.be/eLiT5

What is a promoter? And how does it work? We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility. I am very excited about the results of @blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social, which changed the way I think about promoters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

⚠️ Paper alert: Using a novel CRISPR screening approach, we mapped the entire regulatory network controlling Xist—key for X-chromosome inactivation. 👉 We discover how sex and development signals are decoded at a single gene locus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇 Bluetorial

⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work. 🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

Kickstarting our Bluesky🦋 account with great news! Our REPAIRome study finally out today in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK. Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD

Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A🧵👇

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study on the role of LTR5HS and SVAs in regulation of human neural crest migration is now published as peer-reviewed paper on @molsystbiol.org! Congrats to first author brilliant postdoc Laura Deelen, and all the authors involved! @imperialsci.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Many conserved exons in the heart and brain utilize weak 5 ′ splice sites, yet they are accurately spliced. But how? We show that splicing fidelity is actively enforced through a QKI-U6 checkpoint at the U1→U6 handover in essential cardiac genes during organogenesis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Become our colleague at @fmiscience.bsky.social! The FMI is a very special place to start your lab: a vibrant international institute with world-class research groups and facilities, core funding, fantastic trainees, great colleagues😅, and a collegial culture. Get in touch if you're interested!

This preprint is now a published peer-reviewed paper! Thanks to all the co-authors involved, to the funders and to @reviewcommons.org and @embopress.org @emboreports.org for a smooth editorial process! Excited to see this in press! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @imperiallifesci.bsky.social

Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint with @gfudenberg.bsky.social We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding. This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Preprint alert! 📣 We are thrilled to share the work led by Lara Zorro-Shahidian and Lucio di Filippo, in which we show that #MLL2 controls gene expression in both #ESC and upon #differentiation by facilitating the #enhancer like activity of #LINE1 elements www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

🗒️‼️Do not miss this exciting new #preprint from the @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social, led by @eharo84.bsky.social: a master of building synergy ⏫- both in #enhancer research and at the lab! #DarkGenome #Transcription #GeneRegulation #Development #Genomics

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

Excited to share the latest work from the lab led by @eharo84.bsky.social, in which we have used synthetic biology to explore the mechanisms by which different types of long-range enhancers ensure robust and precise developmental gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enhancers are "just DNA" - finding all of them in the genome is hard. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Outstanding Faculty opportunity in the broad area of 'life sciences engineering' @EPFL School of Life Sciences, open to both junior and senior researchers. We may prefer metabolism-centric applications but remain open to outstanding applications across domains: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

👇 Highly recommend applying if you want to join a great team and work on a high-profile, inter-university project! #postdocjobs

Congratulations, Sergio! Are we sharing issue!? 🤔😂

Our new story in Nature Genetics: endogenous retroviruses can produce viral-like particles in the embryo resulting in apoptosis and congenital malformation. If this would happen in human, it wouldn't leave a trace. No WGS or other analysis would identify this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to see this work finally out🥳. It has been a real pleasure to be a character on this play 🎭. An excellent work produced by @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social with @mariamafau.bsky.social as the director & main character (alongside her inseparable friend ZIC2🧠). Take a look at the full plot! 👁️👇🍿

Thrilled to share the story stemming from my PhD! We used mESC neural differentiation, genome editing and bulk & single-cell approaches to uncover how ZIC2 controls early neural fate by playing a dual and sequential regulatory role as a promiscous pioneer and a selective lineage-specific activator.

Extremely proud to share the PhD work of @mariamafau.bsky.social in which we have investigated the role of ZIC2 during neural induction. It turns out that ZIC2 has a dual life, first as a promiscuous pioneer and then as a lineage-specific activator. Find out more here 👇 bsky.app/profile/mari...

How bats developed their wings? 🦇 Turns out they reutilize existing gene programs 🔧 Find out more in our paper @natecoevo.nature.com in collaboration with @fany-real.bsky.social and @stemundi.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to see our revised preprint now published in Nature Ecology & Evolution! If you’re curious about how to build a bat wing by re-using existing gene programs, check out the link or the tutorial below. Big congratulations to all co-authors!! Thanks to reviewers! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the result of a truly multidisciplinary team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑, led by @gp83.bsky.social , @dalyaf.bsky.social and @martinfranke.bsky.social and joined by @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social and myself for this new chapter. #GeneticDiagnostics #NonCodingGenome #RareDisease 3/3

🚨 Ultimos días para registrarse en el Curso Nacional de Genética 2025 (deadline 15 julio) 😲 Top speakers y registro gratuito 🧬 Organizado por @segenetica.bsky.social junto con Conexión Genoma 👥 Coordinadores: @aruizherrera.bsky.social & & myself 🔗 Info y programa: segenetica.es/curso/cng2025/

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🎉ONLINE @natgenet.nature.com 📰Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes. By @julianeg.bsky.social, Giulia Cova, Stefan Mundlos and colleagues. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵1/3 Our new preprint is out! Proud to have contributed to this collaborative study. We identified the enhancer cluster responsible for GPR101 overexpression in X-linked acrogigantism (X-LAG) - a key step toward understanding this rare pituitary disorder 🧠🧬 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬🎤 Very excited for the start of the EMBO Workshop in Enhancer Mechanics and Enhanceropathies this afternoon in Middelfart! Many thanks to the organizers @smandrup.bsky.social @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social and Minna Kaikkonen for putting together an amazing programme! #EMBOenhanceropathies

If you are interested in pursuing a postdoc combining proteomics a genomics with functional molecular biology to study ubiquitin (-like) signaling in genome biology we are looking for candidates for the next MSCA Fellowships call!!!!

Yet the expression levels of genes interacting with primed enhancers were significantly higher than the expression levels of genes interacting with poised enhancers, which are truly inactive in pluripotent stem cells, as @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social‬ and others have established.