🥳 Excited to share that our multi-omic study on the cellular impacts of Alu overexpression in healthy fibroblasts, co-led by former trainee Dr. Juan Bravo @the-te-guy.bsky.social and grad student Ms. Eyael Tewelde is out today in #Geroscience! 🧬🧪🖥️ #GeroSky A 🧵 1/4 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A multi-omics analysis of human fibroblasts overexpressing an Alu transposon reveals widespread disruptions in aging-associated pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664466v1

🚨 Another preprint from the lab out today! 🚨 This work led by former trainee Dr. Juan Brado @the-te-guy.bsky.social and new grad student Ms. Eyael Tewelde, to undertstand how upregulation of a single retrotransposon (here, AluJB) impacts cellular phenotypes! A 🧵, 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨✨ #GLAM2025 ✨✨ is back 9/5/2025 to showcase #geroscience trainee research! Registration and poster submission are open (and #FlashTalk selection for #undergrads!). Event website: gero.usc.edu/laara/event/... Thanks to @activemotifusa.bsky.social, #Hevolution and #VWR for their support!

First up is @adaigle.bsky.social's preprint where we use Drosophila genomes that have been sequenced with both short and long reads to train a machine learning method to more accurately detect and genotype transposable element insertions: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes (drosohila 🪰) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #TEsky

Glad to share that the final version of this study just came out in #TranslationalMedicineOfAging! Congrats to @the-te-guy.bsky.social aka Dr. Juan Bravo for this proof-of-principle study showing that GWAS tools can be used to identify candidate #L1 regulators! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genome-wide maps of highly-similar intrachromosomal repeats that can mediate ectopic recombination in three human genome assemblies doi.org/10.1016/j.xh...

Shareing the #Benayoun lab’s newest preprint (>2 months ago - I'm new to Bluesky 😅), where we use #1000GenomesProject data to identify putative regulatory loci of #LINE1 and #Alu copy numbers in diverse human populations, led by the talented Dr. Bravo 🧬 🖥️. A 🧵. 1/8 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...