Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Very excited to share the first publication from the Price Lab, "Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture", is now online at Journal of Virology! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

First ever Price Lab paper accepted this morning!!! Hopefully follow-up post soon to showcase our new systems.

Excited to share our latest paper on how macroH2A is targeted by IE1 during HCMV infection- featured as an editors pick in Nature Communications! Fantastic work by Laurel and team!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plug: @sauravk05.bsky.social is hitting the faculty job market, aiming to launch the Kumar lab in 2026. He’s truly exceptional and is building a cutting-edge induced proximity research program. Reach out!

Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪 My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰 Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.

Postdoc positions available! Please re-post! Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at: avgoustilab.org