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Harmit Singh Malik
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Stephan Gruber
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How do SMC complexes load onto DNA to get ready for loop extrusion?
@roisnehamelinf.bsky.social
& co discovered that Wadjet, an SMC complex involved in bacterial DNA immunity, performs some impressive molecular gymnastics 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️. Check out the new paper:
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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CNRS
about 1 month ago
#ÉchappéesInattendues
👀 Échappez-vous le temps d'un week-end ! Mars, l'océan, les néandertaliens, l'intelligence... autant de sujets à explorer avec nos scientifiques pour répondre aux questions des petits et des grands. 📍
@citedessciences.bsky.social
👉
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Job Dekker
about 2 months ago
New work from my lab with the Brown lab on how genome folding changes during motor neuron maturation, and how this process goes awry in ALS motor neurons. Led by Dr. Ozgun Uyan.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dynamic changes in chromosome and nuclear architecture during maturation of normal and ALS C9orf72 motor neurons
We have investigated changes in chromosome conformation, nuclear organization, and transcription during differentiation and maturation of control and mutant motor neurons harboring hexanucleotide expa...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677835v2
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Bas van Steensel lab (NKI)
about 2 months ago
Our reporter hopping scaled up to thousands of integrations in a single locus, to produce high-resolution functional maps, with plenty of interesting insights:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene
Genes are often activated by enhancers located at large genomic distances, and the importance of this positioning is poorly understood. By relocating promoter-reporter constructs into thousands of alt...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads6552
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Rada-Iglesias Lab
3 months ago
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...
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Synthetic engineering demonstrates that synergy among enhancers involves an increase in transcriptionally productive enhancer-gene contacts
Enhancers are non-coding cis-regulatory elements that control the expression of distally located genes in a tissue- and time-specific manner. Recent studies indicate that enhancers can differ in their...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.669284v1
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Pleased to see this study out, combining experimental work from our lab at the
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
, in particular by
@nathaliebastie.bsky.social
and
@beckof.bsky.social
, and from Laura Chaptal and
@alengronne.bsky.social
at IGH Montpellier
@cnrs.fr
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Congrats to all!
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RNA Pol II-based regulations of chromosome folding
How transcription and cohesin complexes interact to regulate 3D genome organization remains unclear. Chapard et al. dissect their respective contributions and their interplay in shaping the genome arc...
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2825%2900226-5
3 months ago
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Andrau Lab
4 months ago
Two major events today on our campus! 🚴‍♀️First, the Tour de France is passing right next to us —
@cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
! 🧬Second, our latest paper on the role of G-quadruplexes (G4s) at promoters is now online at
@natgenet.nature.com
!
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CNRS Biologie
4 months ago
Quand l’ARN s’invite dans la réparation de l’ADN ... 🧬 🤝
@lablegube.bsky.social
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
👉 Lire l'article dans
@natcellbio.nature.com
buff.ly/CxP2P6N
buff.ly/PY2loYA
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Quand l’ARN s’invite dans la réparation de l’ADN
Quand notre ADN se casse, nos cellules le réparent avec une haute précision.
https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/quand-larn-sinvite-dans-la-reparation-de-ladn
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Some interesting scientific talks going on!
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Centre for Integrative Biology
5 months ago
www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...
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A CNRS Junior Professorship on RNA Modifications and Advanced… | Centre for Integrative Biology of Toulouse
A CNRS Junior Professorship on RNA Modifications and Advanced Epitranscriptomic Technologies offer at CBI-Toulouse Fixed-term (3–6 years), tenure-track (Chaire de Professeur Junior) Application Dead...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/centre-de-biologie-integrative_a-cnrs-junior-professorship-on-rna-modifications-activity-7336333864816062465-KBPj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABAqp3gBS8fTC_8AyMCfp4KLPEGVTwvpmOA
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Pint of Science World
6 months ago
🔥That was
#pint25
day 2: WHAT A NIGHT!🔥 Are you ready for the final night? 👓🧠It's already starting in some countries! Have a great time and share your photos with us to be featured in the final collage!
#pint25
All the info
pintofscience.com
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Pint of Science World
6 months ago
đź’ĄThat was
#pint25
day 1 and it was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! ✨ Ready for day 2? 👓🧠Teams across 27 countries are already prepping for tonight's science adventures! 📷Share your experience with us to feature in tomorrow's highlight collage! All festival details at
pintofscience.com
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On y est ! La science sous toutes ses formes, accessible pour toutes et tous! Hâte d'échanger de manière directe et conviviale avec les spécialistes...
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Événements à Toulouse
Pint of Science provoque LA rencontre entre scientifiques et grand public et lève le voile sur les découvertes et les avancées scientifiques et technologiques. Parce que non, dans un labo ça ne se pas...
https://pintofscience.fr/events/toulouse
6 months ago
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Bas van Steensel lab (NKI)
6 months ago
Together with the De Ridder lab
www.deridderlab.nl
we just published a review on deep learning as a tool for gene expression analysis/ prediction:
rdcu.be/elQCc
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Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models
Nature Reviews Genetics - Barbadilla-MartĂnez et al. review recent progress in deep-learning-based sequence-to-expression models, which predict gene expression levels solely from DNA sequence....
https://rdcu.be/elQCc
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Vijay Ramani
7 months ago
To the top of the "to-read" list. Looks like a heroic amount of work from the Hahn lab (large-scale ChEC-seq compendium!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Low overlap of transcription factor DNA binding and regulatory targets - Nature
A near-complete survey of transcription factor activities in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals that most transcription factors have both activator and repressor activities and limited overlap between t...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08916-0
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Pint of Science FR
7 months ago
🎉WOUHOU ! Les tickets pour les soirées
#pint25
sont disponibles sur le site, le plus dur sera de faire un choix ! 🎟
pintofscience.fr
🎟 🗓 19-21 mai /📍60 villes Les places dans les bars étant limitées, ne tardez pas à réserver vos places pour vos évènements préférés !
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
8 months ago
How do SMC complexes capture DNA? 🧪 Led by Frank Bürmann, Jan Löwe’s & Mark Dillingham’s groups have identified the directional loading mechanism the bacterial SMC complex MukBEF uses to capture & ingest DNA, & found a phage inhibitor to this pathway. Read more:
tinyurl.com/4s8nrrkk
#LMBResearch
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Anton Goloborodko
7 months ago
Earnshaw, Goloborodko, Dekker & Mirny labs are excited to present our latest work, "Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation" - now accepted!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short clip describing the key results:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvO...
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Rules of Engagement
YouTube video by Johan Gibcus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvOrmErhhc
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Venez découvrir les intervenants du
@cbitoulouse.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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Nature
9 months ago
Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes, but hidden complexity continues to surprise them
https://go.nature.com/4gL1QPB
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Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome?
Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.
https://go.nature.com/4gL1QPB
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@tim_stasevich
9 months ago
Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made đťźđťźµ intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Emilia Dimitrova
10 months ago
Great start of the New Year for Krys from our neighbour lab
@oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social
. Have a look at his paper -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DSIF factor Spt5 coordinates transcription, maturation and exoribonucleolysis of RNA polymerase II transcripts - Nature Communications
The critical events in transcription termination of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) remain not fully understood. Here, the authors find that the transcription factor Spt5 enhances the activity of RNA exonu...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55063-7
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Jess Kelley
12 months ago
Very excited that our paper describing a critical role for the PNUTS-PP1 phosphatase complex in transcription pause release is up online! This was a massive team effort with
@edimitrova.bsky.social
and the rest of the
@robklose.bsky.social
lab
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
A short thread: (1/8)
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The PNUTS phosphatase complex controls transcription pause release
Kelley et al. discover that the PNUTS phosphatase complex plays an essential role in gene transcription by controlling RNA polymerase II pause release. PNUTS achieves this through its TND, which recog...
https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(24)00886-4
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