Our paper on the newest version of the Registry of candidate cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) is out 🧬 Huge thanks to the many collaborators, experimentalists, analysts and software developers who made this work possible — truly a team effort! A "meme-torial" of the science is coming soon 👀

An early Christmas present for those interested in chromatin and transcription! Fantastic work from @au-ho-yu.bsky.social and @aleksszczurek.bsky.social . Thanks to Inge and Michiel for their help. Please repost! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚀Long overdue news! I am thrilled to share that I've been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship🇪🇺 to start my independent project, SIRENseek, investigating the epigenetic principles governing repressive chromatin🧬🛑 Grateful to @scaffidilab.bsky.social for hosting me at #IEO in Milan - can't wait to start!

Excited to share our latest preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Lead by Lukas, we investigated multiple ways of assessing a TF's sensitivity to chromatin based on genome-wide binding profiles. The developed methods allowed us to quantify chromatin sensitivity across tested TFs.

New paper from my group is out. We demonstrate that cranial neural crest (CNCC) induction requires the transcription factor SALL4 to physically recruit the BAF chromatin remodeller at CNCC-induction enhancers as early as at the neuroectodermal stage: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're hiring a postdoc! Come join my lab @Novartis Oncology in Basel 🇨🇭, and employ genome engineering and functional genomics approaches to study how oncogenic Transcription Factors function at the molecular level (and how to drug them) 3+1 years! Apply! Please RP www.novartis.com/careers/care...

🧬 Did you catch our latest paper? A new study from @elenagr.bsky.social and the Bernstein lab in collaboration with EpiCypher dives deep into chromatin remodeling in #melanoma, revealing how the SWI/SNF PBAF chromatin remodeling complex mediates chromatin silencing.

🎉 Beyond happy to see this story finally out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where we characterize a lncRNA induced in senescence to promote metabolic homeostasis 🧬🔥 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Check out this 🧵 from @eimearlagan.bsky.social on our new Molecular Cell @cp-molcell.bsky.social paper! We show how the H3K27M Oncohistone reprograms chromatin in DMG, creating a specific dependency on CBX4/PCGF4-containing forms of cPRC1 👇

Excited for this summer’s NYC Chromatin Club! Grad students & postdocs: submit your abstracts for a chance to present a poster or talk. Come connect w/ fellow epigenetic New Yorkers! #NYCChromatinClub @dshechter.bsky.social @vivrisca.bsky.social @epicypher.bsky.social @kjarmache.bsky.social

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

Online Now: The SWI/SNF PBAF complex facilitates REST occupancy at repressive chromatin Online now:

🎉 Excited to share my postdoc work in the Bernstein lab now online @cp-molcell.bsky.social! 🔎We explored the unique functions of the SWI/SNF PBAF complex and its relationship with TFs, and unveiled a PBAF/REST-controlled neuronal-like signature with potential implications in #melanoma brain mets🧬

I miss when the biggest controversy about mRNA was whether it correlated with protein or not.

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in @cellpress.bsky.social From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🚨𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!🚨The Groth @groth-anja.bsky.social, Mailand, Nilsson @nilssonlab.bsky.social & Krietenstein @nilskrietenstein.bsky.social labs are hiring 𝟔 𝐏𝐡𝐃&𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐬 to join the new Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yvd93na2 & please share!

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

🧬 We’re excited to introduce D&D-seq, a single-cell technology that maps DNA:Protein interactions through molecular footprinting. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Genomics #Epigenetics