World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life. #Nature Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social ! Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

it appears your low-hanging-fruit phd project wasn't so risk free after all, mr. bond

Join the #LMS! Our institute is advertising for junior #GroupLeader positions in #Physiology and #Metabolism. Closing date for applications: August 31st!

A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue. A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.

🚨Symposium alert! 🚨 Next edition of our biennial stem cell symposium is 4th Dec 2025 - focus on metabolism and development. Sponsored by @bsdb.bsky.social. Great lineup of speakers, hosted @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London. Registration is open. www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

This should almost have an international reach: about what the rainbow flag means for queer people, by Oslo Pride.

LTRs as dogs…can be friendly, quite helpful at times. LINEs as cats? Also pretty nice in some cases, but also will get angry and scratch out your eyes. Hmm #TEsky 🤔

I love the concept of domesticated transposable elements. I like that my genome has its little viral pets to feed nucleic acids and take out for transcriptional walkies. 🧬

In this Review, @bryonyleeke.bsky.social, Imke Staffhorst and @mpercharde.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social explore roles of the nucleolus in mammalian development, focusing on genome organisation and chromatin regulation: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The nucleolus....large, rather boring organelle in the nucleus? No! Our review led by @bryonyleeke.bsky.social just out @dev-journal.bsky.social, highlighting new findings on nucleoli dynamics in development, intriguing roles in chromatin organisation & more. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Calling undergrads! Our summer internship programme @mrc-lms.bsky.social is still open if you want to try out a summer research project. Great way to get a taste of research, inc a generous stipend. Lots of interesting labs are hosting, including us ;) Closing 15/5/25. lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...

I am excited to share our lab's first review out with in Blood Cancer Journal. We discuss the impact of transposable elements on genome regulation and variation in both normal haematopoietic processes and haematological cancers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨#Hiring! 3 year #postdoc position open in my lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the interplay between DNA damage responses and #preimplantation embryo development. Fully funded by EARLYFATE #ERCCoG 📆 Apply by 23rd May 2023 🔗Details below @sebioldev.bsky.social Please RT!🙏

Barbara McClintock proposed – over 40 years ago – that transposable element activity could be a response to stress, and I think that we are still only beginning to understand how right she was.

New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join our team as a postdoc and explore the exciting world of transposable elements and developmental biology with us! @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...

Only a couple of months left until our official QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Launch Conference! We will have an amazing list of guest speakers, including Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social from MRC LMS, UK. Spaces are limited.

They have created Schrödinger’s NIH employee 2/2

This is my science jobs feed. Do you have an opening in your Lab or Department? Did you come across a cool job opening? Just type #sciencejobs for post to appear on the feed. #neuroskyence #academicsky #womeninstem #medsky 🧠 🧪 🧬 🪰 🌱 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Excited to announce new editorial leadership with Professor Andrew Dillin as Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Eric Sawey as Executive Editor, expanding the journal’s scope to include exciting new areas of molecular and cellular biology. bit.ly/genesdevpr

We are hiring! 3-year BBSRC-funded postdoc position available. TEs, epigenetics, pregnancy: if you love one or more of these keywords, apply through the link below. Please spread the word.

But they seem like such a good idea at the time…

It’s official 🎉 I am excited to share that I will start my lab this spring at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social in beautiful Freiburg 🤩🗻☀️ I am looking forward to new collaborations and working with the fantastic community in Freiburg & its surroundings!

doi.org/10.1126/scia... very happy to have contributed with @bryonyleeke.bsky.social to this fascinating study from Jesus Gil’s lab @mrc-lms.bsky.social. SMARCA4 inhibition leads to repeat element dysregulation, cGAS/STING activation and enhances immune cell clearance of senescent cells

Tell me you're a science parent without saying anything...thanks for the new calculator @alexisbarr.bsky.social

The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring? Apply before Feb 15th 📌

New research from Steve Cutty and @alexisbarr.bsky.social published in the British Journal of Cancer shows the protein p21 promotes survival in lung cancer cells strengthening the rationale for targeting p21 as a cancer treatment. This work was also funded by @cancerresearchuk.org

The @mrc-lms.bsky.social is recruiting for Programme Leader Track (PLT) group leaders - come work with us! Supportive and collaborative colleagues, fascinating mechanistic science, generous funding and facilities, and a new building with nice views of London 😍 shorturl.at/VuVxX

I love a good reporter! TE reporters for capturing distinct hESC states. Looking forward to reading #TEsky

Heading home after the @embl.org PhD symposium #biologyoutsidethebox - real pleasure to talk a bit on our work #beyondthedogma on TEs & also share about being a women in science. Loads of cool talks from v.diverse topics! #dinosaurDNA . Thanks for the invite!!

Nice to see our latest review published in @natrevmcb.bsky.social today – a collaborative exploration of mammalian extraembryonic development with @cwhanna.bsky.social for an invaluable epigenetic focus. @srinivas-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to share the latest preprint from the lab. We find that during cell competition, winners induce an increase in proline metabolism in loser cells, and this drives their elimination through repression of the integrated stress response. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Interested in a #postdoc in Edinburgh working on #interdisciplinary #epigenetics and having this view on your morning commute? Upcoming opportunities to apply for funding below 🧵 1/3. Get in touch if you are interested.

Welcome Cedric! #TEsky

Excited about prokaryotic chromatin and its role in pathogenic bacteria? Ambitious project to systematically characterize chromatin across ESKAPE pathogens! Wet & dry lab – Fully funded PhD available in our lab. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDPosition #Microbiology #Chromatin

You should join this lab for some seriously cool science, and you will benefit from an an excellent human as your boss 👇

Happy to share our first #bluetorial & our latest #preprint, lead by postdoc @paulchammas.bsky.social. We used CRISPRa to disentangle the close relationship between Dux and MERVL elements in the induction of the 2-cell like state: #TEsky #MERVL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/8)

A wonderful start to the @gensocuk.bsky.social Transposon meeting! We've had: 1) TE acting as gene switches, 2) CELLO-seq, 3) circular DNA and structural variations, 4) KRAB zinc finger proteins and pancreatic development, 5) epigenetics and KRABs in mice, and 6) pack-CACTA #TEsky #SciArt

Check out this exciting preprint from @pradeepmadapura.bsky.social #preeclampsia can be predicted even before the appearance of the symptoms using #Transposableelements levels in #cfRNA www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My brain every time someone uses stakeholder in conversation

Thrilled to announce that the EMBO workshop «Mobile Genome» will be back in Heidelberg, Nov 4-7th 2025 @EMBLEvents @EMBO. Registration open soon but you can already register interest. Organized with fantastic colleagues @juliusbrennecke @GonzalezLab_BCN @JoePetersLab www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Very excited about this brave new (to me) world, it already looks way better than the other place. Here’s to interesting discussions, science, and of course the occasional cat meme…🦋