We’re expanding our Partner Laboratory Network Steering Committee! 🎉 Thrilled to welcome Lisa Butler, Edwina McGlinn, @ijayas.bsky.social, Amee George, @ryanlister.bsky.social & Denise Doolan to our #leadership team - strengthening national & international collab'n in life sciences. bit.ly/4gFxzDE

Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@science.org🧬🔬Kinetic organization of the #genome revealed by ultraresolution multiscale live #imaging | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

WEHI researchers have launched a landmark project aimed at closing the cultural gaps in prostate cancer care. Funded by Movember. Read the story: www.wehi.edu.au/news/landmar...

EU and Australia open talks on closer research partnership through Horizon Europe poke @katequinlan.bsky.social @merlincrossley.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @joelpmackay.bsky.social @pseudokinase.bsky.social www.openaccessgovernment.org/eu-and-austr...

Researchers from WEHI’s Parkinson Disease Research Centre have won the 2025 UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. The team has been honoured for their research unravelling how PINK1, a key protein linked to early-onset Parkinson’s disease, works. 🔗 www.wehi.edu.au/news/eureka-...

Earlybird registration & abstract submissions now open for the 𝟒𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐛 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: https://www.lornegenome.org/registrations (deadline 7th Nov 2025) Speakers: https://www.lornegenome.org/speakers We look forward to seeing you there!

Very exciting to see the @wehi-research.bsky.social PINK1 Parkinson’s Disease research team win the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. Amazing achievement by a brilliant team! @eurekaprizes.bsky.social

Very excited to see our latest paper published!

📅 Don’t miss out — register now! What makes WEHI a great place to study? Find out at our upcoming A Glimpse into WEHI Student Life in-person event Thursday 14 August, 4:30pm – 6:30pm at Parkville. To register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-glimpse-...

In the most recent episode we talked with @korblab.bsky.social from @upenn.edu about her work on BRD4 and the histone variant H2BE, which influences synaptic genes and neuronal activity. #podcast #epigenetics #chromatin Listen here: www.activemotif.com/podcasts-eri...

Really beautiful work led by Jessica Leismann in Joan Barau’s lab @imbmainz.bsky.social . If you like elegant mouse genetics, the transposon arms race, and a healthy dose of epigenetics, this one’s for you. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @emboreports.org

Cryo-EM of fertilisation complex Pfs230-Pfs48/45 from malaria parasites! 💕💗 🦟 Transgenic parasites without Pfs230 D13D14 do not transmit 🦙 💉Nanobodies + mRNA induced antibodies reduce transmission New in @Science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #Malaria #WEHI

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

New group leader opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social! We're looking for interests in (but not limited to) growth and development, environmental / organismal interactions, physiology, signalling, quantitative cell biology, biochemical and modelling approaches. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

Please RT! Call for Fellows! If you’re a structural biologist and wanting to start your lab by applying for an external Fellowship then we at Imperial may be excited to host you. Synthetic biologists too.. Please submit expression of interest with details below 🙏 www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

We are looking for new colleagues to come join us in Galway as group leaders (Junior and Senior). The Centre for Chromosome Biology is a great place and it is a good time to join. Please reach out if you want to chat about the opportunity! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

In today’s publication in Science we introduce Zincore: a novel protein of QRICH1 and SEPHS1 and functions as a transcriptional coregulator dedicated to zinc finger transcription factors. Here’s how we found it: 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/11

🚨Fantastic PhD opportunity for Autumn 2025 with our colleague Rebekah Tillotson @uoe-igc.bsky.social, asking whether ATRX syndrome is treatable: sidb.org.uk/phds/tillots... Please share 🙏 #epigenetics #raregeneticdisease #chromatinopathies

We wrote a review on Transposable Elements (TEs) and almost all aspects of TE silencing and their roles in biological processes & disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers, if you have career disruptions e.g. parental leave 👶, and would like a simple way to calculate full-time equivalent (FTE) years you might like our new calculator, eramezani.github.io/career/ - Written by @eramezani.bsky.social‬ 🙌. Feel free to share around.

Fresh preprint by @flavia-con.bsky.social from our lab uncovers how SMCHD1 finds & binds chromatin using live-cell single-molecule imaging🔬 She reveals how SMCHD1 dynamically engages chromatin, including the inactive X chromosome, to maintain gene silencing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here's a new very exciting paper from our #CDlab: www.cell.com/cell-reports... In an exemplary in vitro/in vivo study, 1st authors ‪@btanalikwu.bsky.social‬ & Alice Deshayes showed that dense linear protein arrays (e.g. telomeres) do stop loop-extruding SMCs! Great collaboration with Marcand lab.

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...

We are looking for a research assistant to join our lab and support ongoing projects with genome engineering in mouse embryonic stem cells! Please get in touch if you are interested. www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

In the nucleus, many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) form condensates. What IDP sequence features drive this behavior? We developed CondenSeq, a high-throughput approach to measure nuclear condensate formation, and applied it to ~14,000 IDPs to find out! rdcu.be/eq975

Transitions in development – an interview with Jan Żylicz We met with @jzylicz.bsky.social‬ (reNEW @ucph.bsky.social) on Teams to learn more about working abroad, finding a good mentor and his career path so far: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

If you are interested by epigenetics, early human development in excellent scientific environment in middle of Paris, we are recruiting a postdoc. app.beetween.com/WeaselWeb/p/... Don't hesitate to apply or share the post !

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

Reposting - please consider applying for a lab head role @wehi-research.bsky.social in Australia. It is a wonderful place to work, in a great country and with lovely colleagues. Clearly I’m biased on all of those counts. Please repost and/or apply!

The cleverness of cockatoos is darned impressive. They've previously learned to open and raid bins in Australia, but now they are queuing up to use public water fountains. Read more in my story for @newscientist.com #birds #animals 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

This #NationalReconciliationWeek WEHI welcomed Belle Hart from the Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics. Her seminar, "A Journey to Equity & Benefit in Medical Research", highlighted the importance of co-design and empathy in research. Read more 👇 www.wehi.edu.au/news/reconci...

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Very happy to share the peer-reviewed version of our paper in which we study the formation and function of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulation (see thread below): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to share our latest work revealing a prominent role for LADs in commisioning cell fates in mouse organ & tissue development, particularly of the limb. Amazing work by Isabel and Samy together with @stemundi.bsky.social & @drmrobson.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us online for a special #NationalReconciliationWeek seminar: "A Journey to Equity and Benefit in Medical Research" with guest speaker Belle Hart from the Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics. 📅 Wednesday 28 May | 🕙 1pm | 📍 Online via www.slido.com enter code #WEHIWednesday

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 👇

Lab Heads positions are available at our institute in beautiful Melbourne! 👇🏻

Thrilled to share our work now published on @cp-immunity.bsky.social . Big thanks to our collaborators. Here we show that short-term High-Fat diet impairs ILC3 functions in producing IL-22 through microbiota-dependent and-independent mechanisms.

We're excited to publish our latest study led by Bryony Leeke @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Wazeer Varsally, now out in @nature.com 🍾This study focusses on the epigenome of marsupial embryos 🦘 mapping DNA methylation in embryo development to specific embryo events www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

🌏 Make your mark in Melbourne! 🌏 We are looking for innovative researchers to join WEHI as Laboratory Heads and help lead the next wave of biomedical discovery. For more information and to apply 👇

Fantastic opportunity in Melbourne.

www.wehi.edu.au/careers/make... WEHI is looking for new lab heads! New and experienced lab heads welcome. Check out the ad, consider applying and share. We’re a collaborative bunch, in Australia, with fabulous technology, great colleagues at a values-driven organisation. @wehi-research.bsky.social

Australians have voted away from the right. Labour have a monster majority government. Democracy matters here and is respected. Healthcare, education, climate action, all ‘matter’. Albanese’s speech-all about fairness, equality and kindness. Time will tell but good certain mantras were rejected