Honored to lead off such an amazing set of speakers 🧬 🌟

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

Speaking of T-Rex

I think the new highest honor in science is an adorable cartoon of your work 🌟

A dream come true: my first first-author publication! 🧬 🎉 Working to unravel the mysteries of long-range gene regulation has been an incredible journey. Endless gratitude to Evgeny, the lab, and all of the amazing collaborators who helped make this happen 🙌

How do non-coding variants in enhancers lead to disease? Happy to share our recent work, led by @ewholling.bsky.social, in which we discovered that poised chromatin sensitizes enhancers to aberrant activation by non-coding mutations, contributing to disease. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

Awesome summary of the field. An important point is to separate the design method from the oracle model being used. Sometimes, people say they're proposing a new design method but mean a cool new oracle model. Modelling and design of transcriptional enhancers www.nature.com/articles/s44...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39579740/ I liked this thoughtful review

Here is the peer-reviewed version of our study showing how some TAD borders are essential for gene regulation and development. Loss of a single CTCF motif is sufficient to cause embryonic lethality. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We highlighted new research from the past two years on examples of long-range gene regulation - within large TADs, across TADs, and across chromosomes - comparing mechanisms in flies and mammals 🪰❤️🐁. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was exciting to dig into all the new discoveries in long range gene regulation while writing this!

REX - a mammalian "range extender" element that can turn short-distance enhancers into long-distance enhancers. New preprint from a collaboration led by Grace Bower and Evgeny Kvon. doi.org/10.1101/2024...