Sim Sakong

@simsakong.bsky.social

Biophysicist 🔬 PhD in Quantitative biology, EPFL🇨🇭 #gene_regulation_dynamics #transcription #single-molecule_imaging

Thanks for sharing! Happy to see our work highlighted by @lcbm-epfl.bsky.social ⚡️: Electrostatics tune TF search and chromatin invasion. I appreciate my former colleagues for the discussions and help with troubleshooting throughout this work. Grateful as well to EPFL facilities for their support.

LCBM@lcbm-epfl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

TFs search are governed by many parameters, what about electrostatic forces? @simsakong.bsky.social led a multi-scale study on Sox2 revealing how electrostatic interactions influence its search. In close collaboration with @davidsuter.bsky.social. Congratulations Sim 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m excited to share that my PhD work is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Big thanks to @davidsuter.bsky.social & @beatfierz.bsky.social for your guidance throughout this work. We show that electrostatic differences in disordered regions control TF search and chromatin invasion. More details👇

David Suter@davidsuter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How do electrostatic forces impact TF search ? In joint effort with @beatfierz.bsky.social , tour-de-force from @simsakong.bsky.social who single-handedly combined in vitro SPT on DNA & chromatin, in cellulo SPT, ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting research update 🎉 How do eukaryotic TFs find target sites on the chromatinized genome? How does DNA state—naked or nucleosomal—shape their search strategy? We investigated how the charge of disordered regions flanking DBDs influences target search and pioneering activity. Check it out! 👇

David Suter@davidsuter.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New preprint from the lab – Massive work entirely driven by super-talented @simsakong.bsky.social , jointly betw. @beatfierz.bsky.social lab and mine – combining in vitro and in vivo TF single molecule imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ Preprint haiku alert 🤓✍🏻 Cells walk a tightrope— proteins made and then destroyed, balance must be kept. Yet how is this done? A mystery in the cell, we set out to ask. Live imaging helps, plus models and omics, too— data tells the tale.