Next summer's Epigenetics GRC (I'm co-chairing with Deborah Bouch'is) is shaping up nicely with an all-star lineup of speakers working on a broad range of organisms and systems and everything from molecular mechanisms to new phenomena. Apply and put it on your calendar! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

Three fantastic days at our joint @kilchertlab.bsky.social and BraunLab retreat in beautiful Bacharach in the Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage close to Loreley. Great to have former lab members join as well! Science, discussions, hiking, cooking, and plenty of ideas.🧬🍃 @jlugiessen.bsky.social

Introns have a hidden regulatory role! 🧬🎉 Delighted to share our latest paper showing that inefficiently spliced introns and spliceosomal proteins direct RNA methylation, engaging RNAi to silence retrotransposons and regulate gene expression nature.com/articles/s41...

A tenure-track research position is available for application at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute @westerdijkinst.bsky.social located in Utrecht Science Park in the Netherlands. Please share with colleagues and see the link below for more info: wi.knaw.nl/news/details...

The paper is out which means the MD trajectories are finally available! #MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes

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New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇

Hey #nucleus nerds, the JCS Special Issue on the Cell Biology of the Nucleus is now live! This was a pleasure to co-edit with Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.

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Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows the posteriorly positioned nuclei (Nup50-mCherry - pink) of notochord cells in Ciona embryos. See article by Peng et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

After some good funding news, we are hiring! Looking for a postdoc to join our team and lead our explorations into transposon repression by the nuclear lamina. Check out the full ad on our lab website at buchwalter-lab.github.io/postdoc-ad.pdf + contact me to learn more!

Read it open-access: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Nucleotide resolution 4-thiouridine sequencing by SNU-Seq and sf4sU-Seq reveals the transcriptional responsiveness of an epigenetically primed human genome

Abstract. Genomes are pervasively transcribed, leading to stable and unstable transcripts that influence 3-dimensional genome organization and gene regulat

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Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, which is now peer-reviewed and published open-access in @narjournal.bsky.social! 🧬 Some of you saw the bioRxiv preprint a while back; after peer review, it's a bit updated and now out in NAR.

Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus has been building over the last few months. In the coming weeks, we’ll be highlighting all the articles in this issue. First up, we have an interview with our Guest Editor @abbybuch.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #CellBio #nucleus

📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

"Humbled to receive this recognition. This belongs as much to my team, my family, & to my home, Palestine: the people, the place, the joyful stubbornness to enjoy life." Cheers buddy @gautamdey.bsky.social Thx to my mentors @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social, & Pierre Gönczy.

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Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

Wrapping up our Master’s course on heterochromatin regulation and fission yeast genetics with pizza & drinks! Over the past weeks, students moved from gene expression and chromatin analyses to a full genetic screen, generating lots of interesting data along the way. @jlugiessen.bsky.social

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

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We're hiring! Join our growing team at the @crg.eu as a postdoc. Curious about how mRNA translation and decay cross-talk? We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a project in the field of RNA biology and gene regulation. Apply here: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please share!

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Incredibly proud of the first paper from the Ader Lab, a @micropub7n.bsky.social from a spectacular team of undergrads and a high schooler! In this µpub, our data suggest closely related species employ different strategies for mitotic nuclear envelope remodelling. doi.org/10.17912/mic...

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We offer a PostDoc position for a fully funded project on lipid-encoded #lipidtime protein quality-control checkpoints at the Golgi: great collaborators, excellent working & living conditions & benchspace with a view ;) Please share and repost!

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Great discussion at the #GBM_Lunch with #Mutterschaft&Wissenschaft on parenthood in academia 👶🔬 Clear takeaway: structural barriers persist—and tackling them is key to retaining talent and ensuring diversity in science. Let’s keep pushing for change. #WomenInScience

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

Why scientists are nervous about fungi

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

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If after reading the article you are still hungry for more about alternative TREX-2 complexes, also check out the recent preprints from the labs of Torben Heick Jensen @heick.bsky.social and Mary Dasso 😉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RTG 2355@rtg2355.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy to share the Preview by RTG PIs Cornelia Kilchert & Katja Sträßer on the recent paper @cp-molcell.bsky.social by Tian et al on LENG8's role in nuclear RNA quality control. Here's 50 days' free access - so check it out before June 05, 2026! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Not to be missed!

Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics@mpi-ie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The 8th Epigenetics Meeting is coming — Dec 2–4, 2026, Max Planck Freiburg. 27 top speakers. Chromatin biology, epigenetic regulation, and real conversations. And you☝️!? Registration is open. Don't wait. 👇 🔗 events.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

It was a moving moment and highlight of this 77th #MosbacherKolloquium.

Ute Hellmich@hellmichgroup.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Standing ovations for an incredible Maya Schuldiner, who just received the Otto Warburg Metal at the #MosbacherKolloqium of the @gbmev.bsky.social and delivered the most impressive, passionate speeches one can imagine... beautiful oration by Christian Ungermann and many tears in the lecture hall 🧪💕

Happy 30th birthday to this paper published March 22, 1996, one of the studies that moved chromatin biology from correlation toward mechanism. Brownell et al. linked a transcription-associated Tetrahymena HAT to yeast Gcn5p, providing a biochemical link for chromatin modification to gene activation.

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Very sad to hear of the passing today of our UCSF colleague Mike Bishop at the age of 90. A legendary and inspiring figure. He also led UCSF as Chancellor. Have a listen to his Nobel lecture. youtube.com/watch?v=CDv7...

Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989: Official Lecture

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