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Rog lab at the University of Utah
@theroglab.bsky.social
Cell biology of chromosomes in meiosis 🏳️🌈
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News! @theroglab.bsky.social Gordon et al. discovers synaptonemal complex wets & aligns chromosomes, a crucial step in sexual reproduction, where errors in chromosome# can be fatal to the embryo. @utah.edu Read in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The synaptonemal complex aligns meiotic chromosomes by wetting
During sexual reproduction, the synaptonemal complex aligns the maternal and paternal chromosomes by wetting.
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Ofer Rog @theroglab.bsky.social from @utah.edu will talk about "Regulating sister interactions during meiosis" on May 21st Learn more about Dr. Rog's work : theroglab.org --> Register here: meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...
The Rog Lab
The Rog Lab, headed by Dr. Ofer Rog, is located at the Department of Biology in the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, and uses C. elegans and yeast to study meiosis, sexual reproduction and chrom...
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New preprint from the lab! We defined the kinetics of strand invasion during meiosis in C. elegans. Great work from Antonia, Henry and Divya. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Three (3) new pre-prints from the lab! Very proud of this work that spans approaches and model organisms, and highlights the many approaches the lab undertakes. CheC-PLS: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Diffusion in the SC: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Skp1:
Decoding chromosome organization using CheC-PLS: chromosome conformation by proximity labeling and long-read sequencing
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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So honored to be awarded the Early Career Medal by GSA. And to be in such esteemed company. Couldn't have done it without the truly amazing members of my lab, my mentors and my awesome colleagues at the University of Utah genestogenomes.org/preeminent-g...
First science post from the Rog lab: Proud to have out this paper at PNAS from Lisa and Jesus on the synaptonemal complex in C. elegans. It includes what is probably the most beautiful genetic data I was ever involved in analyzing - check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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First preprint 📢 on bsky: New work on the Wadjet defence system by @roisnehamelinf.bsky.social & @drhonsworth.bsky.social revealing beautiful & exciting structures of JET on plasmid DNA. With loop extrusion, obstacles, DNA bending, kinking, cleavage 🦠🧫 🧪 t.co/RaO7IO3zDk With help from @DCI_Lausanne
With the College of Science team at NDiSTEM SACNAS conference in Portland. Booth 642. Come over if you’d like to chat!