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Babis Galouzis

@babisgalouzis.bsky.social
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Biologist into evolution and development EMBO fellow at EMBL

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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...: "...the results are a wake-up call for scientists developing biological-AI tools: they underscore the need for more rigorous performance benchmarks and for much more experimental data relating genetic sequences to biology."
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Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI
Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.
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Alessandro Dulja @alessandrodulja.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Happy to share that the first part of my PhD is out on @cp-devcell.bsky.social! This has been an exciting project in the lab of @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @embl.org, studying the regulation of Pol II pausing across embryogenesis and its impact on gene expression dynamics. tinyurl.com/5n88ykk7
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Chromatin context shapes SPT5 regulation of promoter-proximal Pol II, fine-tuning gene expression changes during Drosophila embryogenesis
Using rapid SPT5 depletion, Dulja et al. uncover different molecular phenotypes at different embryonic stages. In early embryos, SPT5 depletion shifts Pol II from the pausing site to the +1 nucleosome...
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Arnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is activation of multiple enhancers and promoters coordinated? Short answer is yes. Check full story from @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social leveraging long read single molecule sequencing to address this. @embl.org www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Progression without progress
Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...
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Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF @elphegenoralab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇
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Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
(1/n) Super excited to share that our preprint is out today in @natsmb.nature.com with a new name "Integrated MINFLUX tracking reveals two distinct chromatin dynamics classes across cell types" and more than 2x more data: www.nature.com/articles/s41... See also MIT News news.mit.edu/2026/how-chr...
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Michela Palamin @mpalamin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
ChromSMF preprint is out!🚀 tinyurl.com/ChromSMF We often piece together chromatin regulation layer by layer from separate assays. But this can be limiting! In @arnaudkr.bsky.social's lab, we developed a method to directly study multiple layers on the same DNA molecule! 🧬 What does this unlock? ⬇️
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 19/03/2026
At #EMBLTranscript, experts will share breakthroughs across the full spectrum of #transcription – from cis-regulatory function and long-range regulation to 3D looping, basal transcriptional machinery, #chromatin modifications, #epigenetic inheritance, and more 🧬 Join us: s.embl.org/trm26-01-bl
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Nikos Konstantinides @nkonst4.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!
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Babis Galouzis @babisgalouzis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is so cool! It’s also nice to see how careful genetic dissection of loci is still at the forefront of discovery!
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Babis Galouzis @babisgalouzis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Check our latest with Yacine Kherdjemil and @eileen-furlong.bsky.social and our colleagues, where we show Chip (Ldb1) is essential only at a narrow window of embryogenesis overlapping ZGA. It functionally and physically bridges CBP to Zelda to regulate gene expression. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Chip (Ldb1) is a putative cofactor of Zelda forming a functional bridge to CBP during zygotic genome activation
Chip/Ldb1 is a crucial cofactor regulating enhancer function and chromatin interactions. Using optogenetics, Galouzis, Kherdjemil et al. show that Chip is only essential during zygotic genome activati...
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