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Elena Kuzmin

@elena-kuzmin.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Dep. Biology, Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, School of Health, Concordia University | Adjunct Professor, Dep. Human Genetics, Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️
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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...
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Nature @nature.com · 09/09/2026
The UN General Assembly has voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a 16th century projection that is widely used but has been criticized for not representing countries’ sizes accurately. Here's what that means for education, navigation and public perception. go.nature.com/4gZxWJN
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Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change
What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.
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Nozomu Yachie @nzmyachie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We just posted a new preprint on a microRNA (miRNA)-responsive CRISPR guide RNA: the cuffed guide RNA (cgRNA).   Here’s what we did 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Very timely and insightful. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige
The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New work led by recent PhD grad Bella Richmond. In collaboration with Hien Pham and others, we bring together walking interviews and ecological fieldwork to assess how green alleys in two Quebec cities provide support for biodiversity, and benefits to residents: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Green alleys in Quebec provide variable biodiversity support and ecosystem services
Green infrastructure is increasing in popularity in cities globally because of its potential to improve urban sustainability and resident quality of life. In this paper, we studied green alleys in ...
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One day left to submit your abstract to the Yeast Genetics Meeting! It going to be a great meeting! genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
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Homepage - Yeast Genetics Meeting 2026
Visit our website to learn more.
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Daniela Robles-Espinoza @daniela-oaks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are very happy to see our study finally appear online @nature.com! This has been work of nearly 10 years in collaboration with the National Institute of Genome Medicine 🇲🇽, the National Cancer Institute 🇲🇽, the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and others ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis - Nature
Analysis of the somatic and transcriptomic profile of 123 acral melanoma samples from Mexican patients helps understand tumour origins and prognosis, and highlights the importance of including samples...
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Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Rosalind's companion piece to our genetic interactions manuscript. GRAPE, to analyze synthetic lethality screens, and Synulator, to generate simulated synthetic lethal gold standards because none exist today. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Michael Aregger @michaelaregger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We’re excited to introduce scCHyMErA-Seq, a scalable #CRISPR-based #exon-deletion screening platform with #single-cell transcriptomic readouts, enabling high-throughput functional analysis of #alternative #splicing. In collaboration with the Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis lab. @natcomms.nature.com
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Single-cell exon deletion profiling reveals splicing events that shape gene expression and cell state dynamics
Nature Communications - Alternative splicing generates diverse protein isoforms, yet the functions of most exons remain unknown. Here, the authors introduce scCHyMErA-Seq, a scalable single-cell...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Now online! Hallmarks of cancer—Then and now, and beyond
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Hallmarks of cancer—Then and now, and beyond
Hanahan revisits the evolving framework of cancer hallmarks, synthesizing 25 years of conceptual refinement into a multidimensional view of tumor biology. This review highlights how aberrant capabilities, enabling traits, microenvironmental players, and systemic interactions converge to drive tumorigenesis and proposes that mechanism-guided co-targeting of hallmarks may offer promising therapeutic strategies.
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liti_nice @litinice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
here is our first contribution of yeast in microbiomes led by Jason Tsai group[ with contributions from Alberto and Nelly: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... more to come
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A global synthesis of yeast in microbiomes
Yeasts are widespread members of microbial communities across terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated environments, yet they remain underrepresented in microbiome studies due to low abundance and me...
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Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières @rna-ken.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Canada is launching a new funding program for PhD students and postdoctoral scientists. Reach out to me if you are interested in studying gene regulation, RNA splicing and/or cancer immunotherapy using computational and/or experimental approaches. #PhD #Postdoc
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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
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GIIN @genomeiinetwork.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
❄️The 2026 Winter Session of GIIN Webinars is here! Join us on the first Tuesday of each month at 5 PM (Rome) / 11 AM (NYC). No pre-registration needed, simply join via Zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403 Want reminders? Subscribe here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Geoff Macintyre @gmaci.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Checkout the latest preprint from the lab - single-cell CIN signatures unlocked! Ongoing HRD improves PARPi sensitivity detection and ongoing NHEJ associates with subclonal diversification in TNBC
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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thank the @johndoench.bsky.social and Root labs for depositing these deliciously named libraries, and check out our blog post for more:
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A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Very excited to co-chair the 2026 Forbeck Forum on Evolution and Modeling of Cancer Genetic Networks and Cell States with @goyallab.bsky.social | Great line-up of speakers, intimate setting and thorough discussions! www.forbeckforums.org/forums/evolu...
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Evolution and Modeling of Cancer Genetic Networks and Cell States | Forbeck Forums
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
2026 #Yeast #Genetics Meeting is 13–17 June 2026 in Pacific Grove CA. Conference website has invited speakers, abstract submission topics, preliminary schedule, etc. Bookmark the site as additional updates will be published as they become available. #YEAST26 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
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Nozomu Yachie @nzmyachie.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Please 🔁! #MASSIV will be held in Vancouver from January 19-22, 2026. 4-day meeting on #synbio x #tissueengineering. Some trainee-focused events. >50 talks (10 from abstracts), posters, panel & publishing insights sessions. www.massivconference.com Abstract deadline: Nov 14
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our department is looking for a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Applied Synthetic Biology candidate! Deadline to apply is Dec 5, 2025. Please, repost. www.concordia.ca/jobs/artsci/...
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Canada Research Chair Tier II in Applied Synthetic Biology | Faculty of Arts and Science - Concordia University
The Department of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure track faculty position and Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Applied Synthet...
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Nozomu Yachie @nzmyachie.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Please RP! A 4-day synbio and tissue engineering conference #MASSIV to transform biology and medicine together. Couldn't list all amazing speakers, so please check out this 👉https://www.massivconference.com/ Poster due is Nov 7, but will be extended. With @stemcellnetwork.ca and JST.
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Lynn Karam @lynnkaram.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excited to share my first first-author preprint! This work would not have been possible without the support and guidance of my supervisor Dr. Elena Kuzmin, as well as my lab mates (past and present) and our collaborators.
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excited to share our preprint on the “Integrated Metabolic Complex Genetic Interaction Network of Chromosome 4p Loss in Basal Breast Cancer” led by @lynnkaram.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In #G3journal, @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social et al. present PARPAL database, a valuable resource for #yeast researchers to understand the retention and evolution of paralogs. A phenomics screen further shows how proteins respond to paralog deletion by localization & abundance changes. buff.ly/oM97WyH
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Our manuscript on the PARPAL database is out in G3! We share our phenomics screen on how proteins respond to their paralog deletion by localization & abundance changes and integrate other datasets with collab @guilbourque.bsky.social @leopoldparts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
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Traver Hart @traver.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
At long last, Rosalind's paper on comparing methods for paralog synthetic lethality is online: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Z-scores outperform similar methods for analyzing CRISPR paralog synthetic lethality screens - Genome Biology
Genetic screens offer a promising strategy for identifying tumor-specific therapeutic targets, but single-gene knockout screens often miss functionally redundant paralogs. Multiplex Cas9 and Cas12a CR...
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Our manuscript on how single-cell imaging of protein dynamics of paralogs reveals sources of gene retention is out in iScience with a great team of collaborators @leopoldparts.bsky.social @guilbourque.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Quaid Morris @quaidmorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Please check out our new approach to modeling somatic mutation signatures. DAMUTA has independent Damage and Misrepair signatures whose activities are more interpretable and more predictive of DNA repair defects, than COSMIC SBS signatures 🧬🖥️🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Damage and Misrepair Signatures: Compact Representations of Pan-cancer Mutational Processes
Mutational signatures of single-base substitutions (SBSs) characterize somatic mutation processes which contribute to cancer development and progression. However, current mutational signatures do not ...
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SynBio7.0 @synbio7.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Join us for the 2025 SynBio7.0 conference in Toronto, June 1-3! SynBio is Canada's largest academic synthetic biology conference. More details on our website! synbio7.vercel.app
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Carl de Boer @carldeboer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Last call for a postdoc position in single cell analysis/perturb-seq with @nikashakiba.bsky.social at UBC in beautiful Vancouver Canada! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
Sunset on UBC campus
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Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Early Bird Registration & Submission Deadline is approaching: March 28, 2025! 🔗 Register now premc.org/yeast2025/re... Don’t wait until the last minute, spots are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis 🌟 the list of Outstanding Invited Speakers premc.org/yeast2025/in...
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Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Just add sorbitol! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
In red are the proposed improvements to the classical yeast transformation protocol.
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great study to have been involved in!
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Very excited to share our preprint on the PARPAL web data portal capturing how proteins change their subcellular localization and abundance due to their paralog deletion w/ collab @leopoldparts.bsky.social @guilbourque.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jolanda van Leeuwen @jsvanleeuwen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some science news to brighten up your timelines ☀️ Our latest work on the modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality between genetic backgrounds, now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... So what did we find?
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The modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality
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Elena Kuzmin @elena-kuzmin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are hiring a Tier II Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing at Concordia University. Please, repost. www.concordia.ca/artsci/about...
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Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier II in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing - Concordia University
The department of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position with the opportunity to apply for a Tier II Canada Researc...
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