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We are a lab studying the molecular mechanisms of epigenetics and how epigenetics impacts a variety of biological processes and diseases. thegreerlab.com

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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hmmm looks like you took the picture of Ashley Webb @aewebb.bsky.social by mistake
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 27/07/2026
"We are living with the legacy of the McCarthy era, and what Donald Trump is doing is really resurrecting the worst."⁠ ⁠ After a performance of "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been," @dlnyclu.bsky.social spoke at a talkback on the attacks we're enduring on free speech and the fight for our democracy.⁠
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congratulations Vijay!
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Christina Stallings @stallingslab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Very excited about our recent preprint- @lindashuyingxu.bsky.social and collabs discover that neutrophils repurpose their nucleolus for storage of pre-made IFN-I to be rapidly released via a nucleolar stress response that results in nucleolar extrusion and secretion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Looks cool! Looking forward to reading it!
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Brice Letcher @bricoletc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Absolutely beautiful paper by a core team at the RIKEN in which the telomerase RNA component has (finally) been identified, in the nematode *C. elegans*. Surprisingly, it does not have its own promoter, but is located inside the intron of a germline-expressed gene (nmy-2)! 🤩 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Nematode telomerase RNA hitchhikes on introns of germline–up-regulated genes
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex that elongates telomeric DNA, ensuring germline immortality. In this study, we identified the Caenorhabditis elegans telomerase RNA component 1 (terc-1), as t...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Sounds cool! Looking forward to reading it.
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The Allard lab @allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Really cool paper from Marie-Anne Felix's lab. Genetic variation in set-24 controls the duration of epigenetic inheritance. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Intraspecific variation in the duration of epigenetic inheritance in wild isolates of C. elegans
Frejacques, Saglio, et al. demonstrate variation among C. elegans wild isolates in the multigenerational memory of an initial RNA interference trigger. Genetic polymorphisms and environmental variable...
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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#DBfeature VEGF signalling promotes blastema growth and proliferation of both vascular and non-vascular cells during axolotl limb regeneration By Aaron Savage et al. tinyurl.com/3xs4nffs
VEGF signaling is required for blastema growth and the effect of VEGF inhibition is reversible. (A) schematic of experimental design; (B) representative DMSO-treated limb at 11 dpa (scale bar 100 μm; arrowhead indicates blastema; dashed line indicates amputation plane); (C) representative AV951-treated limb at 11 dpa (scale bar 100 μm; arrowhead indicates blastema; dashed line indicates amputation plane); (D) AV951-treated blastemas are significantly smaller at 11dpa; (E) representative DMSO-treated limb at 22 dpa (scale bar 100 μm); (F) representative AV951-treated limb at 22 dpa (scale bar 100 μm; arrowhead indicates blastema); (G) AV951-treated limbs show no regeneration at 22 dpa; (H) skeletal prep of representative DMSO-treated limb at 22 dpa (scale bar 250 μm); (I) skeletal prep of representative AV95-treated limb at 22 dpa (scale bar 250 μm); (J) AV951-treated blastemas display blocked regeneration compared to controls; (K) AV951-treated blastemas can develop to palette stage upon treatment removal
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Looks cool! Looking forward to reading it.
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Congratulations Shiv and team! Looking forward to reading it.
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Way to go Donna!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I see @sharansurya.bsky.social, who contributed to this project with repeated generational elevated glucose exposure experiments, is now on bluesky!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
...of starvation actually extends organismal lifespan. If hypoxia is too dramatic that would obviously cause death, but if you have a sufficient exposure to induce the stress response pathways it can be beneficial! In this case the worms sacrifice fertility and shunt nutrients towards living longer
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks a lot! I know it's a bit counter-intuitive, but often times exposure to low levels of stress can induce the stress response pathways and then organisms have a beneficial response (termed hormesis). It's a similar theory to how dietary restriction, a reduction of food but not to the point ..
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
to a changing enivornment. I think we've evolved such that stresses that are strong enough are then transmitted to the descendants to alert them that conditions are not ideal and they should prepare for the adverse environment. But they are plastic so the hope is that adverse ones can be overcome
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In plants I'm unfortunately not as familiar with the literature but again I'd be surprised if a sudden loss of nutrients or sunlight wouldn't have some consequence if it went on for long enough. Epigenetics exists right at the interface between the environment and genetics so it allows us to adapt
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks very much! Yes I think that even a "brief" stress if dramatic enough can have transgenerational consequences. The best examples in people are with the Överkalix study but I'd be surprised if dramatic overfeeding and starvation events didn't have a transgenerational consequence.
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks very much Dana!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks so much!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks a lot Oded! Been a fun project to work on for sure
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks a lot Amy! It's been a super fun project for sure!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Thanks! It's been a fun project for sure!
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This exciting story was spearheaded by Kathleen but she was helped by a number of people mostly not on bluesky including Ariel Telger, Gautam Sarkar, Sharan Surya, Hafiz Rothi, @mpmeers.bsky.social, and Simon Yuan Wang. 9/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Really excited for the next steps of this project to further study whether transgenerational adaptation is universal to different environmental stresses, how conserved this is in other species, and what the precise molecular mechanism is for the transgenerational adaptation. 8/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We also performed a directed screen and identified that depletion of the argonautes CSR-1 and HRDE-1 accelerated the transgenerational adaptation (2 generations instead of 4 for no fertility phenotype) and depletion of the H3K27 trimethylase PRC2 complex eliminated the worms ability to adapt 7/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
..is not unique to hypoxia and might be a general phenomena. We performed RNAseq to examine which genes were adapting their expression to repeated generational hypoxia exposure. We found that most genes still respond to hypoxia treatment but a small subset adapt to repeated generational hypoxia 6/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We also tested elevated glucose which increases neutral lipids and decreases fertility in exposed worms and unexposed descendants. After two successive exposures to elevated glucose neutral lipid levels and fertility were the same as unexposed controls.Therefore transgenerational adaptation..5/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We found that after 2 successive generational exposures to hypoxia, worms were no longer long lived. After 4 successive generational exposures to hypoxia, worms no longer displayed a reduction in fertility. The worms adapted on a transgenerational scale to the repeated environmental stress! 4/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We examined the effects of exposing successive generations to a stress we knew would induce epigenetic inheritance. Hypoxia exposure causes extended lifespan, reduced fertility, and reduced lipids and some of these phenotypes are heritable pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36516753/ 3/9
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Hypoxia induces transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of small RNAs - PubMed
Animals sense and adapt to decreased oxygen availability, but whether and how hypoxia exposure in ancestors can elicit phenotypic consequences in normoxia-reared descendants are unclear. We show that hypoxia educes an intergenerational reduction in lipids and a transgenerational reduction in fertili …
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Recent work has demonstrated that a single exposure to a dramatic stress induces transgenerational phenotypes of altered color, obesity, glucose tolerance, behavior and longevity. But we are exposed to different environmental stresses each generation (changes in pesticides and fungicides etc) 2/9
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Excited to share our new work on transgenerational adaptation www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... out today spearheaded by outstanding former undergraduate @kathleenkim.bsky.social. C. elegans adapt to repeated generational stresses and no longer display altered fertility, fat content, + longevity 1/9
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Transgenerational adaptation to hypoxia
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Lysosomes signal through the epigenome to regulate longevity across generations
The epigenome is sensitive to metabolic inputs and is crucial for aging. Lysosomes act as a signaling hub to sense metabolic cues and regulate longevity. We found that lysosomal metabolic pathways sig...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just talked with my wife, we are cancelling our Disney+ subscription. If you have one, I encourage you to do the same.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2025
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
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Trump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules
The ruling is a legal victory for Harvard but the White House says it will appeal the decision.
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Liz Krueger @lizkrueger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Donna Lieberman of @nyclu.org is absolutely right. It's vital that @governor.ny.gov sign these critical bills to protect New Yorkers' reproductive freedom, including the NY Health Information Privacy Act that I carry w/@lindabrosenthal.bsky.social. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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Commentary: Hochul must sign bills that protect access to reproductive care
As threats mount nationwide, New York must do all it can to ensure everyone can get the care they need.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2025
Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read. And that's saying a lot. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A little known - but hugely consequential - part of the government’s changes to science funding: open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...
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A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science
Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Thank you! It's been a fun project for sure. Have enjoyed your work on ribosome heterogeneity and aging as well! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25635753/, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289480/
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Methylation of ribosomal RNA by NSUN5 is a conserved mechanism modulating organismal lifespan - PubMed
Several pathways modulating longevity and stress resistance converge on translation by targeting ribosomal proteins or initiation factors, but whether this involves modifications of ribosomal RNA is u...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This work was spearheaded by M. Hafiz Rothi, Gautam Sarkar and Joseph Alhaddad who were helped by Wayne Mitchell, @kejunying.bsky.social, Nancy Pohl, Roberto Mena, Julia Natale, Scarlett Dellacono, and @gladyshev.bsky.social. Thanks to all the authors! 8/8
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
DAF-9 was previously shown by @antebilab.bsky.social to produce the signaling lipid dafachronic acid to signal from the germline to the soma to regulate lifespan. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11740945/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17360327/ . dimt-1 induced lifespan extension was dependent on this pathway 7/8
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A hormonal signaling pathway influencing C. elegans metabolism, reproductive development, and life span - PubMed
During C. elegans development, animals must choose between reproductive growth or dauer diapause in response to sensory cues. Insulin/IGF-I and TGF-beta signaling converge on the orphan nuclear recept...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We also found that DIMT-1 regulates selective translation of stress resistance and lifespan regulating transcripts in the worm's germline but not in the muscle. One transcript which we identified as displaying differential ribosome occupancy was the cytochrome P450 enzyme DAF-9. 6/8
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We found that dimt-1 deficiency requires the TOR signaling pathway and an intact germline to extend lifespan. Using auxin-inducible degron tagged dimt-1 and tissue specific RNAi we found DIMT-1 functions in the worms' germline after mid-life to regulate organismal lifespan 5/8
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
An RNAi screen identified that dimt-1 KD caused lifespan extension. We had previously shown that DIMT-1 is an 18S rRNA m62A methylase and that methylated rRNAs are transmitted to subsequent generations to drive intergenerational response to starvation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37689068/ 4/8
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18S rRNA methyltransferases DIMT1 and BUD23 drive intergenerational hormesis - PubMed
Heritable non-genetic information can regulate a variety of complex phenotypes. However, what specific non-genetic cues are transmitted from parents to their descendants are poorly understood. Here, w...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We found that DIMT-1 functions in the germline and works after mid-life to extend lifespan. This reveals a new layer of regulation of lifespan, which transcripts are selectively translated, and found that ribosome heterogeneity is critical later in life to promote healthy aging. 3/8
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
As we age there is a dysregulation of which proteins are degraded and which proteins are produced. We showed that DIMT-1 methylation of the ribosome selectively regulates the production of stress resistance and longevity regulating proteins and regulates aging. 2/8
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited to see our manuscript out @natcomms.nature.com pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40721431/. We identified that the 18S rRNA methylase DIMT-1 regulates lifespan by functioning in the germline after midlife. 1/8
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The 18S rRNA methyltransferase DIMT-1 regulates lifespan in the germline later in life - PubMed
Specialized ribosomes help determine which proteins are synthesized, however, the influence of age on ribosome heterogeneity and whether dysregulation of this process drives organismal aging is unknow...
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ericgreerlab.bsky.social @ericgreerlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My lab name is EZE. Was nicknamed easy-E cause I like rap and am relatively easy going.
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