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Chhabi Govind, PhD

@govindlab.bsky.social
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Professor, Oakland University, MICHIGAN. Visiting Faculty@ LSI, UMich (Klionsky lab). | Chromatin |Transcription |Autophagy | Yeast | Genomics |🧪

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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 7h
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 8h
!!! — If you are in the NIH ecosystem please read this thread.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a deep and powerful report from the @standupforscience.net Foundation. It is thorough and deep but worth the time to read. www.standupforscience.foundation/forging-the-...
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Advancing science for the public good.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Justice for Photograph 49!
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Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cryo-EM peeps are living the dream www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In-cell structures visualize human pre-ribosome assembly in the nucleolus
In eukaryotes, ribosome biogenesis initiates within the nucleolus, a hallmark multilayered compartment of the nucleus. Structures of pre-ribosomes have been characterized ex situ, but their assembly p...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel this is just temporary; will resurrect it after elections
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They might retract this statement tomorrow. Who knows.
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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I hope Congress pays attention to it
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Russell Vought wants to be in charge of #ScienceDeathPanels at NIH. Congress has made it pretty clear they don’t want political appointees in charge of funding decisions. Science community: it’s time to get loud (again)! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bethesda area folks Join @nihvigils.bsky.social & our @27unihted.bsky.social friends for a special “SOS for Health” vigil on 9/26, with @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Public health workers & researchers across the country are coming together to say “enough is enough.” www.mobilize.us/publiccitize...
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SOS for Health - Bethesda · Public Citizen
The Trump administration’s deep cuts to health and public health and assaults on science-based policy are already being felt across the country—from Medicaid, research and staffing cuts to attacks on ...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We have 6.50 here
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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m excited to share that my department is hiring at the full professor level!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just emailed the leadership at Pitt (my current employer), Stanford (my Alma Mater), and Johns Hopkins (my former employers) using this tool. It's easy. Let them hear our voices.
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🛠️ Bacteria have long had plasmids w/tunable copy numbers. Eukaryotes haven't, until now: new #Yeast platform =stable, programmable gene dosage control across a 109-copy range. Applications from #MetabolicEngineering ➡️ strain preservation 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PRISM: A Plasmid-based Reporter for Intracellular Spectral Microscopy by Jonathon Nixon-Abell and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
PRISM enables stable integration and spectrally resolved imaging of five organelles across multiple cell types.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CONCERNING NIH NEWS Administrator's access to ERA Commons has been taken away! Please share and confirm if true. Please correct me if I am getting bad information 1/3
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Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'
ALT: Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At least one paper
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Or ICE
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I can’t have tea without adrak-:)
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Insights from inside NIH on the proposal to hide scores and instead bin applications into broad score categories. Please read and comment on the RFI. 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-... Link to RFI: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...
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NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fortunately, I don’t know anyone from this list.
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PomBase: The S. pombe knowledgebase @pombase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.
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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects
Letter to the Editor
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
⏰ Cellular stress timer: #Yeast stress granules gradually solidify during starvation via PKA phosphorylation, acting as molecular timer for recovery. Maturation controls orderly growth restart, may illuminate neurodegeneration mechanisms 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I hope this is never implemented.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NIH might as well change the scoring system from 1-9 to 1-3 (1=<25%; 2=26-50%; 3=>50%).
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🤯
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a must-read for anyone interested in NIH. formernih.substack.com/p/nih-direct... NIH_Leadership™ held a session full of half-truths about the "unified funding strategy" while they and HHS continues to play politics with NIH grants. Chilling, but a call to action! @standupforscience.net
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NIH Directors Decide, Except When HHS Says No
A June 2026 Nature report revealed that mandatory reviews by top officials, checking for a list of 235 disfavored terms, have left hundreds of meritorious NIH applications in administrative limbo (Koz...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Come on, folks. Your chance to get you voice heard. It’s comment time! (until October 13th)
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The difference between 1% and 25% is huge. This will basically become a lottery.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Same experience here.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Amazing!!
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Katja Luck @katjaluck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Check out our new article if you are interested in disorder-mediated protein interactions, AlphaFold-based structural modeling and variant characterization: rdcu.be/fw2oz Dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41594-026-01846-z
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Variant characterization in the intrinsically disordered human proteome - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Proteome-wide prediction and structural modeling of disordered protein interaction interfaces advance characterization of disease-associated variants in disordered protein regions.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They are told to do “their own research” and then decide.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You could take the computer off the network and use it only for the plate reader; if IT allows it.
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Arnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How many TFs to you need to open chromatin at enhancers? Very excited to see this one out! Check out the augmented version with combinatorial motif mutant libraries in Figure 5! Very proud of @guidobarzaghi.bsky.social @valentinabaderna.bsky.social @embl.org
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 10/08/2026
☕The authors report that targeted BRD4 recruitment enables transcription through H3K9me3/HP1-marked heterochromatin without erasing repressive marks, identifying condensate partitioning as a mechanism for gene desilencing. 👉https://rdcu.be/fyYPw www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BRD4 recruitment into HP1 condensates desilences transcription without erasure of repressive chromatin - Nature Cell Biology
Brandon, Robinson-Thiewes, Kaulage et al. report that targeted BRD4 recruitment enables transcription through H3K9me3/HP1-marked heterochromatin without erasing repressive marks, identifying condensat...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It doesn’t. Seems very odd for a scientist to ignore evidence.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do they really believe it or its just a ruse.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I have met doctors who try to impose their lifestyle on their patients.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Genome-wide analysis reveals the importance of histone acetyltransferase Esa1 in transcriptional regulation during nitrogen starvation
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a process that degrades intracellular components and is strongly triggered by nitrogen starvation (-N). Some ATG (autophagy related) genes are activated at the transcriptio...
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Kaushik Ragunathan @kaushikr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our new study shows a CHD-family remodeler can nucleate and spread H3K9 methylation de novo, inverting the canonical hierarchy between writers and remodelers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nucleosome remodeling by a CHD enzyme promotes H3K9 methylation establishment and spreading via remodeler-writer feedback
In Schizosaccharomyces pombe , the conserved CHD remodeler Mit1 function within the SHREC remodeler-deacetylase complex (a homolog of the metazoan Mi-2/NuRD complex), which is essential for H3K9 methy...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Nice skill to have-:)
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🔍 Check out SGD's redesigned search landing page! Improved autocomplete, quick category browsing, and highlights of newly added literature & recent annotations. 🔴 Click the big red "Explore SGD" button on the SGD homepage or just hit return in an empty search box 👉 www.yeastgenome.org/search
Screenshot of SGD's search landing page showing a search box at the top, category buttons for browsing genes, complexes, pathways and chemicals, and sidebar panels displaying newly added literature and recent annotations.
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think he knows it.
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Nucleic Acids Research @narjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📣NAR is recruiting a new Executive Editor!📣Seeking an established researcher with expertise in RNA biology and translation mechanisms to help shape the journal's scientific direction, oversee peer review, and support its growth. Apply by 30 Sept 2026: academic.oup.com/nar/pages/ex...
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Chhabi Govind, PhD @govindlab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hopefully it gets delayed until November
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