Reposted by Jackson HoffmanArnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We are recruiting! Wet&Dry either combined or separate. If you are excited about gene regulation, new methods in genomics and AI-based interpretation! Talk to us! 0125
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanFragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026📢🧬join us on Wednesday, Sept 23rd for the next #FNucleosome seminar to hear exciting chromatin/transcription stories from Oscar Campos and @giacomodonatijd.bsky.social! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 0144
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanAntoine Molaro @antoinemolaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hello World ! Reminder about our open postdoc position 🧪🧬 Reviewing applications until October - get in touch to know more about what's hot in the lab these days ! Application details in the post below 👇👇 #EvoEpi #MolaroLab #watwat #ERC 0416
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm super excited for our new season of #FragileNucleosome seminars, which kicks off tomorrow with @mpalamin.bsky.social and @robertovn.bsky.social! 052
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanFragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🎤 #FragileNucleosome is back next Wednesday! Hope you enjoyed the summer!Join us next 📅Wednesday to hear about 🧬fascinating research from @mpalamin.bsky.social from Krebs lab and @robertovn.bsky.social from Vos lab. To register if you haven't before: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 02715
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMarieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026📣 Preprint alert! We developed a method to analyze concurrent interactions between multiple chromatin regions at single alleles at sub-nucleosome resolution (multi-way Micro-Capture-C, mwMCC) & used this to study structural synergy within super-enhancers. 1/14 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 17332
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanPatricia Nano @prnano9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Nano Lab is opening in the Dept. of BioSciences, Rice University, Oct 2026! 🧠🦉 We’ll be profiling and perturbing the molecular cues that shape the human brain using single-cell functional genomics and cortical organoids. 35316
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanDykhuizen Lab @dykhuizenlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Our PBAF paper is finally out in Science Advances! We’ve been working on this project for upwards of 10 years (depending on who you ask), with Alisha heading the effort (and doing most of the work) to understand the role of PBRM1 in breast cancer metastasis. www.science.org/doi/full/10..... (1/11)science.orgPBRM1-dependent PBAF targeting is required for EMT and metastasis in breast cancerDuring EMT, PBRM1 targets PBAF to H3K14Ac sites, opening chromatin to activate TGFβ targets and enable breast cancer metastasis. 182
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMichael Guertin @guertin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join the lab to study mechanisms of transcription factors, transcription, and/or chromatin! jobrxiv.org/job/uconn-he...jobrxiv.orgPostdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and genomicsPost a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv! 142
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanGuido Barzaghi @guidobarzaghi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026📄 That's a wrap 📄 we're excited to share that the latest from @arnaudkr.bsky.social 's lab and Judith Zaugg's lab is at last online at doi.org/10.1038/s415.... Many thanks to my co-first @valentinabaderna.bsky.social and to @embl.org for the wonderful research environment.doi.orgCumulative transcription factor binding and p300-mediated histone acetylation drive enhancer activation frequency - Nature GeneticsThis study uses single-molecule footprinting to quantify chromatin accessibility at enhancers and promoters in mouse embryonic stem cells and to dissect the contributions of transcription factor bindi... 1249
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanHiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Next summer's Epigenetics GRC (I'm co-chairing with Deborah Bouch'is) is shaping up nicely with an all-star lineup of speakers working on a broad range of organisms and systems and everything from molecular mechanisms to new phenomena. Apply and put it on your calendar! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...grc.org2027 Epigenetics Conference GRCThe 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics will be held in Holderness, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot. 14723
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanEric Conway @conwayer1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Preprint alert! 🚨 We are very excited to share our new manuscript on Bohring-Opitz syndrome, a devastating rare monogenic disorder driven by truncating variants in ASXL1. This project was led by PhD student Emma Doyle, one of the OG Conway lab members 💪. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgDivergent Pathogenic PR-DUB Complex Variants Converge Functionally Via PRC2 Displacement From ChromatinThe PR-DUB complex is responsible for erasing the repressive histone modification, H2AK119ub1. ASXL1-3 proteins are mutually exclusive catalytic partners of BAP1 in the PR-DUB complex. Somatic heteroz... 41512
Reposted by Jackson Hoffmannellykanata.bsky.social @nellykanata.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I am very excited to share the work of my PhD with @eddaschulz.bsky.social, now on BioRxiv! 🎉 🧵⬇️ (1/9) How does the transcription↔️chromatin crosstalk ensure monoallelic expression? 24720
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanStirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026RNA-seq tells us how much RNA is present in the cell. But to understand gene regulation, we need to easily measure the synthesis and decay rates driving this abundance. We introduce AIR-seq: analog intrinsic recoding sequencing. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgAnalog intrinsic recoding measures RNA dynamics without chemical conversionSteady-state RNA abundance measurements mask the synthesis and decay rates that shape gene expression. Analog intrinsic recoding sequencing (AIR-seq) repurposes the base-pairing properties of N4-hydro... 215361
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Congrats to the Beamish #UMichMed and Watts #NIEHS labs on the new paper investigating the requirement for Sox8 in transcription, histone modification, and cell identity/function in proximal tubule cells!: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comPAX8 controls proximal tubule epithelial identity and stress response through epigenetic modification of distal regulatory elementsThe kidney proximal tubule undergoes dramatic cell-state transformations during recovery from injury, serving as a unique model to study the dynamic t… 042
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanSarah Vergult @svergult.bsky.social · 27/07/202640 individuals with the clinical picture of FOXG1 syndrome and a completely intact FOXG1 gene. So what’s going wrong then? Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com traces the answer to a stretch of non-coding DNA 665 kb away from the gene. (1/7) 293
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Congrats to @charlyguardia.bsky.social and @asmitasingh.bsky.social on the new paper! Awesome work out of RDBL here at NIEHS! 031
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanChrista Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Learn to say no early on. It is not your problem that there are not enough women around to fill quotas. 261
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanLuca Giorgetti lab @FMI @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Our preprint is now out in @natgenet.nature.com ! doi.org/10.1038/s415... We measured Sox2 promoter bursting dynamics with the SCR enhancer positioned at different distances within a genomic locus devoid of confounding effects in mESC: Main findings in the 🧵 below:doi.orgEnhancer control of promoter activity and variability via frequency modulation of clustered transcriptional bursts - Nature GeneticsTünnermann et al. use live-cell imaging to study promoter activity under the control of an enhancer inserted at different genomic distances. RNA production from the promoter occurs in clusters of tran... 48345
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanSarah G. Swygert @swygert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Excited to share the first preprint from my lab! Transcription has been implicated in regulating SMC complex function, but how this works has been unclear. Here, we use a yeast quiescence model to examine how transcription targets condensin. 1239
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanClaudia Mimoso @camimoso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026📢 Attention Recent Graduates 📢 I’m hiring a Postgraduate Research Associate to join my growing team at Yale! If you’re passionate about RNA biology/Gene Regulation and are looking to gain hand-on research experience before graduate school, please consider applying! postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...postdocs.yale.eduPostgraduate Associate – RNA Biology, Genomics, Neurodevelopment - Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine 088
Reposted by Jackson Hoffmanjp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 07/07/2026Still very impressed by the work of the @andersshansen.bsky.social team. Excited to see how these findings extend to endogenous enhancers in future studies! 171
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMaxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This is brilliant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comIdentifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature GeneticsThis study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat... 2236
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanCraig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Kaplan Lab at the University of Pittsburgh has received funds to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to establish a multiplexed assay of variant effect for a disease gene. This relates to our studies on RNA Polymerase II. This project requires experience with human cell lines and genomics 1/cfopitt.taleo.netPost Doctoral AssociateClick the link provided to see the complete job description. 23341
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanClaudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 13/06/2026FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS: Tamina Weiss, inspired by previous data from @ppagella86.bsky.social found that beta-catenin is more than an adaptor protein downstream of #WNT It is an orchestrator that scouts and opens enhancers for transcriptional activation @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 1158
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanAnders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026(1/n) Very excited to share tri-lab collab (Mirny & Zechner) led by Harvey, Henrik & Jack: Q: How do enhancers & promoters interact in space (contact vs. action-at-a-distance) and time (stable vs. transient)? A: Transient E-P contact (~25-42 nm lasting ~10-20 sec): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 215276
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanAnna Nordin @annanordin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Very excited to present some of my PhD work from the @claudiocantu81.bsky.social Cantù lab tomorrow! 052
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Join us on Wednesday for some great science before the world cup matches!! 010
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanJon Henninger @jhenninger.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Excited to share the first pre-print from our lab!! Check it out here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We found that many RNA-binding proteins canonically understood to regulate RNA processing can also function like transcription factors and cofactors to directly regulate transcription. 37827
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below) 18590366
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanDan Landau @landau.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in @cellcellpress.bsky.social ! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers! 212851
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanLluis Morey @lluismorey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026We’ve recently been awarded a MIRA R35 and an R01 to study non-canonical roles and missense mutations of the Polycomb system in health, cancer, and neurodevelopmental disorders. We are seeking an animal tech with lab manager duties. Please share! 0129
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanJon Henninger @jhenninger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026See our handy graphical abstract and article for free here: bit.ly/4vsl845 0188
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanBlack In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture 05749
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMarieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I am very grateful and excited about this opportunity! Big thank you to our fantastic team who have made this possible and to many supportive mentors 🙏 13867
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/06/2026Reminder that the Local Organic Intelligence Model located in your skull runs quite inexpensively on snacks and caffeine arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/a...arstechnica.comAI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day. 37687146
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We're starting in 45 minutes, register and join us to hear about the outstanding work Mark, Jake, and Sid are doing! 000
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanKazuhiro Maeshima @kazu-maeshima.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My Fragile Nucleosome seminar is now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksXp... I discuss our recent work showing that linker histone H1 behaves as a liquid-like glue for chromatin organization in living human cells 🧬 Paper: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Huge thanks to @fnucleosome.bsky.social!youtube.comKazuhiro MaeshimaYouTube video by Fragile Nucleosome 1328
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanJoaquina Delas @joadelas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Don’t miss Jake’s talk this Wednesday! @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social 0126
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026At this time tomorrow, you could be watching a couple of great chromatin talks from the future! While much of our audience will be watching these talks on Apr 22nd, Shabih Shakeel and @kazu-maeshima.bsky.social will be presenting on Apr 23rd! 060
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanClaudio Cantù @claudiocantu81.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The PALS Summer School in Transcriptomics, I promise, will be a unique experience www.trippus.net/summerschool... 23-26 June 2026 in a hidden Swedish paradise 🇸🇪🫎 We have extended the deadline to May 15 or until availability @scilifelab.se @kawresearch.bsky.social @remeseiro-lab.bsky.socialevent.trippus.netSummer School 2026Come to this beautiful Swedish inland scenario to learn the most advanced technologies to study transcriptional regulation. 0910
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanAna Tufegdzic Vidakovic @anatv.bsky.social · 02/04/2026We are looking for a postdoc to join us on the quest for understanding RNA Pol II destruction machines! If you are curious why more than 80% of Pol II are removed from genes, check out the post below: www.nature.com/naturecareer...nature.comPostdoctoral Scientist | PNAC | Dr Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic | LMB 2142 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (GB) job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12857096Postdoctoral Scientist Salary £42,694 per annum pro rata Fixed term for 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Applications are... 01312
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanFragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Join us this Wednesday to hear about fascinating research from @kashyapchhatbar.bsky.social and @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social! If you're not already registered, click here to sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... you can also join the conversation at our discord: discord.com/invite/dXqT89r 0158
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanSurfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026OK Kids, our ERK story is finally heading out into the world. After 9 years of having funding, losing funding, losing staff, getting funding, gaining staff...it's ready! We discovered a novel stage of what is an otherwise extensively studied process: how cells respond to extracellular signals. 1/nbiorxiv.org 5239
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity. 491706568
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanMichela Palamin @mpalamin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026ChromSMF 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? ⬇️ 311551
Reposted by Jackson HoffmanJackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Congrats to Pelin on the new preprint examining hormone responsiveness in mammary organoids! Excited to see what she does next with the system she's developed 🧬! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 061
Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Congrats to Pelin on the new preprint examining hormone responsiveness in mammary organoids! Excited to see what she does next with the system she's developed 🧬! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 061