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Kadir Akdemir

@kcakdemir.bsky.social
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Husband & father | Asst prof at MD Anderson Cancer Center | Our lab focuses on tumor evolution, chromatin folding & instability akdemirlab.github.io

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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It was fun to write this review with @rcdrula.bsky.social on Dicer functions beyond the canonical RNAi roles, including discussion of its roles in the nucleus. An evolving and sometimes complicated field, that was synthesized beautifully by Rareș, a terrific postdoc in the lab. Check it out!
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Noncanonical Functions of DICER-Mediated Pathways
Dicer has long been viewed as the RNAse III enzyme that generates small regulatory RNAs to drive RNA interference (RNAi) machinery and posttranscriptional gene silencing. However, a growing body of ev...
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Roel Verhaak @roelverhaak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In our new collaborative paper on IDHmutant glioma with the Tirosh, Suva, Iavarone and Lasorella labs, we show how acquired genetic alterations converge with cell state changes and poor treatment responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression - Nature
Longitudinal transcriptomic, chromatin and genomic analyses of the two types of IDH-mutant glioma reveal in detail how disease progression is influenced by interdependent genetic, epigenetic and micro...
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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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Nuria Lopez-Bigas @nlbigas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tumor promotion through the lens of evolution This review grew out of many long conversations, shared ideas, and lively discussions It has been a real pleasure to think together with Allan, Paul, Eve, and Abel about how tumours develop and how carcinogens shape cancer risk rdcu.be/fdC2J
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Tumour promotion through the lens of evolution
Nature - This Review revisits tumour initiation and promotion in light of clonal diversity and the presence of cancer driver mutations in normal tissues, aiming to understand mechanisms that enable...
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Eileen Parkes @eileenparkes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Delighted our work on chromosomal instability in oesophageal cancer is now out in Science Advances share.google/UcZXne5OZdM9...
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Chromosomal instability shapes the tumor microenvironment of esophageal adenocarcinoma via a cGAS–chemokine–myeloid axis
Chromosomal chaos rewires immune defense into tumor-promoting inflammation.
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Eileen Parkes @eileenparkes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Parkes lab pre-print alert! ‘TMEM33 deletion potentiates anti-tumor CD8⁺ T cell immunity.’ Led by mtjackson101.bsky.social. Full bluetutorial follows! 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Seungsoo Kim @seungsookim.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Kim Lab (sskimlab.org) at UC Irvine is recruiting motivated grad students interested in uncovering how transcriptional regulators direct cell fates. We accept students through the CMB (cmb.uci.edu) and MCSB (ccbs.uci.edu/education/mcsb/) PhD programs. Please share with prospective grad students!
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Kim Lab at UC Irvine
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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Benjamin Werner @benjaminwerner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very happy that the review article by @magnushaughey.bsky.social and Imran Noorani on the evolutionary role of extra-chromosomal DNA in cancers just came out. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Darío Lupiáñez @dariloops.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨The formation of 3D chromatin hubs is a poorly understood phenomenon. I wrote a N&V about the excellent work Karpinska, Zhu and colleagues, from @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social lab, who shed new light on the formation and function of these structures. rdcu.be/elPt3
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Decoupling chromatin hubs from gene control
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Chromatin hubs, which are formed during cell differentiation, are characterized by simultaneous interactions between multiple regulatory elements and...
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Kadir Akdemir @kcakdemir.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited to share our latest manuscript www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This was a great collaboration with Drs. Huse, Lang, @jesserdixon.bsky.social
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Eileen Parkes @eileenparkes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incoming - new preprint alert from the Parkes lab led by @brunobeernaert.bsky.social Full bluetutorial follows! 1/ 11 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Model figure - in EAC cancers, as chromosomal instability (CIN) increases, we found that a CIN-driven cGAS-dependent axis drives myeloid directed chemokine expression and recruitment of tumor-favoring myeloid populations
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Emre Kocakavuk @ekocakavuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🧪 We’re Hiring: Lab Technician 🧪 I’m happy to share that our newly established Emmy Noether Group in Essen is looking for a Lab Technician to join our team! 🔗 Apply here: karriere.ume.de/job-finder/?... 📅 Start: At the earliest possible date 💻 Homepage: kocakavuklab.vercel.app/overview
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Job Finder - Karriereportal - Universitätsklinikum Essen
Finden Sie eine Stelle am Universitätsklinikum Essen
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 26/04/2025
that’s right
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26/04/2025
Huge opportunity for postdocs gearing up for an academic job search, hosted by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and UCSF!
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Nature Genetics @natgenet.nature.com · 11/04/2025
Nature Genetics is looking to hire a new editor! Come join our team and help publish the most exciting research in genetics and genomics! Deadline is April 25th. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...
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Associate or Senior Editor Nature Genetics and Nature Communication
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor Nature Genetics and Nature Communication Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: New York/Philadelphia, Shanghai/Beijing, Madrid or Milan Application Deadline: A...
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Anton Goloborodko @golobor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Earnshaw, Goloborodko, Dekker & Mirny labs are excited to present our latest work, "Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation" - now accepted!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short clip describing the key results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvO...
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Rules of Engagement
YouTube video by Johan Gibcus
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Brandon Emanuel León @brandonleon95.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Lookin for a good read in between experiments? Check out the commentary article in @neuroonc.bsky.social @dbayik.bsky.social and I wrote on an insightful study on myeloid cells in gliomas 🙂‍↔️ link here: academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...
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An in-depth survey of immunosuppressive myeloid cell heterogeneity in GBM
Brandon Emanuel León, Defne Bayik; An in-depth survey of immunosuppressive myeloid cell heterogeneity in GBM, Neuro-Oncology, , noaf080, https://doi.org/10
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Kadir Akdemir @kcakdemir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is truly heartbreaking! I don’t understand the “logic” behind all this. Hurting the US science will only make scientific enterprises of other countries stronger. Why an administration would want that?
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Cancer knows no borders, and setbacks in one part of the world can have lasting consequences for #patients everywhere The #EACR, and all co-signing national #cancer societies & foundations, stand in solidarity and offer our full support to our friends and colleagues in the US #StandUpForScience 🧪
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EACR Statement on Threats to Cancer Research | The European Association for Cancer Research
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Marieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Happy to share our review with @akispapantonis.bsky.social in which we summarise and discuss our current understanding of enhancer-mediated gene activation in the context of the 3D genome: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Mechanisms of Enhancer-Mediated Gene Activation in the Context of the 3D Genome | Annual Reviews
Precise spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression is critical for the development and functioning of complex, multicellular organisms. Enhancers play a fundamental role in the regulation of gene ex...
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Stein Aerts @steinaerts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Review alert - "Modelling and design of transcriptional enhancers" by Seppe and Vasilis 👇
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Kadir Akdemir @kcakdemir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Really excited to share our lab's first manuscript! I cant be more proud of our team, especially @nora-mae.bsky.social who diligently worked on this project. It will be a long thread but I promise it's worth it! #Oncology #BrainMets
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Timothy A. Yap, MBBS, PhD, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the AACR journal Clinical Cancer Research. Dr. Yap is co-director for the AACR/ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop and a past cochair of the AACR Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...
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Kadir Akdemir @kcakdemir.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Here is how random things affect your career: in Oct, I applied for my 1st R01. For study sections I recommended CG first and then GRIC. My grant was assigned to GRIC. It seems CG met last week but GRIC was cancelled today. Where should I put this information on my CV/biosketch?!
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
For all the gains AI affords in compound design and discovery, experimental validation still remains a bottleneck. But we're making that part easy for the cancer target TBXT with a suite of biophysical, in vitro and in vivo assay capabilities—plus prizes for potent binders: tbxtchallenge.org
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TBXT CHALLENGE – Make history in drug discovery
Make history in drug discovery
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Teif lab @teiflab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Multiscale footprints reveal the organization of cis-regulatory elements www.nature.com/articles/s41... ▶️Footprints of DNA–protein interactions from bulk & single-cell ATAC-seq ⤵️ ▶️Deep learning to infer transcription factor and nucleosome binding ▶️Age-associated reduction of nucleosome footprints
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Houston Zoo @houstonzoo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Snow day at the Zoo! ❄️ Lisa our Amur Leopard is choosing to explore the snow this morning. All animals are healthy and doing well. During the wintery weather, our animals have access to their heated barns prepped with extra hay. 📸: John R., Hoofstock & Carnivore Curator
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Caroline Brennan @txbraintrust.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thrilled to welcome Ziya Gokaslan, M.D., from Brown University to deliver the 29th Annual Leavens Lecture at @mdanderson.bsky.social today! Dr. Gokaslan spoke on spinal surgery and #chordoma.
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Kadir Akdemir @kcakdemir.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hopefully 2025 will be as fun/interesting as it’s mathematically. Happy New Year!!! (Credit: Moshe Verdi - I couldn’t find him here)
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Linghua Wang, MD, PhD @linghua-wang.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🔥We’re hiring! 🌟Positions available: Postdocs, Data Scientists, Software Engineers 🎯 Focus: Spatial Omics—Data Analysis, Pipeline & Method Development ⚙️ Expertise: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology & Pathology, Imaging Data Analysis, AI & ML ✉️ LWang22@mdanderson.org 🙏 Please help spread the word
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Mustafa Khasraw @mkhasraw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Neurooncology Starter Pack
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Normal breast tissues harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells - Nature
Using single-cell DNA sequencing we show that most healthy women harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells with copy number alteration events in their breast tissue that expand and accumu...
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Samir Amin @samiramin.com · 19/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #instability #evolution #cancer
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Chromothripsis in cancer - Nature Reviews Cancer
Chromothripsis is an extreme form of chromosome instability that causes the acquisition of multiple genomic aberrations. Simovic-Lorenz and Ernst discuss mechanistic models of chromothripsis and outli...
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Job Dekker @jobdekker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Leonid Mirny and I wrote this for all interested in chromosomes: "The chromosome folding problem and how cells solve it" www.cell.com/action/showP...
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Chordoma Foundation Labs @cflabsresearch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Confirmed our recent observation of synergism between gemcitabine and ATR inhibition in two additional cell lines, latest data now on Figshare figshare.com/articles/fig...
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Gemcitabine and ATR inhibitor synergism and effects on the cell cycle and DNA damage in CH22 and U-CH17PII (Batch 2)
(A.) Treatment regime diagram. Cells were treated in 4 groups. Treatment additions are represented as colored circles. Combination treatment additions were administered 24 hours after the first treatm...
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Assembloids have emerged as a powerful tool for studying previously inaccessible processes of development and tissue homeostasis. In our article in Cell Stem Cell, we summarize advances in the generation & application of neural and non-neural #assembloids to explore complex cell-cell interactions.
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