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Michelle Percharde

@mpercharde.bsky.social
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Transposons, chromatin, development. Group leader @ the MRC LMS in London and UKRI FLF. Mum of 2, she/her. Www.perchardelab.com

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Kurianlab @kurianlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.cell.com/molecular-ce... check this beautiful paper
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Alu repeat-containing RNAs spatially organize actively transcribed genomic regions around nuclear speckles
Liu et al. identify nuclear speckle-enriched Alu repeat-containing RNAs that facilitate the organization of actively transcribed genes at speckles by binding Alu sequences and promoting speckle assemb...
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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab. @mrclmb.bsky.social Please get in touch if you have any questions. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (GB) job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12854636
Research Group Leader Tenure Track Starting Salary £67,979 to £76,868 per annum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK The MRC Laborato...
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Miguel Branco @brancolab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New preprint from the lab! We dig into the regulatory roles of TEs in the mouse placenta, with some surprising findings. Led by the awesome @smamante.bsky.social. Particular kudos to him for navigating the many twists and turns of the project.
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🚨Our story is published! Same bones but + dissection of MERVL’s role integrating signals from #ZGA factors, & + about pathological DUX4 activation of NOXA #TEsky. Thanks to all revs for their helpful comments improving the ms. Even #rev3 - until they ghosted us 😜 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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CRISPRa-mediated disentanglement of the Dux-MERVL axis in the 2C-like state, totipotency, and cell death
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yes true! Or where they part of the problem… 🤣
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I’m not sure it’s a good thing 😂 I miss papers with 3 figures and one finding. Poor person who has to present journal club on this paper!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you Rob! 🇬🇧
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you Deborah!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks Antoine!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks Abby!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you for your support Lila!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🥰🥰🥰 thank you. Looking forward to more TEtime together ;)
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Very excited to be part of this prestigious programme, thank you @embo.org !
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EMBO @embo.org · 02/12/2025
Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-…
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚨Post open in our lab! Come work on some cool themes involving metabolism, chromatin, early development 🤓. Pls RT
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📣 We’re hiring 6 new Team Science postdocs! Our Team Science approach brings together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle questions no single field can solve alone. Find out more and download our brochure below
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MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientists x 6 - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Team Science Project
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#TEsky
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Register now for our one-day symposium at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences on environmental and metabolic control of early development on 4 December 2025! Spaces are limited, register here: www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Spaces filling up for our @bsdb.bsky.social GRT symposium @mrc-lms.bsky.social on environment, metabolism and stem cell development 4th Dec 2025! Updated poster with talk titles below. Register here: www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem... Looking forward to seeing you there!
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We are launching 11 new #PhD opportunities today! If you would like to contribute to the research at the LMS apply today! #medicalscience #lifescience
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Studentships and PhD training
We have two core PhD programmes - traditional and transdisciplinary. Our PhD students are registered with Imperial and are embedded in our dedicated research facility.
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Transposon and Cancer Epigenetics Group @deniz-lab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We have a new PhD studentship in the lab on the immunogenic roles of transposable elements in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia! Come and work with us! www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-cyp-phd...
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2026 CYP PhD Project Deniz
Uncovering the Immunogenic Landscape of Transposon-Driven Transcripts in Paediatric Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Primary supervisor: Özgen Deniz, Queen Mary University of London Secondary supervisor: Ri...
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life. #Nature Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life
Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Come be our head of bioinformatics at @mrc-lms.bsky.social ! Our bioinformatics team are closely involved with lots of interesting science and we love working with them. Topics inc. development, cancer, metabolism, aging, TEs (my favourite of course 😜) #TEsky lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
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Head of Bioinformatics - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
We are recruiting for a Head of Bioinformatics to lead our Bioinformatics facility
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Great to see this out in final form. Congrats Abby!
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
it appears your low-hanging-fruit phd project wasn't so risk free after all, mr. bond
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Join the #LMS! Our institute is advertising for junior #GroupLeader positions in #Physiology and #Metabolism. Closing date for applications: August 31st!
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MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences @mrc-lms.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue. A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
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Study reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue
Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have produced the first detailed characterisation of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by...
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨Symposium alert! 🚨 Next edition of our biennial stem cell symposium is 4th Dec 2025 - focus on metabolism and development. Sponsored by @bsdb.bsky.social. Great lineup of speakers, hosted @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London. Registration is open. www.symposia.org.uk/courses/stem...
Poster for Genesis Research Trust / BSDB symposium on metabolism and stem cells
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Vicki Metzis @vmetzis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
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MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. LMS...
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
LTRs as dogs…can be friendly, quite helpful at times. LINEs as cats? Also pretty nice in some cases, but also will get angry and scratch out your eyes. Hmm #TEsky 🤔
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I love the concept of domesticated transposable elements. I like that my genome has its little viral pets to feed nucleic acids and take out for transcriptional walkies. 🧬
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I feel like the clusters of pistachios (?) are significant here hmmm
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In this Review, @bryonyleeke.bsky.social, Imke Staffhorst and @mpercharde.bsky.social @mrc-lms.bsky.social explore roles of the nucleolus in mammalian development, focusing on genome organisation and chromatin regulation: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Figure 1 Nucleolar structure and rRNA gene organisation.
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Good things come to those who wait! 😅 congratulations @lab-turner.bsky.social on this exciting work and what a day for @bryonyleeke.bsky.social 💪🏼
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big thanks to @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Imke Staffhorst for all their hard work on the planning and content, (and Imke's talented ilustrative work), to helpful reviewers, and to @dev-journal.bsky.social for a smooth and efficient review process.
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The nucleolus....large, rather boring organelle in the nucleus? No! Our review led by @bryonyleeke.bsky.social just out @dev-journal.bsky.social, highlighting new findings on nucleoli dynamics in development, intriguing roles in chromatin organisation & more. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
nucleoli are dynamically reprogrammed in early mammalian development
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I love GRCs..they feel friendly and much more accessible previously as a postdoc and even now as a mid-(still early??) career PI than many meetings. And looking forward to the GRC epigenetics one in Aug!
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Calling undergrads! Our summer internship programme @mrc-lms.bsky.social is still open if you want to try out a summer research project. Great way to get a taste of research, inc a generous stipend. Lots of interesting labs are hosting, including us ;) Closing 15/5/25. lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...
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LMS Undergraduate Summer Programme - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Our LMS Undergraduate Summer Programme is a fantastic, fully-funded opportunity for undergraduate students to gain hands on laboratory experience to support their scientific journeys.
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Transposon and Cancer Epigenetics Group @deniz-lab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I am excited to share our lab's first review out with in Blood Cancer Journal. We discuss the impact of transposable elements on genome regulation and variation in both normal haematopoietic processes and haematological cancers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transposable elements as genome regulators in normal and malignant haematopoiesis - Blood Cancer Journal
Blood Cancer Journal - Transposable elements as genome regulators in normal and malignant haematopoiesis
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Very nice, congratulations! I remember seeing and liking this story at ICTE. Of course you didn’t have to convince me that TEs can play important roles in development… 😍
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Barbara Pernaute @bpernaute.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨🚨#Hiring! 3 year #postdoc position open in my lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the interplay between DNA damage responses and #preimplantation embryo development. Fully funded by EARLYFATE #ERCCoG 📆 Apply by 23rd May 2023 🔗Details below @sebioldev.bsky.social Please RT!🙏
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Barbara McClintock proposed – over 40 years ago – that transposable element activity could be a response to stress, and I think that we are still only beginning to understand how right she was.
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Marco Trizzino @marcotrizzino.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New preprint from my group! Here we studied the contribution of a subset of human- and hominoid-specific transposons (SVA, LTR5HS) to the evolution of human craniofacial development. We specifically focussed on cranial neural crest (CNCC) formation and migration 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Human-specific transposable elements shaped the evolution of craniofacial development through regulation of neural crest migration
Craniofacial development and neural crest specification are evolutionarily conserved processes, yet subtle modifications to their gene regulatory networks drive species-specific craniofacial diversity...
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Joanna W Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Join our team as a postdoc and explore the exciting world of transposable elements and developmental biology with us! @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social
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Pradeepa Madapura @pradeepmadapura.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Chromatin & transcription meeting is back again. Register your interest here www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...
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QMUL Centre for Epigenetics @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Only a couple of months left until our official QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Launch Conference! We will have an amazing list of guest speakers, including Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social from MRC LMS, UK. Spaces are limited.
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Michelle Percharde @mpercharde.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Can’t wait! 😍
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