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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab

@nitikataneja.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @ErasmusMC, @OncodeInstitute #proudMom #WomanInSTEM RI: #ChromatinOrganization #ReplicationStress #Epigenetics. Funding: #ERC #VIDI #Oncode

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Epigenome Technologies @epigenometech.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Epigenetics Update - Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability u.epigenome.us/tbH5bRGB Vincent Gaggioli/Kaustav Sengupta and nitikataneja.bsky.social (erasmusmc.bsky.social) in nature.com #Epigenetics #Chromatin #ChromatinLooping --- epigenometech.com
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very excited to share our new Nature study! We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
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Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability - Nature
Replication stress induces the formation of transient chromatin loops that enclose de novo heterochromatin-enriched stalled replication forks.
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our lab is featured in the latest Erasmus MC Annual Report. Thanks to my team, our collaborators and funding agencies for their continued support & making this possible! 🙏 Read here👇: digitaalpubliceren.com/erasmusmc/21...
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Benjamin Pardo @pardolab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today we are very pleased to share our latest article available now online @narjournal.bsky.social about the role of Slx4 scaffold and Fun30 (SMARCAD1 homolog) in DNA damage response regulation and replication fork protection against Top1-DNA crosslinks. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
- Checkpoint signaling slows down replication in response to Top1 poisoning by camptothecin. 
- Checkpoint signaling is actively dampened by Slx4 and Fun30 to permit Exo1-dependent resection of replication forks. 
- Checkpoint dampening is critical to promote replication fork protection and preserve genome stability.
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GIIN @genomeiinetwork.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thank you to @doksanilab.bsky.social, @nitikataneja.bsky.social, and everyone who joined us for such a great discussion today! We’re excited to invite you to our next webinar on March 3rd with @centromellone.bsky.social and Michele Pagano.
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GIIN @genomeiinetwork.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Please note that the zoom link for tomorrow's webinar with @nitikataneja.bsky.social and @doksanilab.bsky.social has been updated: uzh.zoom.us/j/6466274666...
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GIIN @genomeiinetwork.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Another great science appointment is coming up with @nitikataneja.bsky.social and @doksanilab.bsky.social! Join us live on Tuesday, February 3rd at 5pm (Rome) / 11am (NYC). Zoom link: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403 Register here to stay in the loop: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Delighted & grateful to receive @erc.europa.eu support once again! This ERC-PoC will translate fundamental insights into therapy-induced chromatin reorganization toward proof-of-concept in ovarian cancer patient samples. Special thanks to @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social for continued support! 🙌
https://amazingerasmusmc.com/biomedical/dna-test-who-benefits-from-chemotherapy-for-ovarian-cancer/
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Delighted to be part of this work from the Lopes lab identifying nucleoplasmic Lamin A/C as a key regulator of replication fork plasticity, acting via de novo heterochromatin and ADP-ribosylation to control RECQ1-mediated fork restart. Now in Nature Comm. 🎉Special efforts: @joannapaulson.bsky.social
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Nucleoplasmic Lamin A/C controls replication fork restart upon stress by modulating local H3K9me3 and ADP-ribosylation levels
Nature Communications - Replication fork plasticity upon genotoxic stress is modulated by nuclear architectural components by elusive mechanisms. Here the authors implicate Lamin A/C – best...
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Petr Cejka @cejkalab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Among the anti-recombinases, FIGNL1 rules them all. So much that inactivating it brings BRCA2-deficient cells to life. Who is responsible for RAD51 loading without BRCA2/FIGNL1, check out the paper to find out! Great collaboration with @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Halloween borrel at the department 🎃 : our PhDs & Postdocs showed next-level creativity by revealing the hidden monstrous sides of their PIs! 👻😂 Absolutely hilarious & scary indeed😜… though I’m starting to wonder if that’s really how they see me 👀😅
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AmélieFT@AFTLab @amelieft.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I am very excited to share the newest paper of the lab, a huge amount of work led by our talented PhD student Maxime Galloy, in close collaboration with Andréanne Blondeau, our dedicated research assistant for 10 years! 🙌 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Ubiquitination of the histone variant mH2A1.2 prevents toxic RAD18 accumulation at a subset of genomic loci upon replication stress
Using biochemical assays and a mutant disrupting RNF168-dependent ubiquitination of the histone variant macroH2A1.2, Galloy et al. identified an unexpected role for histone mH2A1.2 ubiquitination in p...
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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
First preLights post from Jenny Singh (@jennysingh.bsky.social‬) She covers work showing that Lamin A/C maintains replication fork integrity during mild replication stress by modulating chromatin structure & restraining RECQ1 activity. #preprint #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/n...
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Nucleoplasmic Lamin A/C controls replication fork restart upon stress by modulating local H3K9me3 and ADP-ribosylation levels - preLights
Lamin A/C maintains replication fork integrity during mild replication stress by modulating chromatin structure and restraining RECQ1 activity.
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Fusion Conferences @fusionconf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
⏰🚨FINAL DEADLINE APPROACHING #BGFP25 's extended reg deadline is closing on 02 June 2025. This is your last chance to register and confirm your place at this fantastic conference 🧬! Join us in sunny Portugal this July and register now: bit.ly/3AnsVZF
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#SouthKorea
Chilling after a wonderful Keystone meeting on ssDNA gaps…. Now filling the gaps with a peaceful mind!
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Luijsterburglab @luijsterburglab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A must for all DNA repair aficionados! Egmond DNA Repair Meeting → April 19–24, 2026 🇳🇱 ✔️ Confirmed top speakers ✔️ Ample opportunities for talks & posters Don’t miss it: dnarepairmeeting-egmond2026.com
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 19/03/2025
Abortion bans kill women
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Lopes_Lab @lopeslab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Exciting seminar series from Genome integrity italian Network (GiiN), chaired by myself and Raffaella Di Micco! Short talks (2x30’), at convenient time for EU/USA attendees. Big shots and raising stars in an expanding field. See flyers + link to receive email alerts. Please repost to your network!👇
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Agnel Sfeir @agnelsfeir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Join us in Lisbon this July to learn how cells "Balance Genome Fidelity & Plasticity". deadline for talks extended and a # of fellowships are available to offset trainee registration. www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/1...
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Our scientific research conferences support the development of physical, medical and life sciences, providing a powerful platform that encourages discussion and collaboration in luxury locations acros...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Happy to have contributed(along with PhD students @joannapaulson.bsky.social & Collin Bakker) to such great work from @lopeslab.bsky.social and team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nucleoplasmic Lamin A/C controls replication fork restart upon stress by modulating local H3K9me3 and ADP-ribosylation levels
Mild replication interference is a consolidated strategy for cancer chemotherapy. Tolerance to mild replication stress (RS) relies on active fork slowing, mediated by transient fork reversal and RECQ1...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Online today @science.org 👀Molecular basis of FIGNL1 in dissociating RAD51 from #DNA and #chromatin by @alexcarver.bsky.social @layates.bsky.social et al. in @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Orlando D. Schärer @orlandoscharer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What are your plans for October 2025? It would be a fantastic time to visit Norway for the Endogenous DNA Damage and Repair conference with a stellar set of speaker covering a wide range of topics. www.endodnadamage.com
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keithcaldecott.bsky.social @keithcaldecott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Dear all, my first post! I have postdoc positions available if you would like to join my lab in beautiful Sussex by the Sea! Please contact me on k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
behold our paper on Medusavirus nucleosomes. Fantastic work by Chelsea Toner, @nhoitsma.bsky.social, and Sashi Weerawarana This giant virus also encodes a linker histone, more about that in the paper 🧪👩‍🔬 🧵. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Luijsterburglab @luijsterburglab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Happy to share our new paper with Goran Kokic and the Svejstrup lab in Cell! We show that STK19 facilitates the clearance of lesion-stalled RNAPII during transcription-coupled DNA repair. Great teamwork by Diana, Marta and Paula! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What an exciting day for the lab at the Dutch Chromatin Meeting! Congrats to Ashutosh (a.k.a Vincent 😉)for winning the poster prize on 3D reorganization of stressed forks & Joanna for her fantastic talk on phase separation during replication stress. Proud of you guys! 🤩
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Susan Gasser @susanmgasser.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Two back-to-back papers in Nature comms from mylab explore the link between destabilization of the actin cytoskeleton and aberrant base excision repair - passing through nuclear actin and the actin-dependent nucleosome remodeler INO80C.
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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The latest from our group, led by Megan Ostrowski and @martyyang.bsky.social, is now published in final form (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...! Many thanks to our excellent peer reviewers for suggesting several experiments (including CAF-1 perturbation) to really improve the study =) #epigenetics
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The single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin
By developing a long-read sequencing method to simultaneously map replication status and protein-DNA contacts in cells, Ostrowski, Yang, et al. show that newly replicated chromatin is enriched for unw...
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
First post here! New paper from the lab! Profound synthetic lethality between FANCM and SMARCAL1: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Profound synthetic lethality between SMARCAL1 and FANCM
Feng et al. uncover a critical genetic interaction between the DNA translocases SMARCAL1 and FANCM. Their combined loss leads to catastrophic genome instability, particularly at simple-repeat sequence...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Fantastic study… Congratulations Francesca n team! 👏
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Francesca Mattiroli @fmattiroli.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Being haiku-ed is an honor! You were so fast, too 🤩
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
New function for an 'old' chromatin remodeler: great collaboration with @nitikataneja.bsky.social and others. Fantastic work from our own @nhoitsma.bsky.social. Check out how SMARCAD1 contributes to resolving R-loops during replication, before they become a problem. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nitika Taneja @TanejaLab @nitikataneja.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
How are R-loops & conflicts rapidly resolved ahead of actively progressing forks? Is there a remodeler that associates with active forks, binds directly to R-loops, and senses & suppresses them? Check out our new study here!👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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SMARCAD1 Regulates R-Loops at Active Replication Forks Linked to Cancer Mutation Hotspots
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