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Robert Krautz

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Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | Head of the Tissue Gene Regulation Lab | tgrlab.org

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Haselbach Lab @haselbachlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are hiring a new phd student.
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Robert Krautz @robertkrautz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Absolutely thrilled 💣 to share our preprint 🖨️: "Mapping active cis-regulatory elements from transcription initiation events”. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We introduce nucCAGE and PRIME to identify active cis-regulatory elements (CREs) and disease-associated, non-coding variants.
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Jelle van den Ameele @jellevda.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Visualising heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA variants in situ? Now out as #mtDNA-smFISH in @cp-devcell.bsky.social! We find purifying selection against pathogenic mtDNA variants through genetic bottlenecks in the germline and the developing brain. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Single-molecule mitochondrial DNA imaging reveals heteroplasmy dynamics shaped by developmental bottlenecks and selection in vivo
Chandrasegaram et al. directly visualize mitochondrial DNA inside intact cells and tissues and reveal how genetic cell-to-cell variability arises during development. They show that somatic bottlenecks...
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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Robert Krautz @robertkrautz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Dear gene regulation aficionados in the wider Copenhagen 🇩🇰area: Please feel cordially invited to our 3rd Copenhagen Gene Regulation Seminar 👨‍🏫 next week on Thursday, the 5th of March. 📆 Hope to see you in Panum for 2 exciting talks! 👇
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The Groth lab @grothlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
DNA replication globally disrupts the epigenome. But does this create a chromatin-access opportunity for TF binding to facilitate cell identity change? Now 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢-𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂-𝐬𝐞𝐪 shows 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 chromatin opening & TF binding occurs specifically post-replication, in cellular differentiation & reprogramming!
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Post-replicative chromatin accessibility predicts cell fate change
Knudsen and colleagues use repli-ATAC-seq to compare replicated and unreplicated chromatin in two models of cell identity change. They find that lineage-specific elements are accessible earlier in rep...
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Julien Colombani & Ditte Andersen lab @colombani-lab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Join us for a day of talks, posters, and discussions, featuring a morning joint lecture with Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! Date: Monday, May 4th, 2026 Location: University of Copenhagen, Mærsk Tower sites.google.com/view/emergin... Free to participate
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.
Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff
Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to
Greenland to take care of the many people who are
sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!
President DJT
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Yarui Diao @yaruidiao.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.
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Floris BOSVELD @florisbosveld.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers? Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social Congratulations to all authors. Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social (lalealpar.com) www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation
Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
In 1927, Vera Menchik became the first Women's World Chess Champion at age 21 & is the longest-reigning women's champion in #chess history. She defended the title 7 times, held it undisputed until her tragic death in 1944 at age 38 in a V-1 rocket bombing during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1906.
Black-and-white photograph of Vera Menchik, the pioneering first Women's World Chess Champion, seated at a chessboard in deep concentration during a game or study session. She rests her chin on her clasped hands, elbows on the table, gazing intently downward at the board with a calm, focused expression. Menchik has dark hair pulled back and wears a long-sleeved cardigan or sweater. The chessboard in the foreground displays a mid-game position with black and white pieces in play, including prominent kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns. Behind her, heavy dark curtains frame a bright window letting in natural light.
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Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF @elphegenoralab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Interested in transcriptional regulation, enhancers and 3D genome folding? In this new study we wondered about the role of cohesin loading at enhancers for long-range transcriptional control www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... detailed 🧵👇
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Haselbach Lab @haselbachlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
And a new paper from the lab. A follow up to a previous study in which we elucidate the mechanism of the nuclear transport. Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A multivalent adaptor mechanism drives the nuclear import of proteasomes - Nature Communications
Nuclear protein homeostasis relies on proteasome import into the nucleus. Here the authors identify how assembled human proteasomes are transported across the nuclear pore complex and reveal a mechani...
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Hiroshi Ochiai @hiroshiochiai.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
1/3 New bioRxiv preprint from the lab: “Minute-scale coupling of chromatin marks and transcriptional bursts”. Led by Xiohui Gao & Chaebeen Ko. bioRxiv : www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I think that, like with art, papers offer an opportunity for you to tell the story your own way. Could another person research the same question? Yes. However, each person has the opportunity to do it and communicate it in their own way, and we must protect that 🧪
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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We need to teach PhD students how to write a great cover letter - one that links their research to a future lab’s goals, shows genuine enthusiasm, and clearly explains fit. It’s not a CV summary or a formality; it’s their first real conversation with future colleagues.
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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 09/02/2026
🚨Preprint alert🚨 How does chromatin “architecture” form at CTCF sites? Our new preprint with @voslab.org and @andersshansen.bsky.social shows CTCF dimerization promotes nucleosome oligomerization on chromatin. tinyurl.com/CTCF-nucleos...
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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The Groth lab @grothlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Congratulations to @groth-anja.bsky.social on receiving the Novo Nordisk Foundation Jacobæus Prize 🏆 we’re proud to see Anja's mentorship, leadership, & pioneering work in epigenetic cell memory getting top recognition 👏 celebrating the contributions of past & present lab members to this work too 🥳
A picture of current members of the Groth lab
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Schuh Lab @schuhlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our work on improving human egg quality was featured in @theguardian.com. We hope this will help to make #IVF more successful and allow more couples to conceive. 💜
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Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates
Exclusive: Research suggests supplementing eggs with a key protein reduces age-related defects, raising hopes of improved IVF for older women
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Mikhail Spivakov @mspivakov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm guest-editing a collection on "Enhancer-promoter interactions" at Genome Biology. Please send us your exciting stories! link.springer.com/collections/...
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Enhancer-promoter interactions
Genome Biology is calling for submissions to our Collection on enhancer-promoter interactions. Enhancer–promoter interactions are central to the regulation ...
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Stinus Lindgreen @stinuslindgreen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Jeg står her omkring i morgen fra ca. kl 10 og frem til 11:30 eller der omkring. Så går turen videre til Panum. Håber vi ses!
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date. Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Diagrams of fruit fly larvae (left) and adult (right) annotated with genes expressed in different tissues, including male- or female-biased gene expressions.A diagram providing an overview of the regulation of antimicrobial peptide and other host effector peptides by Toll and Imd signalling, alongside diagrams showing the diversity of the peptides.A summary table illustrating sequence features common to antimicrobial peptides, and a summary table of gene families.A diagram giving a model for the mechanisms of antimicrobial peptide and host defence peptide actions in killing microbial cells, including precise mechanisms, broader host-pathogen relationships, and non-microbicidal roles of these peptides in protecting the host.
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We (@sobuelow.bsky.social) developed AF-CALVADOS to integrate AlphaFold and CALVADOS to simulate flexible multidomain proteins at scale See preprint for: — Ensembles of >12000 full-length human proteins — Analysis of IDRs in >1500 TFs 📜 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 💾 github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Figure showing the AF-CALVADOS restraining and simulation protocol based on AF2 structure, PAE and pLDDT
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Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our collab w. V Goel, @nicholas-aboreden.bsky.social , J Jusuf, G Blobel, L Mirny, @irate-physicist.bsky.social out in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was co-submitted with @allanaschooley.bsky.social @jobdekker.bsky.social whose paper should also come out soon Brief thread 👇
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Dynamics of microcompartment formation at the mitosis-to-G1 transition - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Goel et al. produce high-resolution three-dimensional genome structure mapping from mitosis to G1 phase to show unseen interactions between enhancers and promoters in prometaphase. Polymer modeling in...
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 20/09/2025
“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”
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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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Jan Żylicz @jzylicz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Genes are not On/Off switches. In a new preprint we show that HDAC3 is key to establish correct transcriptional dose in development. Gr8 work from N. Stamidis @ucph.bsky.social and collab. @jamiehackett.bsky.social @gregersenlab.bsky.social . Huge thx to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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HDAC3 prevents enhancer hyperactivation to enable developmental transitions
Dynamic gene regulation requires precise cooperation between transcription factors and chromatin modifiers at regulatory elements to achieve not only activation or repression, but also appropriate tra...
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Robert Krautz @robertkrautz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Guess, I'll have a coffee then.
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Navin B. Ramakrishna @navinbr.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
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Emerging principles and models of human primordial germ cell development
Summary: This Review examines recent insights into early human germ cell development and how these regulatory principles guide stem cell-derived models aiming to reconstitute human gametogenesis in vi...
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Robert Krautz @robertkrautz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“Nurses should be at the very top of our social hierarchy but we live in a world where it’s just the opposite,” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe
A Swiss film about a nurse pushed to her limits one night is being praised for the picture it paints of treacherously underfunded healthcare. The director talks about the ‘heart-pounding’ story that i...
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Geula Hanin @geula.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health. Apply here: 👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/ 👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/ Please share 🔬👩‍🔬
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Research Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
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Yad Ghavi-Helm @yghavi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📢 We are recruiting! Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies. Please share and RT 🙏
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tomorrow at 19:30 a huge demonstration in Tel Aviv - The Israeli Academia demands to end the war NOW. These horrors are unbearable and must stop.
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Mike Robson @drmrobson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Calling all aspiring Postdocs! One extra week to apply to join our exciting HFSP-funded project to uncover how chromatin moves to function. Deadline July 15th. www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in/ Postdoc (m/f/d)
Chromatin ist nicht unbeweglich. Es handelt sich um ein hochdynamisches Material, dessen 3D-Struktur zentrale genomische Prozesse – von der Transkription bis zur DNA-Reparatur – steuert. Doch wie verh...
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Jeff Vierstra @jeffvierstra.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We have created a new DNase I- & ATAC-seq peak caller that uses an adaptive background model that controls for copy number variation & aneuploidy. It performs a per-nucleotide test (+FDR correction) and is very fast. Please try it out and give us feedback! github.com/vierstralab/...
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GitHub - vierstralab/hotspot3: A chromatin accessibility peak caller with an adaptive background model
A chromatin accessibility peak caller with an adaptive background model - vierstralab/hotspot3
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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
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Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity - Nature
The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions.
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Elzo de Wit lab @ NKI @dewitlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
(1/n) Excited to present the latest work from the de Wit lab, where we identify and characterise loop extrusion-mediated fountains in mammalian genomes using acute depletion of 3D genome regulators: doi.org/10.1093/nar/.... A Bluetorial🧵:
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Extrusion fountains are restricted by WAPL-dependent cohesin release and CTCF barriers
Abstract. Interphase chromosomes are mainly shaped by loop extrusion and compartmentalisation mechanisms. However, their temporal component and cause-effec
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xuening-he.bsky.social @xuening-he.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited to share DeepCompARE + ISA - a lightweight deep learning model + efficient interpretation method, to uncover rules of TF cooperativity via genome-wide in silico motif ablations! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Github: github.com/anderssonlab...
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Genome-wide rules of transcription factor cooperativity revealed through in silico binding site ablation
Transcription factor (TF) cooperativity plays a critical role in gene regulation. However, the underlying genomic rules remain unclear, calling for scalable methods to characterize the TF binding site...
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Robin Andersson @randersson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Latest from the lab! Led by @xuening-he.bsky.social, establishing a framework for interpretation of the motif syntax of regulatory elements and a quantitative model for transcription factor cooperativity. Plenty of cool stuff revealed, including TF redundancy and synergy, and their regulatory roles!
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Mike Robson @drmrobson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Postdoc🚨! Come join our HFSP team to uncover how chromatin moves in cells and what this means for genome function! Great opportunity to combine single-cell genomics, live imaging and polymer physics in the unique mammalian retina with @andersshansen.bsky.social, Davide Michieletto & Sandra Tenreiro
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in/ Postdoc (m/f/d)
Chromatin ist nicht unbeweglich. Es handelt sich um ein hochdynamisches Material, dessen 3D-Struktur zentrale genomische Prozesse – von der Transkription bis zur DNA-Reparatur – steuert. Doch wie verhält sich Chromatin als Material – als Flüssigkeit, Feststoff oder viskoelastisches Gel –, um diese Funktionen in lebenden Zellen auszuführen? Ohne eine Antwort auf diese Frage können wir nicht vollständig verstehen, wie Chromatin bei Krankheiten gestört wird.
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Mannervik Lab @mannerviklab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Curious about epigenetics, gene regulation, and developmental biology? Apply for the PhD position in Mannervik lab at Stockholm University! We use single-cell genomics and genetic approaches to uncover how cells acquire their identities during development. Explore the chromatin landscape with us!
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Gabriele Corso @gcorso.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀
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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/
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Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
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Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
How does metabolism act through generic chromatin modifiers promote specific cellular states? Simultaneous modification of transcription factors and chromatin, enhancing epigenetic signal to noise ratios. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Altering metabolism programs cell identity via NAD+-dependent deacetylation | The EMBO Journal
imageimageHow alterations in cell metabolism translate into specific developmental gene programs remains a major question. This study shows that forcing OXPHOS metabolism reprograms mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to a more inner cell mass (ICM)-...
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Tony Southall @tonysouthall.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New preprint! We have discovered that the splicing factor Sex lethal (Sxl - well known for its role in sex determination) binds to chromatin and regulates tRNA synthesis in neurons by interacting with RNA Pol III! Highlighting Sxl as a novel modulator of neuronal homeostasis. tinyurl.com/s44s2z95
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Sex-lethal is recruited to chromatin to promote neuronal tRNA synthesis in males through RNA Polymerase III regulation
The RNA-binding protein Sex-lethal (Sxl) is classically known as a master regulator of sex determination and mRNA splicing in Drosophila melanogaster. However, this role is not conserved across specie...
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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency
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Surfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Funded PhD Studentship available in my lab at @lsiexeter.bsky.social. Want to study how chromatin remodellers act on enhancers to facilitate cell fate decisions in human pluripotent cells? Want to work and live in a lively city by the sea? Get in touch/Apply! lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/hendr...
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Hendrich Group - Starting Sept 2025 - Living Systems Institute - University of Exeter
Opportunity for LSI PHD studentship – starting in September 2025 or January 2026 PhD Studentship applications will open on 1st...
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