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Tony Cesare

@thecesarelab.bsky.social
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Head of the Genome Integrity Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute. Professor, University of Sydney.

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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Early in our lab’s history, we were lucky enough to have Tara as an RA. She was awesome then, so I’m not at all surprised to see her doing so well now. Congratulations, Tara. Fantastic work!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Delighted to host @pseudokinase.bsky.social at @cmri.bsky.social today for seminar. Join us at noon for what promises to be a fantastic talk: “The Living Dead – using integrative biology to define how the zombie proteins, MLKL and IRAK2, operate in innate immunity”
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Registration open for the @garvaninstitute.bsky.social Signalling Symposium. linktr.ee/garvansignal...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A brilliant editorial by @mafdawson.bsky.social and @hilliardlab.bsky.social highlighting frustrations many Australian scientists feel about the decline of peer review standards for NHMRC funding. I wholeheartedly agree. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Australia’s erosion of peer review
Throughout the world, peer review serves as the cornerstone of the scientific enterprise, providing rigorous quality control and building the confidence that underpins progress for both science and so...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Cell Discoverer 7 now up and running @cmri.bsky.social.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“T-loop Dynamics: Telomere Structure Shapes Cell Fate Decisions” is out now in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social . www.cell.com/trends/cell-... It was a pleasure to work on this with collaborator and friend @makotothayashi.bsky.social, whose insight was central to shaping the ideas in this review.
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T-loop dynamics: telomere structure shapes cell fate decisions
Telomeres are nucleoprotein elements bound by shelterin that protect chromosome ends from DNA damage signalling and inappropriate repair. A defining architectural feature is the telomere loop (t-loop)...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
An important seasonal installation in the Cesare lab. March Madness bracket is up. Go Tar Heels! 🏀
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@lisannes.bsky.social gave an outstanding seminar at @cmri.bsky.social yesterday. Full room, exciting data, and a 15-minute Q&A -- a fantastic discussion. Amazing work, Lisanne. Thank you for visiting and sharing it with the institute.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Delighted to host @cellpress.bsky.social editor Ilaria Carnevale today at @cmri.bsky.social for a seminar and meetings with our trainees and lab heads. Ilaria was Lead Editor at @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social and now leads Trends Open. Welcome to Australia, Ilaria. Thank you for visiting CMRI.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
2026 @cmri.bsky.social seminar series starts today! 12:00 pm: Angelica Lau, Program Manager (Health), Cicada Innovations. www.cicadainnovations.com Angelica will share how Cicada, Australia’s leading deep-tech incubator, supports researchers in translating lab discoveries into real-world impact.
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Cicada Innovations
Cicada Innovations is Australia's leading incubator for startups and scaleups working on deep tech science and engineering innovations.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
1/Delighted to be part of a team from @cmri.bsky.social, @sydney.edu.au, the University of Wollongong, and SVI (Melbourne) awarded a $5M NHMRC Synergy Grant to explore: “A mechanistic approach to developing precision therapies for ALT-dependent cancers.” www.nhmrc.gov.au/funding/find...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If I may be allowed a moment of fatherly pride. Huge congratulations to Maddy Cesare on being selected for the New South Wales team competing at the Australian Youth Women’s Baseball Championship ⚾️🇦🇺 A big achievement, especially in her first year of eligibility. Baseball is awesome.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
1/I’m proud to that our NHMRC Ideas Grant was successful and will support ongoing research in how DNA repair influences cancer cell fate. This project builds on pioneering work by @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social and @radoncdocgee.bsky.social, supported by @cmri.bsky.social and @sydney.edu.au
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Children's Medical Research Institute @cmri.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We are grateful to the National Health and Medical Research Council for granting four of our scientists highly sought after Ideas Grants. www.cmrijeansforgenes.org.au/news/c… Tony Cesare
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New @natcomms.nature.com paper today from Tracy Bryan's lab @cmri.bsky.social: "Nuclear actin and DNA replication stress regulate telomere maintenance by telomerase". Happy our lab could play a small part. Congrats Tracy, Ash Harman, Noa Lamm and the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nuclear actin and DNA replication stress regulate telomere maintenance by telomerase - Nature Communications
Telomerase recruitment to telomeres is a tightly regulated process which is stimulated by replication stress. Here, the authors identify that nuclear filamentous actin is important for interaction bet...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
One name appears on an award, but it truly reflects the collective effort of an exceptionally talented team. All credit to @radoncdocgee.bsky.social, @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social, @drmelaniew.bsky.social, @annagmanjon.bsky.social, Lucy French, Sienna Casolin, Scott Page, & our awesome collaborators.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you @karimmekhail.bsky.social, @chiololab.bsky.social, and @altmeyerlab.bsky.social for organising @fusionconf.bsky.social #SGO25. Exciting science at a fantastic venue!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Delighted to be in beautiful Riviera Maya Mexico 🇲🇽 for @fusionconf.bsky.social #SGO25. www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/188
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The first preprint from Noa Lamm’s team @cmri.bsky.social is now available: Anillin-dependent actin assembly at PML nuclear bodies protects genome stability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Delighted our lab could play a role supporting Noa’s vision on this project.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Grateful that our lab was successful in two Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants last week. I’m the sole CI on one, while @hildapickett.bsky.social and Cesare-lab post-doc @scientistkate.bsky.social are CIs on the other. Both projects explore genome stability in human cells
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Cesare Lab had an excellent time at the Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair & Telomere Meeting in Melbourne. australiancellcycle.org A huge thank you to @genomestability.bsky.social and all the organisers for putting together such a fantastic and inspiring meeting. We're looking forward to 2027!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Delighted to be hosting Simon Boulton (@boultonlab.bsky.social) today for seminar at @cmri.bsky.social. Simon will present “Making T-loops to solve the end-protection problem”, sharing recent advances from his lab on how cells safeguard their chromosome ends.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Sharon Cantor (@cantorlab.bsky.social) is visiting @cmri.bsky.social tomorrow (Friday 17 October) to present her seminar -- "Defining and Targeting BRCAness". If you’re in the area, stop by the CMRI Seminar Room at 12:30 PM for what will be an excellent talk!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Happy that @drmelaniew.bsky.social and I could play a small role in this lovely work led by @ssegurabayona.bsky.social. Please do give the preprint a look.
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Fusion Conferences @fusionconf.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📢Deadline extended! Our 2nd Spatial Genome Organisation Conference deadline has been extended to 25 Sep, dont miss out on joining our fantastic line up of speakers, alongside Karim, Matthias and Irene in what is set to be a fantastic meeting this October! #SGO25 Final slots ➡️https://bit.ly/3JJzYR4
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A shout out to lab member @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social for his recent recognition by @sydney.edu.au. Well earned Radek!
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Children's Medical Research Institute @cmri.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We’re proud of our researcher Dr Radek Szmyd who has received a 2025 University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health Mid-Career Research Outstanding Publication Award - for Radek’s extraordinary work to understand why cancer cells die in different ways following radiotherapy.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New from us in @natrevmcb.nature.com -- @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social & @radoncdocgee.bsky.social explore how DNA repair actively shapes cancer cell fate following DNA damage, reframing repair as both a protective process & a driver of treatment response and cell death. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DNA-repair-driven cell death compels us to rethink cancer therapies - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Emerging evidence suggests that, following genotoxic therapy, it is the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, rather than the damage itself, that frequently drives cancer cell death.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
DNA replication and Cryo-EM star Jacob Lewis is visiting @cmri.bsky.social today to present seminar. If you happen to be in Westmead, talk is 12:30 pm local time. See you there.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Excited to speak at the Hunter Meeting next week, alongside @cmri.bsky.social colleagues Pragathi Masamsetti (postdoc with Patrick Tam, proud Cesare lab alum) and Pengyi Yang (Head, Computational Systems Biology Unit). Looking forward to great science and good company. www.huntermeeting.org.au
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Hunter Meeting 2025
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you happen to be the the Oz Single Cell Conference this week in Sydney, check out @scientistkate.bsky.social's talk on Friday. Kate is a joint postdoc w/@piptaberlay.bsky.social and will present her work on 3D Genome architecture and replication stress. www.ozsinglecell.com
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
ACCM 2025! The Cesare lab will be there in force. Come join us in Melbourne for 3 days of amazing science.
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Andrew Deans @genomestability.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm super excited to announce that registrations are now open for the 19th Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair and Telomere Workshop. Awesome international speaker line-up, with plenty of locals being invited! Book now to secure your earlybird rate. www.australiancellcycle.org
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fantastic opportunity in Melbourne.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hosting Lee Wong from @monashuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow to present her seminar: "Onco-histone mutations in paediatric high-grade glioma: molecular mechanisms and implications for therapy." If you are around @cmri.bsky.social tomorrow at 12:30, come by for a great talk.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@genomestability.bsky.social (Andrew Deans) will be @cmri.bsky.social tomorrow to present seminar at 12:30; "The Multifaceted Role of FANCM enzyme in DNA Repair and Cancer Therapy". If you are in the area, please do come by for a great talk.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My and @telomerase-cmri.bsky.social’s annual attempt to bring a little bit of college baseketball culture down under. Go Tar Heels!
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Mekhail Lab at U. Toronto 🍁🇨🇦 @karimmekhail.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚀 New Paper Alert! Our latest @natrevmcb.bsky.social explores how nuclear and genome organization drive DNA double-strand break repair! 🧬 📖 Free access: rdcu.be/edViW Please 🔄 ❤️
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Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Changes in nuclear and genome organization promote the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and genome stability. Processes that are involved include the...
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Makoto T Hayashi @makotothayashi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🧵 1/10 Excited to share our latest study in @naturecomms.bsky.social "A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection" t.co/VypPsLBJCR
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A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection
Nature Communications - Here the authors reveal how telomeres signal mitotic stress. A key protein network alters their structure exposing telomere ends to signal mitotic stress, ultimately...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
1/Out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social, “A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection”. Here we identify the mechanism that unwinds telomere-loops (t-loops) during mitotic arrest to activate the DNA damage response and signal mitotic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection - Nature Communications
Here the authors reveal how telomeres signal mitotic stress. A key protein network alters their structure exposing telomere ends to signal mitotic stress, ultimately triggering a controlled DNA damage...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hosting the incomparable Paul Timpson from @garvaninstitute.bsky.social for seminar tomorrow (12:30, Friday 14 March) @cmri.bsky.social. “Imaging and improving drug targeting in pancreatic cancer using in vivo biosensors” Paul always gives a fantastic talk. Hope to see you there.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Review from our lab out today: "Roles for the 3D Genome In the cell cycle, DNA replication, and double strand break repair." Written by @scientistkate.bsky.social, with her co-supervisor @piptaberlay.bsky.social and collaborator Mat Jones. www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A Big welcome to Clara Armon, who joined our lab this week as an undergraduate intern from @bostonu.bsky.social via an exchange program with @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Welcome to Australia, Clara!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks for the shoutout @naturecellbiology.bsky.social.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Excellent opportunity in Copenhagen.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
@hildapickett.bsky.social - Welcome to Blue Sky!
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thank you to Roger Greenberg and Hilda Pickett for organising a fantastic 2025 Mammalian DNA Repair GRC in Ventura, California. Looking forward to the next time.
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Excited to present Social DNAing tomorrow. I’ll talk about our work led by @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social in collaboration with @radoncdocgee.bsky.social. 12 pm Eastern USA Thanks Shan Zha for the invite. www.cancer.columbia.edu/research/pro...
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Social DNAing
Social DNAing Webinar Series, sponsored by the Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program at Columbia University, aims to provide a virtual meeting room for the genomic instability community worldwide.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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