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Yael David

@yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social
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Proud PI of the David lab @sloan_kettering, NY. We develop and apply chemical tools towards studying fundamental questions in chromatin biology. Opinions are my own. www.davidlabmsk.com

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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thank you so much to the always awesome and often times our epigenetics saviors, EpiCypher team, and especially Michael!!! Thank you for joining and being so generous as usual with your insights, science and support of trainees! Feels like we were all witnessing the end of an era 😢
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thank you for joining us, Eric!! Always great to have you around😊 And yes, crazy as it is, this was Tony’s last scientific talk 😱 He will continue with entrepreneurship, mentorship and innovation though!!🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
So cool! I love the “behind the scenes” story, curiosity wins!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled to announce the upcoming Center for Epigenetic Research Symposium @mskcancercenter.bsky.social on Nov 17! 🎉 A full day of cutting-edge science featuring stellar external speakers & our outstanding trainees. Registration is now open! Join us in NYC or virtually from anywhere! link⬇️
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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CER Symposium – Nov. 2025
Organized by the Center for Epigenetics Researchlestyn Whitehouse | Yael David | Richard Koche | Thomas VierbuchenDate and TimeMonday, November 17, 20258:45 a.m.- 5:45 p.m. (Eastern time)LocationZRC A...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled to announce the upcoming Center for Epigenetic Research Symposium @mskcancercenter.bsky.social on Nov 17! 🎉 A full day of cutting-edge science featuring stellar external speakers & our outstanding trainees. Registration is now open! Join us in NYC or virtually from anywhere! link⬇️
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dimitristypas.bsky.social @dimitristypas.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Did not have time to post about this before vacation. Such a joy to have this chat with @davidlabmsk.bsky.social and Nobel Laureate Charles Rice on Yael's amazing work, capitalising on chromatin biology to understand hepatitis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Q&A with Yael David and Charles Rice on using chromatin biology to understand hepatitis - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Yael David leads her lab focused on studying the fundamental mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of transcription at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Charles Rice is the Maurice R. and Cori...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A new lab picture is an opportunity to welcome two new postdocs to my awesome group: Kevin Schiefelbein (from @ninahartrampf.bsky.social), who received @snsf.ch & Giuseppe Quarto (from @fukslab.bsky.social) who received @embo.org Fellow! So proud & excited to see the great science you do!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 New meeting this fall in Brussels! 🚨 Cutting-edge science, amazing colleagues, & a RARE career development workshop for trainees-covering pharma, consulting, writing, start-ups & more 🤩 #epigenetics2025 Registration is open!! @epicypher.bsky.social xcellsconferences.com/epigenetics2025
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EpiCypher @epicypher.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🧬Thrilled to be sponsoring this meeting, which includes great opportunities for trainees to learn about different career paths. #epigenetics2025 check it out! 🔗 xcellsconferences.com/epigenetics2025
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@danetteldaniels.bsky.social @aewebb.bsky.social @guccionelab.bsky.social @lluismorey.bsky.social @matlupien.bsky.social @valendraica.bsky.social @kharaslab.bsky.social
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 New meeting this fall in Brussels! 🚨 Cutting-edge science, amazing colleagues, & a RARE career development workshop for trainees-covering pharma, consulting, writing, start-ups & more 🤩 #epigenetics2025 Registration is open!! @epicypher.bsky.social xcellsconferences.com/epigenetics2025
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thank you for coming!!! It was a really interesting talk😊
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
OMW back from the Gordon on Cancer Genetics & Epigenetics, reflecting on an incredible week of science, sunshine, & inspiring conversations. Grateful for the chance to connect w/ rising PIs & brilliant trainees-thank you @matlupien.bsky.social & @shenhui1986.bsky.social for a special meeting! 🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Packing my favorite histone marks and heading to @stanford.edu @stanfordimmunology.bsky.social ! Thanks to Priscilla Yang for the invite! Come for the science, stay for the chromatin drama 🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited for this summer’s NYC Chromatin Club! Grad students & postdocs: submit your abstracts for a chance to present a poster or talk. Come connect w/ fellow epigenetic New Yorkers! #NYCChromatinClub @dshechter.bsky.social @vivrisca.bsky.social @epicypher.bsky.social @kjarmache.bsky.social
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited for this summer’s NYC Chromatin Club! Grad students & postdocs: submit your abstracts for a chance to present a poster or talk. Come connect w/ fellow epigenetic New Yorkers! #NYCChromatinClub @dshechter.bsky.social @vivrisca.bsky.social @epicypher.bsky.social @kjarmache.bsky.social
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Haha adding to your feed a muir cat😱
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Awesome NYC chem bio meeting yesterday🤩 Keynote Tom Muir led to a mini-reunion together with @nshahlab.bsky.social!
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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Primary @natcomms.nature.com article: "The molecular basis of Human FN3K mediated phosphorylation of glycated substrates" from Leemore Joshua-Tor, Yael @davidlabmsk.bsky.social, and colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The molecular basis of Human FN3K mediated phosphorylation of glycated substrates - Nature Communications
Garg et al. determined structures of human Fructosamine-3-kinase (FN3K) bound with different nucleotide analogues and a small molecule sugar mimic substrate. Accompanied by biochemical analysis, they ...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Big thanks to Viraj for the lovely and thoughtful write-up on our collaboration with Leemor! And major shoutout to Yang from my lab for the gorgeous biochemistry—so proud! ✨👏🧪
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s going to be a blast!!! Couldn’t ask for a better partner 🤩 Come hang out with us if you are at the ASBMB next week!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Happy birthday, Eric!!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sign up here if you want to receive an email about our next session (April 22nd in the Columbia med school) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @davidlabmsk.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social
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Postdoc Night Science (NYC)
Sign up here for monthly meetings for postdoctoral fellows in the NYC area to practice the creative scientific process. For questions contact Itai Yanai (itai.yanai@nyulangone.org)
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Had an absolute blast at the @mskcancercenter.bsky.social PDA Night Science event w/ @itaiyanai.bsky.social —improv exercises, big ideas, & a glimpse into the brilliant future of science! A pleasure to be hosted for such an inspiring and fun evening. #NightScience #FutureOfScience
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Anything involving @itaiyanai.bsky.social? Count me in—no questions asked here either!! #MaybeIShouldHaveReadTheFinePrint
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
TFW you watch the @academyawards.bsky.social awards and see you face in the @mskcancercenter.bsky.social ad 🤩 #Oscars  ispot.tv/ad/6wa1/memori…
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Wow, congratulations Manel!!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thank you so much, Yamuna!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Wow, this means a lot coming from the folks @epicypher.bsky.social !! So lucky to have you as collaborators and hope that the next big hit will come from our joint work!! 🙏🏻🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Huge thank you, Darko, for the super kind words and for this shoutout 💪🏻🤩🙏🏻
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thank you, KJ! You are the best!!🫶🏻
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thank you so much, Eric!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thank you so much for highlighting our work, Naama!! Looking forward to seeing the incredible things your lab will do right here @mskcancercenter.bsky.social !!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thank you bestie!!!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you so much Johanna!!🙏🏻❤️
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
You and me both 😉
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you so much, Abhishek!!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And @ynetnews.bsky.social for covering our work & its impact, making it accessible to the public, written by the talented Daniel Edelson: www.ynet.co.il/health/artic...
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החוקרת הישראלית שעשויה לעשות היסטוריה: פריצת דרך בריפוי הפטיטיס B
מחקר שהובילה ד"ר יעל דוד ממרכז הסרטן הנודע סלואן קטרינג (MSK) הבשיל לתוצאות שהדהימו את החוקרים. ד"ר דוד ממשילה את הממצאים על נגיף הפטיטיס B לסיפור הילדים "זהבה ושלושת הדובים": "חשבו שהיא איננה, בשעה ש...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you Ian Demsky for beautifully capturing our work in this write up: www.mskcc.org/news/digging...
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Digging Into a Decades-Old Hepatitis B Mystery Suggests a New Potential Treatment
In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by MSK, Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Ro...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you to all the people who helped with making this work possible, inc. MSKCC Center for Epigenetic Research PJ Hamatd & Richard Koche @lluismorey.bsky.social . You all put a piece in this puzzle. Thank you to our editor &reviewers for being scientific allies,making our work better 🙏🏻
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This work could not be possible without the support of @mskcancercenter.bsky.social , which is an incredible place to do science ❤️ Its leaders & visionaries Selwyn Vickers, Joan Massague & Derek Tan, allow us to swing for the fences, in order to make real impact, as they lead by example 💪🏻🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Key for this work are the brilliant @robertschwartz.bsky.social & Viviana Risca, who brought their expertise to make this work so powerful. Yaron, Andrés & Justin were a powerhouse. The collab in the tri-I underscores this amazing community @weillcornell.bsky.social @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This work was led by an amazing & resilient TPCB student, Nick Prescott, w/ Tracy Biaco, a @weillcornell.bsky.social , who joined our trenches and got this paper over the finish line. Thank you NCI and NSF for supporting Nick’s work in my lab through the NSF & F99 fellowships
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in @cellpress.bsky.social From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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A nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection
A reconstituted cccDNA platform facilitated the discovery of an early chromatinization event that promotes transcription of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) regulatory X gene. The use of a small-molecule c...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Congrats Leemor Joshua-Tor @cshlaboratory.bsky.social for this new paper characterizing human FN3K! Happy to play a role in the biochemical analysis, beautifully done by my TPCB rock star student Yang Xiao 💪🏻🤩 @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @weillcornell.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The molecular basis of Human FN3K mediated phosphorylation of glycated substrates - Nature Communications
Garg et al. determined structures of human Fructosamine-3-kinase (FN3K) bound with different nucleotide analogues and a small molecule sugar mimic substrate. Accompanied by biochemical analysis, they ...
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Just another magical day at the office in our enchanted forest… Happy holidays from the David lab!! 🎄🕎🥂
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thank you so much for highlighting our work!!!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Almost 8 years since our first encounter, 2 years as a tech, & 5 years as a joint PhD student with Samuel Bakhoum, I am so proud to see Albert defend his thesis, & the amazing David lab cheering from the lines. Great science & friends, & one sword of course🤩🫶🏻
Thank you to the fantastic scientists composing Albert’s committee!David lab (plus one alum), and the sword!Knighting 🤩
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
WOW 🤯
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