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Christian Zierhut

@zierlab.bsky.social
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Genome Stability and Innate Immunity Lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, London www.zierhutlab.org

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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know nobody likes a Bsky rant, but here goes. There's a recent stream of manuscripts I'm reviewing that seem to randomly refer to figure panels. It makes it so difficult to follow a paper. One constantly thinks, did I miss something? What do all the intervening panels show? Please do not do this!
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nice write-up of my postdoc mentor Hiro Funabiki's work. "Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. [...] When chromosome division works correctly, it always works the same way. But there are so many ways it can go wrong." tinyurl.com/ry9rkk4c
rockefeller.edu
The Rockefeller University » The secret life of chromosomes
Researchers have devised a way to visualize molecules that are very rare, very small, or hard to produce naturally, including viruses.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As highly recommended as possible! Alex and her lab are brilliant. Plus, you would be our neighbour! 😀
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Kazuhiro Maeshima @kazu-maeshima.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is euchromatin really “open”? 🧬 Using super-resolution imaging🔬 our new study @natgenet.nature.com reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing for proper transcriptional insulation🚧 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)
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Nicolas Manel Lab @manellab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our highlights of the @embo.org workshop Pathogen Immunity & Signaling 2026 just came out in @natimmunol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New frontiers in pathogen immunity - Nature Immunology
The EMBO workshop ‘Pathogen Immunity and Signaling’ was held from 8 to 11 June 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands, bringing together 175 participants from 25 countries to discuss the latest advances in a...
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Supremely excited to share our new paper in @natcellbio.nature.com With an updated genetic cGAMP reporter, we reveal that cGAS activation by DNA damage is a rare event, and that cGAS enrichment on intracellular structures cannot be taken as evidence of activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A versatile cGAMP reporter reveals principles of cGAS activation by DNA damage and chromosome instability - Nature Cell Biology
Lebrec et al. present a FRET-based cGAS reporter and show that cGAS activation by genotoxic stress is rare and uncoupled from micronuclei. The study implicates R-loop structures and subtypes of chroma...
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Nicolas Manel Lab @manellab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
(1/6) 🔥🔥 Double hot for two new papers by our PhD graduate Adriana Loverre! 1️⃣ A dendritic cell autophagy-neutrophil axis limits intratumoral STING immunotherapy 📖 Science Immunology We uncover an unexpected mechanism limiting the efficacy of intratumoral STING therapy. 🧵👇
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fantastic story from our fantastic neighbour @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social ! Site-directed mutagenesis of individual sites in all histone clusters!
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'd planned not to write about politics here but some things are too infuriating. Wes Streeting, who has lots of Mandelson connections, and -18% disapproval, plans an early power bid, just to prevent the only candidate with positive approval, Andy Burnham (+10%), from competing tinyurl.com/3j7jx2s7
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Wes Streeting plans to resign and mount leadership challenge, allies say
Sources say health secretary intends to trigger leadership election as early as Thursday
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Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt’s Lab Institute of Cancer Research @icrlordlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you are interested in PARP inhibitors and history, this might be of interest to you. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... An attempt to cover the work of thousands and their immense contributions to the development of a targeted approach to treating cancers.
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Two decades of PARP inhibitor synthetic lethality in cancer - Nature
The past two decades of PARP inhibitor synthetic lethality in cancer is explored.
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Another classic from @albertociccia.bsky.social & @angelotaglialatela.bsky.social!
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Hironori Funabiki @hirofunabiki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Excited to share our structural insights into how microtubules differentially guide phosphorylation of kinetochore-microtubule regulators, Ndc80 and MCAK, for chromosome segregation. Heroic efforts by Yiming Niu with a fun collaboration with Jennifer DeLuca lab! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Microtubules guide Aurora B substrate geometries for accurate chromosome segregation
Cryo-EM reveals how kinetochore-microtubule attachment is regulated by Aurora B substrate accessibility on microtubules.
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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 26/03/2026
Microtubules have been viewed as passive structural supports, but a study from @hirofunabiki.bsky.social in @science.org Advances redefines microtubules as active regulators, helping to prevent abnormalities in the number of chromosomes, a hallmark of cancer. 🔗: bit.ly/4v8miCC
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Susana Godinho @susanagodinho.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
👋 To all aneuploidy and chromosome instability aficionados check out the Consequences of Aneuploidy FASEB conference (Florida-USA 🏖️) co-organised with @peterlylab.bsky.social, Mike Lampson, Alison Taylor and myself: events.faseb.org/event/Aneupl... 👉 Deadline for abstract submission: August 3rd.
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Katrin Paeschke @paeschkelab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You are interested in immunology and how nucleic acid structures contribute to their function and how this impacts disease development - Rayk Behrendt and myself have open PhD positions for a joint PhD program between Bonn and Osaka.
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Bertolin Lab @bertolinlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
To kickstart this new Bluesky account: We're hiring! The Bertolin Lab @dundee.ac.uk is looking for a postdoc to work on DNA-end homeostasis & genome stability, funded by Wellcome Trust Award. Exciting science, fantastic environment, founding role in the lab. Details in the flyer — get in touch! 👇
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NealeLab @labneale.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NOW LIVE!: PhD opening joint with @drjonbaxter.bsky.social at @gdsc-sussex.bsky.social Get in touch and apply if you are interested in any and all of: Chromosomes, Genome Stability, Chromatin and DNA Topology in Mitosis and Meiosis. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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School of Life Sciences Studentship: How Chromosome ...
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Benjamin Ostendorf @ostendorflab.org · 10/02/2026
Delighted to share our new paper on LXR agonism pre-conditioning T cells to more readily adopt effector states, out in @jem.org today. This was a long project started in @sohailtavazoie.bsky.social's lab and completed across the atlantic here in Berlin at Charité.
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Liver-X-receptor agonism enhances T cell priming and activation to promote anti-tumor immunity
Ostendorf et al. show that activation of liver-X-receptors preconditions T cells to render them more receptive to adopting effector states upon activation.
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you're a physics researcher, please sign this letter. Anyone in the biomedical sciences know of a similar letter for our fields? Or anyone interested in putting one together? ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io#sign-form
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Early Career Researchers Response to UKRI Investment Approach
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Physics are hit worst, but it's not just physics. @ukri.org, it's not too late to reverse course. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities
UK’s research funding body says best scientists are taking posts overseas due to lack of job stability at home
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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
2nd postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Project will examine the role of motors & the cytoskeleton (actin, septins and microtubules) during vaccinia virus egress using biochemical, structural & cellular approaches + live cell imaging. spread the word. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc20...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Cellular signalling and cytoskeletal function lab
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
As I predicted, the cutting of @ukri.org funding is to provide "more emphasis on commercialisation". This is an absolutely terrible decision. Most startups fail, or are bought by larger competitors. In both cases, their research is frequently lost from the public domain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK’s £8bn research fund faces “hard decisions” as it pauses new grants
UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Yes @ukri.org, please provide clarity and reasons for this chain of events. It would be a huge disadvantage to UK innovation if we went down a path of science funding that is similar to Trump's USA.
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is an absolute outrage that should be discussed as widely as possible. I expect that this failing government will try and use the MRC to divert funding from academic research into commercial enterprises, killing UK research in the process.
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Excited to announce a new review article that Andreas Villunger @villungerlab.bsky.social, Dario Rizzotto (not on bsky) and I wrote. In this article, we discuss mitosis as a central cell cycle stage for integrating DNA damage, cell death and inflammatory responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitotic errors as triggers of cell death and inflammation - Nature Cell Biology
Rizzotto et al. discuss the causes and consequences of deregulated mitosis that allow cells arrested in mitosis to escape to the next interphase, where they can initiate inflammatory signalling or und...
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Eileen Parkes @eileenparkes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Parkes lab pre-print alert! ‘TMEM33 deletion potentiates anti-tumor CD8⁺ T cell immunity.’ Led by mtjackson101.bsky.social. Full bluetutorial follows! 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our latest paper on the molecular mechanisms of XPF-ERCC1 recruitment to SLX4-dependent DNA repair pathways has been published! Congratulations to first author Junjie Feng, and a heartfelt thank you to all our collaborators for their contributions to this study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Houlston Lab, ICR @houlstonlab-icr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are pleased to present our manuscript on the annotation of clear cell Renal Cell Carcinoma #GWAS risk loci, recently published in @commsbio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s42... #ccRCC #cancer #genetics #genomics #KidneyCancer
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Deciphering genetic susceptibility to clear cell renal cell carcinoma - Communications Biology
Integration of genome-wide association data with epigenomic and chromatin interaction data identifies target genes mediating clear cell renal cell carcinoma risk, implicating disrupted hypoxia signall...
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dfachinetti.bsky.social @dfachinetti.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The 21st Course on Epigenetics which will take place from March 25th to April 1st, 2026 at the Institut Curie (Paris). The Course is open to M2 and PhD students. Application via the Advanced Training Office website before December 15th, 2025 at: minilien.curie.fr/3avv47
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Epigenetics - 21st Course on Epigenetics 2026: Towards a quantitative understanding of nuclear dynamics during development and diseases | Institut Curie Advanced Training
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of epigenetic mechanisms and their links to gene expression and chromatin dynamics, in different systems. The diverse functions of the nucleus involvin...
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dfachinetti.bsky.social @dfachinetti.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Happy to share the “International Symposium on Chromosome Dynamics: from Structure to Cellular Function” that will be held in Japan 31st of May 2026 www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw.... Registrations will open on December 1st! Plenty of opportunities to present your work! Hope to seeing you
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International Symposium on Chromosome Dynamics from Structure to Cellular Function
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Ronan Broderick @brodericklab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My lab at the University of Birmingham have a fully funded 4 year PhD position available, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT). Informal enquiries to r.a.broderick@bham.ac.uk APPLICATION LINK: sits.bham.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd...
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congratulations to Lauren Davies, the lab's first PhD student, who defended her thesis with flying colours yesterday! Special thanks to Lauren's examiners @eileenparkes.bsky.social and @mcclellandlab.bsky.social! Lauren will stay for a few months to finalise a manuscript - so watch this space!
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Deadline 18th Nov! Please write to express your support for continued funding for Jalview!
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Susi Bantele @sbantele.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
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Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function
Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
For everyone interested in art, my incredibly talented girlfriend Lara is auctioning one of her paintings to support @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social. The current bid is a bargain for her art, so snatch it up, and still get an incredibly good deal! artauction.freedomfromtorture.org/auction/item...
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Grant Stewart @profstewartlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Interested in inherited chromosomal instability syndromes and DNA repair? We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join the Stewart lab at the University of Birmingham as a senior technician. Please checkout the job advert: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH515/senior-research-technician
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Senior Research Technician at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Senior Research Technician is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Aga Gambus @agagambus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We are looking for a senior technician (can undertake PhD) at Uni of Birmingham (UK) to study chromatin replication and ubiquitylation using Xenopus egg extract. Deadline 28/10/25. Get in touch with me or @m-saponaro.bsky.social for informal inquiries. Please share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW912/s...
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Senior Research Technician at University of Birmingham
Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Technician. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt’s Lab Institute of Cancer Research @icrlordlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We're hiring ! Specifically....we are seeking to appoint a creative and motivated Postdoctoral Training Fellow to study how drug resistance emerges in homologous recombination defective (HRD) breast cancers and how this could be targeted. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
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PDTF - Homologous Recombination Defective Cancers ( Profs Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt) in Chelsea | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this PDTF - Homologous Recombination Defective Cancers ( Profs Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt) vacancy in Chelsea . Salary: Dependent on relevant Postdoctoral exp...
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Elsässer Lab @simonelsasser.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
#Jobalert 🚨: looking for a #computationalbiology expert with track record in analysis, integration and interpretation of #omics datasets, in particular #epigenomics, #singlecellgenomics, #proteomics data. uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... short deadline 30th September!
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Universität Freiburg
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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer. Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions. Please repost! More details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Academic research generates almost all intellecutal innovation in the life sciences. With big pharma refusing to contribute, maybe it's time to stop giving them our research outputs cheaply, and instead having globally nationalised means of translating innovation? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US drugmaker Merck scraps £1bn London research centre and cuts 125 science jobs
New blow to UK’s key life science sector as industry body says country is losing ground on investment and research
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Great story from our fantastic neighbour Jörg Mansfeld!
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Molecular Cell @cp-molcell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Online Now: A redox switch in p21-CDK feedback during G2 phase controls the proliferation-cell cycle exit decision Online now:
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A redox switch in p21-CDK feedback during G2 phase controls the proliferation-cell cycle exit decision
ROS oxidize cell cycle proteins and regulate cell proliferation. Vorhauser et al. show that oxidation of the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor p21 at cysteine 41 (C41) during the G2 phase controls its stability. Loss of C41 oxidation increases p21 stability, impairs proliferation, and promotes senescence after irradiation.
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Christian Zierhut @zierlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Fantastic joint lab meeting day with @eileenparkes.bsky.social and Ben O'Leary plus our groups. Lots of cool science and discussions! And that fancy dinner at Lincoln College!
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Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study 1. initiation of DNA replication. 2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance. Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists. Deadline 3 August 2025. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Andrew Blackford @andrewblackford.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms. Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025. More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Blackford Group
A position as Postdoctoral Research Associate is available at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, in the group headed by Dr. Andrew Blackford. Th
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 29/05/2025
Nice work by the Kurumizaka Lab in @natcomms.nature.com Multiple structures of RNA polymerase II isolated from human nuclei by ChIP-CryoEM analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiple structures of RNA polymerase II isolated from human nuclei by ChIP-CryoEM analysis - Nature Communications
The authors establish the ChIP-CryoEM method, which combines chromatin immunopurification coupled with cryo-electron microscopy, to visualize native human RNAPII elongation complexes in action, with a...
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Alberto Ciccia @albertociccia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy to share our DNA Repair special issue on the replication stress response curated with @vindignilab.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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DNA Repair | The replication stress response: mechanisms and functions | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
High-fidelity DNA replication is constantly challenged by a diverse range of obstacles, including endogenous lesions and secondary structures in the DNA template, tightly bound protein-DNA complexes, ...
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stapleslab.bsky.social @stapleslab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please repost! Post-doc studying novel mechanisms of post-replicative gap-filling available in my lab here in beautiful Snowdonia, between July 2025 to end Nov 2026. Generous travel budget. Lab is full of friendly and supportive colleagues. Link below, or DM me/email c.staples@bangor.ac.uk for info
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