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Feels awkward but necessary to celebrate scientific progress in this imperiled time for US biomedical research. Proud of our latest paper out today exploring the role of transposable elements in antiviral resistance to HIV 🦠 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🧵1/n

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More about me and my work in @the_Node SciArt profiles! thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

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Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

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Congratulations Miguel @brancolab.bsky.social on your fantastic inaugural lecture as Professor of Genome Regulation @qmul.ac.uk "On the Versatility of Genomes". What a trip down memory lane from the good old days of me being your first postdoc working on #retroelements! Congratulations!!

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Papers are read, Methylene blue, The lab feels empty, When I'm without you #academicvalentines

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We are looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc with cell or molecular biology expertise. Excellent #epigenetics, #chromatin training & networking opportunities @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social DM me for inquiries pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5

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We're excited to announce the official QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Launch Conference 2025! 🎉 To find out more and book your free ticket, please follow the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qmul-centr... @qmul.ac.uk @bartscharity.bsky.social @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social

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Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, joined colleagues from @qmul.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, Barts Health, and Guy's and St Thomas' yesterday at the launch of PharosAI, a ground-breaking project that will harness cutting-edge #AI to unlock #cancer data.

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So many brilliant women scientists that have inspired me and continue to inspire that I don't even know where to start. Perhaps I'll just note a positive sign: that at a PhD examination panel meeting today there were 6 female Professors and 2 male.

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I've booked my flight. Have you? Come and join us in Suzhou.

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Our new #preprint has: ✅ A KRAB Zinc Finger (the SCAN domain-containing kind) ✅ #transposon sequences (the SINE kind) ✅ #epigenetic regulation (the #enhancer kind) ✅ lineage specification (the neural kind) ❌ and NO heterochromatin! All by PhD student Daniel Moore 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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📣 #EMBOMobileGenome is open for registrations! Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍 📜 Submit abstract by 29 July! 👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl

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Another TE, another anthocyanin-related gene. They just can't stay away from each other. I've lost count of the examples now.

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#announcement please share 📢 We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin... And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio... 25 places, application deadline 21 March!

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🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏 More details below... check it out! 🧵 1/3

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Dear all, registrations are open for the Mobile Genome @EMBO workshop. Many slots for posters, short talks but also long talks for last minute groundbreaking results! Let’s meet again on Nov 4-7, 2025 in Heidelberg. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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We’re hiring! 🚨 We’re looking for motivated postdocs to join our team and help us advance the frontiers of chromatin simulations Learn more and apply here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50052/ Women and underrepresented profiles in STEM are encouraged to apply Please repost to help us spread the word!

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JOIN US! Looking for liquid biopsy experts to do some epigenomic wizardry. Drop me a line for informal enquiries. Pls spread the word.

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I am thrilled to share our latest work, released today 🤩 www-nature-com.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/articles/s41... It results from years of hard work by the team and long-time collaborators, with special thanks to PhD student Clara Roidor and collaborator Laurène Syx.

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We are hiring! 3-year BBSRC-funded postdoc position available. TEs, epigenetics, pregnancy: if you love one or more of these keywords, apply through the link below. Please spread the word.

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We're excited to host our first hybrid seminar of 2025 this Friday, January 17th, at 15:30 GMT. Our guest speaker is Rebecca Berrens. To join online, please follow this link:https://www.qmul.ac.uk/epigenetics/events/

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CSH Asia is organising its first transposon meeting. Don't miss out on some great science and a fantastic trip. Abstract deadline fast approaching. www.csh-asia.org?content/2544

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Excited to share our most recent work in Cell Stem Cell, led by @georgiaplea.bsky.social, characterising determinants of DNA methylation patterning in human trophoblast stem cells! A great collaboration with @vpglab.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/93mchcd2 @loke-ctr.bsky.social @cam-repro.bsky.social

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For anyone following here who's not seen this on our other channels, closing date for the Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is 31 Jan 2025, details here www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Feel free to share in your networks!

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Our Publisher, The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social) turns 100 this year. You can find out more about our history, our ethos and our current focusses in this editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev...., with an accompanying timeline summarising key events in our hundred-year history.

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The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring? Apply before Feb 15th 📌

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Every university that does this, regardless of the reasons, weakens the racket stranglehold that this publisher has on them Surrey says Jisc-negotiated deal “not sustainable in the current financial climate” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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First #bluetorial. 🎉🎉 We’re very happy to share our latest biorxiv #preprint, just in time before the holiday season. We explored how transposable elements (TEs) diversify eukaryotic proteomes and found a cool case in nematode F-box genes. #TEsky #evosky #Celegans Short 🧵 with highlights.

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The @mrc-lms.bsky.social is recruiting for Programme Leader Track (PLT) group leaders - come work with us! Supportive and collaborative colleagues, fascinating mechanistic science, generous funding and facilities, and a new building with nice views of London 😍 shorturl.at/VuVxX

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Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Continuing the peer review discussion: @katherine-brown.bsky.social on principles for effective peer review: 1) Be respectful to authors 2) Request reasonable revisions 3) Focus on whether data support the conclusions 4) Be transparent about expertise limits thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...

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If you're looking to establish an independent research programme in the area of pregnancy, this is an amazing programme. It has an outstanding track record of kickstarting great labs in the field. Awesome bunch of people as well. Deadline fast approaching!

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📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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#NotOnlyParasites! 2 Cell papers by @edchuong.bsky.social lab & Amigorena lab demonstrate that transposable elements #TEs can exonize giving rise to functional (often shorter) proteins with distinct functions: eg a decoy short IFNAR2 that inhibits #interferon signaling! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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The latest paper from the Di Stefano lab showing the power of using transposable elements as reporters of different human pluripotent states! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪

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We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

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"I don’t think I would’ve been better off being a biologist to begin with" Karen Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social, now a professor in #DevBio, worked in an architectural firm before deciding to pursue a scientific career in her late 20s. Read her interview here: thenode.biologists.com/i-dont-think...

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🧪The Biologists @ 100 conference incorporates the BSCB and BSDB @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meetings. View the cell and developmental biology programme and speakers at bit.ly/3B2uflr. Abstracts are due less than 2 weeks away. 📆Abstract due: 13 December #biologists100 #Devbio #cellbio

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The 2nd edition of the Paris-Munich Epigenetics meeting will be held April 9-11, 2025 in Paris. Attendance is free of charge. Please visit the website www.sfb1064.med.uni-muenchen.de/paris_munich... to find out more about the program and to register. #epigenetics

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