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mikelz.bsky.social
I’m the Hattori Hanzo of tortilla de patata (potato omelette). Transposons, heterochromatin and, more recently, mitochondria.
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Every science story should begin with “ One day, someone got some funding to …”

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Our latest work: how can compartmentalization emerge in a eukaryotic genome lacking canonical heterochromatin? By investigating bacterial genomes put in yeast, we show that the presence or absence of transcription is sufficient! #chromatin #3Dgenome #generegulation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇

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In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

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Lots of cool AI in Nature this week, including VLM for precision oncology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Work led by graduate student @trinitycookis.bsky.social and coauthors Alexandria Lydecker, @paulsauer.bsky.social, and @kasinath-lab.bsky.social is out today where we looked at the inhibition of PRC2 by histone PTMs associated with regions of active transcription. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Retrotransposon expression is unregulated by aging and suppressed during regeneration of the limb in the axoloti #Retrotransposon #aging #regeneration #longevity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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ATP synthesis of Enterococcus hirae V-ATPase driven by sodium motive force https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.26.630461v1

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We often speak about chromatin as being accessible or inaccessible, but what does it mean? We wrote a short review on this, 🔬 focused: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A big thank you to Tom Fillot for his efforts on this and to @hansen_lab @marcelonollmann for their help as editors.

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I am very excited to share my latest work characterizing cytosine methylation of polymorphic insertions in the human population! #genomics A thread: 1/

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They should have called this package “BeneGesseRit”

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working on this unix redirects diagram today

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Interesting findings about one of my favorite Transposons called ÉVADÉ: PTGS is dispensable for the initiation of epigenetic silencing of an active transposon in Arabidopsis. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Centromeres never cease to amaze me. They have so much to tell us about evolution.

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EpiSci - www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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It’s unbelievable that even today, in the year of our lord 2024, we are still discovering absolutely fundamental stuff about mitochondria www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

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The year is 2024, a future you’ll probably live to see

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