jp flores (he/him)

Biased but highly recommend!

GitHub - PhanstielLab/plotgardener Contribute to PhanstielLab/plotgardener development by creating an account on GitHub.

2. plotgardener is a genomic data visualization package for R. Using `grid` graphics, `plotgardener` empowers users to programmatically and flexibly generate multi-panel figures

github.com/PhanstielLa...

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No rabbits, no top hats — just #GilliamFellow Axel Vera leveling up on the standard poster session with a little sleight of hand. We guarantee you've never heard an anti-CRISPR (used to help control & improve precision gene editing) explainer like this before, & it's ... magic 🪄.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

apnews.com/article/henr...

Dynamics of microcompartment formation at the mitosis-to-G1 transition - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Goel et al. produce high-resolution three-dimensional genome structure mapping from mitosis to G1 phase to show unseen interactions between enhancers and promoters in prometaphase. Polymer modeling in...

(6/n) Any cell change that changes chromosome compaction (e.g. mitosis, differentiation, mechanical, osmotic) would be expected to result in stronger A/B/micro-compartments without strongly affecting loop extrusion.
E.g. 2-fold compaction --> 6-fold MC dot change
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share @suminkim.bsky.social and @mileshuseyin.bsky.social 's new Current Opinion review on how Polycomb complexes mediate 3D genome interactions including mechanistic models and potential roles in gene regulation:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exited to share Current Opinion review on how chromatin hubs involving multiple enhancers and promoters are formed, and their potential roles in gene regulation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Birthday, SNAP! Reflecting on an Eventful First Year at the AAAS Annual Meeting Written by SNAP members Disha Patel and Jordan Williams

New blog post just dropped!

Read to learn about the #SNAPcoalition experience at the @aaas.org conference in #Phoenix and to hear more about some of the work SNAP is doing.

#AAASmtg #AAAS2026

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It’s time we start thinking of new solutions because the things that “have always been”, don’t fit in with your message of being in “unprecedented” times. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented solutions.

We’re ready to rebuild what’s been broken. Stop making decisions for us - work WITH us. Some of us will scream and shout. Some of us will want private conversations.

If you don’t think we’re ready, HELP us get to where we need to go. The world is a lot different from when you were in our shoes, and just like how science can evolve, the world shifts too.

When the current and older generations ask us for what we need, we need your resources to get us where we need to go. We ARE ready to lead, we ARE ready to work with you.

As a senior graduate student set to defend in a month, I can tell you right now: I’ve been traveling across the country, and the next generation of scientific leaders, policy experts, communicators, writers, and editors are ready.

My big takeaway is now we’re in a time of questioning what “has been” and in a time of wondering “what can this become.”

he last couple of weeks I’ve been at HHMI, AAAS, Occidental, and UCLA. I’ve been traveling all over the country for postdoc interviews, conference talks, panels, and meet and greets. Meeting with mentors and past and present. Meeting with my peers and colleagues.

Keep watching for a wiffle ball bomb 😂

Before I moved to Carolina 5-6 years ago, I gave all my college baseball stuff (I played D3 at Occidental) to my then-9yo neighbor. Now, he’s using all my old stuff!

Ran into him and his friends playing wiffle ball and joined in 😊

He can help think of a band name😂

Does that mean we’d have to convince Andrew to play an instrument as well?

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“Because it’s always been done that way” should never stand in the way of imagining and building a new system that aligns better with our core values.

Sometimes the hard and even the nearly impossible possible is worth it to create the future we envision.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re partnering with scholars to highlight and connect Black scientists worldwide.

Explore the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists to find collaborators, mentors, speakers, and new research.

Explore the Index.

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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Today is my book's first birthday! One year ago, Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA launched, and it never gets old seeing it on the shelf at the store or the library (see MIT Press Bookstore below - signed copy available). 1/8

Aaliyah Staples-West, a second year PhD student in our lab, had the opportunity to share her exciting new work with the @hhmi-science.bsky.social community this week.

Was really fun and meaningful for me to have her join the meeting. (Thx HHMI & ASW).

Go Aaliyah!

SO EXCITED TO BE AT MY ALMA MATER, OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE, TO GIVE A TALK FOR THE DEPARTMENT THAT STARTED IT ALL

AHHHHHHH!

Please take a moment to read this incredible OpEd by @jpflores.rbind.io in @hechingerreport.org. Here JP highlights why we need more science in more places.

My undergrad research experience at @boisestate.bsky.social was pivotal for getting where I am today, and more people need access to it!

Acute NIPBL depletion reveals in vivo dynamics of loop extrusion and its role in transcription activation - Nature Genetics Acute depletion of NIPBL reveals a class of chromatin loops that are independent of NIPBL for their maintenance but not their establishment and that NIPBL is necessary for the expression of lineage-de...

Very excited to share my postdoc research in the @jesserdixon.bsky.social lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social, out online at @natgenet.nature.com today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We investigated the function of the cohesin accessory protein NIPBL, making two particularly interesting findings:

Check out my latest piece in @hechingerreport.org !

First of many as an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow