🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone
✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social
a headshot of David Botstein
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD.
www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism
I feel your pain. I once got an 8 page answer for something that could have been answered in 1-2 sentences. (I even said, “answer in no more than 2 sentences “). Le sigh.
Afting, C., Walther, T., Drozdowski, O. M., Schlagheck, C., Schwarz, U. S., Wittbrodt, J., & Göpfrich, K. (2024). DNA microbeads for spatio-temporally controlled morphogen release within organoids. Nature Nanotechnology www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EpithelialMechanics
Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I was just thinking this!! Retat !!
How do compartmentalization & loop extrusion organize eukaryotic genomes beyond classical model organisms?
Hi-C analysis of silkworm chromosomes by Drinnenberg, Muller, Mirny et al reveals new combination of these mechanisms, and a new, secluded “S” compartment
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
Cool thread with examples of the role of cell junctions in collective cell migration! 🧪
Vector was my cat.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
A serene forest stream flowing over moss-covered rocks with text inviting applications for Co-Editor-in-Chief at FACETS.
FACETS Journal is looking for a Co-Editor-in-Chief to curate content, support diverse voices in research, and collaborate with our editorial team. Expertise in ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, or environmental sciences is ideal.
Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/Gbzv50Xo3Ks
Thank you so much for the great talk and wonderful science conversations! @takakulab.bsky.social and our students and other faculty really appreciated your sharing your science with us!
🥁 #FragileNucleosome is back on Jan 28! We are very excited to host @au-ho-yu.bsky.social and @gcloner.bsky.social as our first speakers of 2026!
📋Please don't forget to register for our 2026 seminar series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
⚠️ The final work of two former PhD students Till @tschwammle.bsky.social and Verena @verenamutzel.bsky.social is out!
➡️⬅️ They dissect how memory can arise from antisense transcription using mathematical modelling 💻, genomics 🧬 and synthetic biology ⚒️! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Loved this from @simonmaechling.bsky.social - chemistry FTW…
@dereklowe.bsky.social @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
I wrote about this for Nature last July - good advice here from some award-winning academic mentors around the world: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Some joy in this crazy world.
Janssen, V., & Huveneers, S. (2024). Cell–cell junctions in focus–imaging junctional architectures and dynamics at high resolution. Journal of Cell Science, #EpithelialMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Read the full story in our preprint! 👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to share this work with my co-first author Kevin Sabath - a fantastic collaboration between the
@alex-stark.bsky.social and @plaschkalab.bsky.social labs! 🤝🧪
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken
Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/
This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
Walking around the #NIH hospital and seeing all kinds of patients getting care here: kids in wheelchairs, adults in masks and chemo caps.
And all of this is being cut down, undermined, and destroyed by Trump. It should make us all incredibly angry.
