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Nick Altemose

@naltemose.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford | centromeres, heterochromatin, and long-read sequencing | πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡§πŸ‡΄πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ | altemoselab.stanford.edu

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Congratulations, Abby!

06.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DNA methylation influences human centromere positioning and function - Nature Genetics Genome-wide and targeted perturbation of DNA methylation at centromeres affects CENP-A positioning and centromere structure, resulting in aneuploidy and reduced cell viability.

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πŸ“°DNA methylation influences human centromere positioning and function.

By Catalina Salinas-Luypaert, @dfachinetti.bsky.social, @naltemose.bsky.social and colleagues.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.09.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DNA methylation influences human centromere positioning and function - Nature Genetics Genome-wide and targeted perturbation of DNA methylation at centromeres affects CENP-A positioning and centromere structure, resulting in aneuploidy and reduced cell viability.

#1 Centromeres are epigenetic loci defined by CENP-A, positioned in unmethylated DNA flanked by highly methylated regions. Our work, published in @natgenet.nature.com in collaboration with @naltemose.bsky.social investigates the role of DNAme at human centromeres www.nature.com/articles/s41...

04.09.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
UC San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: A platform designed to highlight the work of exceptional early-career scientists (graduate students and postdocs) in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, and community engagement. Apply today! Applications due May 30th, 2025. www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com

UC San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: A platform designed to highlight the work of exceptional early-career scientists (graduate students and postdocs) in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, and community engagement. Apply today! Applications due May 30th, 2025. www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com

Are you preparing to go on the biomedical faculty job market? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! The deadline is May 30. Please repost!

27.05.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Could Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth β€” and pays for itself

Federal research funding not only advances healthcare and technology, but it also reliably grows the economy. These are some of the best-spent dollars in our government! Divesting from this golden goose will sacrifice future economic growth and make us all worse off. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

19.05.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DiMeLo-cito: a one-tube protocol for mapping protein-DNA interactions reveals CTCF bookmarking in mitosis Genome regulation relies on complex and dynamic interactions between DNA and proteins. Recently, powerful methods have emerged that leverage third-generation sequencing to map protein-DNA interactions...

I am proud to share my first preprint working with @naltemose.bsky.social, where we redesign DiMeLo-seq from the ground up. Thankful for the help and input of collaborators in @astraight.bsky.social and Aaron streets’ lab at Berkeley. More to come soon!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

14.03.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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DiMeLo-cito: a one-tube protocol for mapping protein-DNA interactions reveals CTCF bookmarking in mitosis Genome regulation relies on complex and dynamic interactions between DNA and proteins. Recently, powerful methods have emerged that leverage third-generation sequencing to map protein-DNA interactions...

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Tired of losing valuable DNA-protein interaction information from your long-read seq data during wash steps?

New wash-free, one tube DiMeLo-cito protocol from @naltemose.bsky.social @astraight.bsky.social @ngamarra.bsky.social for max quality + yield!
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14.03.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@bencarty.bsky.social and the team did a fantastic job in a wonderful collaboration with @naltemose.bsky.social as well as Dani Fachinetti and Simona Giunta’s teams to help define the molecular basis for maintaining centromeric chromatin size and position. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

05.02.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Thanks, Uwe! Your class was amazing and foundational for my research career!

17.11.2024 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New conference that will explore gene regulation mechanisms at molecular resolution. We bring bring together a fine crowd that uses microscopy, genomics and theory to chart the future of the booming fields of #singlemoleculegenomics and #singlemoleculemicroscopy. Join us July 15-18th 2025 at EMBL

14.11.2024 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

@arnaudkr.bsky.social and I have been talking about organizing a single-molecule genomics meeting for years! We're excited to do so at EMBL while bridging the fields of single-molecule genomics and microscopy with our co-organizers. Hope to see you there! July 15-18 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

15.11.2024 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin By developing a long-read sequencing method to simultaneously map replication status and protein-DNA contacts in cells, Ostrowski, Yang, etΒ al. show that newly replicated chromatin is enriched for unw...

The latest from our group, led by Megan Ostrowski and @martyyang.bsky.social, is now published in final form (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...! Many thanks to our excellent peer reviewers for suggesting several experiments (including CAF-1 perturbation) to really improve the study =) #epigenetics

15.11.2024 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 9

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