Ben Martin

Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear

Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪

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GOLDEN SMILE

🇨🇦 Summer McIntosh flashes her five medals — four of them gold — here in Singapore to close out the World Championships.

One of the greatest swimming meets of all-time. She’s 18 years old.

Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓

📣Faculty Position Opening!

👩🏾‍🔬An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Professor position in aging research at @UMontreal

🗓️Application deadline 15 September

#FacultyJobs #CdnSci #Research #Aging

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GOLD (#3) FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH

CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD

Summer McIntosh breaks the 200m butterfly world championship record to win her third gold medal. She nearly broke the WR

She posts a time of 2:01.99. Another extraordinary swim by the 18-year-old Canadian phenom.

Hi all, we got a grant for a cool project that will follow up of our paper published a few months ago (see below). We will explore how light acts as a morphogen to instruct PCP. If you are looking for a postdoc position and interested in this topic, please reach out!

We are hiring 📣 Join our mighty team! See posting below 👇

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🧬 Our exciting lineup of speakers include Ina Anreiter, Genevieve Deblois, Meaghan Jones, Benjamin Martin, Serge McGraw, Karim Mekhail, Eric Miska, Gregory Schwartz, Hui Shen, and Amina Zoubeidi, with keynotes from Sarah Marzi and Daan Noordermeer.
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CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics Fourwaves - CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics

The CEEHRC Annual Meeting returns this fall!

Register NOW for the 11th Canadian Conference on Epigenetics taking place November 12-15, 2025 at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta.

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About 1 month left to apply for this faculty position at McGill with a research lab at the Lady Davis Institute in Montreal!

How do chromatin remodelers use #IDRs to find TF binding partners? In our new Molecular Cell paper, we show that β-catenin is an adaptor that links SWI/SNF (cBAF) subunit ARID1A with binding partners via IDR-domain interactions.
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Welcome to Bluesky @hannekevlaming.bsky.social and congratulations on the paper!!!

Happy to share this paper! We uncovered that good 5' splice sites protect against ZC3H4/Restrictor's promiscuous role, and that its role is to suppress elongation and indirectly cause termination. Looking forward to learning more about this protein in the future!

Long-read RNA sequencing of transposable elements from single cells using CELLO-seq - Nature Protocols Single-cell long-read RNA sequencing enables the high-fidelity mapping of single-cell expression data from highly sequence-similar transposable elements to unique genomic loci by correcting errors fro...

Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the #transposon #TEsky community and folks working on #singleCell isoform and allelic #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics Fourwaves - CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics

Registration for the CEEHRC Canadian Conference on Epigenetics is OPEN!

Come join us in Banff in November for a fabulous lineup of speakers, always amazing poster sessions, and a generally great time!

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Gene regulatory networks and essential transcription factors for de novo-originated genes Nature Ecology & Evolution - A combination of computational methods applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data and genetic experiments shows that a small number of transcription factors are...

Our latest paper is out: rdcu.be/ev6Ym — one of my favorite projects. It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.

Excited to share that our latest story on Restrictor is out now in @genesdev.bsky.social!! Big thank you to my fellow co-first author Hanneke, Karen @adelmanlab.bsky.social and co-authors Nathalie and Allison!

H2AK119ub Safeguards Against Ectopic Transcription Factor Mediated Gene Activation in the Developing Forebrain The PRC1 complex regulates developmental gene expression in mammals by ubiquitinating histones (H2AK119ub) and nucleating repressive chromatin interactions. Human genetic data and functional experimen...

Excited to share our hot-off-the-press @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
that explores how PRC1-mediated H2AK119ub deposition safeguards lineage fidelity during forebrain development. Fantastic work by @lucyadoyle.bsky.social and our colleagues & collaborators. 🥳🧬🧠🔬
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Congrats @camimoso.bsky.social, Hanneke, @adelmanlab.bsky.social, et al! Great to see this out!

Zincore, an atypical coregulator, binds zinc finger transcription factors to control gene expression Zinc finger proteins (ZNFs) are the largest family of transcription factors, yet how they activate gene expression remains unclear. In this study, we identified Zincore, a protein complex consisting o...

In today’s publication in Science we introduce Zincore: a novel protein of QRICH1 and SEPHS1 and functions as a transcriptional coregulator dedicated to zinc finger transcription factors. Here’s how we found it: 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/11

come join us in our brand new research building!
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Thanks!

Assistant Professor (Research), Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (C1-250514) Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

Please RT! The oncology department & McGill is hiring an Assistant professor for a lab to be located at Lady Davis Institute (where I am!). McGill and the Lady Davis are fantastic places to do research and Montreal is great city to live in.

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Registration is now OPEN for the 11th Canadian Conference on Epigenetics!

The annual meeting will be held November 12-15, 2025 at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.

You can register and find out more information at our website: event.fourwaves.com/ceehrc2025

Do you or someone you know have an exciting new chromatin/transcription story that you'll be ready to talk about in the Fall?

Then fill out or share this form to speak in the @fnucleosome.bsky.social seminar series! All models, organisms, and complexes welcome 🧬🧪🔬

Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in RNA Neurotherapeutics Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at…

🚨 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca‬ is recruiting: Canada Excellence Research Chair in #RNA Neurotherapeutics

Looking for an established leader in RNA research in the brain with an innovative research program in RNA-related research in neuropsychiatry.

✍ Apply by July 4:

Congrats!!!

That's a wrap for our spring seminar schedule! Thanks so much to all of the great speakers we've had this year and to @fueyoraquel.bsky.social, @kaiamattioli.bsky.social, and Laura Godfrey for the amazing talks today!

Application to speak in the Fragile Nucleosome series Thank you for your interest in our seminar series! We use a variety of different session formats but, in general, trainees can plan for a ~15 min talk + 5min Q/A and PIs can plan for a ~25min talk +...

FN is taking a summer vacation 🏖️, but we'll be back in September with more exciting talks on chromatin and transcription!

If you've got a new story you'd like to share with the FN audience this fall, fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Montreal foodie friends: what are your favourite Mexican restos in the city?