Ben Martin

🎃 🥁This Wednesday in our 1st session of spookiest month👻 at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @sanimr.bsky.social & Alex Federation!
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CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics Fourwaves - CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics

FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE!

Last day to register for the CEEHRC Annual Meeting is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10!

Abstracts still being accepted for the poster sessions.

Speaker lineup and other details can be found at event.fourwaves.com/...

#epigenetics #epigenomics #ceehrc

Protein Domain Designer tool for the generation of publication-ready protein domain diagrams

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

This Wednesday at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host Ali Wilkening and @schvartzman.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing!
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How do flexible regions of histone chaperones team up to handle histones? Together with Fred Winston’s lab
@harvardmed.bsky.social, we reveal new insights in our study just out in Mol Cell. Hats off to James Warner and Vanda Lux @iocbprague.bsky.social for their key contributions! dlvr.it/TNB145

Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first?
I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982).
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It is my pleasure to share with you the latest from @jsvejstrup.bsky.social lab, where we look at how the reduction of RNAPII levels has a severe, yet organized transcriptional response in the cell.

Epigenetics: History, Molecules, and Diseases Buy Epigenetics: History, Molecules, and Diseases on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

1/ One of the questions I get asked about my book is what new they'll discover about #epigenetics.

I hope there will be a lot to learn, but maybe one of the most intriguing stories will be about the contribution of John Pugh.

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Epigenetic relay: Polycomb-directed DNA methylation in mammalian development In mammals, repression of germline-specific gene expression is essential for preserving somatic cell identity and preventing disease. Germline gene silencing is often dependent on the presence of prom...

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece:

‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Early-bird registration, abstract submission for talk consideration, and travel award application deadline has been extended to FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19!

Abstracts submitted after Sep 19 will be included in poster sessions.

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Starting now - we've got two fantastic talks lined up today! Still time to join with the link in post quoted below!

Really excited to get our seminars back up and running. @gracebower.bsky.social is going 1st and if you haven't read her range extender story, you're in for a treat!
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@creminslab.bsky.social has the 2nd talk and will tell us about the amazing work happening in her lab!

Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
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Looks like a great couple of months of seminars! Come check out my talk on November 5th if you want to learn about our progress in mapping the nucleotide-resolved structure and function of cis-regulatory DNA elements across thousands of cell types and states.

Honoured to be part of this awesome lineup 😍! @fnucleosome.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity! A very exciting Fall Season is about to start, I wouldn't miss it 😌🧬

Honored to lead off such an amazing set of speakers 🧬 🌟

What a line-up! Looking forward to hearing some really cool science!

Join the Fragile Nucleosome Seminar featuring @gracebower.bsky.social, who will discuss our recent discovery of the Range Extender Element. (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

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Check it out, Chromatin Kids!

Chromatin remodeller does stuff to Transcription Factors!

Functions where it is seldom seen!

Both decreases and increases chromatin accessibility!

How cool is that?

If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you.

I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list.

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JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

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Harvard’s research is shrinking amid the Trump administration’s freeze Even if grants at Harvard are suddenly restored, there is deep-rooted uncertainty about the damage already done and the future of basic science research in the U.S.

shocking to read over and over the stories of close colleagues who can't run their lab anymore. I know Karen well and it's heartbreaking. Also #PIinthelab! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

5 days left to apply for this assistant professor position in molecular oncology at @mcgill.ca! 🇨🇦

And it's going to take too long for the (devastating) effects of this to be felt broadly by Americans for most of them (including most politicians) to ever make the connection.

Congrats!

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808 Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

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Reduced TBX5 dosage undermines developmental control of atrial cardiomyocyte identity in a model of human atrial disease There is evidence for a shared genetic basis of atrial septal defects (ASDs) and atrial fibrillation (AF), but it remains unclear how genetic susceptibility leads to these distinct human atrial diseas...

New preprint from the lab just dropped! Our continued partnership with Irfan Kathiriya from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social on gene regulatory networks in atrial disease modeling using iPS cells
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