Almudena Serrano-Benítez

Evidence for improved DNA repair in long-lived bowhead whale - Nature Analysis of the longest-lived mammal, the bowhead whale, reveals an improved ability to repair DNA breaks, mediated by high levels of cold-inducible RNA-binding protein.   

Nature research paper: Evidence for improved DNA repair in long-lived bowhead whale

go.nature.com/4oNJSAG

What specific targets & roles are there for all distinct polyubiquitin chain types?
Niels Mailand, Robert Shearer et al profile a panel of #ubiquitin replacement cell lines, implicating K29 chains in chromatin regulation via SUV39H1 destabilization
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H2B ubiquitination by RNF20/40 safeguards replication fork dynamics in human cells, by facilitating fork reversal and recruiting RNF169 that protects from excessive degradation of nascent DNA
@penengolab.bsky.social and collaborators
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See our paper “Mechanism of trinucleotide repeat expansion by MutSβ-MutLγ and contraction by FAN1”. Using biochemistry, we show how DNA incisions by the MutLγ nuclease can lead to expansions, and how expansion is prevented by FAN1. Well done Issam and Valentina!

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

We are excited to welcome Evi Soutoglou and @rubenvanboxtel.bsky.social as our guest speakers at the upcoming GIIN webinar on Tuesday, November 4th at 5 PM Rome / 11 AM NYC.
Join us on zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403
Register here to become part of our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Still open to get applications for this postdoctoral position. Please send me the required information. Also, I will be in two weeks in Sorrento for the CRISPR-Cas workshop, so if you are around and would like to work in our lab, this would be a great opportunity to meet :)

A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair The analysis of DNA sequence outcomes provides molecular insights into double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms. Using parallel in-pool profiling of Cas9-induced insertions and deletions (indels) w...

Kickstarting our Bluesky🦋 account with great news!
Our REPAIRome study finally out today in
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Topoisomerase Regulation of Cancer Gene Expression | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Congratulations!!!!!!!!! Very well deserved!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Off-pore Nup98 condensates mobilize heterochromatic breaks and exclude Rad51 Merigliano et al. identified a non-canonical, “off-pore” role for nucleoporins in genome stability and in the spatial regulation of homologous recombination in multicellular eukaryotes. Nup98 condensates form at DNA breaks within pericentromeric heterochromatin to prevent aberrant recombination by excluding Rad51, while promoting the mobilization of repair sites through immiscibility with heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) condensates.

Online Now: Off-pore Nup98 condensates mobilize heterochromatic breaks and exclude Rad51 Online now:

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Blackford Group A position as Postdoctoral Research Associate is available at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, in the group headed by Dr. Andrew Blackford. Th

We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms.

Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025.

More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Multigenerational cell tracking of DNA replication and heritable DNA damage - Nature A multigenerational single-cell tracking approach provides a framework to dissect phenotypic plasticity at the single-cell level, offering insights into cellular processes that may resemble early even...

Delighted to share that the results of my main postdoc project are now published in @nature.com

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to share our new paper on Nature - how Ku accommodates Alu expansion in primates by binding to dsRNA, providing a clue for both the high levels of Ku and its essentiality in human cells. Thank @chaolinzhang @hchung03 @LenaSteckelberg More to come www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epigenetics Update - The establishment of nuclear organization in mouse embryos is orchestrated by multiple epigenetic pathways bit.ly/3YL5p28

Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Helmholtz Munich) in Cell

#Epigenetics #NuclearOrganization
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging; epigenometech.com

Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome - Nature The physical organization of the genome in non-bilaterian animals and their closest unicellular relatives is characterized; comparative analysis shows chromatin looping is a conserved feature of genome architecture and spatial genome regulation emerged early in animal evolution.

Nature research paper: Chromatin loops are an ancestral hallmark of the animal regulatory genome

https://go.nature.com/4kcNObU

The best meeting I've attended!

Interested in cancer research? Join us at the @spjacksongroup.bsky.social to study novel biomarkers www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50998/