Vangeli Geshkovski

Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

See you there! 😉

THIS WEEK!!! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social

Congratulations to Stephen Cusack, EMBO Member since 1998, for receiving the 2026 Lennart Philipson #Award! 🧪

More info here:
https://www.embl.org/news/awards-honours/announcing-the-2026-embl-alumni-award-recipients/

Accessory subunits of PRC2 mimic H3K27me3 to restrict the spread of Polycomb domains Some proteins mimic the repressive mark H3K27me3, but the physiological relevance of this phenomenon was unclear. Agius et al. show that the PRC2 subunits JARID2 and PALI1 mimic H3K27me3 to antagonize...

1/ 🧵 In our new paper, we show that JARID2 and PALI1 mimic H3K27me3 to antagonise PRC2. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

EPIPLANT conference

🌱 You like plants and epigenetics?
Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
22-24 June 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026.
epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis.

I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time

Nobori Lab | The Sainsbury Laboratory Decoding the molecular and cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions. Single-cell and spatial omics of plant immunity. Led by Tatsuya Nobori at TSL, Norwich, UK.

Our lab website has been renewed! More updates to come.

Check it out: noborilab.org

Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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Can anyone advise on the quality of plasmidsaurus RNAseq compared to other services in the UK please?

Always happy to discuss plants and chromatin 🌱🧬 Great questions from the students! Thanks for the opportunity 👨‍🏫

Today’s @thesainsburylab.bsky.social MSc lecture focused on epigenetics (broadly defined), delivered by our chromatin aficionado, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social

Siyu @siyusong.bsky.social introduced the concept of PCoA.

She created this PCoA plot based on our lab members’ research interests.

Quiz: Is Tatsuya, sitting in the middle, interested in everything or nothing? 🤔

Post-replicative chromatin accessibility predicts cell fate change Knudsen and colleagues use repli-ATAC-seq to compare replicated and unreplicated chromatin in two models of cell identity change. They find that lineage-specific elements are accessible earlier in rep...

DNA replication globally disrupts the epigenome. But does this create a chromatin-access opportunity for TF binding to facilitate cell identity change? Now 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢-𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂-𝐬𝐞𝐪 shows 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 chromatin opening & TF binding occurs specifically post-replication, in cellular differentiation & reprogramming!

The Lasdun Wall on UEA Campus, with clear blue skies in the background and reflections in the windows.

The Square on UEA campus, with clear blue skies in the background. Campus Kitchen is seen half in shadow and half in the sun.

The Wherry Building on UEA campus, with a sunset in the clouds in the background. The lights are on in the building and shining through the door.

The outside of the Arts and Humanities building on UEA campus. Blue skies and clouds are in the background, with vines growing up the side of the building.

News | Our campus has been recognised as 4th in @telegraph.co.uk list of Britain’s greatest Brutalist buildings

Beyond our concrete walkways, our campus is surrounded by beautiful forestry, a broad & the historical Earlham Hall to complement the Brutalist architecture of our walkways and Ziggurats.

No DNA? 🧬

Had a blast at the orchid exibition at Kew Gardens yesterday 😍

Highly recommended, and a great excuse to visit these beautiful and immense gardens! 🌱🌿

@vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @shaniakeh.bsky.social

@rbgkew.bsky.social

I made a little book! And I adore it!

#marineplankton 🦑🧪

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

bit.ly/3ZHtneT

You won’t miss me. I’ll have this banner up…

Do you have a stand tomorrow? I'll try to visit!

If you like flowers, molecular mechanisms, friendky meetings and the Côte d'Azur, register to the 'Flower meeting' at the presqu'ile de Giens in June (15th-19th)

www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/FlowerWo...

Gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression in plants Abstract. Non-genetic variability in gene expression is an inevitable consequence of the stochastic nature of processes driving transcription and translati

Hot off the press, our latest publication on the functional role of gene body methylation (gBM).

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Work spearheaded by Jakub Zastapilo with help from @robynemm.bsky.social and Liudmila Mikheeva and co-led by Marco Catoni and @ubechtold.bsky.social 1/3

Sex Ratio Bias Triggers Demographic Suicide in a Dense Tortoise Population In theory, biased sex ratios combined with high population densities in coercive mating systems could trigger an extinction vortex, regardless of external factors such as predation or habitat loss. H...

Also check out Dragan's paper!

Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs

Macedonian tortoises made the NYT 🐢

Dear postdoc fellows, interested in applying for MSCA Postdoc Fellowship with team Epi2Trans at LGDP CNRS/UPVD in Perpignan, France? Get in touch with us! #MSCA #Postdoctoral #PlantScience #Epigenetics #TransposableElements #CNRS #UPVD www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume...

Sex Ratio Bias Triggers Demographic Suicide in a Dense Tortoise Population In theory, biased sex ratios combined with high population densities in coercive mating systems could trigger an extinction vortex, regardless of external factors such as predation or habitat loss. H...

Also check out Dragan's paper

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!