Epigenetics Society

We would like to congratulate the 2025 Epigenetics Society Conference poster winners.

We thank Epigenomes for funding travel awards that allowed graduate students and postdocs to attend the conference and present their excellent research.

Last week I had the utmost pleasure presenting my PhD research at the 2025 Epigenetics Society International Conference, held at the Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine in… | Lib... Last week I had the utmost pleasure presenting my PhD research at the 2025 Epigenetics Society International Conference, held at the Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicag...

Libi Marchenkov-Flam, a graduate student at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, gave an excellent talk at the 2025 Epigenetics Society Conference. Read more about Libi's presentation and experience at the conference.

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One of the fantastic presentations was by Harshini Vemula, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Srinivas Vinod Saladi's lab at the University of Toledo. She talked about KDM4A in Mesothelioma.

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New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis) www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... #DefendScience

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Story in Being Patient about Alzheimer's disease funding noting the decrease in the funding of number of new projects due, in part, to the number of multiyear funded grants from the National Institute on Aging. beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r... #StandUpForScience

FlyBase Homepage FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology

eric lai Despite Harvard lawsuit outcome, FlyBase NIH grant was not released. If we don't step up, it can go away! Donations site: flybase.org links to IU stock center, but its for FlyBase, pls give! Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center Fund: Giving: My IU: Indiana University

Program | Epigenetics Society | Prof. Dr. Steven A. Johnsen It was an honor and a real pleasure to take part in the 2025 Epigenetics Society International Conference in Chicago and to represent the Bosch Health Campus, the Robert Bosch Center for Tumor Disease...

The 2025 Epigenetics Society Special Symposium was a fantastic opportunity for researchers from around the globe to connect, exchange ideas, and explore the latest advances in the field.
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We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting our conference.

My experience at the 2025 Epigenetics Society International Conference The Chromatin Digest has been on tour! I attended the 2025 Epigenetics Society International Conference in Chicago, USA last week. I had a brilliant time, and was fortunate enough to be invited to …

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The Epigenetics Society held its 2nd international conference, showcasing cutting-edge research. Presentations featured model organisms—from plants & ants to honeybees, mice & humans & multiomic approaches to deliver unprecedented insights into epigenetic regulation. www.esconference25.com/program

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When misinformation spreads about vaccines, scientists respond. CIDRAP/Vaccine Integrity Project shows data on how vaccines reduced crippling diseases such as polio, small pox, pertussis.
@cidrap.bsky.social has info on vaccines. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5h...

Many U.S. universities are dramatically reducing—or suspending—PhD admissions for 26-27. Harvard & MIT, are scaling back their PhD intakes, up to 75%. Brown U. & U. Wash. paused admissions altogether in certain fields. This is due to frozen research grants & reduced support for graduate programs.

Highly recommended!
‪Michael E. Mann‬‬ @michaelemann.bsky.social‬‬
My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
& I discussed our new book #ScienceUnderSiege with the great
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social Full 20+ minute interview via Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbdt...
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Arizona Rejects Compact
Arizona was 1 of 9 colleges offered preference for federal research funding if they overhaul admissisions & hiring, cap internatl enrollment, revise academics, stop criticism of conservatives, freeze tuition. MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, Arizona & Virginia declined.

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Been a rough year for federally funded scientists & I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. The shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

U of A declines to sign Trump compact, will 'compete on merit' for funding University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella tells the Trump administration the U of A will compete on merit for federal funding, but agrees with many of the proposed changes in

…academic freedom, merit-based research funding, & institutional independence are foundational & must be preserved.
"As a result, the university has not agreed to terms outlined in the proposal, but instead submitted a Statement of Principles to the Dept of Education,"
tucson.com/news/local/e...

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University of Arizona also rejects, albeit in a conciliatory manner. No comments about academic freedom, just concern that preferential treatment by the government would be anti-merit. 7 of 9 initially contacted universities said no. president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells within the scientific community. William Brangham spoke with two prominent researchers about "Science Under Siege," their new book chronicling what they argue is a concerted war on science. Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.   Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6   Follow us: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbsnews X (formerly Twitter): http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour   Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe

Scientist authors of an important book by scientists about the spreading science-denial are interviewed (8 min). Science Under Siege. #DefendResearch #StandUpForScience

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science
youtu.be/VZq7ZavUlJc

So how did NIDA get away with ignoring the Multi-Year Funding mandate?
Jeremy Berg‬ ‪@jeremymberg.bsky.social‬‬
Here is NIDA They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.

Science matters "It is not perfect It is only a tool" "It has no rules" (Carl Sagan, 1985)

‪Jeremy Berg‬‬ ‪@jeremymberg.bsky.social‬‬ Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science magazine, Stand Up for Science advisor.
Here are the data by NIH institute and center for 2025. All amount in millions of dollars.
#StandUpForSCience #DefendResearch

4 Charts Breaking Down H-1B Visas and Higher Ed More than 16,700 employees at colleges and universities got H-1B visas approved in fiscal year 2025, but they are concentrated at 100 large research institutions.

4 Charts Break Down H-1B Visas & Higher Ed
Requiring employers pay $100,000 to secure an H-1B visa for foreign workers may imperil 1000’s of jobs at US colleges, which employ >16,000 workers (~5%) on H-1B visas. The H-1B program allows hire of foreign talent if domestic applicants can’t be found.

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

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We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences go.nature.com/4pBArFH

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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Did you know that America is known for cancer research b/c of the National Cancer Act 1971. Mary Lasker took her cause to congress & the American public as a leading proponent of the National Cancer Act. She said "If you think research is expensive, try disease!"

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

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Medical research at colleges & universities helps millions of people stay healthy. Attacks on science funding endanger that. See the impact of those cuts here: scienceimpacts.org #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
Write to lawmakers here: go.aft.org/ProtectScience@AAUP.org

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This is a big victory for research and innovation. But we have a lot more work to do to stop the weaponization of grant funding for all colleges & universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h..