Effie Apostolou lab

Effie Apostolou lab

@efapostolou29.bsky.social

Interested in 3D chromatin, cell fate decisions and gene regulation

282 Followers 172 Following 40 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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📢 We are hiring a bioinformatician!
📍 @gustaveroussy.fr - U981
⏳ 18 months contract
📩 hire.u981.hemonc@gmail.com
Thanks for reposting
#Recruitment #Genomics #Bioinformatics 👇

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B Cells Transiently Unlock Their Plasticity, Risking Lymphoma Development | Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances.

@weillcornell.bsky.social newsroom coverage here meyercancer.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025-12...

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T follicular helper cells transiently unlock a plasticity state in germinal centre B cells during the humoral immune response - Nature Cell Biology Scourzic et al. show that germinal centre B cells display an enhanced ability to reprogram to induced pluripotent stem cells compared to mature B cells. This ability indicates their higher plasticity ...

Original study here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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2 months ago

Our study with @melnicklab on the discovery of a transient and tightly-regulated, plastic state of mature B cells during physiological immune response and potential links to aggressive lymphomas now out at NCB.👇Detailed threat by the amazing lead author @lscourzic.bsky.social!.
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2 months ago

Massive effort from the 4D Nucleome consortium and excellent resource for the community! Don’t miss it!

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3 months ago

Our study with @stadtfeldlab.bsky.social on the dual mechanism by which EHMT2 is repressing totipotency-associated vs lineage-specific loci is now out @emboreports.org. See thread by @cmuyehara.bsky.social who led the study with K Chatterjee. Full article here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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4 months ago
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Don't miss the chance to attend the annual virtual meeting on the advances in Nuclear Topology and 3D chromatin Architecture in Cancer organized by @janeskok @iannisaifantis1 @artsinyc and Melnick. The registration is FREE (see barcode) and the speaker lineup SPECTACULAR.

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4 months ago

Amazing news KJ!!! Very well deserved! Congratulations!!!🎉 🎉🎉

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5 months ago
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Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities | Keystone Symposia Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities, March 2026, in Geneva, with field leaders!

Don't forget to register for the upcoming Keystone Symposium Epigenetics & Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (Geveva, March 03-06). Join us for fun discussions on chromatin mechanisms and therapeutic innovation! keysym.us/KSEpigenetic...

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Congratulations Christa!!! Wishing you many productive and fun lab decades ahead! That seems delicious!!!

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5 months ago

Honored and excited to be among the speakers in the upcoming #KSEpigenetics26 symposium! Thank you @kjarmache.bsky.social and @ckadoch.bsky.social for the invitation. Follow the link to register 👇👇👇

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Fraud, using A.I., impersonating medical professionals
Front page NY Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

This is amazing: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Reprogramming Stars #23: Charting Cell Fate Crossroads from the Interplay Between Epigenetics, Transcription, and 3D Chromatin Architecture—An Interview with Dr. Effie Apostolou | Cellular Reprogrammi... Cellular Reprogramming

Honored to be part of the "Reprogramming Stars" interview series by @cellreprolab.bsky.social @CellularReprogramming. Humbling title but very fun discussion about past and ongoing research, future directions, advice to new trainees and more. Check it out! www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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7 months ago

Another Exciting Fusion conference on 3D genome organization is coming up! #SGO25! Deadline for registration on September 1st! Hope to see many of you there!

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

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Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

WTF??? www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

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8 months ago
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Will the Senate Save NIH? Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.

The proposed budget slashes NIH by ~40%, devastating medical research, clinical trials, treatment breakthroughs—life-saving work.

Thousands of lives at risk for tax cuts for the rich? NO THANKS.

Tell your senators to oppose the cuts HERE:
zurl.co/qiKdX


zurl.co/RCR0y
#CutsCostLives

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10 months ago

Check out this new preprint with @distefanolab.bsky.social lab! The manuscript focuses on RNA processing in the form of sequestration into P-bodies in the context of development.

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10 months ago

I am looking for postdocs to join my group at NIH. Are you interested in Development, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, and Human health? Please apply! www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-mb-...

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11 months ago

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

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11 months ago

That’s huge!!! Congratulations Bing and welcome to NYC!!!

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11 months ago

Special thanks to the @themarkfdn.bsky.social for believing and supporting this project from the very beginning and to NIH for their funding! #3DGenome #Glioblastoma

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Congratulations to @SarahBreves, @dafnecdg.bsky.social and Alex Polyzos for driving this study and many thanks to the Fine group and all collaborators for their critical contributions!!! Grateful also to Howard Chang for sharing their data.

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What drives 3D hub formation? Intriguingly, only a small fraction of 3D hubs overlapped with predicted structural variants, such as amplifications, suggesting epigenetic mechanisms. Transcription factors with enriched binding on hubs were often predictive of worse outcomes.

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What about other cancers? Using published HiChIP datasets across 16 cancer types we also identified shared and tumor-specific 3D hubs associated with universal or cancer-specific oncogenic programs.

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CRISPRi targeting of a highly recurrent hub -with previously unknown role in GBM- was sufficient to cause concordant downregulation of multiple hub-connected genes, global transcriptional shifts and reduced clonogenicity.

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Moreover, gene pairs within hubs showed significantly higher coregulation in single-cells compared to genes within the same TAD or in proximity. However, for hubs connected to multiple genes the mean coregulation is highly variable likely reflecting intratumoral heterogeneity.

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By mapping 3D enhancer-promoter networks in patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells, we identified hyperconnected 3D hubs that strongly enriched for universal and tumor-specific programs and accurately distinguished aggressive IDH-wt from lower-grade glioma patients.

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