Mafalda Almeida 🇵🇹 🇪🇺

Mafalda Almeida 🇵🇹 🇪🇺

@bluebuleta.bsky.social

Scientist interested in heterochromatin formation and transcription regulation, studying transposons in @rberrens.bsky.social lab @uniofoxford Former Brockdorff lab member.

277 Followers 320 Following 1 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!

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Heterochromatin boundaries maintain centromere position, size and number - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Carty et al. identify the H3K9 methyltransferases that restrict the size and position of the centromere protein A chromatin domain, maintaining functional centromeres.

Very proud to have our latest work now online in
@natsmb.nature.com. A wonderful team effort across the centromere community, across @jansenlab.bsky.social @naltemose.bsky.social @dfachinetti.bsky.social and Giunta labs. Happy reading! 1/4

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

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8 months ago
Transcription and Chromatin UK
Manchester, UK
17-19 September 2025
Earlybird deadline: 17 July 2025

Taking place on 17-19 September 2025, Transcription and Chromatin UK will showcase cutting-edge research and is a ‘mustattend’ for anyone within the transcription and epigenetics community🧪. Register now: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

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1 year ago
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Remembering Professor Béla Novák 1956 - 2025 With great sadness, we announce the loss of Professor Béla Novák.

A brilliant, kind, funny colleague gone too soon. We will miss you Bela.
www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...

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1 year ago

Nice to see this out. Congrats to all the authors! 👏 👏 👏

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Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in pursuing academic careers and reac...

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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