Ab-trapping - a peripheral staining artifact in antibody-based microscopy and genomics
Antibodies (Ab) are essential for detecting specific epitopes in microscopy and genomics, but can produce artifacts leading to erroneous interpretations. Here, we characterize a novel artifact, Ab-tra...
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Excited to share our work on "Ab-trapping," an antibody artifact causing misleading peripheral ("rim") staining in imaging & genomics (IF, CUT&Tag, CUT&RUN). Antibodies fail to penetrate structures, accumulating at the periphery. A π§΅π
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Looking forward to sharing some of our recent work !
For more details please check out our preprints:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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BPS Multiscale Genome Organization Webinar
Jan. 28th, 2025 @ 12-1 PM ET
Pablo Dans, PhD University of the Republic
Geoff Fudenberg, PhD University of Southern California
The Multiscale Genome Organisation is now on Bluesky!
Our first post is to announce our next webinar. Join us next week on Tuesday, Jan. 28th at 12:00 E.T. for two exciting talks by Pablo Dans and @gfudenberg.bsky.social
See you all there!
Link:
mit.zoom.us/j/91715298970
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In addition to coming here, we are planning our move away from Slack! Considering Discord or Zulip. Any pros/cons for either of those for us as a group working on open source software for biological data analysis?
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January 31 at 12pm CT, Job Dekker, PhD of UMass Chan Medical School presents the Monthly Seminar on Physical Genomics: "Mechanisms of Chromosome Folding", live on Zoom. Join us!
Registration is free: tinyurl.com/5n6ep25m
#chromatin #genomics #chromosomes #science #dna #northwestern #biology #umass
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Read all about this new discovery here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Application to speak in the Fragile Nucleosome series
Thank you for your interest in our seminar series!
We use a variety of different session formats but, in general, trainees can plan for a ~15 min talk + 5min Q/A and PIs can plan for a ~25min talk +...
Do you have a new and exciting chromatin/transcription story that you'd like to share with an enthusiastic audience?
If so, you should apply to give a talk in the 2025 Fragile Nucleosome seminar series: forms.gle/fwMYPFDf4az3...!
We're open to scientists at all stages of their careers!
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The only thing I am missing here is Epigenetic Hulk account.
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Beyond genomic weaving: molecular roles for CTCF outside cohesin loop extrusion
CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is a key regulator of 3D genome organization and transcriptional activity. Beyond its well-characterized role in facilitatβ¦
Closing 2024 with a review! Excited to share the latest (short) review from our lab, written by amazing Ramani/Narlikar lab grad student Aaron Corin in collaboration with @elphegenoralab.bsky.social! We focus on CTCF's myriad functions beyond regulating loop extrusion; tons to dig into!
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After a month of hard work to create a pool of over 50 fantastic mentors, we have opened the call for mentee applications!
If you are an early career researcher and need help navigating the career path (be it academia or industry, or anything else), see if there is a mentor for you and apply!
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in case of use (or if folks in your group would be interested in contributing) we have been developing a Snakemake pipeline that processes fastqs either with or without Spike-in github.com/Fudenberg-Re... -- we've used it to compute FRiPs for cohesin in CTCF peaks to compare with extrusion models
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2025 Schmidt Science Fellow
CDB UCL London and Gurdon Institute Cambridge
Wilson, Simons and Norden labs
Developmental, Systems and Synthetic Biology
Prev: Briscoe, Crick Institute; Zernicka-Goetz and Thomson, Caltech; Banerjee and Goehring, UCL
Postdoc at Brandeis University. Chromatin biophysics. Computational Modeling.
To Be :)
https://amithzafal.github.io/
Postdoc at Institut Pasteur. Interested in emerging functions across biological scales.
Group Leader at the LBMC, ENS-Lyon, starting April 2026
Postdoc in the Whitehouse lab, MSKCC, NYC.
PhD in the Pasero lab, IGH, France.
Associate Professor @ University of Torino | Armenise-Harvard Lab of Genome Architecting | ERC StG TRANS-3 | Ex SCI Cambridge & UW ISCRM
Research group leader @German Cancer Research Center, reconstructing human development and disease using cell fate engineering
Co-founder and CTO of startup @dayzerodx. Genomics + ML. Previously @Harvard SEAS (Applied Math PhD) and @MIT (Physics).
Group Leader at the ICM-CSIC. Passionate about #3Dchromatin #development #sexdetermination & #climatechange in all marine π§¬ππͺΈπ±π¦ππ¬π» Past: Postdoc: @MerBlazquezπͺπΈ& @VaquerizasLabπ©πͺ| PhD: @GroupBiolReproπͺπΈ| she/her/ella
Biophysics PhD student at Stanford
PhD student at MIT Physics. Interested in statistical physics, gene regulation, and fundamental questions in biology.
Postdoc in @elphegenoralab.bsky.social at UCSF, @uaw4811.bsky.social member, carillon player (she/her)
Research group leader and professor at University of Copenhagen and RIgshospitalet. Research in cancer genomics/genetics, structural variants, mutational processes and clonal evolution
Evolutionary and statistical geneticist. Associate Professor at
Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM.
http://sohaillab.com
UNAM | U Chicago | Langebio | Harvard | MIT
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Postdoc @ZauggLab | Uni Basel, DBM
π¬ Exploring spatial transcriptomics in bone marrow
π Previously: applied data science, chromosome organization, polymer modeling
π‘ Open to discussions & collaborations - letβs talk science!
Chromatin and cancer and condensates. Lab Head in Discovery Oncology at Genentech.
AmyStrom.com
Senior editor @naturesmb.bsky.social. Views and opinions are personal.
π» 𧬠3D genome & RNA lovers Group Leader at Center for Human Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology | CDA @ArmeniseHarvard
Institute of Molecular Biology, BAS
#DNArepair #Replication #Genomeintegrity #Cancer #Anticancerdrugs #Microscopy
PhD Candidate in Regulatory Genome program (IRTG2403) |
Robson lab - Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (MDC-BIMSB) & Mundlos Lab - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics |
Genome Regulation, Nuclear Envelope, LADs