Hasan Yardimci
@hyardimci.bsky.social
Group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Studying DNA replication one molecule at a time.
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Postdoctoral Fellow - H Yardimci Lab
www.crick.ac.uk
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Postdoctoral Fellow - H Yardimci Lab
www.crick.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Last few days to apply for this PhD project in our lab. Mix of biochemistry and structural biology, DNA replication and ubiquitin signalling. Get in touch if interested. Full application through official university portal. Deadline on 27th of November!
Fully-funded 4-years competitive PhD project in our lab (MIBTP-doctoral-training-programme. p97 unfoldase functions during DNA replication. Open to UK/international candidates. Please get in touch for informal enquiries. Deadline 27th of November. Please share.
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Professor Aga Gambus
Professor Aga Gambus
warwick.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Last few days to apply for this PhD project in our lab. Mix of biochemistry and structural biology, DNA replication and ubiquitin signalling. Get in touch if interested. Full application through official university portal. Deadline on 27th of November!
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📢 Excited to share that our study has just been published in Nature Communications! We uncover how CRL4-DCAF12 regulates the cellular levels of MCMBP, a chaperone essential for assembling nascent MCM2-7 complexes, to ensure accurate and error-free genome duplication.
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢 Excited to share that our study has just been published in Nature Communications! We uncover how CRL4-DCAF12 regulates the cellular levels of MCMBP, a chaperone essential for assembling nascent MCM2-7 complexes, to ensure accurate and error-free genome duplication.
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We are looking for a senior technician (can undertake PhD) at Uni of Birmingham (UK) to study chromatin replication and ubiquitylation using Xenopus egg extract. Deadline 28/10/25. Get in touch with me or @m-saponaro.bsky.social for informal inquiries. Please share.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW912/s...
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Senior Research Technician at University of Birmingham
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October 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
We are looking for a senior technician (can undertake PhD) at Uni of Birmingham (UK) to study chromatin replication and ubiquitylation using Xenopus egg extract. Deadline 28/10/25. Get in touch with me or @m-saponaro.bsky.social for informal inquiries. Please share.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW912/s...
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Are you interested in working on related projects? 🌱
The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position.
Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs
The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position.
Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Are you interested in working on related projects? 🌱
The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position.
Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs
The Knipscheer lab at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, the Netherlands) has openings for a postdoc and a PhD position.
Apply here: www.hubrecht.eu/jobs
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It is not always safe to repair DNA Damage. Sometimes, cells "just bypass it".
During DNA replication, repair of lesions on DNA can be dangerous. Cells instead "tolerate" DNA damage and focus on finishing replication.
Read our review and find out why and how: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
During DNA replication, repair of lesions on DNA can be dangerous. Cells instead "tolerate" DNA damage and focus on finishing replication.
Read our review and find out why and how: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
August 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It is not always safe to repair DNA Damage. Sometimes, cells "just bypass it".
During DNA replication, repair of lesions on DNA can be dangerous. Cells instead "tolerate" DNA damage and focus on finishing replication.
Read our review and find out why and how: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
During DNA replication, repair of lesions on DNA can be dangerous. Cells instead "tolerate" DNA damage and focus on finishing replication.
Read our review and find out why and how: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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📢 For all HaloTag lovers💙💚💛❤️💜🩶 we are excited to share that our work, in which we developed a new biotin-HaloTag ligand, is now published in @jcb.org! Full link here: rupress.org/jcb/article-...
July 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 For all HaloTag lovers💙💚💛❤️💜🩶 we are excited to share that our work, in which we developed a new biotin-HaloTag ligand, is now published in @jcb.org! Full link here: rupress.org/jcb/article-...
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Yadav, Jadhav, @hanasedlackova.bsky.social et al present a novel cell-permeable biotin-HaloTag ligand. The reported ligand expands the HaloTag toolbox by enabling in vivo labeling & providing capabilities for efficient affinity capture of protein variants from live cells rupress.org/jcb/article/...
July 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Yadav, Jadhav, @hanasedlackova.bsky.social et al present a novel cell-permeable biotin-HaloTag ligand. The reported ligand expands the HaloTag toolbox by enabling in vivo labeling & providing capabilities for efficient affinity capture of protein variants from live cells rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Congratulations to @hyardimci.bsky.social on receiving a £2.3m @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to study how cells faithfully duplicate their genetic material when under stress. 🥳
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£2.3m awarded to study DNA replication stress
Hasan Yardimci, Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, has received a Wellcome Discovery Award for £2.3m to study how cells faithfully duplicate their genetic material when under stress.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to @hyardimci.bsky.social on receiving a £2.3m @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to study how cells faithfully duplicate their genetic material when under stress. 🥳
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Excited our paper is out! G-quadruplex (G4) unwinding via an intricate G-loop assembly and disassembly mechanism maintains genome integrity. Pioneered by Koichi Sato with great collaborators Jing Lyu and @simonelsasser.bsky.social Check it out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0493 🧵(1/4)
RNA transcripts regulate G-quadruplex landscapes through G-loop formation
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are prevalent DNA structures that regulate transcription but also threaten genome stability. How G4 dynamics are controlled remains poorly understood. Here, we report that RNA tra...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Excited our paper is out! G-quadruplex (G4) unwinding via an intricate G-loop assembly and disassembly mechanism maintains genome integrity. Pioneered by Koichi Sato with great collaborators Jing Lyu and @simonelsasser.bsky.social Check it out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0493 🧵(1/4)
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New from our lab @crick.ac.uk, in collaboration with the Enchev and Bukau labs.
By studying a protein that is difficult to fold, we discover fascinating new mechanisms by which the ribosome supports protein biogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By studying a protein that is difficult to fold, we discover fascinating new mechanisms by which the ribosome supports protein biogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from our lab @crick.ac.uk, in collaboration with the Enchev and Bukau labs.
By studying a protein that is difficult to fold, we discover fascinating new mechanisms by which the ribosome supports protein biogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By studying a protein that is difficult to fold, we discover fascinating new mechanisms by which the ribosome supports protein biogenesis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms.
Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025.
More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025.
More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Blackford Group
A position as Postdoctoral Research Associate is available at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, in the group headed by Dr. Andrew Blackford. Th
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May 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We’re #hiring, please share! A fully funded #postdoc position is available in my lab to work on DNA damage response mechanisms.
Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025.
More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please get in touch with your CV if you are interested; closing date: 27th June 2025.
More details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Our new study of chromatin ubiquitylation by variant PRC1 on the single-molecule scale: We visualize directly how vPRC1 ubiquitylates neighboring nucleosomes during a single binding event, showing a potential mechanism how H2Aub domains are established.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Single-molecule analysis reveals the mechanism of chromatin ubiquitylation by variant PRC1 complexes
Single-molecule experiments show that active conformation formation controls chromatin ubiquitylation kinetics by variant PRC1.
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May 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our new study of chromatin ubiquitylation by variant PRC1 on the single-molecule scale: We visualize directly how vPRC1 ubiquitylates neighboring nucleosomes during a single binding event, showing a potential mechanism how H2Aub domains are established.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Application deadline is this Friday!
Exciting opportunity to join us as a PhD student and kickstart cryo-EM studies in our group 🔬🧬. Includes world class training opportunities @mdc-berlin.bsky.social and @uoe-igc.bsky.social. See below for more details and please get in touch if you're interested.
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human Genetics, Genomics and Disease: Structures and mechanisms of genome replication at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Human Genetics, Genomics and Disease: Structures and mechanisms of genome replication at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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May 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Application deadline is this Friday!
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3rd edition of the fantastic UK DNA replication meeting is happening next September in Edinburgh. Don't miss out 🧬🏴
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UK DNA Replication Meeting 2026
Research in the DNA replication field is progressing at a remarkable rate. Technological innovations in biochemical reconstitution, structural biology, proteomics and DNA sequencing are helping to rap...
www.biochemistry.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
3rd edition of the fantastic UK DNA replication meeting is happening next September in Edinburgh. Don't miss out 🧬🏴
www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...
www.biochemistry.org/events-and-t...
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📢 For all DNA fiber enthusiasts! 🟥🟩 We are thrilled to announce the release of our long-awaited AI-based workflow for the automated and quantitative analysis of DNA fibers. It's an exciting step forward—check it out on bioRxiv! lnkd.in/dQWUPtsP
March 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢 For all DNA fiber enthusiasts! 🟥🟩 We are thrilled to announce the release of our long-awaited AI-based workflow for the automated and quantitative analysis of DNA fibers. It's an exciting step forward—check it out on bioRxiv! lnkd.in/dQWUPtsP
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
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🧬⛓️ Our latest preprint examines the fate of collapsed forks in vertebrates 🐸 and our colleagues in @heathmurraylab.bsky.social asked similar questions in bacteria 🦠 to reveal how evolution shapes the response to fork collapse (see🧵)
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Resolution of collapsed forks is separate from completion of DNA synthesis
Replication fork collapse at single-strand DNA breaks (SSBs) poses a serious threat to genome stability. Using Xenopus egg extracts, we show that a replication fork encountering an SSB on either the l...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🧬⛓️ Our latest preprint examines the fate of collapsed forks in vertebrates 🐸 and our colleagues in @heathmurraylab.bsky.social asked similar questions in bacteria 🦠 to reveal how evolution shapes the response to fork collapse (see🧵)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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How do replisomes walk on DNA? And what happens when they run into a G-quadruplex? @sahilbatra.bsky.social and @benallwein.bsky.social provide unexpected insight in our latest paper with Richard Hite @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Congrats to all authors!
G-quadruplex–stalled eukaryotic replisome structure reveals helical inchworm DNA translocation
DNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non–B-form DNA secondary structures that threaten genome stability by impeding DNA replication. To elucidate how G4s induce replication fork arrest, we characterized fork ...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
How do replisomes walk on DNA? And what happens when they run into a G-quadruplex? @sahilbatra.bsky.social and @benallwein.bsky.social provide unexpected insight in our latest paper with Richard Hite @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Congrats to all authors!
In our latest preprint, we uncover how CMG helicase overcomes covalent DNA-protein crosslinks. Check out our findings here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In our latest preprint, we uncover how CMG helicase overcomes covalent DNA-protein crosslinks. Check out our findings here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A new PhD position is available in my lab to explore DNA replication mechanisms using single-molecule approaches. Apply by 19th of March:
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Yardimci Lab | Single-molecule visualisation of the eukaryotic replication machinery
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March 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A new PhD position is available in my lab to explore DNA replication mechanisms using single-molecule approaches. Apply by 19th of March:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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SAVE THE DATE! The next EMBO | EMBL Symposium on 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease' will be held October 20-23, 2026.
Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).
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Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).
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DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease
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February 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
SAVE THE DATE! The next EMBO | EMBL Symposium on 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease' will be held October 20-23, 2026.
Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Very excited to share that my thesis work is out in Molecular Cell! We trained a Structure and Omics informed Classifier (SPOC) to score binary AlphaFold multimer (AF-M) predictions by structural quality and consistency with experimental omics datasets. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions
Schmid and Walter train a classifier that discerns functionally relevant structure
predictions in proteome-wide protein-protein interaction (PPI) screens using AlphaFold-Multimer,
and they use this co...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Very excited to share that my thesis work is out in Molecular Cell! We trained a Structure and Omics informed Classifier (SPOC) to score binary AlphaFold multimer (AF-M) predictions by structural quality and consistency with experimental omics datasets. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Our spring round of PhD recruitment is now open!
We’re looking for researchers of any nationality with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, maths or computer science.
Find out more and apply by midday, 19 March:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
We’re looking for researchers of any nationality with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, maths or computer science.
Find out more and apply by midday, 19 March:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
PhD student recruitment
2025 PhD recruitment is now open!
www.crick.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our spring round of PhD recruitment is now open!
We’re looking for researchers of any nationality with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, maths or computer science.
Find out more and apply by midday, 19 March:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
We’re looking for researchers of any nationality with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, maths or computer science.
Find out more and apply by midday, 19 March:
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection!
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February 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
4-year PhD studentship available in my lab to study helper helicase function in eukaryotic DNA replication. Happy to receive any enquiries directly to me. Come join us and add your figure to the lab lego collection!
institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/igc-graduate...
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