Jack Bateman
@jbateman01.bsky.social
Biology professor at Bowdoin College. Genetics, flies, chromosomes, weird science 🥰
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Jack Bateman
@jbateman01.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I thought we could use a Drosophila starter pack, please let me know if you’d like to be added. (I think there is also a more general insect list out there somewhere that i cant find rn..) go.bsky.app/JGggkH3
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A new extreme of meiotic evolution:
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 crossovers
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 gene conversion
✔️ 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 meiosis & fertility
Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.
more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 crossovers
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 gene conversion
✔️ 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 meiosis & fertility
Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.
more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 27, 2026 at 10:57 AM
A new extreme of meiotic evolution:
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 crossovers
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 gene conversion
✔️ 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 meiosis & fertility
Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.
more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 crossovers
✔️ 𝗻𝗼 gene conversion
✔️ 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 meiosis & fertility
Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.
more about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Protein buffering of aneuploidy is driven by coordinated factors identified through machine learning link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Protein buffering of aneuploidy is driven by coordinated factors identified through machine learning - Molecular Systems Biology
Aneuploidy, a hallmark of cancer, alters chromosome copy numbers and with that the abundance of hundreds of proteins. Evidence suggests that levels of proteins encoded on affected chromosomes are ofte...
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January 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Protein buffering of aneuploidy is driven by coordinated factors identified through machine learning link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions - Nature
Sidewinder enables high-fidelity DNA assembly by separating the information that guides assembly from the final assembled sequence.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Directed evolution on compact landing pads yields highly efficient recombinases for large DNA integration academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Directed evolution on compact landing pads yields highly efficient recombinases for large DNA integration academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
AI learns from chromatin data to uncover gene interactions www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI learns from chromatin data to uncover gene interactions
Machine-learning tool for predicting gene expression.
www.nature.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
AI learns from chromatin data to uncover gene interactions www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025 www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Medical breakthroughs in 2025 www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Reposted by Jack Bateman
"A mathematical model is a logical machine for converting assumptions into conclusions. If the model is correct and we believe its assumptions then we must, as a matter of logic, believe its conclusions. "
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Models in biology: ‘accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking’ - BMC Biology
In this essay I will sketch some ideas for how to think about models in biology. I will begin by trying to dispel the myth that quantitative modeling is somehow foreign to biology. I will then point o...
link.springer.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"A mathematical model is a logical machine for converting assumptions into conclusions. If the model is correct and we believe its assumptions then we must, as a matter of logic, believe its conclusions. "
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Exciting new paper out! @allanaschooley.bsky.social and Sergey Venev led this project that let to the discovery of two chromosome folding programs: one inherited via mitotic chromosomes and one mitotic inherited through the cytoplasm!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interphase chromosome conformation is specified by distinct folding programmes inherited through mitotic chromosomes or the cytoplasm - Nature Cell Biology
Schooley et al. find that mitotically bookmarked loci drive a transient chromosome folding state during G1 entry that is subsequently modulated by factors inherited through the cytoplasm.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Exciting new paper out! @allanaschooley.bsky.social and Sergey Venev led this project that let to the discovery of two chromosome folding programs: one inherited via mitotic chromosomes and one mitotic inherited through the cytoplasm!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very happy to share our paper rdcu.be/eUImj out today in @natcellbio.nature.com 🎉🎉🎉
We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation.
We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation.
Escape from X inactivation is directly modulated by Xist noncoding RNA
Nature Cell Biology - The authors show that increased Xist RNA levels can induce de novo silencing of genes that normally escape X inactivation. SPEN depletion prevents the silencing of escape...
rdcu.be
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Very happy to share our paper rdcu.be/eUImj out today in @natcellbio.nature.com 🎉🎉🎉
We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation.
We uncover an unexpected role for endogenous Xist RNA in regulating X-linked genes that escape X-inactivation.
An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome - Nature
The 4D Nucleome Project demonstrates the use of genomic assays and computational methods to measure genome folding and then predict genomic structure from DNA sequence, facilitatin...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene
Genes are often activated by enhancers located at large genomic distances, and the importance of this positioning is poorly understood. By relocating promoter-reporter constructs into thousands of alt...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Functional maps of a genomic locus reveal confinement of an enhancer by its target gene | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
Li et al. apply base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts
between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model
of biophysically mediated enhan...
www.cell.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The evolving landscape of RAS-targeted therapies www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The evolving landscape of RAS-targeted therapies - Nature Cancer
The initial discovery of an inhibitor of KRAS G12C revolutionized the KRAS field. Since then, more-potent G12C-specific inhibitors, newer allele-specific inhibitors and combinations based on KRAS targ...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The evolving landscape of RAS-targeted therapies www.nature.com/articles/s43...
High-fidelity human chromosome transfer and elimination www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
High-fidelity human chromosome transfer and elimination
The synthesis of human genomes and other gigabase-scale genomes will require new strategies. Here, we realized key steps in our pipeline for building synthetic human chromosomes. We established: (i) t...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
High-fidelity human chromosome transfer and elimination www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties
The structure and interaction networks of molecules within biomolecular condensates are poorly understood. Using cryo–electron tomography and molecular dynamics simulations, we elucidated the structur...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search
Cohesin folds genomes into chromatin loops, the roles of which are under debate. We found that double-strand breaks (DSBs) induce de novo formation of chromatin loops in human cells, with the loop bas...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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"We find that the evidence for in vivo LLPS is often phenomenological and inadequate to discriminate between phase separation and other possible mechanisms. Moreover, the causal relationship and functional consequences of LLPS in vivo are even more elusive"
(2019)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31594803/
(2019)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31594803/
Evaluating phase separation in live cells: diagnosis, caveats, and functional consequences - PubMed
The idea that liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) may be a general mechanism by which molecules in the complex cellular milieu may self-organize has generated much excitement and fervor in the cell biology community. While this concept is not new, its rise to preeminence has resulted in renewed in …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"We find that the evidence for in vivo LLPS is often phenomenological and inadequate to discriminate between phase separation and other possible mechanisms. Moreover, the causal relationship and functional consequences of LLPS in vivo are even more elusive"
(2019)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31594803/
(2019)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31594803/
Reposted by Jack Bateman
Check out this beautiful paper by @richardcsilva.bsky.social et al., out now in @natcomms.nature.com. Great new DSB sensors to track DNA break formation and repair in real-time
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered chromatin readers track damaged chromatin dynamics in live cells and animals - Nature Communications
DNA damage threatens genome stability, but its dynamics in living systems remain difficult to track. Here, the authors engineer MCPH1-based protein probes that specifically recognize γH2AX, enabling r...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Check out this beautiful paper by @richardcsilva.bsky.social et al., out now in @natcomms.nature.com. Great new DSB sensors to track DNA break formation and repair in real-time
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Some of the eggs laid by Iberian harvester ant queens contain males of another species, the builder harvester ant – and these males father all of the workers in the colony.
Queen ant makes males of another species for daughters to mate with
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are hybrids of the two species
www.newscientist.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Some of the eggs laid by Iberian harvester ant queens contain males of another species, the builder harvester ant – and these males father all of the workers in the colony.
Reposted by Jack Bateman
Identification of optimal fluorophores for use in the Drosophila embryo by Timothy E Saunders and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Identification of optimal fluorophores for use in the Drosophila embryo by Timothy E Saunders and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Beyond Wolbachia—Can a small molecule control insect reproduction?
Kaur et al. demonstrate reduced histone acetylation as a key mechanism underpinning
Wolbachia’s paternal-effect embryonic lethality trait in Drosophila melanogaster.
Recapitulation of this trait by in...
www.cell.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - Nature Biotechnology
Engineered DNA recombinases efficiently and specifically insert genetic cargos without the use of landing pads.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heterozygosity at a conserved candidate sex determination locus is associated with female development in the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi) elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Heterozygosity at a conserved candidate sex determination locus is associated with female development in the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi)
A complementary sex determination locus is conserved in ants and dates back to approximately 112 million years ago.
elifesciences.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Heterozygosity at a conserved candidate sex determination locus is associated with female development in the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi) elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
Li et al. apply base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts
between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model
of biophysically mediated enhan...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...