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Ben Martin
@benjaminmartin.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof at McGill, Oncology & Biochem departments, Lady Davis Institute | chromatin/txn | previous member @adelmanlab, LeAnn Howe labs | he/him | Fragile Nucleosome co-organizer | FHC MNT alumn 🏑🇨🇦🦌 | https://www.martinlab.ca/
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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · Nov 12
👋 (Re)introducing myself for all the new folks! I'm a #newPI & Assistant Professor at McGill & The Lady Davis Institute. Our lab explores chromatin & txn regulation in stem cell differentiation & cancer models, focusing on how gene duplications (paralogs) drive unique, context-dependent functions. 🧬
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 2d
🎃 🥁This Wednesday in our 1st session of spookiest month👻 at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @sanimr.bsky.social & Alex Federation!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
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Canadian Epigenetics @ceehrc.bsky.social · 9d
FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE!

Last day to register for the CEEHRC Annual Meeting is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10!

Abstracts still being accepted for the poster sessions.

Speaker lineup and other details can be found at event.fourwaves.com/...

#epigenetics #epigenomics #ceehrc
CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics
Fourwaves - CEEHRC 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics
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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 9d
New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com
Protein Domain Designer tool for the generation of publication-ready protein domain diagrams
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 16d
This Wednesday at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host Ali Wilkening and @schvartzman.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing!
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Vaclav Veverka @vaclav-veverka.bsky.social · 17d
How do flexible regions of histone chaperones team up to handle histones? Together with Fred Winston’s lab
@harvardmed.bsky.social, we reveal new insights in our study just out in Mol Cell. Hats off to James Warner and Vanda Lux @iocbprague.bsky.social for their key contributions! dlvr.it/TNB145
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Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 17d
Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first?
I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Melvin Noe Gonzalez @melv-noe-gonzalez.bsky.social · 19d
It is my pleasure to share with you the latest from @jsvejstrup.bsky.social lab, where we look at how the reduction of RNAPII levels has a severe, yet organized transcriptional response in the cell.
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 21d
1/ One of the questions I get asked about my book is what new they'll discover about #epigenetics.

I hope there will be a lot to learn, but maybe one of the most intriguing stories will be about the contribution of John Pugh.

www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-...
Epigenetics: History, Molecules, and Diseases
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 23d
Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Epigenetic relay: Polycomb-directed DNA methylation in mammalian development
In mammals, repression of germline-specific gene expression is essential for preserving somatic cell identity and preventing disease. Germline gene silencing is often dependent on the presence of prom...
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Hiten Madhani @hitenmadhani.bsky.social · 24d
An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece:

‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 24d
A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr
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Canadian Epigenetics @ceehrc.bsky.social · 26d
DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Early-bird registration, abstract submission for talk consideration, and travel award application deadline has been extended to FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19!

Abstracts submitted after Sep 19 will be included in poster sessions.

event.fourwaves.com/...
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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · 28d
Starting now - we've got two fantastic talks lined up today! Still time to join with the link in post quoted below!
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 5
Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
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Jackson Hoffman @jxhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 8
Really excited to get our seminars back up and running. @gracebower.bsky.social is going 1st and if you haven't read her range extender story, you're in for a treat!
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@creminslab.bsky.social has the 2nd talk and will tell us about the amazing work happening in her lab!
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 5
Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 5
Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Jeff Vierstra @jeffvierstra.bsky.social · Sep 1
Looks like a great couple of months of seminars! Come check out my talk on November 5th if you want to learn about our progress in mapping the nucleotide-resolved structure and function of cis-regulatory DNA elements across thousands of cell types and states.
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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María Mariner @mariamafau.bsky.social · Sep 2
Honoured to be part of this awesome lineup 😍! @fnucleosome.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity! A very exciting Fall Season is about to start, I wouldn't miss it 😌🧬
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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Grace Bower @gracebower.bsky.social · Sep 2
Honored to lead off such an amazing set of speakers 🧬 🌟
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · Sep 1
What a line-up! Looking forward to hearing some really cool science!
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · Sep 1
Join the Fragile Nucleosome Seminar featuring @gracebower.bsky.social, who will discuss our recent discovery of the Range Extender Element. (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Sep 1
We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social!

register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Fragile Nucleosome Fall Seminars: September 10 Grace Bower, Kvon Lab @ UC Irvine, USA Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, UPenn, USA September 24 Ali Wilkening, Sanulli Lab @ Stanford, USA Juanma Schvartzman, Columbia University, USA October 8 Sanim Rahman, Greenberg Lab @ UPenn, USA Alex Federation, Talus Bio, USA October 22 Alice Laigle, Croll Lab @ University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Seungsoo Kim, UC Irvine, USA November 5 Hannah Long, University of Edinburgh, UK Jeff Vierstra, Altius Institute, USA November 19 Ishtiaque Hossain, Pastor Lab @ McGill, Canada Sarah Teichmann, University of Cambridge, UK December 3 María Mariner Faulí, Rada Iglesias Lab @ IBBTEC, Spain Jonathan Henninger, Carnegie Mellon, USA December 17 Rebecca Berrens, Oxford University, UK Jean-Benoit Lalanne, University of Montreal, Canada
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Surfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · Aug 30
Check it out, Chromatin Kids!

Chromatin remodeller does stuff to Transcription Factors!

Functions where it is seldom seen!

Both decreases and increases chromatin accessibility!

How cool is that?
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bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv-molbio.bsky.social · Aug 30
The chromatin remodeller CHD4 controls both nucleosome integrity and transcription factor binding to promote activity of active regulatory elements and to prevent activation of silent enhancers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.672645v1
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · Aug 28
If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you.

I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list.

go.bsky.app/8vTgeXB
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!
Image of Toronto
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · Aug 25
shocking to read over and over the stories of close colleagues who can't run their lab anymore. I know Karen well and it's heartbreaking. Also #PIinthelab! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Harvard’s research is shrinking amid the Trump administration’s freeze
Even if grants at Harvard are suddenly restored, there is deep-rooted uncertainty about the damage already done and the future of basic science research in the U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com
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