Mike Robson
@drmrobson.bsky.social
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Group leader of Chromatin (Dys)function lab @MDC-BIMSB Former Postdoc @Mundlos lab PhD @ Schirmer lab https://www.mdc-berlin.de/robson
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drmrobson.bsky.social
The Robson lab's second paper! A truly fun collaboration with an unexpected and important finding - progenitors reconfigure 3D genomes organisation to commission loci for future cell fates. A heroic amount of work from a rockstar team.
konrad-chudzik.bsky.social
🚨 Preprint 🚨
Ever wondered how cells prepare their genomes to enable new cell-fates? In this team up with the Kind lab, we show that genes are repositioned in the nucleus to get ready for future activation and tissue formation. Read 🧵👇 to find out how and when this happens!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reconfiguration of genome-lamina interactions marks the commissioning of limb cell-fates
Diverse forms of heterochromatin block inappropriate transcription and safeguard differentiation and cell identity. Yet, how and when heterochromatin is reconfigured to facilitate changes in cell-fate...
www.biorxiv.org
Reposted by Mike Robson
julianeg.bsky.social
🥳 Very grateful for the support of the ERC Starting Grant for my newly established lab! We will study how transposable elements contribute to mammalian embryonic development.
We will have positions available next year. Stay tuned!
erc.europa.eu
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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triggerloop.bsky.social
Eva Nogales @nogaleslab.bsky.social introducing the 2025 CSH Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription Meeting. Co-organizing with Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social and Joanna Wysocka. Will intermittently try to update as allowed
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katemiro.bsky.social
Pathologists have used nuclear & tissue shapes to diagnose #cancer for decades, but what is the molecular basis for this? In our latest work, we develop a computational pipeline to figure this out in #colorectalcancer! Check out 🧵& preprint #mechanobiology #stemcells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Mike Robson
jmstein.bsky.social
(1/n) DNA-PAINT imaging inside the nucleus at single antibody resolution using TIRF? Ultrathin sectioning makes it happen!

Grateful to share my postdoctoral work introducing “tomographic & kinetically-enhanced DNA-PAINT” or in brief: tkPAINT. Out in @pnas.org!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Reposted by Mike Robson
lucagiorgetti.bsky.social
Celebrating 10 years of our lab with a new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How does enhancer location within a TAD control transcriptional bursts from a cognate promoter?
Experiments by Jana Tünnermann and modelling by Gregory Roth
Reposted by Mike Robson
drmrobson.bsky.social
Calling all aspiring Postdocs! One extra week to apply to join our exciting HFSP-funded project to uncover how chromatin moves to function.

Deadline July 15th.

www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...
drmrobson.bsky.social
Calling all aspiring Postdocs! One extra week to apply to join our exciting HFSP-funded project to uncover how chromatin moves to function.

Deadline July 15th.

www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...
Reposted by Mike Robson
evgenykvon.bsky.social
Our paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity - Nature
The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions.
www.nature.com
drmrobson.bsky.social
Thanks! Hope the lab is set up and all up and running 😁
drmrobson.bsky.social
We're thrilled to continue our deep dive into how chromatin mechanics govern how our genomes function with our A-team @andersshansen.bsky.social @Davide Michieletto, and @Sandra Tenreiro.

A huge thanks to the @dfg.de and @hfspo.bsky.social for supporting us.

Stay tuned! PhDs/Postdocs coming soon!
mdc-berlin.bsky.social
@drmrobson.bsky.social has won two grants from @dfg.de & @hfspo.bsky.social totaling over €2 million. He and his lab now work to decode the mechanics of #chromatin, hoping to finally define its physical state and better understand how it governs gene regulation
www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/mi...
portrait of a man
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mdc-berlin.bsky.social
@drmrobson.bsky.social has won two grants from @dfg.de & @hfspo.bsky.social totaling over €2 million. He and his lab now work to decode the mechanics of #chromatin, hoping to finally define its physical state and better understand how it governs gene regulation
www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/mi...
portrait of a man
Reposted by Mike Robson
Reposted by Mike Robson
tim-stasevich.bsky.social
Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
drmrobson.bsky.social
The Robson lab's second paper! A truly fun collaboration with an unexpected and important finding - progenitors reconfigure 3D genomes organisation to commission loci for future cell fates. A heroic amount of work from a rockstar team.
konrad-chudzik.bsky.social
🚨 Preprint 🚨
Ever wondered how cells prepare their genomes to enable new cell-fates? In this team up with the Kind lab, we show that genes are repositioned in the nucleus to get ready for future activation and tissue formation. Read 🧵👇 to find out how and when this happens!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reconfiguration of genome-lamina interactions marks the commissioning of limb cell-fates
Diverse forms of heterochromatin block inappropriate transcription and safeguard differentiation and cell identity. Yet, how and when heterochromatin is reconfigured to facilitate changes in cell-fate...
www.biorxiv.org
Reposted by Mike Robson
jopkind.bsky.social
This year I am climbing the alpe d’Huez by bike 6 times to raise money for cancer research. 100% of the funds are directly invested into cancer research. Please click on the link below if you wish to fund this cause and help me reach my goals. Thanks!

www.opgevenisgeenoptie.nl/fundraisers/...
Jop Kind
Ik doe mee aan Alpe d’HuZes omdat ik geloof dat wij samen kunnen werken aan een wereld waarin je niet meer doodgaat aan kanker, wil jij mij steunen?
www.opgevenisgeenoptie.nl
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konrad-chudzik.bsky.social
🚨 Preprint 🚨
Ever wondered how cells prepare their genomes to enable new cell-fates? In this team up with the Kind lab, we show that genes are repositioned in the nucleus to get ready for future activation and tissue formation. Read 🧵👇 to find out how and when this happens!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reconfiguration of genome-lamina interactions marks the commissioning of limb cell-fates
Diverse forms of heterochromatin block inappropriate transcription and safeguard differentiation and cell identity. Yet, how and when heterochromatin is reconfigured to facilitate changes in cell-fate...
www.biorxiv.org
drmrobson.bsky.social
And modelling extraordinaire @gfudenberg.bsky.social who somehow got missed!
konrad-chudzik.bsky.social
Grateful to my wonderful collaborators worldwide:
Yuko Sato, Xingchi Yan, Simon Ulrich, @watanyatra.bsky.social, Lothar Schermelleh, Hiroshi Kimura, IrinaSolovei & my supervisor @drmrobson.bsky.social. Thank you for your hard work & support throughout! 🌍🙏
Reposted by Mike Robson
konrad-chudzik.bsky.social
Grateful to my wonderful collaborators worldwide:
Yuko Sato, Xingchi Yan, Simon Ulrich, @watanyatra.bsky.social, Lothar Schermelleh, Hiroshi Kimura, IrinaSolovei & my supervisor @drmrobson.bsky.social. Thank you for your hard work & support throughout! 🌍🙏