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Luca Giorgetti lab @FMI @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · 14d

Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christine Moene @cmoene.bsky.social · 19d

Have you ever wondered how the exact location of a gene affects it's activity?

The main story of my PhD deals with exactly that question, and is now published in Science! ✨
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My amazing co-author and friend @mathiaseder.bsky.social summarized the highlights for you

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Alexandra P @alexanrna.bsky.social · 28d

1/ First preprint from @jdemeul.bsky.social lab 🥳! We present our new multi-modal single-cell long-read method SPLONGGET (Single-cell Profiling of LONG-read Genome, Epigenome, and Transcriptome)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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Timothy Fuqua 🏳‍🌈 @timothyfuqua.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab!

"De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA"

This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)

De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA

Promoters are DNA sequences that help to initiate transcription. Point mutations can create de-novo promoters, which can consequently transcribe inactive genes or create novel transcripts. We know lit...

www.biorxiv.org

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congrats Pedro, glad to see you write about ageing & cancer again!

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Joao Pedro Magalhaes @jpsenescence.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper @natrevcancer.nature.com on the evolutionary interplay between ageing and cancer 🚨

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolution of cancer and ageing: a history of constraint - Nature Reviews Cancer

In this Perspective, de Magalhães explores the evolutionary relationship between cancer and ageing, proposing that the need to minimize cancer risk early in life may contribute to tissue degeneration ...

www.nature.com

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Taro Kitazawa @kitazawa-taro.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please RP.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out!
”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition”

We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mathias Boulanger @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social · Aug 18

Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @embl.org

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Huge thanks to the co-first author @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social. Also thanks to Rene, Marc Jan, Karine, Kim, and especially @arnaudkr.bsky.social @embl.org @dfg.de.
Finally, I'll be presenting the story at the @cshlnews.bsky.social #cshlmoet next week! Please stop by if you are around!

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

What about transcription? We could link changes in enhancer activity to the consequences at a co-accessible promoter!

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Can we prove coordination in their activity? Using regulatory changes between cell types, we show that co-accessible enhancers co-vary, demonstrating the dependency between them.

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

What regulates co-accessibility? We found that certain TF motifs are enriched in co-accessible CREs (vs independent ones). These include several usual suspects such as Su(Hw) and Trl (GAF).

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Co-accessible pairs aren't always the closest neighbours! For each pair of CREs, we tested if they are co-accessible more often than expected by chance, creating a co-accessibility map across CREs.

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here is an example locus: we can resolve chromatin accessibility for a promoter and 8 enhancers located up to 20kb away! — all on the same DNA molecules.

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

We used Single-molecule footprinting (SMF) to methylate accessible regions, combined with Nanopore long-read sequencing. At each locus, we collected thousands of molecules — enough to quantify coordinated accessibility across distant cis-regulatory elements (CREs) up to 30 kbs apart!

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kasitc.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Schubeler Lab @schubelerlab.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to see this published with additional data following our preprint a while back. Cool combination (in our biased view) of controlled TF expression and machine learning to decode chromatin sensitivity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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Magda Kopczyńska @mgkopczynska.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 New preprint from our labs (STOP lab @stoplab.bsky.social & Nojima lab @pol2rna.bsky.social @pyrolyn.bsky.social)! We've been digging into how chromatin remodeler SETD2 controls the start and end of transcription 👇 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/5)

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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · Jun 14

Join us next Wed, for three amazing ECR researchers_ @fueyoraquel.bsky.social, @kaiamattioli.bsky.social and Laura talk about their work in #FragileNucleosome seminar series!
In case you haven't joined any of the previous 2025 sessions, here is registration link:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · May 27

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭
Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!!
We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology
Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers!
rdcu.be/enVDN
github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances

Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...

rdcu.be

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Nacho Molina @molinalab.bsky.social · May 17

🚨 New preprint out! Do you think Single Molecule Footprinting and Fiber-seq are super cool but aren't sure how to unlock their full potential? HiddenFoot can help you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · May 15

Join us on Wednesday next week for two exciting talks on transcription regulation from @kasitc.bsky.social and @davidsuter.bsky.social!

You can register at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Molecular Systems Biology @molsystbiol.org · May 8

5/2025 Issue ➡️ www.embopress.org/toc/17444292...
tissue-specific huntingtin interactomes, gene product diversity evolution
Cover: mammalian promoters characterised by low RNA pol II occupancy and high turnover @kasitc.bsky.social @molinalab.bsky.social @arnaudkr.bsky.social

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