How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?

Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.

👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

🚀 Exciting update!

Proud to share that our team members @kkajan.bsky.social and Marta Bošnjaković presented their research at the Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Aug 26–30! #cshlmoet 🎤🧬

Thank you #nextGenerationEU for the opportunity!

🦓🐠 Building the first promoter atlas of adult zebrafish organs—expanding #DANIO-CODE. Visit Marta at poster C-514. #zebrafish #CAGE

🤖 @da-bar.bsky.social is exploring AI-driven promoter architecture characterisation from CAGE! Come chat at poster D-507 at #ISMBECCB2025 @iscb-regsys.bsky.social

🐦 @kkajan.bsky.social is exploring promoter usage during early avian development in #EvolCompGen. #ISMBECCB2025

📈 Scaling CAGE analysis across tens of #DANIO-CODE samples with the @nf-co.re inspired CAGEflow pipeline —big data meets promoters. Catch Ira's poster D-515! 🦓🐠

🚀 The CroAGE team is attending to Liverpool for #ISMBECCB2025! Catch our CAGE & promoter research posters all week at ACC Liverpool. Thank you #nextGenerationEU for the opportunity🧵

Eagerly waiting for the start of #ISMBECCB2025 with @croage.bsky.social team, @kkajan.bsky.social, Marta and Ira, with the great company of @damlaob.bsky.social and @ferenckata.bsky.social for a keynote talk from John Jumper 🧬🔬

🚀 Introducing CroAGE – a #NextGenerationEU project advancing regulatory & comparative genomics in 🇭🇷 Croatia! We study gene promoters to understand how they control development & how tumours disrupt transcription.
🔗 croage.eu/en

Meet our team!
👨‍🔬 Dr. Damir Baranašić – Project Leader @da-bar.bsky.social
🔬 Dr. Matija Piškorc – Research Associate
👩‍🔬 Dr. Katarina Kajan – Postdoc @kkajan.bsky.social
🧬 Marta Bošnjaković & Ira Renko – PhD candidates