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Sarah Lambert's Lab
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Our team investigates the mechanisms ensuring genome maintenance in response to DNA insults and DNA replication failures.
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New study from the lab on genetic relationship between 53BP1-RIF1 and DNA-PKcs on DSB repair outcomes. Led by PhD student @kaelamakins.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
53BP1-RIF1 and DNA-PKcs show distinct genetic interactions with diverse chromosomal break repair outcomes - Nature Communications
DNA double strand breaks can be repaired by several pathways leading to different genetic outcomes. Here, the authors define the interplay between the DNA damage response factors 53BP1-RIF1 and core n...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Very excited and honored that our project CenAGE with @manellab.bsky.social and Elsa Logarinho was granted! Looking forward to discover how centromere instability affects the immune cells contributing to systemic ageing. More Info here: curie.fr/actualite/no... Open positions soon, stay tuned!
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The 21st Course on Epigenetics which will take place from March 25th to April 1st, 2026 at the Institut Curie (Paris).
The Course is open to M2 and PhD students. Application via the Advanced Training Office website before December 15th, 2025 at:
minilien.curie.fr/3avv47
Epigenetics - 21st Course on Epigenetics 2026: Towards a quantitative understanding of nuclear dynamics during development and diseases | Institut Curie Advanced Training
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of epigenetic mechanisms and their links to gene expression and chromatin dynamics, in different systems. The diverse functions of the nucleus involvin...
minilien.curie.fr
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Happy to share the “International Symposium on Chromosome Dynamics: from Structure to Cellular Function” that will be held in Japan 31st of May 2026 www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw.... Registrations will open on December 1st! Plenty of opportunities to present your work! Hope to seeing you
International Symposium on Chromosome Dynamics from Structure to Cellular Function
www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Exciting opportunity: we are hiring a postdoctoral fellow for a fully funded 2-year position!
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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New research from Valerie Garcia and colleagues:
Tel1 is recruited at chromosomal loop/axis contact sites to modulate meiotic DNA double-strand breaks interference

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Our paper is out in @nature.com! Oncogenes are often copy-number amplified on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer, but how is ecDNA inherited by dividing cells? Here we identified elements within ecDNA that promote its retention in dividing cells. 1/11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic elements promote retention of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells - Nature
A combination of genome-wide functional screening, imaging and chromatin profiling identifies a new class of highly prevalent genomic elements that help retain extrachromosomal DNA copies in dividing ...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
What is the best strategy to win any contest?

Eliminate your opponents of course.

Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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20 years already… It is true it looks like long ago when we started populating those empty rooms… and making the first agar plates look as normal ones…
In 2026 we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of our institute with, among others, and International Workshop "From Fundamental Mechanisms to Disease" with a top-level list of speakers. Please join us!!!
Registration open until January 31st 2026 at www.cabimer.es/workshop/
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org

Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.

Please share.
ANTONY LAB SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Edwin Antony Lab Website
www.antonylab.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Why LLPS Scaffolds Cannot Exist – A Thermodynamic Thread

If you consider arguments logical, please share. Else please expose logical faults

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November 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Back home after a truly inspiring trip where I had the honor to present at the Asian meeting on radiobiology at Hiroshima and at the VII Farm-DNA in São Paulo! Had the chance to connect with amazing scientists, old and new friends! Thanks so much to the organizers for these wonderful opportunities!
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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I'd also like to highlight a recent publication by @audeber.bsky.social, @enzopoirier.bsky.social, and colleagues showing FAM118B, which they term "SIRal", is essential for innate immune response in mammalian cellular models; they also have great phylogenetic analysis and insights into biochemistry.
A human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins mediates immunity via the Toll-like receptor pathway
Key actors of mammalian immunity originated from bacterial antiphage systems. The full extent of immune system conservation between bacteria and eukaryotes is unknown. Here, we show that the silent in...
www.science.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Very happy to share our collaborative project on FAM118 proteins - noncanonical sirtuins that form filaments and process NAD in human and other vertebrate cells.
Filament formation and NAD processing by noncanonical human FAM118 sirtuins
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Baretić and Missoury et al. identify vertebrate proteins FAM118B and FAM118A as sirtuins similar to bacterial antiphage enzymes and show that...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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📣 Discovery of a cellular resistance mechanism at the origin of relapses of triple-negative breast cancer: an essential step on the path towards more preventive medicine that is able to anticipate and avoid relapses.

▶️ institut-curie.org/news/relapse...
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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📢 Don't miss @groth-anja.bsky.social from the Danish Cancer Institute, who will present her research at the #Embryo2026 🧬

"How cells copy their epigenome"

Register until Oct 31! 👇
www.molgen.mpg.de/embryo2026
Supported by the Weizmann Institute of Science
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Chromatin fatigue: DNA repair alters the chromatin environment and introduces heritable variation in gene expression in a larger region around the lesion! Amazing achievement by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas published in @science.org 🙌 Happy we could contribute. See 👇
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function
Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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I am very proud to announce that our team has received an ERC synergy grant from @erc.europa.eu. A wonderful recognition of a truly collaborative effort with friends (Julius Lukes, Leos Valasek and Mark Osborn). Excited to begin this journey at @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
The newly announced ERC Synergy Grant includes research on:

✴️ genetic drug design
✴️ the Big Bang's first microseconds
✴️ crowd movement
✴️ nature-society interactions

👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h

Congrats to the 66 awarded research teams!

#FrontierResearch
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November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Please read the thoughtful Blog that @richardsever.bsky.social and the @openrxiv.bsky.social team wrote on integrating pre-prints with AI review openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Enabling options for review: bioRxiv authors now have the option to send their preprints directly to @qedscience.bsky.social , an authors-centered AI review platform, for automated feedback on their paper.

openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

#OpenScience #Preprints #openrxiv #qedscience #biorxiv
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Amazing view from the 24th floor of the Sorbonne tower at the 7th German-French DNA Repair Meeting! Excited to give my talk tomorrow!
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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🧬Register for the GRS on DNA Damage, Mutation & Cancer🧬
Feb 28–Mar 1 2026, Ventura CA
Accepting abstracts for oral presentations! 
📍 Apply here 👉 grc.org/dna-damage-mutation-and-cancer-grs-conference/2026 (www.grc.org/dna-damage-m...)
#DNADamage #GRC#GRS #CallForAbstracts
2026 DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Seminar on DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer (GRS) will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
grc.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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When the work of your colleagues really blows your mind 🤯🔥. Congratulations @jojdavies.bsky.social, team and collaborators! 🥂
Our latest paper has just been published in Cell!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM