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Maxim Greenberg
@maxvcg.bsky.social
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Group leader at Institut Jacques Monod. When I say "epigenetics" what I really mean is "DNA methylation". www.maximgreenberglab.com
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 2h
Yeah, after that second beer, your true feelings about epigenetics really poured out 😂
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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · 3h
The recruitment campaign is on! We’re seeking outstanding MSc, PhD, and Postdoctoral candidates to join @cra-chusj.bsky.social . If you’re passionate about epigenetics, development, and neurodevelopment, consider exploring the opportunities available in my lab.
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 5h
I don’t know if this qualifies as “great”, but Covid restrictions went into place a few months after I opened my lab. Twitter was THE place to network, complain, make jokes, share papers. I honestly think being active there was a huge help to recruit and gain visibility during a tough period
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 7h
I'm glad that most academic institutions are on Bluesky now, so we can get the press releases I used to love on Twitter that are like "Congratulations to this year's Nobel Prize winner _______, who once used our third-floor bathroom."
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 9h
Incredible news Alex, congrats!!!!!
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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 10h
Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 13h
Wonderful opportunity to work with Martin Howard and my group trying to understand how chromatin influences gene transcription and expression. Integration of theory, modelling, and experimentation. Come and join the team!
Please repost!

jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
John Innes Centre
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Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social · 2d
⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work.
🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 1d
A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.
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Bardin Lab @bardinlab.bsky.social · 1d
The PhD work of @bboumard.bsky.social officially out in print! Happy to share this issue with our downstairs colleagues in the BDD @frelab.bsky.social @robinjournot.bsky.social

www.cell.com/developmenta...
Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila
Boumard et al. demonstrate gap-junction-dependent tissue-scale nucleotide sharing, which impacts cellular sensitivity to perturbation of nucleotide homeostasis and replication stress. Drosophila wing ...
www.cell.com
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 1d
Congrats Edda and team!!
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Edda Schulz @eddaschulz.bsky.social · 2d
⚠️ Paper alert: Using a novel CRISPR screening approach, we mapped the entire regulatory network controlling Xist—key for X-chromosome inactivation.
👉 We discover how sex and development signals are decoded at a single gene locus.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👇 Bluetorial
Reporter CRISPR screens decipher cis-regulatory and trans-regulatory principles at the Xist locus - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here Schwämmle et al. develop CRISPR reporter screens to map transcription-factor-regulatory element interactions at the Xist locus, revealing a two-step mechanism integrating developmental and X-dosage signals to initiate X-chromosome inactivation.
www.nature.com
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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · 21d
Meet us at Genopolys , Montpellier for a France-Japan virology workshop ! 9-10 october 2025 ! 2 exciting days with many viruses! Co-organized with @systemsvirology.bsky.social Kei Sato and Monsef Benkirane @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 3d
The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10!

Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology.
Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna!

training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

#PhD #LifeSciences
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d
A strong statement from the Dartmouth President regarding the "Compact"

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 4d
What an amazing assay.

DAF-seq, the evolution of Fiber-seq from the Andrew Stergachis group, using the @pacbio.bsky.social platform:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This will revolutionise our understanding of transcriptional regulation and functional non-coding variants.
Deaminase-assisted single-molecule and single-cell chromatin fiber sequencing
Gene regulation is mediated by the co-occupancy of numerous proteins along individual chromatin fibers. However, our tools for deeply profiling how proteins co-occupy individual fibers, especially at ...
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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · 5d
Our @viroscope.bsky.social Joe McKellar interviewed by The-Scientist Magazine ! Look at all these beautiful cells we have in the lab :)
Boa Constrictor Brain Cells Slither into Focus
From reptiles and Tasmanian devils to humans, one researcher zooms in on unseen features of the brain and liver cells, like the cytoskeleton.
www.the-scientist.com
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 5d
Fantastic interview!!!
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Julien Richard Albert @jrichardalbert.bsky.social · 5d
I didn't think I could admire Azim Surani more than I already did
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An interview with Azim Surani
Professor Azim Surani is the Director of Epigenomics and Germline Imprinting at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK. He is this year's recipient of both the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the Paul Ehrl...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 6d
We are highlighting Cathy Jackson, @biologyopen.bsky.social Deputy Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board member at @jcellsci.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @ijmonod.bsky.social
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Cathy Jackson to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Cathy Jackson Cathy Jackson is a Biology Open Deputy Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board member at Journal of Cell Science. Cathy is a Research Director at the Institut Jacques Monod, France, investigating the molecular mechanisms regulating vesicular and lipid trafficking in yeast and mammalian cells. #100biologists #biologists100
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Raquel Fueyo @fueyoraquel.bsky.social · 7d
Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK.
Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD
A human-specific regulatory mechanism revealed in a pre-implantation model
Nature - Genetic manipulation of blastoids reveals the role of recently emerged transposable elements and genes in human development.
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 7d
Oh yeah, very technically challenging. But Saitou has already done mind blowing work making mature gametes from ESCs. Plus, in principle, here you would have proper epigenetic reprogramming and meiosis, mitigating your concerns and those of @greally.bsky.social
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 7d
Wouldn’t the better technique be to make iPSCs that then differentiate to sperm and/or egg? That seems to be where the research is heading in Mitinori Saitou’s lab, at least.
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