Peter Wang
peter-sicong-wang.bsky.social
Peter Wang
@peter-sicong-wang.bsky.social
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Pretty surreal to see my artwork on the cover of Nature Genetics! Big congrats to @julianeg.bsky.social, @stemundi.bsky.social and the others, and thank you Juliane for letting me help bring your research to life visually.

www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
July 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Very proud of this work where we define how the MORC2 ATPase directs CpG methylation of active human L1 transposons in early development.

Thanks to co-authors, funders & wonderful environment @lundstem.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brief thread below (do people still do that?) 1/X
MORC2 directs transcription-dependent CpG methylation of human LINE-1 transposons in early neurodevelopment
Methylation of CpG dinucleotides is essential for silencing genomic repeats such as LINE-1 retrotransposons (L1s) in the germline and soma. Evolutionarily-young L1s are transcribed in human pluripoten...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🤯🤯🤯 Amazing finding!!! Embryonic epithelia eat bacteria!!!
How innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. Check our story:
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
June 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Naz's preprint is out and she is looking for a postdoc!
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Enthusiastic. Smart. Hard working. Top lab citizen. Explain models of transcription with Oscar-deserving gestures. Hire Naz!
Promoter strength and position govern promoter competition
Competition between promoters within a shared regulatory landscape has been implicated in development and disease, but the determinants of promoter competition have not been systematically studied. He...
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May 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I am thrilled to share our preprint where we take advantage of the unique opportunities offered by human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism potentially playing a role in preimplantation 🧵. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM