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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Mar 24

The final piece of my postdoctoral work in the @freudlab.bsky.social was recently published!

Quite amazing what this small little repair polymerase can do to fill 1-nt gaps in chromatin.

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

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Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society @emgsus.bsky.social · Mar 12

🔊There's still time to register for the #EMGS webinar: An Applied Genetic Toxicology Career in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Zhanna Sobol on April 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST!

Register Now: emgs-us.org/event/AGTCPI...

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Yael David @davidlabmsk.bsky.social · Feb 21

I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in @cellpress.bsky.social

From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection

A reconstituted cccDNA platform facilitated the discovery of an early chromatinization event that promotes transcription of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) regulatory X gene. The use of a small-molecule c...

www.cell.com

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Feb 10

We are still accepting application for the Postdoc position in my lab! We have some exciting projects at the interface of DNA repair and chromatin biology. If interested, please get in touch or apply for the position through the link below!

jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

jobs.virginia.edu

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Matthew Taliaferro @jmtali.bsky.social · Jan 27

Come be our colleague! @cu-bmg.bsky.social is running an open rank search for a structural biologist specializing in cryo-EM/ET. This is a great opportunity in a highly collegial and collaborative department.

Apply here: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Jan 27

My lab at UVA is looking to hire a Lab Technician to join our team! This position is ideal for someone interested in obtaining research experience prior to graduate and/or medical school.

jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/UO...

Lab Technician 1 or 2 in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Lab Technician 1 or 2 in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

jobs.virginia.edu

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Emmanuelle Bignon @emmabignon.bsky.social · Jan 21

It is still possible to apply to this postdoc position in my group if you are motivated by using your QM/MM and MD skills to study the fascinating histone post-translational modifications! 🥳
Deadline is the 1st of March #job #compchem #histones #DNA
Apply on the CNRS website : lnkd.in/eNxR-TPH

Emmanuelle Bignon @emmabignon.bsky.social · Dec 19

First post here, how exciting!! 🥳
📣💻[JOB OFFER] I am looking for a postdoc with experience in QM/MM, MD and biosystems, and who would be motivated to study the formation mechanisms of oxydative histone modifications. Please share! #compchem #histones #PTM #redox
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Emmanuelle Bignon on LinkedIn: Job offer - pdoc CHROM

📢🧬I have a postdoc position open for people with experience using QM/MM on biosystems! Do not hesitate to apply if you're interested in investigating the…

www.linkedin.com

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Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society @emgsus.bsky.social · Dec 16

The #EMGS is now seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for
@EMMjournal! In this pivotal role, the new EIC will influence EMM’s direction and uphold its high scientific standards as the official journal of the EMGS!

Learn More: emgs-us.org/news/687716/...

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Jan 16

My lab is looking to hire a Postdoc to study mechanisms of DNA repair in chromatin using biochemical, biophysical, and structural biology approaches! Feel free to share with anyone you think may be interested.

jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics – Weaver Lab in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics – Weaver Lab job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at Univer...

jobs.virginia.edu

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jan 14

Our Pathway to Independence programme aims to support postdocs going on the job market in 2025 with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities.

Apply by 31 Jan 2025: https://buff.ly/3VJGgDC

#DevBio #StemCells🧪

Pathway to independence: a new initiative supporting postdocs on the job market

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Jan 3

We’re quickly becoming the very best of friends. 😂

Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Jan 2

The Weaver Lab is officially open today…Let’s see if we can fill up this empty lab space!

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Rosana Collepardo @rcollepardo.bsky.social · Dec 24

Is chromatin ordered or disordered? It all depends on the linker DNA length.

Check our latest work with Mike Rosen and Sy Redding. We explore how changes in linker DNA length (as small as 1 bp) fine-tune chromatin structure, between order and disorder, and the properties of chromatin droplets

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Dec 23

Also nice to see recent work with similar mechanistic insight! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Dec 23

Great collaboration between the @freudlab.bsky.social, @k4v1.bsky.social , David Cortez, and Steve Roberts labs. The penultimate piece of work from my postdoc.

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Dec 23

Our preprint from earlier this year on the oxidation-induced mutational landscape in human cells was just published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m still amazed how much chromatin structure impacts oxidation-induced mutagenesis. Our cryo-EM contribution in this work provides a glimpse into why!

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Christine Cucinotta @chrstne.bsky.social · Dec 13

a short and sweet paper in which we use 3D STED and Micro-C analysis to show dramatic changes in large 3D chromatin structures in quiescence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sir2 is required for the quiescence-specific condensed three-dimensional chromatin structure of rDNA

Quiescence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a reversible G0 crucial for long-term survival under nutrient-deprived conditions. During quiescence, the genome is hypoacetylated and chromatin undergoes sig...

www.biorxiv.org

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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · Dec 6

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... incredible study from Huabin Zhou and the Villa & Rosen labs -- a blueprint for mapping human chromatin with cryo-ET. The future of chromatin structural analysis in situ has arrived.

Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Chromatin Biomolecular Condensates using Cryo-Electron Tomography

Phase separation is an important mechanism to generate certain biomolecular condensates and organize the cell interior. Condensate formation and function remain incompletely understood due to difficul...

www.biorxiv.org

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Bret Freudenthal @freudlab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Today was the last day in lab for @tmweaver.bsky.social. We enjoyed lunch and gave him a 3D print of his first cryo-EM structure.

Tyler's era was marked by incredible science, friendship, fun, collabs, and cats! He will do amazing at UVA running his own lab. We will miss you buddy #gogetem 🥹

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Jens Schmidt @jenscs83.bsky.social · Nov 23

Super excited to share our latest paper led by graduate student Mariia Mikhova! She used single molecule live cell imaging to dissect the kinetics of DNA break repair by non homologous end joining. We estimate the NHEJ pathway can repair up to 1000 breaks per minute!

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

Single-molecule imaging reveals the kinetics of non-homologous end-joining in living cells - Nature Communications

Non-homologous end joining repairs most double stranded DNA breaks in human cells. Here, the authors apply a single-molecule imaging approach visualizing the recruitment of DNA repair proteins to DNA ...

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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · Nov 20

Happy to celebrate Brittiani Schnable's PhD work on thymine DNA glycosylase! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thymine DNA glycosylase combines sliding, hopping, and nucleosome interactions to efficiently search for 5-formylcytosine - Nature Communications

Thymine DNA glycosylase is an essential DNA repair enzyme involved in oxidative demethylation of 5- methylC. In this study the authors have tracked specific and non-specific DNA binding of TDG at the ...

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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · Nov 18

Our paper on the strange ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler Smarcad1 paper is out and freely accessible. Differential regulation of its many activities by phosphorylation. Congrats to Briana and @nhoitsma.bsky.social 🧪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021925824023950?via%3Dihub

Phosphorylation regulates the chromatin remodeler SMARCAD1 in nucleosome binding, ATP hydrolysis, and histone exchange

Maintaining the dynamic structure of chromatin is critical for regulating the cellular processes that require access to the DNA template, such as DNA …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Nov 15

My lab at UVA-SOM will be hiring at all levels in January, so please get in touch if you’re interested!

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Tyler Weaver @tmweaver.bsky.social · Nov 15

Time to introduce myself! Incoming Assistant Professor at UVA-SOM. Interested in chromatin structure and DNA repair.

Here is some of my final work in the @freudlab.bsky.social, where we determine how 1-nt gaps in the nucleosome are filled during DNA repair.

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

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Basil Greber @bjgreber.bsky.social · Nov 14

New DNA repair/genome stability work by our
@icrlondon.bsky.social colleagues, led by Peter Martin in Wojciech Niedzwiedz’ lab. Check it out!

bioRxiv Molecular Biology @biorxiv-molbio.bsky.social · Nov 14

The mitotic CIP2A-TOPBP1 axis facilitates mitotic pathway choice between MiDAS and MMEJ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.12.621593v1

Mitotic DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) accumulate in response to replication stress or BRCA1/2 defi

www.biorxiv.org

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