Marika Charalambous Lab

Developmental physiology lab investigating the molecular mechanisms of how mother and child communicate during pregnancy, and the consequences when it goes awry

[Alex Gould Lab, now only @alexgouldlab.bsky.social @AlexGouldLab]

Our latest preprint. @L_Lampe, @clarenewell24 and colleagues figured out how metamorphosing #Drosophila avoid drying out. The larva makes a lipid barrier of hyper-long hydrocarbons (>C27 and longer) and stores it in the fat body until needed by the pupa.
https://t.co/KSGwGcOGGz

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

PhD position open in my lab @TheCrick - more info here: https://t.co/oqXMC6fl6i

[Geula Hanin @Geula_Hanin]

🚨Thrilled to share our latest preprint on #MammaryGland development during pregnancy and #lactation, using 480 transcriptomes to map allelic gene expression over 10 key stages! 🧬🍼
Check it out:
https://t.co/GdRx7gqzEq
🧵👇

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

@Geula_Hanin Congratulations Geula!

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

@LabGaston @RishaAmarsi @SamuelFurse @albert_koulman Thanks @LabGaston for the intro to Dr Cenac! Hope all is well with you.

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

We are really pleased to share our new paper where we show that Liver X receptor signalling in the mother is a key event in the transport of essential long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids to the fetus. With @RishaAmarsi @SamuelFurse @albert_koulman
https://t.co/7U9uLRqPE5

[Women's Health Under The Microscope @whum_cam_uni]

Have you heard of ‘pregnancy brain’? Recent research shows that changes in the brain with #pregnancy correlate with successful bonding to the infant!

See: https://t.co/VIAprpzQ7o

Created with support from @CamUniEngage and @britsocimm 🙏🏻 #whum #womenshealth

[Miguel Branco @BrancoLab]

We have two new faculty opportunities at QMUL, part of a £3.2M investment by @Barts_Charity to develop genomic and epigenomic liquid biopsy analyses for diagnostics and research applications.
More details here: https://t.co/TBlDEp1sF0
Please RT abundantly

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

@FranciCapon @mariasecrier @fcicca Well done Jillian! Very well deserved.

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

More good news from the lab! Felicitations to the fabulous @RishaAmarsi who successfully passed her PhD viva last night.

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

Congratulations to our amazing Dr @LillinaVignola for her successful thesis defence yesterday!

[Albert Koulman @albert_koulman]

Weight gain during nutritional rehabilitation post-childhood malnutrition may influence the associations between adulthood desaturases activity and anthro-cardiometabolic risk factors https://t.co/VXlx2U0RyH

[Emma Farley 🇪🇺 @EKFarley]

The prevalence of suboptimal affinity binding sites within enhancers creates a vulnerability in genomes whereby single-nucleotide changes that optimize affinity, even slightly, can be pathogenic. https://t.co/iKjf6O26b7

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

@JLopTello @CTR_Cambridge @UAM_Medicina @UAM_Madrid @ComunidadMadrid Congratulations 🎉

[Kim Jonas @KJonasM]

Interested in women’s health? Looking to undertake a MSc? Then look no further! Our MSc in women and children’s health covers key topics in reproductive and maternal health, pregnancy, and infant health using novel teaching and assessment approaches https://t.co/C9lIBSLRaz

[Eileen Furlong @Eileen_Furlong]

Very happy to see our last paper of 2023 is out:
The loci of many genes with redundant function (including paralogs) are in close proximity in 3D #Chromatin_loops. We show that such gene-gene loops often involve genes that cross-regulate each other’s expression.

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[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

@timjph @ELIXIREurope @NBlomberg Congratulations!

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

Fantastic story about how a primate-specific trancription factor regulates repetitive sequences that control embryonic pancreas fate.

[Marika Charalambous Lab @CharalambousLab]

Much needed artist protection or the end of technology as Frank Herbert predicted? https://t.co/NNn4pShvHu

[The Genetics Society @GenSocUK]

🏅We're delighted to announce Dr Matthew Higgs as the winner of the 2023/24 Bruce Cattanach Prize. Funded by Mouse News Letter Ltd, this prize is awarded annually for an outstanding PhD thesis related to the use of non-human in vivo animal models

https://t.co/AOriwrM25N