Sarah Hainer

Associate Prof @PittBioSci studying transcription dynamics and chromatin biology | passionate about equity in STEM | she/her

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

Delighted to share Ben Patty's thesis research which represents an incredible amount of work, where Ben performed all the experiments and analysis presented in this massive body of work: https://t.co/xo7GWba3nA. Ben is looking for a position - find him on LinkedIn!

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

Proud to be Canadian 🇨🇦

https://t.co/ub0gdaCIby

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

@TheRobertsLab1 @CellReports Thank you!

[Lucas Farnung @LucasFarnung]

🧬🎉 Our new chromatin remodeling study is out: We reveal three states of human CHD1 and identify a novel "anchor element" that interacts with the acidic patch—conserved among remodelers. Our structures clarify mechanisms of remodeler recruitment! Link: https://t.co/I3PKicbwyW

[Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress]

Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @mpgpresident has written an open letter to the President of @Harvard, expressing his full support to the University & its stance against demands from the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding @maxplanckpress

[Lucas Farnung @LucasFarnung]

This support is highly appreciated! From personal experience: Transatlantic cooperation is a pillar of the scientific enterprise!

[Dan Steingart @steingart]

NSF GRFP #'s cut in half year-on-year

2022: 2193 awards, 1,377 Honorable Mentions
2023: 2555 awards, 801 Honorable Mentions
2024: 2026 awards, 1718 Honorable Mentions
2025: 1000 awards, 3008 Honorable Mentions

The gutting continues apace.
https://t.co/uCd4NcaXXc

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to impose a 15% cap on facilities and administrative cost reimbursements is misguided and damaging, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. https://t.co/iceIx4QzNc

[Richard Sever @cshperspectives]

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] https://t.co/4siujZbXxF 1/n

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

BioRxiv is the most important thing that happened in science publishing

[@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab]

On Valentine’s day, 15 Assistant Professors at NIH who had started their research labs in the last 2 years were fired. Their scientific expertise was built over 10-12 years of training, most if not all of which was supported by NIH.  The start up funds for their laboratories were

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it's taken for granted & so no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you'll have a lot less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field

[Lucas Farnung @LucasFarnung]

In our SETD2 paper, we visualize a novel nucleosome transfer intermediate during txn. It is the earliest intermediate visualized yet. In the intermediate, the histone chaperone FACT coordinates histone binding with a previously uncharacterized RTF1 helix: https://t.co/g27t5Rw5RY

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

We are happy these studies provide new insight into coupling of nucleosome remodeling to transcription elongation. Sarah will be defending her PhD next week!

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

Happy to share the latest preprint which is a close collaboration with @ArndtLab with a shared PhD student, Sarah Tripplehorn. Here we show a direct interaction between Chd1 and Paf1C subunit Rtf1 required for nucleosome positioning across genes: https://t.co/E9FSj2nHv8

[Sarah Hainer @HainerLab]

Excited by these findings we made some mutants in mES cells to ask if disrupting this interaction resulted in similar changes to CHD distribution and nucleosome positions. Perhaps due to complexity or resolution, we don't observe these changes.