🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
Our latest paper is now published in Science Advances! 🎉
"Transcription-coupled changes in genomic region proximities during transcriptional bursting"
👉 Read it here: https://t.co/FT3bJq5bXq
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?
And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.
A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
“Poland can build a research system that positions the country as a leader in innovation & technological development in the decades ahead. But it must create conditions in which researchers can flourish.”
ERC President @MLeptin’s keynote in Warsaw:
https://t.co/2SpmGnaYH4
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The https://t.co/KUYvPyVxp7 @unil is hiring two PhD students! If you are interested in transcription regulation, nuclear organization, and quantitative bio, go and check out the official advertisements here https://t.co/8npUzJeHb0 and https://t.co/8npUzJeHb0 and get in touch.
💫NEW: @NVastenhouw & co show that transcription bodies regulate gene expression during #ZygoticGenomeActivation in zebrafish development by sequestering #CDK9 to limit the transcription of genes away from transcription bodies.
@cig_unil @mpicbg@unil
https://t.co/AH5vj26Zk8
It’s finally out! The PhD work and first first author paper of @MartinoUgolini: https://t.co/tm5MSGQkOA. Congrats to all co-authors @mkierun, @lanoliin, Hiroshi Kimura, and Haruka Oda for the beautiful work! We also thank @cSabrya@NatureCellBio for the pleasant review process.
IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research.
"We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)"
See it here: https://t.co/Y6KrPB95zO
Now published in @eLife : our study of career outcomes for PhDs and postdocs who left @EMBL over 24 years. Here's a thread on why we undertook this, and some of the main findings
https://t.co/OrMhsCqDYV
As an HFSP fellow, I am eligible to host a Ukrainian scientist affected by the war via the S4S initiative.
https://t.co/aHLJhDxxgz
Any Ukrainian researcher who would like to work on insect auditory transduction, please contact me or my host supervisor @LocustEarMan.
Our paper is out, Bravo and thanks to all the contributors!!👏👏
Take home: after DSB induction, gH2AX domains self-segregate to form a new chromatin compartment, in which some DDR genes also physically relocate to potentiate their expression.
https://t.co/laHCIJTBX9
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Walter White for promoting an understanding of synthetic organic chemistry to the general public. This unprecedented selection is bound to spark controversy, but Walter is/was an undeniably inspiring figure...