Thrilled to be part of Team decrypTEd, shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges! It's been wonderful working with all the brightest and kindest souls on this team Trono Lab @elisa_oricchio Céline Vallot Ozgen Deniz Parinaz Mehdipour Benjamin Werner Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte cancergrandchallenges.org/decrypTEd

This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇

Van Andel Institute is honored to be recognized with a LEED Green Building Legacy Award at the recent USGBC East North Central Region Leadership Awards. Learn more about how sustainability has been foundational to VAI since day one: vai.org/article/a-deca…

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Masters in Obesity, Endocrinology & Metabolism course Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs! Applications open now! Please share widely! mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/study-with-us/…

The package contains 24 palettes that are colorblind friendly, and a mix of qualitative, diverging, and sequential palettes. The package also contains functionality for {ggplot2} to easily incorporate into your data visualizations.

🚨New Preprint🚨 In this study, we set out to determine how the de novo DNA methylation program impacts the 3D cis regulatory landscape. Comments welcome! Here's a thread detailing our study's key findings (1/12) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This month we are highlighting recent research relevant to #diabetes in recognition of #WorldDiabetesDay and #DiabetesAwarenessMonth. Check out this single cell resource for the developing human pancreas: cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Outstanding discovery science (Schuh Lab) and art (Marzia Munafò). More broadly, cytoplasmic lattices in oocytes being used as backpacks for proteins with future functions adds to the question… What is *full* nature of biological inheritance?

PhD students: it’s a waste to just try to impress your committee at the meeting. Bring them problems, ask for suggestions, and generally think of it as a session in which new ideas can emerge.

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Van Andel Institute (VAI) Epigenetics Symposium July 8-10. This year's theme will be 'Cancer Epigenetics' with keynote lectures from Drs. Kristian Helin and Steve Baylin. vai.org/event/vai-epig…

Very cool single embryo combined transcriptomic and metabolomics Methodology from the @lempradllab lempradllab. Open the door to exploring definitive coupling between metabolic and epigenetic programs.

How do chromatin modifications quantitatively impact gene expression? How do sequence variants or combinatorial marks influence relationships? We developed a modular #EpigenomeEditing toolkit to systematically test these Q, published today 🧵… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Since nature asked for comments on their editorial attempting to justify (and failing miserably) their decision to publish a whitepaper as a peer-reviewed article, I sent them my thoughts. Attached.

Immune cells have a metabolic backup plan for accessing their anti-cancer playbook, according to new research from Russell Jones and collaborators published in Journal of Experimental Medicine: vai.org/article/immune…

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Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

If you are interested in a faculty position in the heart of metabolism, at one of strongest and most supportive institutes focused on metabolism, epigenetics, neurodegeneration and more, VAI is recruiting at all levels! vai.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/VAICaree…

🚨 Great alternatives to BioRender are now available!! 📢 NIAID News offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone to use. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov