Spent a great holiday weekend at the cabin! Split wood and then cooled off in the pond followed by an entourage of bluegills!

Beautiful evening at the cabin. Hoping to see more Northern Lights

Congratulations to EMGS member Dr. Ben Van Houten Ben Van Houten who has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow!

hillmanresearch.upmc.edu/van-houten-aaa…

Thanks Isabelle and EMGS for highlighting the terrific work being done by the brilliant scientists in my group!

The great scientific environment and wonderful colleagues here at the Hillman Cancer Center and Pitt helped me achieve this honor.

My son and I were lucky to join 100s of people at a welcome center in Ohio to witness the solar eclipse, what an amazing phenomena! Everyone cheered when we were enveloped in totality. Wonderful to have Nature bring so many people together!

LUMICKS has partnered with a leading pizza 🍕 chain to explore the perfect cheese 🧀 stretch tension

With our expertise in measuring forces 💪 , our mission is to find the best cheese stretchiness for the tastiest pizza! 😋

Happy April Fools' Day! #AprilFools

Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals the Mechanism of Bidirectional Replication Initiation in Metazoa biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_molbio

Many of us use GFP all the time in lab, but have you ever wondered what fluorescent proteins do in nature? I’m delighted to share our paper (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…), hot off the presses, where we uncover new roles for FPs in intertidal sea anemones.

Curious? Read on: 🧵1/n

The Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society newsletter also featured an extended abstract for the opening keynote 'Why is DNA double-stranded? The emergence of the field of genomic maintenance,' by Phil Hanawalt Stanford University in Palm Spring 2024 cdn.ymaws.com/emgs-us.org/re…

So proud to learn that Matt Schaich delivered an outstanding talk on his single molecule workup of PARP1 at the 6th DNA Repair/Replication Structures and Cancer Conference. Thanks to Bret and Tyler for this wonderful collaboration. Stay tuned for a posting to BioRxiv.

Great line up of speakers and a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the LUMICKS C-TRAP can do for you. Seeing is believing!

Our team at LUMICKS will be at the Biophysical Society (BPS) conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 10 - 14, 2024. Join us for our presentation by @Trey Simpson on Monday, February 12th at 15:30 - 17:00.

Come and meet us at booth #500!

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Penny Jeggo the Co-editor in Chief of DNA Repair has done it again and brought together a 10th Cutting Edge Perspective of Genome Maintenance authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIuu5aisDUB…
Please read 15 timely reviews on exciting developments in genome stability and damage response pathways.