Early Bird rates for the annual meeting end on May 15th!
P.S. Don't forget to reserve a spot for our WinRS luncheon during registration 🙌💪😋SSR SSR Trainees #reprorocks

In a real tour de force, Katy Kixmoeller of Ben Black's lab (UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys) illuminates the structure of kinetochore-associated chromatin on mitotic chromosomes, revealing CCAN complexes linked by single nucleosomes within sparse chromatin domains. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Anushka Dongre, BMS Anushka Dongre is the inaugural recipient of the Judith Appleton, PhD Early Career Research Excellence Award! An outstanding colleague, creative and bold scientist, caring mentor, and rising leader! @cornell Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell UniversityRsrch vet.cornell.edu/news/20240425/…

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The one and only Harmit S. Malik on mutational fitness landscape of antiviral protein TRIM5a (work led by Jeannette Tenthorey). Elegant work showing that TRIM5a has multiple adaptive paths to catch up with rapidly evolving lentiviruses #icte2024

We are recruiting a postbac research technician to join us!

We will work together to set up the new lab and do exciting experiments on chromatin factors critical for transcriptional fidelity. Please RT.

Job post: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CornellC…

New Faculty profile is up!

New preprint now live! We find that translation start site selection is dramatically rewired during mitosis through an elegant mechanism involving the nuclear release of eIF1. Want a play-by-play of major findings? - check out last week's teaser posts.
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Please see our latest findings on how BLM helicase orchestrates the damage response that executes Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres. cell.com/molecular-cell…. Great work from Haoyang Haoyang Jiang and Tianpeng Tianpeng Zhang in collaboration with Hardeep Kaur and Patrick Sung.

Coming out of my Twitter hiatus temporarily to let everyone know the Meiosis GRS program is up! We have a fantastic selection of oral presentations scheduled, and I for one cannot wait! See you all in a couple months! #Meiosis4Ever grc.org/meiosis-grs-co…

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that our work on human centromere variation and evolution has been published in nature! We completely sequenced all centromeres from a second human genome & compared them to those from the first complete human genome, uncovering new sequences,…

Congratulations Dr. Paula Cohen for receiving the SSR Trainee Mentoring Award for 2024! The Cohen Lab #WomenInSTEM

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Collaboration between PCGI Director Roger Greenberg (Roger Greenberg UPENN) and Elton Zeqiraj (@zeqiraj Leeds) reports a new mechanism that ensures replication fidelity. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

💥Our new preprint!

Transposon ADDICTION in development!

Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development

Study led heroically by Sylvia Ni & Jonathan Wells

This work has transformed my view of transposons, no less! 🧵1/n
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Fantastic to see this work finally out, from one of my post doc mentors, Ben Black. Shoutout to my former lab mate, Craig Gambogi, for tackling this fun but really hard project!

Thrilled to finally complete the Human Uterus Atlas! A huge shoutout to all the trainees for their exceptional work and collaborators CZI Science, Jun Li Ariella Shikanov, and Erica Marsh.
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Application for the postdoc fellowship is due April 1st! 🗓️ contact me if interested 📩

Check out our new paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38461301/?utm_…

Meiosis trainees this is your last chance to talk at MAYosis '24. 25 trainee talks available at MAYosis 2024 😮Extended abstract deadline is Friday, March 8. Submit your abstract now: tinyurl.com/2mythpxw

Prevalent fast evolution of genes involved in heterochromatin functions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio