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Check out this preprint showcasing a collaborative project between three CEGR labs (Bai Lab PSU, Shaun Mahony, and Tan lab) studying the sequence features dictating the binding specificity of the FOXA1 pioneer factor in human cancer cells.

Let's do the same for a PI on a 9-mo salary of $100k, budgeting to cover their summer salary: Salary: $33.3k Benefits: $12k Travel: $6k F&A: $28k Total = $82k/y The point isn't that grad students "cost" a lot, it's that your PI's new 5-year $2M grant isn't stretching very far

Key questions to ask when on the faculty market (which I myself didn't ask): what's the total cost per trainee level, how are trainees recruited, how many trainees does a typical junior lab recruit yearly.

Working with scATAC-seq data? My student Yuqi Cheng will present a new tool from our lab, EpiPack, designed specifically for the distinct features across scATAC-seq data batches, that performs integration, reference mapping and new cell type identification #rsgdream2023 #RSGDREAM

Yifei HUANG (Yifei Huang), our dear colleague, Asst Prof Penn State Biology, passed away from cancer in October at the age of 40. We are collecting donations for his daughter's education. All donations are tax-deductible. Penn State Research Please RT. gofund.me/ef82effe

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Our manuscript characterizing the shortest k-mer sequences unique in humans. We find that they are enriched in neuronal genes and are hotspots for pathogenic variants! Ioannis Mouratidis @MaxwellKonnaris Nikol Chantzi @bigmonty12 and others!

Thrilled to see my Penn State BMB colleague Anton Nekrutenko Anton Nekrutenko 🇺🇦 and colleagues' Galaxy Project paper in Nature Biotechnology. Penn State Eberly College of Science Huck Institutes

Uh-oh!! We're back!! And this time we're taking no prisoners!! The Penn State Bioinorganic Workshop will be held in person again this summer from May 29-June 4 Penn State Eberly College of Science. Check out the website for further information. Always an awesome time and learning experience!!

Anyone Looking for a Postdoc? please contact me ASAP especially if you are interested in plant-herbivore interactions in agroecosystems! #ChemEcolPSU

The foundation has enabled numerous students to attend key conferences in Genomics and Data Science. Help us to continue this mission by donating to the foundation: jxtxfoundation.org/donate/

Check out our latest work in eLife - the journal! This work, led by graduate student James (graduating Sunday) uses a range of techniques, including a new methylation-based method to dissect gene cluster in haploid yeast. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Check out our latest paper in Nature Communications where we develop a methylation-based sequencing assay to capture chromosomal interactions with a viewpoint nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very proud of this highly collaborative paper with the Shaun Mahony Remo Rohs and Gordân labs in which we explore how ApiAP2 transcription factors with similar DNA binding specificities define their target genes, a ubiquitous challenge in all cells! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…?

Penn State Biology is looking for a Tenure Track Evolutionary Genomicist. We are a welcoming and supportive community - come work with us! Penn State Eberly College of Science Read more here: tinyurl.com/599td3nj #blackinstem #latinxinstem #indigenousinstem #diversityinstem #lgbtSTEM #womeninstem

My (awesome) department is hiring an evolutionary genomicist. Come be my colleague!

Out now in Molecular Cell! Along with Tan and Mahoney labs, we combine cellular, in vitro, and computational methods to understand how sequence features affect pioneer factor specificity (cofactors play a big role) doi.org/10.1016/j.molc…

Excited that we have a paper coming out in Genome Research exploring comparisons of epigenetic landscapes between species to find and better understand gene regulatory elements. genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Delighted to have worked on this perspective on the cis-regulatory code with Julia Zeitlinger (@[email protected]), Jason Ernst Lab, Ferhat Ay, Anthony Mathelier, Alejandra Medina-Rivera, Shaun Mahony, Saurabh Sinha arxiv.org/abs/2411.04363. We provide an overview of current progress and some challenges to think about.