Winship researcher and physician Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, (Reshma Jagsi) has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine), one of the highest honors in health and medicine. ➡️Read more: brnw.ch/21wNYxU

Join us in beautiful Ventura for the 2025 GRC meeting Mammalian DNA Repair: Fundamental Mechanisms to Human Biology grc.org/mammalian-dna-…… Great program, including keynotes from David Pellman and Maria Jasin. Many talks and poster slots still available. Apply soon!

Happy to see our collaborative paper with Cyrus Vaziri’s lab demonstrating that RNF168 is recruited to damaged replication forks via a degenerative PIP box and its MIU1 ubiquitin binding domain is finally out in Nucleic Acids Res : academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

On my way to the White Sutton Syndrome Foundation Conférence to meet families affected by this disease and scientists to work tirelessly to understand it. So much looking forward to meet them all and talk about the work of the lab on POGZ!

Looking forward to the White Sutton Syndrome Foundation

Join us for the annual Winship Scientific Symposium at the Emory Conference Center Hotel on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. Registration is complimentary and includes meals and refreshments. ➡️Register today: apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/63…

Do you want to know more about the RNA-mediated modulation of double-strand break repair? Follow our next GiiN seminar by Francesca Storici Storici Lab (Georgia Tech) next Tuesday (Nov, 5th)! At 5 pm (Rome) - 11 am (NYC) on Zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403

📣 Excited to share our latest review on 53BP1’s function in replication stress, its role in fork protection, and the significance of 53BP1 nuclear bodies in this context! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🥳Today pnas, we reported CRISPR-Translate, a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen-based method designed to identify factors regulating translation. We discovered IRF2 as a novel regulator of OAS3/RNase L-mediated RNA decay during viral infections. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The isolation of the BRCA1 gene 30 years ago ushered in the era of genetic testing for breast and other cancers, launched a long-lasting patent battle and eventually led to a tailored cancer therapy go.nature.com/48s6PSU

The department of Chromosome Biology of the Max planck MPIPZ Cologne is looking for a new group leader. Join us, with Polina Yu. Novikova André Marques Schneeberger lab We are very open minded concerning the project, it just needs to be exciting. jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/869…

Very excited to present the latest preprint from our lab! "FIGNL1 inhibits homologous recombination in BRCA2 deficient cells by dissociating RAD51 filaments" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… .

Thank you! Inst of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Ten research teams co-led by investigators from Winship and the American Cancer Society (American Cancer Society) have been awarded a total of $1 million in pilot grant funding to accelerate research in cancer. ➡️Learn more: brnw.ch/21wOy1n

We are organizing a FREE small symposium on DNA replication and replication stress on December 2nd and 3rd in Montpellier, France. Slots are still available for posters and talks. More info here: replication.sciencesconf.org

Check out the 2025 lineup of Social DNAing! Exciting new talks. We will also host 4 webinars in collaboration with NAR/NAR Cancer Bill Dynan - NAR Cancer Editor to celebrate their 5-year birthday! Full programs will be on the website in 10 days. Stay tune.

Pleased to collaborate with Zha Lab to present NAR Cancer 5th anniversary symposium - Manipulating DNA repair and the DNA damage response to improve cancer therapy. Eight stellar speakers - details soon on our web site.

New work reveals the impact of anxiety & depression on PhD students. "Anxiety and depression can have a substantially detrimental impact on graduate students’ experiences [..] and likely also contribute to increased time to degree and student attrition." nature.com/articles/s4158…