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Evaluation of MethylationEPIC v2.0 now published in Epigenetics Communication! Another great collaboration led by the labs of Wanding Zhou and Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social). Comment below if you have any questions about the BeadChip & its performance. epicom.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Laird (Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social)), Dr. Russell Jones (Russell Jones), & Dr. Peter Jones on being named to Clarivate's 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list — a distinction marking them as leaders in their fields. Read more at vai.org/highly-cited-r… #HighlyCited2023

Registration is also open for the VAI Epigenomics Workshop that will follow this year’s symposium. This 3-day, hands-on, problem-based experience will immerse PhD students in the latest epigenomics research and techniques. vai.org/event/vai-epig…

DNA methylation dynamics and dysregulation delineated by high-throughput profiling in the mouse Top cited paper from Cell Genomics - 20 citations hubs.ly/Q02m-Mg50 Wanding Zhou Children's Hospital Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social) Hui Shen Van Andel Institute (VAI)

Yesterday we lost our wonderful friend Ilya Ilya Shmulevich. Ilya was an amazingly creative scientist and incredibly generous colleague. He displayed extraordinary courage in his battle against AML, while remaining upbeat and living life to its fullest. We will miss him dearly.

🎉🥳✨ Excited to share my first preprint on bioRxiv !! "Ultrasensitive amplification-free quantification of a methyl CpG-rich cancer biomarker by single-molecule kinetic fingerprinting", a new digital single-molecule method enabling amplification-free detection of DNA

Excited to be part of this single-cell chromatin accessibility study in cancer in Science Magazine. Congratulations to my collaborators William J. Greenleaf, Howard Chang, and all our co-authors for this great work. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out our discussion with Tzachi Reizel on the causality of replicative epimutations in aging, cancer, & epigenetic clocks. 👆

Excited with to share our new deep single-cell whole genome bisulfite sequencing technique with Hui Shen, along with some truly innovative DNA methylation analyses by lead author and talented MD/PhD student, Nathan Spix biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to our newest Genetics PhD, Dr. Felicia Ebot-Ojong! Here Felicia is with her advisor Dr. Zack Lewis Zachary Lewis Felicia will start a position at the Van Andel Institue Van Andel Institute (VAI) with Dr. Peter Laird Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social) We are proud of you Dr. Ebot-Ojong!

🎉Thrilled to share that my 1st first-author paper is now published on ACS Publications Analytical Chemistry! 📚 After 5 years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance, this project has finally come to fruition. Feeling both incredibly happy and deeply touched. Thank you to

Origins of DNA Methylation Alterations in Cancer: Peter W. Laird will address this topic in a keynote lecture at the AACR Special Conference on DNA Methylation, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Cancer (February 1-4, San Diego). bit.ly/3UWPoEz #AACRmethylation25 Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social)

Congratulations to VAI's Russell Jones and Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social) for being named to this year's Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list — a distinction that marks them as leaders in their fields. Read more: vai.org/hcr-2024 #HighlyCited2024 Clarivate for Academia & Government

Online Now: DNA hypomethylation promotes UHRF1-and SUV39H1/H2-dependent crosstalk between H3K18ub and H3K9me3 to reinforce heterochromatin states dlvr.it/TGZ732

Thrilled to share the results Cancer Cell of years of hard work to develop classifiers for all major TCGA cancer subtypes, enabling assessment of differential drug response among cancer subtypes in clinical trials. cell.com/cancer-cell/fu…

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Origins of DNA Methylation Alterations in Cancer: Peter W. Laird addressed this topic in a keynote lecture at the AACR Special Conference on DNA Methylation, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Cancer. #AACRmethylation25 Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social)

Our paper on deep single-cell DNA methylation analysis is out in Nature Communications rdcu.be/evfJm. Super elegant work by Nathan Spix describing replication dynamics, X-inactivation, and cell lineage identification.

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