Major kudos to the organizers of the #PennStateChromatin19 for a very fun meeting, especially for having a well balanced speaker list, with speakers from various career stages and from diverse institutions. Thank you for the invitation and I hope to be back for future meetings.

Our new “quantitative snapshot” of SARS-CoV-2 just out in eLife - the journal. We combed the literature for reliable and useful numbers about the virus, interactions with human cells, and disease progression. Check it out: split.to/I51uWQJ

We are very pleased to share our work just published in Molecular Cell , a fruitful collaboration between the Zaret Lab (needs a twitter account :)) Institute for Regenerative Medicine @Melike_Lak Lab UPenn CDB, P. Gomez-Garcia (ICFO/CRG Barcelona) and J. Liu HHMI | Janelia. doi.org/10.1016/j.molc…

Recent work : Meilin Fernandez 🧠👩‍🔬 et al. showed that pioneer factors recognize DNA via a short scissor-like or a helix-turn-helix module compatible with nucleosome binding, while non-pioneer TFs interact with DNA via an extended anchoring a helix or loops. doi.org/10.1016/j.molc…

Recent work: Iwafuchi et al. identified a short α-helical region outside of the DNA Binding Domain, conserved among FOXA pioneer factors, that interacts with core histones and contributes to chromatin opening in vitro

Factually wrong and potentially damaging letter from Lindsey Graham and a non-diverse group of US Congress “representatives” urging Trump to shut down ALL taxpayer-funded hESC research.

We haven't tweeted for a while but we're coming with great news! Congratulations to Ken, just elected at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ! amacad.org/news/2021-memb…

Bees, mold, muscles, bacterial communities or epithelial tissues, among many other #frontierscience...the first morning of the 23rd HFSP Awardees Meeting was full of cutting-edge research! And of course, some social networking moments😉 #HFSPMeeting2024

💫NEW: Zaret & co uncover different dynamics underlying the maintenance & regulation of #H3K9me3-enriched heterochromatin domains in mouse #ESCs: loss of H3K9me3 occurs through 2 distinct modes: passive dilution & active removal. 👉🏻rdcu.be/dZPNu nature.com/articles/s4155…

Distinct H3K9me3 heterochromatin maintenance dynamics govern different gene programmes & repeats in pluripotent cells ft. Jingchao Zhang, Greg Donahue, Michael Gilbert, Tomer Lapidot, Dario Nicetto & Zaret Lab Institute for Regenerative Medicine Penn Epigenetics UPenn CDB nature.com/articles/s4155…