Check out this cover pressed flower art for Dana Kennedy's article in Nucleic Acids Research.The image represents heterochromatin-based silencing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The key components HP1/Swi6, Clr4, nucleosomes, and post-translational modifications (H3K9 methylation, orange; HP1/Swi6 phosphorylation, purple) are symbolized by distinct flora, illustrating H3K9me3 deposition by Clr4 and recognition by phosphorylated HP1/Swi6. This design reflects how post-translational modifications enable productive epigenetic reader–writer feedback.
Our great Hooper Foundation colleague Dr. Peter Turnbaugh interviewed Bassem for his wonderful Science is Fun podcast!
Check it out here: https://www.scienceisfuncast.com/episodes/episode-8flfkdjal
We are excited to welcome Farzad Yousefi as a new postdoc to our lab! Farzad obtained his MSc and PhD from the Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
We are thrilled to welcome Ahmed Amine to the lab! Ahmed completed his Ph.D. in the Academia Sinica in Taipeh and joined us this week!
RA Greenstein and Henry Ng’s work on identifying regulators of the heterochromatin spreading reaction has now been published in final form at PloS Genetics.
Congrats! https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010201