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

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Check out our review from the lab on how trans-acting factors regulate heterochromatin spreading! 
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.230271

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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

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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!

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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