Congrats, Fanju Meng 🎉 #YouRock

It would not be possible without tremendous supports from my amazing mentors Patrick Murphy and Benoit Biteau! Also, special thanks to Paula Vertino Bohmann Dirk and Michael Welte for their supports and feedback throughout the process.

So proud. This is an awesome accomplishment. Congrats Fanju!!

Congrats Buddy.

Dude has fun w football.

It’s finally out! The PhD work and first first author paper of Martino Ugolini: rdcu.be/dD5Vd. Congrats to all co-authors Maciej Kerlin, Ksenia Kuznetsova, Hiroshi Kimura, and Haruka Oda for the beautiful work! We also thank Sabrya Carim Nature Cell Biology for the pleasant review process.

Issue 6 is complete!

On the cover: 2D gastruloid derived from micropatterned wild-type human iPSCs after exposure to BMP4 for 48hrs. Cells are labelled for ectoderm (SOX2, magenta), mesoderm (EOMES, blue) and endoderm (SOX17, green). See Bulger at al.:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article-lo…

Very cool study!!

💥Our new preprint!

Transposon ADDICTION in development!

Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development

Study led heroically by Sylvia Ni & Jonathan Wells

This work has transformed my view of transposons, no less! 🧵1/n
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy vox.com/future-perfect… via Vox

“ANP32e does not remove H2A.Z from chromatin” and instead “Regulates Its Protein Stability in the Cytoplasm” 🤩👏 YES! Someone did the experiments we were too scared to do… and a mechanism for controlling H2A.Z dosage!!! tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.…

The Liu Lab has officially launched UR Medicine
, focusing on the functional genome of aging and diseases, with multiple open positions available. Welcome to join and make recommendations! hbliulab.org

So this happened today -

#ThisWeekInNPP

Mimicking or preventing acetylation of the histone variant H2A.Z with lysine mutation regulates memory and hippocampal gene expression

From Iva Zovkic Patrick Murphy Brandon Walters Gilda Mark Brimble

Author 🧵 twitter.com/IvaZovkic/stat…

nature.com/articles/s4138…

AGAIN! SINGLE CELL OF MOUSE DEVELOPMENT! REVEALS... WAIT FOR IT... WAIT FOR IT... STUFF WE KNEW BEFORE!!!!!! HURRAY BIG SUCCESS Jay Shendure AND COLLEAGUES AND A LOT OF MONEY TO DO WHAT EXACTLY? nature.com/articles/s4158…

Went to an art museum today and K1 (8yrs old) asks me about all the people with dragon wings in the mid evil castles - he was referring to angels - 🤣… I guess you can tell we’re not a religious family.

Wooohoo!!! Congrats to all!

Probably best if we could identify a source for these cells in the US, to make shipping more straightforward. Please RT

Does anyone know of a source for mouse 46c ESCs?