Assistant Prof @PittBioSci studying transcription dynamics and chromatin biology | passionate about equity in STEM | she/her
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17 Apr 2024
Delighted to share Ben Patty's thesis research which represents an incredible amount of work, where Ben performed all the experiments and analysis presented in this massive body of work: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. Ben is looking for a position - find him on LinkedIn!
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6 May 2025
🧬🎉 Our new chromatin remodeling study is out: We reveal three states of human CHD1 and identify a novel "anchor element" that interacts with the acidic patch—conserved among remodelers. Our structures clarify mechanisms of remodeler recruitment! Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2ik…
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22 Apr 2025
Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @mpgpresident has written an open letter to the President of @Harvard, expressing his full support to the University & its stance against demands from the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding @maxplanckpress
ALT A photo of Max Planck President Patrick Cramer, with the words "Threats to science anywhwere are threats to science everywhere."
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22 Apr 2025
This support is highly appreciated! From personal experience: Transatlantic cooperation is a pillar of the scientific enterprise!
22 Apr 2025
Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @mpgpresident has written an open letter to the President of @Harvard, expressing his full support to the University & its stance against demands from the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding @maxplanckpress
ALT A photo of Max Planck President Patrick Cramer, with the words "Threats to science anywhwere are threats to science everywhere."
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Sarah Hainer retweeted
8 Apr 2025
NSF GRFP #'s cut in half year-on-year
2022: 2193 awards, 1,377 Honorable Mentions
2023: 2555 awards, 801 Honorable Mentions
2024: 2026 awards, 1718 Honorable Mentions
2025: 1000 awards, 3008 Honorable Mentions
The gutting continues apace.
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20 Mar 2025
The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to impose a 15% cap on facilities and administrative cost reimbursements is misguided and damaging, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. scim.ag/41L2C9P
ALT "The system proposed by NIH cannot accomplish its stated goal of cutting costs while maintaining a high-quality national research system." - Choi et al.
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11 Mar 2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's a dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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12 Mar 2025
BioRxiv is the most important thing that happened in science publishing
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Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science @openrxiv
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11 Mar 2025
On Valentine’s day, 15 Assistant Professors at NIH who had started their research labs in the last 2 years were fired. Their scientific expertise was built over 10-12 years of training, most if not all of which was supported by NIH. The start up funds for their laboratories were
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13 Dec 2024
1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it's taken for granted & so no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you'll have a lot less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
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12 Dec 2024
In our SETD2 paper, we visualize a novel nucleosome transfer intermediate during txn. It is the earliest intermediate visualized yet. In the intermediate, the histone chaperone FACT coordinates histone binding with a previously uncharacterized RTF1 helix: tinyurl.com/setd2
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10 Dec 2024
Happy to share the latest preprint which is a close collaboration with @ArndtLab with a shared PhD student, Sarah Tripplehorn. Here we show a direct interaction between Chd1 and Paf1C subunit Rtf1 required for nucleosome positioning across genes: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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10 Dec 2024
Excited by these findings we made some mutants in mES cells to ask if disrupting this interaction resulted in similar changes to CHD distribution and nucleosome positions. Perhaps due to complexity or resolution, we don't observe these changes.
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10 Dec 2024
We are happy these studies provide new insight into coupling of nucleosome remodeling to transcription elongation. Sarah will be defending her PhD next week!
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2 Dec 2024
🔔🎄Ho Ho Ho🎅🤶
Our next #FragileNucleosome seminar is only 2 days away! We are excited to host Ryan Boileau ( @bffswithbiology) and Maria Aristizabal (@majuarcaa ) on Wednesday at 9am PST/ 5pm GMT.
Don't forget o register!
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