Happy to officially join the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) as MRC Investigator and Programme Leader Track. Excited to be surrounded by outstanding, nurturing, collaborative colleagues! For more details, please visit the Lab webpage Genetic Variations and Disease, Lila Allou (mrc.ac.uk)

Transposable elements account for ~25% of 1,000,000 predicted regulatory DNA elements in the human genome! How did we get there? Find out in our new collaborative paper led by Alan Du and Xiaoyu Zhuo from Ting Wang lab and Jason Chobirko from our lab. Stoked to have this out!

#SaveTheDate 🗓️20th September 📍Institut Jacques Monod Invited by the Gazave Lab, Thibaut Brunet, will give an Institut Jacques Monod Seminars on the theme "The origin and evolution of animal morphogenesis: insights from our closest relatives" ➡️ urlr.me/dGTYs

Wow, 5 year lab anniversary was yesterday! Where does the time go? I love this pic because although I am smiling, if you look closely, you can see the panic in my eyes, and I didn't even know there was about to be a global pandemic! (Also my kids are super cute 🥰)

Are you a US citizen looking for a postdoc and want to join our group and have an amazing stipend in sunny Barcelona? Reminder that LSRF supports postdoc fellowships for US citizens abroad! Get in touch! lsrf.org/apply/faqs/

Fully funded PhD position in our lab to investigate the role of prion-like proteins in the regulation of gene expression,details here: tinyurl.com/2w5ujsbe

Call for new Research Group Leaders If you want a a job with the #BESTcolleaguesEVER in #Paris, then NOW is the time to apply epigenetics.u-paris.fr/call-for-new-r… #jobs #epigenetics #paris #research

Happy to share I’ll be chairing the next Gordon Research Seminar on Histone and DNA Modifications along with Anna Knörlein in Lucca, Barga, Italy, in July 2025. *Registration is now open!* For more information: grc.org/histone-and-dn…

Excited to share the first review from our lab! We discuss the most recent findings on repriming from ssDNA gap formation to repair. Led by the amazing Tiya Jahjah and Jenny Singh with insightful contributions from Vanesa Gottifredi! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to announce that our latest paper has been published today in Nature Communications Nature Communications! Huge congratulations to the first amazing person who join my lab Sandhya Malla Umeå University WCMM_UMU nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our findings reveal a novel mechanism by which LSD1 regulates DNA methylation in mouse ESCs, independent of its lysine demethylase activity, and call for a re-evaluation of LSD1's role in demethylating non-histone substrates.

So happy and grateful to be one of the lucky ones!! 🤩🙏🥳 we’re all ecstatic in the team! Thanks @ERC for funding #REGULADOSIX, we’re looking forward to studying X-linked dosage sensitivity CBI Toulouse 💪🧫🧬🐹 heartfelt thanks to all who helped me with revisions and rehearsals

Congratulations to all @ERC Start grantees. Also a positive thought to the majority of applicants that were not awarded or could not apply because of the (short) time limitations after PhD! Personal take on this 👇

I’m going to be a contrarian and say the CNRS travel booking system actually works quite well. The only condition is that the conference must be in your home town and you don’t need to reserve transportation or a hotel. #Notilus

In this new preprint, we do a deep dive into the temporal relationship between DNA #methylation, #chromatin and #enhancers. Amazing work by first author Lindsey Guerin and thanks to our collaborators Ihrie Lab, Ken Lau Lab, & biomodal. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mario Draghi on the ⁦European Research Council (ERC)⁩. Perfect summary 👏👏 ! ⁦LERU⁩

Preprint alert! 🎉 Christopher Todd and the team used multi-omic profiling of human and mouse embryonic development to identify a conserved program of epigenetic priming at lineage specific enhancers for all three germ layers within the epiblast. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

First pre-print from the lab! Together with Luca Pinello and Daniel Bauer we developed CRISPR-CLEAR, an experimental and computational pipeline to dissect enhancers at nucleotide resolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…