Nacho Molina

Nacho Molina

@molinalab.bsky.social

Group leader of the Stochastic Systems Biology Lab at IGBMC - CNRS - University of Strasbourg. Models of gene regulation based on biophysics-informed deep learning: https://www.igbmc.fr/molina

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Interested in #CellCycle and #Pluripotency? 👇

Nacho Molina@molinalab.bsky.social

Hey! You can have a look at our new preprint on #CellCycle regulation and #Pluripotency! A little thread 100% human 0% AI slop is coming (bear with me the mistakes). Let's thank first @maulik_nariya, the fantastic postdoc that led this project: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Sign up now for the EMBO meeting 'quantitative biology to molecular mechanisms'. Fantastic speaker lineup and plenty of speakers slots selected from abstracts. Submit your abstract before Sept 11!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org

You only have until 11 Sep to submit your abstract for #EMBOomics! ➡️ s.embl.org/omx26-01-bl Join us to discuss the latest developments in the field with leaders in genomics, dynamic proteomics, quantitative imaging, and synthetic biology.

Surprisingly (at least to us), mRNA degradation timing is more conserved than transcriptional timing. The phase at which genes reach peak degradation correlates across organisms more strongly than the phase of peak transcription. #RNAkinetics, #PosttranscriptionalRegulation

And finally! We produced a scRNA-seq time course of hiPSCs differentiating into definitive endoderm, and we found that lineage commitment remodels the cell cycle in a coordinated way.

We found that mouse and human use distinct regulatory regimes for cell-cycle control. Mouse pluripotent systems keep a higher baseline expression of core cell-cycle regulators, whereas human systems show larger oscillatory amplitude with a lower baseline. #Pluripotency #CellCycle

We have developed Ciclopes, a biology-informed deep-learning framework that uses an autoencoder to reconstruct periodic gene expression dynamics and estimates phase-dependent transcription and degradation rates #CompBio, #DeepLearning, #MechansticModelling, #scRNAseq.

@maulik_nariya took single-cell RNA sequencing data from 6 human and mouse pluripotent systems spanning different naïve and primed states and culture conditions and estimated a continuous cell-cycle phase for each cell, leading to periodic gene expression dynamics.

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So grateful to my buddy the great @davidemazza.bsky.social and all the contributors from our teams to this joint effort to unravel NF-κB–p53 crosstalk. Davide’s thread nicely explains the main findings — here’s a short side note from me 🧵👇 (1/n)

Davide Mazza@davidemazza.bsky.social

🧵 I’m very happy to share a new preprint from the @samuzambrano.bsky.social group and ours — a project driven by @emabiong.bsky.social, a PhD student bold enough to tackle a question at the interface of our two expertises: how the biological oscillators p53 and NF-κB talk to each other.

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This is not a HiC map! Ever wondered if multiple enhancers get activated simultaneously? We measured chromatin accessibility on thousands of molecules by nanopore to create genome-wide co-accessibility maps. Proud of @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social Biology in the thread👇

kasitc.bsky.social@kasitc.bsky.social

Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#EMBLsinglemolecule was a blast! Happy to host the birth of single molecule genomics as a field and to think about the future with the microscopy crowd. Thanks to participants and organizers!

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The talk by @andrewleduc.bsky.social at #SCP2025 is on YouTube: 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 youtu.be/adkY6txDyqs?...

youtu.beQuantification of gene expression control in a mammalian tissue at single cell resolution | SCP2025YouTube video by Nikolai Slavov

For Spanish speakers, this is a fantastic podcast about science and much more!

Saúl Ares@omeuxeito.bsky.social

¡Nos ha salido un episodio tremendo! Catástrofes climáticas prehistóricas, volcanes y maremotos, y el colapso internacional de una sociedad globalizada... que tiene muchos elementos en común con la nuestra 🙈 ¡No te pierdas este episodio del #podcast @lavacaesferica.bsky.social!

No doubt, this is one of the most exciting meetings of the year! And we will present our new method, HiddenFoot 😉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EMBL Events@events.embl.org

‼️Last chance to join us in person for #EMBLSingleMolecule! Attend talks, network, socialise, and experience the atmosphere on the campus 🤩 🎫 Register by 3 Jun 👉🏼 http://s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl 🧬RNA processing 🧬Translation 🧬Transcription & chromatin regulation 🧬Method development 🧬Theory

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‼️Last chance to join us in person for #EMBLSingleMolecule! Attend talks, network, socialise, and experience the atmosphere on the campus 🤩 🎫 Register by 3 Jun 👉🏼 http://s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl 🧬RNA processing 🧬Translation 🧬Transcription & chromatin regulation 🧬Method development 🧬Theory

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Out @nature.com: Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations 🧬 Single cell methylome encodes cell state & clonal identity 🔨 EPI-Clone reads out both (+mutations, +RNA) at scale 🩸 Clonal expansions of HSCs are universal from age 50, not driven by CH mutations doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵

doi.orgClonal tracing with somatic epimutations reveals dynamics of blood ageing - NatureThe discovery that DNA methylation of different CpG sites can serve as digital barcodes of clonal identity led to the development of EPI-Clone, an algorithm that enables single-cell lineage tracing th...

Just in case you missed this and it’s something that might interest you. #SingleMoleculeBiology, #Chromatin, #Transcription, #TF, #Nucleosome, #PolII, #Biophysics, #MachineLearning, #ComputationalBiology 👇

Nacho Molina@molinalab.bsky.social

Time for a short thread! We developed HiddenFoot, a biophysics-inspired approach to decode single-molecule footprinting data and infer TF, nucleosome, and RNA Pol II binding profiles on individual DNA molecules. One molecule at a time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

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I'm neighboring the chromatin biology field at the moment and there is a lot I need to understand. Especially, the specific techniques/methodologies in use to study chromatin, however this one looks 🔥🔥🔥. Many congratulations 👏🏻 🎉 to all those involved! Hey #ChromatinSky people where are you at 🤩?

Nacho Molina@molinalab.bsky.social

Time for a short thread! We developed HiddenFoot, a biophysics-inspired approach to decode single-molecule footprinting data and infer TF, nucleosome, and RNA Pol II binding profiles on individual DNA molecules. One molecule at a time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6

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HiddenFoot infers pairwise interaction energies from single-molecule data and compares them to simulated equilibrium profiles to distinguish true TF–TF cooperativity from nucleosome-mediated co-binding. 3/6

HiddenFoot resolves Pol II and nucleosome occupancy at the HIV-1 promoter, molecule by molecule. Under transcriptional inhibition (TLD), Pol II footprints vanish, while nucleosome occupancy at the +1 and −1 positions increases. 4/6

HiddenFoot is a thermodynamics-based model that integrates known TF PWMs and nucleosome occupancy to efficiently evaluate all possible non-overlapping binding configurations. It fits model parameters using both stochastic gradient descent and MCMC. 2/6

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US colleagues: Looking to launch or move your lab to France? The ARC Foundation is recruiting outstanding US-based scientists to lead research in oncology. Generous support & relocation help included. Details here: www.fondation-arc.org/projets/recr... Interested? Contact us!

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En réponse à la forte baisse des financements publics et à l'arrêt soudain de certains projets de recherche aux États-Unis, la Fondation ARC débloque 3,5 millions d’euros. Pour s'informer et candidater : www.fondation-arc.org/projets/recr...

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Send us your abstract before easter! Extended deadline! we got lots of cool stories already! We would also welcome submissions with a focus on Translation and life of RNA!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org

🚨 Poster deadline extended! #EMBLSingleMolecule 'Gene regulation: one molecule at a time' 🧬🔍 📅 15 – 18 July 📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual ✍️ Submit by 27 April 👉🏼 s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl 🧬 RNA processing 🧬 Translation 🧬 Transcription & chromatin regulation 🧬 Method development 🧬 Theory

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🚨3 weeks left to apply!🚨 We’re hiring 2 new Group Leaders at IGBMC – early career researchers welcome 🌟 We offer salary support for up to 3 years while you secure a permanent position in the French system. Come join an international research environment in Strasbourg! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

nature.comCall For Two Group Leader Positions - Strasbourg-Ville, Bas-Rhin (FR) job with IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire) | 12837602The Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) is seeking two outstanding group leaders to establish independent research teams.

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🚨 Last chance to submit abstract for 'Gene regulation: one molecule at a time' 🧬✍🏼 👉🏼 s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl ℹ️ #EMBLSingleMolecule will catalyse the emergence of a new generation of mechanistic models of the regulation of genes across each steps of the central dogma. 📅 Deadline: 8 April!

Hey! This was the result of a fantastic collaboration with the @longchrom.bsky.social lab, where we found evidence for a gene-specific buffering mechanism to compensate for transcriptional perturbations.

Manuel Mendoza@longchrom.bsky.social

Almost 17 years after opening our yeast cell division lab, our first transcription paper in mouse embryonic stem cells! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...