Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula

We find numerous examples like this -- people present in a crowd being violently treated by police as if they are rioters -- in our research on cases where peaceful crowds become violent and conflict escalates. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

New paper by Harshath Amal @harshath.bsky.social shows how TGF-β signaling controls epithelial permeability by regulating actomyosin contractility and adhesion. Surprisingly, elevated adhesion can maintain barrier integrity independently of contractility tinyurl.com/ywenrexy @jcellsci.bsky.social

I wrote something (as did Mehul Malik) More importantly, @royalsociety.org has just launched a series: a practical guide to starting your PI career royalsociety.org/blog/2026/10...

📢 Calling all prospective PhD students! Why not consider the LMB for your PhD? 🎓🧑‍🔬 Applications are now open to join us in October 2027. Explore what’s on offer here: https://mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-people/phd-students/research-projects/

Are you a postdoc in Cambridge? Consider applying to be a Research Fellow at Clare Hall! @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rf/

Our latest paper is out in @embojournal.org! Chromatin compaction is a hallmark of apoptosis, but the mechanism & function of this process was unclear. We show apoptotic compaction is required to prevent fragmented DNA from spreading beyond the dying cell, and is driven by histone deacetylation.

🧪 “Put bluntly, it is now straightforward to generate a plausible scientific paper without doing any actual research.” journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧬🧬🧬 Join us on Wednesday next week for the next #FNucleosome seminar. We've got two exciting transcription/chromatin talks from @nellykanata.bsky.social and Yukun Wang! You can register here to receive the zoom invite: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very nice discovery from the Jackson, Bravo and Basel labs. Cleaved tRNA ends, loaded with an amino acid, activate a form of bacterial immunity

See below for a cancer biology-oriented view on our new paper by co-first author & bioinformatician Deepshika Pulimamidi 👇

Science comms guru @rogerhighfield.bsky.social has a Substack! His most recent post is on the Canterbury meningitis outbreak, and how Oxford (including @dunnschool.bsky.social) scientists investigated Focusing on work of @cmcrodrigues.bsky.social rogerhighfield.substack.com/p/how-scienc...

mRNA processing links to tumorigenesis: @agatakstepien.bsky.social , Deepshika Pulimamidi, @stoplab.bsky.social show shortened cleavage-to-termination distances in colorectal cancer cells, correlating with increased gene expression & dependence on CPSF73 and PCF11 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 Save the date for the 2027 @embo.org workshop: ** Beyond the standard: unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine ** at @i3suporto.bsky.social in Porto Amazing speakers, diverse models spanning fields of biomedical research. C U in Porto ☀️ register for updates 👉 tinyurl.com/s9c4ncjn

Wait, wait, what !!!!! Regulation of target gene expression by chromatin-associated protein-coding transcripts in plants 686 protein-coding transcripts that mediate cross-locus chromatin interactions in Arabidopsis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our cover design for Molecular Cell did not get selected this time, but I still wanted to share the artwork celebrating our latest paper identifying an unexpected role for ZC3H18 in cap-dependent first intron splicing article: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Development is happy to be a @reviewcommons.org affiliate journal, aiming to reduce reviewer burden and speed up publishing for authors. Read the articles we've published via Review Commons here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti... And find out more about the platform:

EMBO brought its communities together at the annual EMBO Fellows’ and Members’ Meeting from 26–30 September and 30 September–2 October, respectively. More here: https://www.embo.org/features/two-meetings-one-community-how-embo-celebrates-life-sciences/ 🧪 #LifeSciences #community #networking

Two steps in gene expression that should move together… don’t. In our new paper we show that pre-mRNA cleavage and RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) termination shift in opposite directions – with a surprising link to gene expression and cancer cell vulnerability. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3pkeuctp

Epigenetics Update - Histone lactylation scarring transmits metabolic and epigenetic memory across the gut-liver axis www.cell.com/cell-metabol... #Epigenetics #Chromatin #Lactylation #EpigeneticMemory #Metabolism #GutLiverAxis --- High-resolution insights without cell sorting; epigenometech.com

Important work on H4K16 acetylation

#RNABiology #MolecularBiology #GeneExpression #RNASky

I only used Review Commons once so far, but had a great experience!

My virtual attendance kit is ready! #EESRNA The complex life of RNA @events.embl.org @embo.org

The final version is now online! #RNALocalization #Chromatin #FunctionalGenomics #CellMigration #CancerBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is a good day to donate to savelife.in.ua/en/

We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar

There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢 Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research. Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss

A thoughtful essay on AI use in science. Found it a good read.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Computer science professor and BRCA1 mutation carrier: "I will wait a little longer for a cure[...] if it lets us approach this new [AI] world more carefully, and ensure that, in curing cancer, we do not lose the things that make cancer worth curing." Good read: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

‼️🚨Out now in Molecular Cell - Our latest study 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: tinyurl.com/2xctvx38. It was a pleasure to lead this collaborative effort alongside @nilskrietenstein.bsky.social More in🧵below 🪡

Who needs chromatin anyway...? NOT THIS GUY! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Big conferences are impressive. But how often do you actually meet someone there? 🤔 The Epigenetics Meeting was created differently. We have a great line-up of speakers with exciting research topics, ample time for discussion, and very familiar setting. Join us now: events.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

Translation initiation by the Kozak mRNA sequence is based on a conformational readout on the ribosome pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42420270/ #cryoEM

Our AI-guided design of RNA-guided nucleases is now out in @science.org 💻🧬 We used structure and evolutionary data to generate minimal, active and divergent gene editors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social & team!

Join us at the "Cancer Research Across Scales" conference at the Weizmann Institute of Science! Many Israelis living abroad may be in Israel that week for the national election, so help us spread the word!

DNA G-quadruplexes are dynamic four-stranded #DNA knots that may control genes, protect genomes, and drive disease, yet are poorly understood. This Unsolved Mystery by Irene Gallina & Sara Richter investigates their origins and functions. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4aXJXNC

🧬 New paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! @agatakstepien.bsky.social, Martyna Plens-Gałąska & @stoplab.bsky.social authored a News & Views piece on transcriptional readthrough, showing how this cellular process links to anti-cancer drugs & new therapies 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really appreciate @agatakstepien.bsky.social and Kinga @stoplab.bsky.social for surprising us with this kind shout out to our work! I love how they pull together these important pieces of an emerging puzzle!

Here is the link to our paper! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41860998/

There is more to transcriptional readthrough than meets the eye, and it could even provide a therapeutic opportunity in cancer. Check out our new perspective, inspired by recent work from Neugebauer and Grzechnik labs! #RNABiology #RNASky #Epigenetics

The world's first trillionaire did this

#ObamaDay #ObamaAppreciationDay #BarackObama

“Killer” is too kind. Musk is a mass murderer. He’s disrupting democracies around the world. Not to mention the “mechahitler” white-supremacist misogyny machine of Grok & X. I witnessed firsthand the cruel, ignorant, wasteful destruction at NASA at the hands of DOGE. www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro