Bin Zhang

binzmit.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:00

How open is “open” chromatin? Our new Nature Genetics paper uses nucleosome-resolution modeling to reveal condensed euchromatin domains with short, accessible regulatory regions at the surface. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epigenetics Podcast

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28 September 2026 16:10

In the most recent episode we speak with @robklose.bsky.social, Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, about how CpG islands help control gene expression and chromatin regulation during development. #podcast #epigenetics Listen here: activemotif.com/podcasts-rob...

Lennart Hilbert

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27 September 2026 14:17

Thank you, too Kazuhiro. I shouldn’t speak too loud as a biologist, but as a physicist, I think: if we hit on a “real” physical mechanism at work in the cell, all data and simulations align. Dispersal by transcription looks suspiciously like such a process. Of course, still many open questions.

Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

27 September 2026 12:56

New Slide.... this is a whole new course. I did tell them that beyond nucleosomes and loops, all the higher order structures in the textbook were imaginary

Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

27 September 2026 12:19

Glad i already taught the class about differences between euchromatin and heterochromatin--guess i need to revise next year :)