Our preprint with @OwenDaviesLab and Willy Baarends is up on bioRxiv. Led by @JamesHCrichton and @JMDunce. There's some nice images of mammalian synaptonemal complex assembling in there (thanks @ESRIC_Imaging, @IgcImaging)... pic.twitter.com/x31ykmUvS7

It looks as if recombination-initiated SC forms via recombination-mediated central element protein recruitment in mammals biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and in yeast genesdev.cshlp.org/content/36/1-2… Cool!

Latest from @BurgessLab: Our paper describing homolog pairing dynamics using live-cell imaging and polymer theory in collaboration with Andy Spakowitz @brunobeltran0 @Stanford @tacnewman @DanielElnatan @CahoonCori Dan Chu, Michael Paddy & James McGehee! pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

DNA helicases are used in homologous recombination. We've used a gap repair assay originally designed by @mei_newt to determine how the BLM, FANCM, and HELQ helicases promote HR. Now published in Genes in a special issue co-edited by @JanLaRocquePhd. mdpi.com/journal/genes/…

Did you know chromosomal loops can repel one another? Did you know that Hi-C maps have a hidden signature that tells you the sizes of chromosomal loops? We came up with a theory that describes interphase chromosomes folded into loops! Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… pic.twitter.com/YNO3LHEQo8

**new preprint** We found a new role for #condensin II complex in #checkpoint signalling during #drosophila male #meiosis. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to see our latest collaborative paper published in #PLOSGenetics where we explore the function of a histone H3K9 demethylase IBM1 in #meiosis. Particularly proud of co-authors Hongkuan Wang and Cong Wang who were co-advisees with Yingxiang and me. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… pic.twitter.com/46Zn07kX5i

Very glad to share our new work establishing a quantitative model (#quantitativemodelling) that predicts the recombination landscape (#meioticrecombination) in Arabidopsis using chromatin states. @qpb_journal doi.org/10.1017/qpb.20… Interested in more details? 🧵1/6

Meiosis should be Eco1-friendly! The latest work from @Marston_lab in @eLife reveals that the acetyltransferase Eco1 stabilizes both cohesive and loop-extruding cohesin and this is required for chromosome recombination and segregation in meiosis. elifesciences.org/articles/74447 pic.twitter.com/Ep3Rtr9yRm

Interesting technique/observations from Elçin Unal's team: "Long undecoded transcript isoform (LUTI) detection in meiotic budding yeast by direct RNA and transcript leader sequencing" sciencedirect.com/science/articl… cell.com/molecular-cell…

Our new preprint on a novel complex associating with satellite RNA from (peri-)centromeric regions it out. The complex controls satellite RNA levels in the germline of flies. Great work by @HockerSaskia and the other authors! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Collaboration with Joao Matos on the regulation of BLM in dissolution and crossover avoidance. CDK, PLK1 and TOPBP1 are all involved. Thanks and congratulations to all! science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Glad to share our work @ScienceMagazine by @kong_yimeng et al. addressing a debate over DNA 6mA in eukaryotes. A new method, #6mASCOPE, takes a #metagenomic approach for #epigenomics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Interested in DNA #methylation? or long read sequencing? Here is a 🧵1/10 pic.twitter.com/N7WnVPmeMJ

I’m super proud to announce some new findings on AAA+ sliding clamp loaders from the Kelch Lab that have just hit biorxiv! We discovered a 2nd DNA binding site on the eukaryotic clamp loader RFC, with implications for how RFC functions in DNA repair. /1 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…