Summary - Summer School on Chromatin Biology: A Hands-On Expedition

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Summer School on Chromatin Biology.
Transform your knowledge and skills with this 2 week course focusing on ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, ChIC/CUT&RUN, CUT&Tag, and bioinformatics analyses.
Aug 17 - 29
Interested? Apply by April 18
bit.ly/4bZwHHR
#abcam #summerschool #phd #helmholtzmunich

Chromatin Summer School 2026.
Unique Opportunity 🧪+ 💻
Don’t miss out on it !
Deadline in 2️⃣ days
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Want to know how histone marks regulate your favorite gene? Go single molecule with ChromSMF: integrated measure of chromatin accessibility and histone marks + DNA methylation, TF footprints and genotype for free! Very proud of @mpalamin.bsky.social ! @embl.org

“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.”

John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

⏰ Deadline approaching!
Apply now for the Chromatin Biology Summer School 2024 and join an inspiring week of science, learning, and community.
Submit before March 29th to be considered for this exciting opportunity: bit.ly/4oGDR8f
#chromatin #summerschool

We are looking for a Postdoc to join our lab at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. This is a dry-lab focused post on the computational analysis of long read single-cell sequencing data to understand the role of transposable elements (TEs) in early development. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #TEsky

Transposable elements are increasingly studied in single-cell data, but how reliable are current locus-level quantification methods in short-read scRNA-seq data?

If you work with single-cell RNA-seq or TEs, we hope this is a useful resource — feedback very welcome!

Very nice paper from @martingroth.bsky.social at IFE just out !Linking #metabolism and #epigenetics in
➡️ @natplants.nature.com

@helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @epihmgu.bsky.social
@valentin-ha.bsky.social

Fellowship application dealdine for students from low income countries 🌐will be in 1️⃣ week.
Dont miss out on this opportunity ! Hands on Summer School.
Cut&Run, Cut@Tag, ChIP, ATACseq and analyse your own data ! ➡️Unique opportunity ! 15 exiting days ➕ Daily high profile lectures.
👉 bit.ly/4oGDR8f

Dont miss out on it ! Hands on Summer School.
Cut&Run, Cut@Tag, ChIP, ATACseq and analyse your own data ! ➡️Unique opportunity ! 14 exiting days ➕ Daily high profile lectures.
👉 Applications & info: bit.ly/4oGDR8f

Great to catch up with alumni @nchoy.bsky.social who stopped by to visit the lab. So great to hear about your internship adventures with @robertife.bsky.social and see you doing so well!

Thanks Kinga !

Thanks Rob !

H4K16 acylations destabilize chromatin architecture and facilitate transcriptional response during metabolic perturbations Nitsch et al. show that short-chain acylations of histone H4K16, acetylation (C2), propionylation (C3), and butyrylation (C4) modulate chromatin structure in vitro. These effects can translate in vivo...

Now final version out: Our manuscript connecting histone modifications with metabolism: How H4K16 acylations regulate inter +intranucleosomal interactions and confer resilience to metabolic challenges in vivo. Thanks to the team+ @sandrani.bsky.social

Enjoy 👇👇 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Epigenetics Update - Cell-cycle-dependent repression of histone gene transcription by histone H4 go.nature.com/4bjE521

Kami Ahmad and Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) reporting in NSMB

#Epigenetics #Histones
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging research; epigenometech.com

Excited for this new preprint from my lab where we unexpectedly found a role for methionine synthase reductase in regulating heterochromatin independently of methionine synthesis 👇

Thanks Rob !

Thank you Hiten !

Hidden sampling biases inflate performance in gene regulatory network inference Accurate reconstruction of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from single-cell transcriptomic data remains a major methodological challenge. Recent machine learning approaches, particularly graph neural ...

Our new preprint is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We show that GRN benchmarks commonly used can overestimate performance due to negative-sampling choices, sometimes allowing simple degree-based baselines to rival more complex GNNs.
A reminder of why bias-aware evaluation matters!

🎉 Wrapping up 2025 with EpiCrossBorders!
A year of breakthroughs, cross-border exchanges, multiple publications & vibrant outreach.
Next stop: 2026 Symposium in Edinburgh + new workshops & theses submissions
Thank you to all who made this possible. 🌐 #Epigenetics #PhDprogram #Sciencecollaboration

H4K16 acylations destabilize chromatin architecture and facilitate transcriptional response during metabolic perturbations Histone modifications play crucial roles in genome function. However, how chromatin integrates physiological and metabolic responses at the molecular …

Excited to share new manuscript on histone acylations, exploring how H4K16 acylations regulate inter and intranucleosomal interactions and how they confer resilience to metabolic challenges in vivo. Thanks to all authors +1 author @sandrani.bsky.social Enjoy 👇👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Summary - Summer School on Chromatin Biology: A Hands-On Expedition

👉 Chromatin Summer School 2026 – Apply Now!
Join us in Munich 17–29 August 2026 for an immersive program on chromatin biology:
🔬 Expert lectures
🧪 Hands-on training
🤝 Global networking
Open to 14 PhD students worldwide (sponsorship available)
👉 Apply here: bit.ly/4oGDR8f
#ChromatinBiology

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Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field !

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A Platform for Emerging Talent: The Helmholtz Munich Talent Forum 2025

🌍 The #HelmholtzMunich Talent Forum 2025 brought together exceptional early-career scientists in #epigenetics & nucleic acids research to foster exchange, collaboration & research excellence. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

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@boyanbonev.bsky.social @epihmgu.bsky.social
#TalentForum

The Helmholtz Munich Talent Forum (Nov 18–19) brought 8 emerging global talents in epigenetics & nucleic acids research to our Neuherberg Campus! Inspiring talks, a keynote by @boyanbonev.bsky.social & vibrant networking—science at its best! bit.ly/4o2ftxr

Science thrives through engagement and this weekend proved it!
The “Stem Cell Stories” exhibition @ Deutsches Museum showcased the power of outreach.
A shout-out to our EpiCrossBorders students, who played a key role in connecting with the public and sparking curiosity.
#ScienceOutreach

Wrapping up a great weekend of “Stem Cell Stories” at the Deutsches Museum.
Science doesn’t exist in isolation. We are committed to engaging with society, exchanging ideas, and building trust through transparency. Let’s keep the conversation going.
#ScienceOutreach #Epigenetics #AIinBiomedicine

We are ready! Our team have been working all day to set up the interactive exhibition "Stem Cell Stories" at Deutsches Museum. Join us and explore the world of cell identities.

📅Fri 14 - Sun 16 Nov
📍Deutsches Museum, Munich
⏲️09:00 - 17:00 daily

Find out more: bit.ly/4p9Jk8m

Fantastic breakthrough for Type 1 Diabetes by @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

Our EpiCrossBorders students have helped turn science into stories!

Stem Cell Stories - an exhibition on cell identitity (Nov 14 - 16) at Deutsches Museum.

Also, don't miss the panel discussion on Friday 14 Nov: AI in biomedicine and the ethical questions it raises (in German). bit.ly/4qMnb1y