Annabel Quinet Lab

Back home after a truly inspiring trip where I had the honor to present at the Asian meeting on radiobiology at Hiroshima and at the VII Farm-DNA in São Paulo! Had the chance to connect with amazing scientists, old and new friends! Thanks so much to the organizers for these wonderful opportunities!

Super proud of Léa Girard who graduated from her Master with a really high grade and of Tiya Jahjah who defended her qualifying exams brilliantly !! You rock!!

Join us NEXT WEEK for the #EMGS webinar "Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair: Impacts and Methods of Detection," featuring a workshop lead by Drs. Laurie Sanders and Tobias Dansen, a keynote talk by Dr. Karlene Cimprich, and more!

Register Today: emgs-us.org/event/OxiDNA...

Two year postdoc position available in the Sparte lab at IGDR to investigate the crosstalk between ADP-ribosylation and SUMOylation signaling at stressed replication forks

Don't miss the next #EMGS webinar "Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair: Impacts and Methods of Detection," presented by the EMGS DNA Repair SIG. 🧬

Register Today: emgs-us.org/event/OxiDNA...

Really well deserved! And her talk was simply awesome!! Well done!

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Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

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Back home truly inspired by this fantastic meeting! Thanks so much to the organizers for putting it together!!

Thanks you for putting this fantastic meeting together!!!

Three days, fresh data, & sparkly debates on how replication gaps drive cancer & disease. Grateful for every talk & discussion. Thank you for pushing science forward—next stop: great papers. Science moves fast when we move together!

Really honored to have contributed with a review to this super special issue!!
Thanks @albertociccia.bsky.social and @vindignilab.bsky.social for the initiative of putting together this issue on hot topics in the replication stress field!

Sounds real cool! I am super curious ! The link is not working for me.

Excited to share our new pre-print. Direct, ensemble FRET assays developed by our lab reveal that assembly of Rad51 filaments at stalled replication sites via RPA/Rad51 exchange causes complete & irreversible PCNA unloading. Big implications for interplay between human DNA damage tolerance pathways

📢 For all DNA fiber enthusiasts! 🟥🟩 We are thrilled to announce the release of our long-awaited AI-based workflow for the automated and quantitative analysis of DNA fibers. It's an exciting step forward—check it out on bioRxiv! lnkd.in/dQWUPtsP

Really cool, Vincent!! Congratulations !

Exciting seminar series from Genome integrity italian Network (GiiN), chaired by myself and Raffaella Di Micco! Short talks (2x30’), at convenient time for EU/USA attendees. Big shots and raising stars in an expanding field. See flyers + link to receive email alerts. Please repost to your network!👇

It was really great indeed!! Huge thanks to you, organizers, for this initiative and opportunity!!

SAVE THE DATE! The next EMBO | EMBL Symposium on 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease' will be held October 20-23, 2026.
 
Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).

www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Mechanism for local attenuation of DNA replication at double-strand breaks - Nature DNA double-strand breaks induce local genome maintenance and inhibition of replication initiation at nearby topologically associating domains without affecting global DNA synthesis.

Nature research paper: Mechanism for local attenuation of DNA replication at double-strand breaks

https://go.nature.com/4k8AdCX

Disabling leading and lagging strand histone transmission results in parental histones loss and reduced cell plasticity and viability Losing parental histones during DNA replication fork passage challenges differentiation competence and cell viability.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐍𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? Our new study “Disabling leading and lagging strand histone transmission results in parental histones loss and reduced cell plasticity and viability” is out in 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. Led by @lleonie.bsky.social @biranalva.bsky.social 🧵 More below👇

6 Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) The Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) is a new Center of Excellence that will be established based on funding by the Danish National Research Foundation.

🚨𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!🚨The Groth @groth-anja.bsky.social, Mailand, Nilsson @nilssonlab.bsky.social & Krietenstein @nilskrietenstein.bsky.social labs are hiring 𝟔 𝐏𝐡𝐃&𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐬 to join the new Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yvd93na2 & please share!

Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dear all,

Postdoc positions are available to work on (1) the role of DNA strand break repair proteins during DNA replication and (2) the molecular/structural biology of XRCC1 protein complexes, as part of our work on genetic diseases & cancer. Contact me if interested: k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk

Congratulations to you all!! Amazing work!!

Targeting BRCA1-deficient PARP inhibitor-resistant cells with nickases reveals nick resection as a cancer vulnerability Nature Cancer - Whalen et al. report that increased DNA end resection in BRCA-deficient, PARP inhibitor-resistant cancers leads to increased sensitivity to DNA nicks, limiting tumor formation in...

Congratulations to Jenna Whalen on her Nature Cancer paper out today-a distinct take on nicks and their toxicity! rdcu.be/d60Td

Congrats !! Looking forward to reading it!

So cool!! Congratulations Lopes lab!!

Congrats!!!🎊🎉🎈

Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index - Nature Reviews Cancer Conventional chemotherapy has successfully cured millions of patients with cancer, yet the mechanisms of action for this remain unclear. In this Perspective, Letai and de The assess the existing mecha...

It's craaazy that chemo has been in the clinic for so long, yet its therapeutic index remains incompletely understood. In this #Perspective, Letai & de The explore existing models + knowledge gaps, & suggest principles for optimizing dosing + scheduling.

@natrevcancer.bsky.social

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