Mustafa Alaabo

Congratulations to @mfdspicer.bsky.social and all co-authors on this awesome work 🥳🤩

I'm happy to have made a tiny contribution to the paper

SMC and recombination enthusiasts: we updated our work describing the loop extrusion properties of budding yeast condensin and its function in biasing donor usage for mating-type switching. Lots of cool new data, check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Transcription and recombination are two universal DNA-dependent processes, but how they are coordinated remains largely unknown. Here we characterized transcription-recombination priority rules in yeast. 🧵 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

An electrostatic repulsion model of centromere organisation During cell division, chromosomes reorganise into compact bodies in which centromeres localise precisely at the chromatin surface to enable kinetochore-microtubule interactions essential for genome se...

1/ New preprint alert!
In collaboration between the Rosen, Redding, Collepardo-Guevara & Gerlich labs, we uncover a surprising principle of chromosome organisation: electrostatic repulsion positions centromeres at the chromosome surface during mitosis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Congratulations to Mustafa Alaabo, PhD student in Daniel Gerlich’s lab, who was awarded a competitive fellowship by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds for his research on DNA repair by homologous recombination.

if i were a better person i would do a tweetorial on our recent paper - but, hey, read the paper. its right there, waiting for you. #Giantvirus #histones are cool! their #nucleosomes are cool. check it out.! thats the tweetorial.
rdcu.be/exXBX

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome job!