ME Torres-Padilla

Don't forget to sign up - outstanding speakers, great discussions - join us in Munich in *July* 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Happy to share our new preprint! 📊

We benchmarked methods for locus-level transposable element quantification in short-read scRNA-seq, using both real datasets and simulations with read-level ground truth.

Huge thanks to @catavallejos.bsky.social and @antonio-scialdone.bsky.social!

#TEsky

Our Lab is searching a postdoc for an exciting ERC-funded project that will start this summer. Apply if you’re passionate about multi-omics, cutting-edge computational approaches, and exploring biological questions across the animal 🪼 🪱 🐞 🦎 🦋 🕷️ tree of life www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

📣 We are looking for new colleagues 🔬🧬🧪

The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London @ucllifesciences.bsky.social are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Fantastic news! 🙌 The Perutz is excited to welcome Danny Nedialkova as a new group leader starting this April! 🎉 She will strengthen the institute's research on the fundamental mechanisms that shape cellular physiology and disease ➡️ www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/res...

The role of KRAB zinc-finger proteins in expanding the domestication potential of transposable elements - Nature Genetics This Perspective explores the co-evolution of transposable elements and KRAB zinc-finger proteins in relation to their integration into human gene regulatory networks, highlighting their potential eff...

Find our latest Perspective article in Nature Genetics on "The role of KRAB zinc-finger proteins in expanding the domestication potential of transposable elements" at www.nature.com/articles/s41..., with implications for the future of research on the cause of human disease.

Check this out ! 👇👇work from @martingroth.bsky.social & Valentin (bluesky-less) on new findings of DNA methylation &photorespiration - interesting consequences for our environmental 'check' and epigenetic regulation in beautiful plant systems 🪴-which continue to teach us a lot as epigeneticists 😱🐀💻

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

Science meets art! Our first artistic experience as a lab working together with amazing artist Pei-Ying Lin. Very much looking forward to the final exhibition in Munich early July.
@replifate.bsky.social

Exchange update! In 2025, EpiCrossBorders PhD Daniele Scarcella joined a research exchange in Edinburgh, advancing his work on lineage bias in hematopoiesis. “Informal scientific exchanges really accelerated my thinking.”
🔗Find out more: bit.ly/3Mr1wfV
#Epigenetics #PhD #Scientificexchange

We hope our data can be useful to you, and to increase its usability, we've generated an exploratory web app as a resource and starting point to examine our data on the @kaessmannlab.bsky.social website apps.kaessmannlab.org/HindbrainExp...

Events for February 2026 We are thrilled to announce In Formation, the first exhibition featuring work from four artist-in-residence projects that bring art into the heart of scientific stem cell and epigenetics research. ...

Particularly excited to announce "In Formation"

👉Vernissage 17h00 Munich *5th of July* @Muffatwerk

1st exhibition of Art&Science work from 4 artists, including annadumitriu.co.uk + @replifate.bsky.social Helen Pynor,Solveig Lill & Pei-Ying Lin

replifate.eu/event/in-for...

😇STAY TUNED 4more info

Excited to share our work on epithelial multilayering - identifying why stem cell stay in the basal layer and how and why differentiating cells move up. Great collab with @manningresearch.bsky.social and Niessen labs! Check out preprint and great summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology.

Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI.

Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

#ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org

Events for February 2026 06-07 July 2026 | Munich, GermanyDNA Replication and Its Impact on Genome and Chromatin MaintenanceWe are RepliFate, a European Training Doctoral Network dedicated to understanding how DNA replication...

We go live!!!

Join us Munich July5-7th to hear exciting research on #Replication by leaders in the field

AND !! registration is FREE 🥳 (but mandatory) - we hope to see many in Munich 🍺 @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social

@replifate.bsky.social @epicrossborders.bsky.social

replifate.eu/event/meetin...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and/or Computational Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job

Summer School on Chromatin Biology 2026 Hands-on Expedition at Helmholtz Munich

The Epigenetics Community at #HelmholtzMunich, together with #Abcam, is hosting the 3rd #Chromatin #SummerSchool in Munich:

📆 17–29 August 2026
⏰ Apply by March 29, 2026

👉 Applications & info: bit.ly/4oGDR8f

@epihmgu.bsky.social @metorrespadilla.bsky.social @robertife.bsky.social

Head, Advanced Genomics Technologies Core Facility (Ref. CF/26/01) - IRB Barcelona IRB Barcelona invites applications for the position of Head, Advanced Genomics Technologies Core Facility. The successful candidate will report to the Director, Technology Strateg...

🚨WE'RE RECRUITING AT @irbbarcelona.org !!!!

--- ADVANCED GENOMICS FACILITY MANAGER ---

An amazing opportunity to help us drive the fight against cancer and other aging-related diseases using Single-cell, Bulk and Spatial genomics!!!!

APPLY NOW!!!!

recruitment.irbbarcelona.org/jobs/7124180...

Don’t miss the 2026 Hubrecht symposium. Submit your abstract before February 1st. Stellar speakers: @pauligroup.bsky.social @gerlichlab.bsky.social Petra Hajkova @tinekelenstra.bsky.social @foijer-lab.bsky.social Joost Gribnau, Melissa Rinaldin

Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur

Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies

📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD

Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...

#JobOpportunity #Research

Biomedicine prize awarded to Professor Anja Groth for groundbreaking discoveries in epigenetic cell memory - Novo Nordisk Fonden

You can read more about Anja's award here: novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/biom...

How Do Metabolic Changes Influence Our Genes?

How Do Metabolic Changes Influence Our Genes? 🧬

Researchers at #HelmholtzMunich have discovered new mechanisms by which metabolism impacts our genes through epigenetic regulation.

🔗Original publication: t1p.de/uh7j8

@epihmgu.bsky.social @robertife.bsky.social
#Epigenetics

Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant cultivation, imaging, and research support.

Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland

The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…

Registrations are opened! Come join us in Dublin in June!

Wrapping up G&D 2025 on a high note!!!
Stay tuned for another great year of exciting research.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Still time to apply until January, 19th!

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...