Diedre Reitz
@diedrereitz.bsky.social
Homologous recombination & genome stability • Studying how structural variants involving repeats (LINEs, Alus) form & impact on human health • K99 Postdoc Fellow, Heyer Lab @UCDavis • PhD, Bishop Lab @UChicago • she/her
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Diedre Reitz
@diedrereitz.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Two MMG rising academic stars, Diedre Reitz and Yuka Kitamura
Congratulations to Diedre Reitz and Yuka Kitamura, postdoctoral fellows in the Heyer and Namekawa laboratories, respectively, for being awarded prestigious K99 grants from the National Institutes of H...
mmg.ucdavis.edu
Very happy to share that I’ve been awarded a K99 Career Development Award from NIGMS for my work on MSH2-MSH6 and its role in recombination-mediated rearrangements.
Big thanks to my mentor, Wolf Heyer, co-mentor, Megan Dennis, letter writers, and colleagues.
mmg.ucdavis.edu/news/two-mmg...
Big thanks to my mentor, Wolf Heyer, co-mentor, Megan Dennis, letter writers, and colleagues.
mmg.ucdavis.edu/news/two-mmg...
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Using #yeast, Yu et al show templated insertions at double-strand breaks in cancers arise from foldback mechanism involving microhomologies. Lack of RPA may drive this process, shedding light on cancer's genetic instability #CancerResearch #Genetics #DNARepair
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/39...
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/39...
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Using #yeast, Yu et al show templated insertions at double-strand breaks in cancers arise from foldback mechanism involving microhomologies. Lack of RPA may drive this process, shedding light on cancer's genetic instability #CancerResearch #Genetics #DNARepair
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/39...
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/39...
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Delighted to see our study finally out in "print". Thanks to all the (many) contributors, collaborators and reviewers!
Mismatch repair disturbs meiotic crossover control in S. cerevisiae academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Mismatch repair disturbs meiotic crossover control in S. cerevisiae academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Mismatch repair disturbs meiotic crossover control in S. cerevisiae
Abstract. Crossover formation during meiosis generates genetic diversity. In many species most crossovers display interference, meaning they are spaced mor
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November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Delighted to see our study finally out in "print". Thanks to all the (many) contributors, collaborators and reviewers!
Mismatch repair disturbs meiotic crossover control in S. cerevisiae academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Mismatch repair disturbs meiotic crossover control in S. cerevisiae academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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‼️ Excited to share our new paper out now in @science.org ‼️
We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments.
Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments.
Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Thread ⬇️ (1/8)
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‼️ Excited to share our new paper out now in @science.org ‼️
We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments.
Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Thread ⬇️ (1/8)
We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments.
Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Thread ⬇️ (1/8)
Happy to share our @narjournal.bsky.social paper on the mechanism of Dmc1 filament stabilization by Mei5-Sae3!
We show that Mei5-Sae3 can stabilize both active and inactive Dmc1 filaments, and that this is independent of the ATP hydrolytic cycle.
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
We show that Mei5-Sae3 can stabilize both active and inactive Dmc1 filaments, and that this is independent of the ATP hydrolytic cycle.
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Mei5–Sae3 stabilizes both active and inactive forms of Dmc1 filaments independently of its impact on ATP hydrolysis
Abstract. In budding yeast, Dmc1’s recombinogenic activity is controlled by the meiosis-specific heterodimer Mei5–Sae3. Mei5–Sae3 is required for assembly
doi.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy to share our @narjournal.bsky.social paper on the mechanism of Dmc1 filament stabilization by Mei5-Sae3!
We show that Mei5-Sae3 can stabilize both active and inactive Dmc1 filaments, and that this is independent of the ATP hydrolytic cycle.
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
We show that Mei5-Sae3 can stabilize both active and inactive Dmc1 filaments, and that this is independent of the ATP hydrolytic cycle.
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
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Excited to share: NAR Cancer Editor's Choice review article from Kyungjae Myung and colleagues provides a snapshot of the blossoming field of DNA damage response- and repair-targeted therapeutics. Focus is on small molecules currently in clnical trials. academic.oup.com/narcancer/ar...
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Excited to share: NAR Cancer Editor's Choice review article from Kyungjae Myung and colleagues provides a snapshot of the blossoming field of DNA damage response- and repair-targeted therapeutics. Focus is on small molecules currently in clnical trials. academic.oup.com/narcancer/ar...
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Our latest collaboration with the talented Susi @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas is out now @science.org 🤩. We reveal the hidden price for DNA repair, with potential implications for genome function, gene therapy and ageing👇
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function
Upon DNA breakage, a genomic locus undergoes alterations in three-dimensional chromatin architecture to facilitate signaling and repair. Although cells possess mechanisms to repair damaged DNA, it is ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Our latest collaboration with the talented Susi @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas is out now @science.org 🤩. We reveal the hidden price for DNA repair, with potential implications for genome function, gene therapy and ageing👇
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We thank Evi Soutoglou and @rubenvanboxtel.bsky.social for sharing their exciting data with the GIIN community yesterday!
Our next webinar is on December 2nd, featuring @peterlylab.bsky.social and @alebrambati.bsky.social. Do not miss it!
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Our next webinar is on December 2nd, featuring @peterlylab.bsky.social and @alebrambati.bsky.social. Do not miss it!
Sign up for updates: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We thank Evi Soutoglou and @rubenvanboxtel.bsky.social for sharing their exciting data with the GIIN community yesterday!
Our next webinar is on December 2nd, featuring @peterlylab.bsky.social and @alebrambati.bsky.social. Do not miss it!
Sign up for updates: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our next webinar is on December 2nd, featuring @peterlylab.bsky.social and @alebrambati.bsky.social. Do not miss it!
Sign up for updates: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Want to know how homologous recombination defects are caused upon loss of BRCA2? Check out our recent efforts in uncovering this phenomenon just out in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
FIGNL1 inhibits homologous recombination in BRCA2 deficient cells by dissociating RAD51 filaments
Homologous recombination (HR) deficiency upon Breast Cancer Gene 2 (BRCA2) loss arises from defects in the formation of RAD51 nucleoprotein filaments. We demonstrate that loss of the anti-recombinase ...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Want to know how homologous recombination defects are caused upon loss of BRCA2? Check out our recent efforts in uncovering this phenomenon just out in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Among the anti-recombinases, FIGNL1 rules them all. So much that inactivating it brings BRCA2-deficient cells to life. Who is responsible for RAD51 loading without BRCA2/FIGNL1, check out the paper to find out! Great collaboration with @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Among the anti-recombinases, FIGNL1 rules them all. So much that inactivating it brings BRCA2-deficient cells to life. Who is responsible for RAD51 loading without BRCA2/FIGNL1, check out the paper to find out! Great collaboration with @raychaudhurilab.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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See our paper “Mechanism of trinucleotide repeat expansion by MutSβ-MutLγ and contraction by FAN1”. Using biochemistry, we show how DNA incisions by the MutLγ nuclease can lead to expansions, and how expansion is prevented by FAN1. Well done Issam and Valentina!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
See our paper “Mechanism of trinucleotide repeat expansion by MutSβ-MutLγ and contraction by FAN1”. Using biochemistry, we show how DNA incisions by the MutLγ nuclease can lead to expansions, and how expansion is prevented by FAN1. Well done Issam and Valentina!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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XPF mediates 3' flap processing for FEN1-independent Okazaki fragment maturation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684453v1
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
XPF mediates 3' flap processing for FEN1-independent Okazaki fragment maturation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684453v1
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If anyone is hiring a technician, I’ve got a great candidate. I wish I could hire her myself! She’s got the grit, she knows how to hustle, and she does publication quality work. Lots of molecular biology, protein, and cell culture experience. Please DM me if you are interested.
October 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If anyone is hiring a technician, I’ve got a great candidate. I wish I could hire her myself! She’s got the grit, she knows how to hustle, and she does publication quality work. Lots of molecular biology, protein, and cell culture experience. Please DM me if you are interested.
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Cell-stereotyped DNA repair outcomes are widespread during genome editing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684114v1
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Cell-stereotyped DNA repair outcomes are widespread during genome editing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684114v1
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Registration is open for the 2025 SoCal Genome Stability Symposium. Free registration. All talks by trainees. www.cityofhope.org/genome-stabi...
SoCal Genome Stability Symposium
The annual Genome Stability Symposium provides a forum for trainees in the Southern California region to present their research on the field of genome stability.
www.cityofhope.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Registration is open for the 2025 SoCal Genome Stability Symposium. Free registration. All talks by trainees. www.cityofhope.org/genome-stabi...
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Come check out Cera’s poster (4106) today at 2:30pm! Pre-print: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Whole-genome variant detection in long-read sequencing data from ultra-low input patient samples
Long-read sequencing provides a more complete view of the genome than short-read sequencing, with advantages in the detection of structural variants, tandem repeats, and small variants (single nucleot...
www.medrxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Come check out Cera’s poster (4106) today at 2:30pm! Pre-print: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Long-read sequencing reveals telomere inheritance patterns from human trios https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680721v1
October 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Long-read sequencing reveals telomere inheritance patterns from human trios https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680721v1
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I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
October 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!
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REVIEW: Modeling and targeting general and chromosome-specific aneuploidy in cancer.
By Aleah Goldberg, Maria Trifas and Teresa Davoli
Learn more here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/19-20/1132.abstract
By Aleah Goldberg, Maria Trifas and Teresa Davoli
Learn more here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/19-20/1132.abstract
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
REVIEW: Modeling and targeting general and chromosome-specific aneuploidy in cancer.
By Aleah Goldberg, Maria Trifas and Teresa Davoli
Learn more here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/19-20/1132.abstract
By Aleah Goldberg, Maria Trifas and Teresa Davoli
Learn more here:
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/19-20/1132.abstract
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Pan-cancer analysis reveals context-dependent roles of LINE-1 ORF1p in immune regulation and copy number alterations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680361v1
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Pan-cancer analysis reveals context-dependent roles of LINE-1 ORF1p in immune regulation and copy number alterations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680361v1
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Influence of cis-regulatory elements on regulatory divergence in human segmental duplications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680410v1
October 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Influence of cis-regulatory elements on regulatory divergence in human segmental duplications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680410v1
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A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair
The analysis of DNA sequence outcomes provides molecular insights into double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms. Using parallel in-pool profiling of Cas9-induced insertions and deletions (indels) w...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Fantastic work coming out of Neil Hunter’s lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protecting double Holliday junctions ensures crossing over during meiosis - Nature
Conditional ablation experiments show that key components of the synaptonemal complex protect double Holliday junction recombination intermediates to ensure their resolution into crossover products, which are required for accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fantastic work coming out of Neil Hunter’s lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3]
📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How Stowers Scientists Found the DNA Site Where Robertsonian Chromosomes Fuse
YouTube video by Stowers Institute for Medical Research
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3]
📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We’re excited to share a Postdoc Opening in the Burkard Lab @iowa /Holden Cancer Center. The fellow will study mitotic regulation in normal & cancer cells, exploring drug response & resistance in human samples, organoids, & preclinical models. Spread the word!
📅 Apply by 3/1/26
📧 mburkard@uiowa.edu
📅 Apply by 3/1/26
📧 mburkard@uiowa.edu
Postdoc Opportunities
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September 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We’re excited to share a Postdoc Opening in the Burkard Lab @iowa /Holden Cancer Center. The fellow will study mitotic regulation in normal & cancer cells, exploring drug response & resistance in human samples, organoids, & preclinical models. Spread the word!
📅 Apply by 3/1/26
📧 mburkard@uiowa.edu
📅 Apply by 3/1/26
📧 mburkard@uiowa.edu
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The preprint for our super fun collaboration with Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social is out. Check it out to see some really beautiful PFGE karyotyping gels from Candida glabrata!
Candida glabrata replicating within macrophages experiences amino acid deprivation, DNA damage, and chromosome instability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676333v1
September 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The preprint for our super fun collaboration with Erika Shor @mutant-fungus.bsky.social is out. Check it out to see some really beautiful PFGE karyotyping gels from Candida glabrata!