Elena Grossi
elenagr.bsky.social
Elena Grossi
@elenagr.bsky.social
Epigenetics enthusiast and instructor in Emily Bernstein's lab @IcahnMountSinai | former @MSCActions PhD student in Maite Huarte's lab
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🎉 Excited to share my postdoc work in the Bernstein lab now online @cp-molcell.bsky.social!
🔎We explored the unique functions of the SWI/SNF PBAF complex and its relationship with TFs, and unveiled a PBAF/REST-controlled neuronal-like signature with potential implications in #melanoma brain mets🧬
The SWI/SNF PBAF complex facilitates REST occupancy at repressive chromatin
By mapping SWI/SNF complex subfamilies in the melanocytic lineage, Grossi and Nguyen et al. find that PBAF-only sites harbor PRC1/2 modifications and the repressive transcription factor REST. PBAF is ...
www.cell.com
🚀Long overdue news!
I am thrilled to share that I've been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship🇪🇺 to start my independent project, SIRENseek, investigating the epigenetic principles governing repressive chromatin🧬🛑
Grateful to @scaffidilab.bsky.social for hosting me at #IEO in Milan - can't wait to start!
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
Excited to share our latest preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Lead by Lukas, we investigated multiple ways of assessing a TF's sensitivity to chromatin based on genome-wide binding profiles. The developed methods allowed us to quantify chromatin sensitivity across tested TFs.
A novel deep learning-based framework reveals a continuum of chromatin sensitivities across transcription factors
The genome-wide binding of many transcription factors (TFs) depends not only on the presence of their recognition motifs, but also on the surrounding chromatin context. This raises the question of how...
www.biorxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
New paper from my group is out. We demonstrate that cranial neural crest (CNCC) induction requires the transcription factor SALL4 to physically recruit the BAF chromatin remodeller at CNCC-induction enhancers as early as at the neuroectodermal stage:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neural crest induction requires SALL4-mediated BAF recruitment to lineage specific enhancers
Neural crest induction begins early during neural plate formation, requiring precise transcriptional control to activate lineage-specific enhancers. Here, we demonstrate that SALL4, a transcription fa...
www.biorxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
We're hiring a postdoc!

Come join my lab @Novartis Oncology in Basel 🇨🇭, and employ genome engineering and functional genomics approaches to study how oncogenic Transcription Factors function at the molecular level (and how to drug them)

3+1 years! Apply!
Please RP

www.novartis.com/careers/care...
Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Functional Genomics
About the roleWe are thrilled to open applications for our Discovery Fellowship track of the Novartis Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.Come join Novartis Biomedical Research as a Discovery Postdoctoral...
www.novartis.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
🧬 Did you catch our latest paper?

A new study from @elenagr.bsky.social and the Bernstein lab in collaboration with EpiCypher dives deep into chromatin remodeling in #melanoma, revealing how the SWI/SNF PBAF chromatin remodeling complex mediates chromatin silencing.
May 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🎉 Beyond happy to see this story finally out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where we characterize a lncRNA induced in senescence to promote metabolic homeostasis 🧬🔥
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A lncRNA-mediated metabolic rewiring of cell senescence
Grossi et al. describe how sin-lncRNA interacts with the TCA enzyme DLST to maintain mitochondrial function and metabolic balance during senescence. Depletion of sin-lncRNA causes DLST translocation t...
www.cell.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
Check out this 🧵 from @eimearlagan.bsky.social on our new Molecular Cell @cp-molcell.bsky.social paper! We show how the H3K27M Oncohistone reprograms chromatin in DMG, creating a specific dependency on CBX4/PCGF4-containing forms of cPRC1 👇
Excited to share our new paper out today in @cp-molcell.bsky.social! We show that the H3K27M oncohistone rewires cPRC1, creating a unique dependency on CBX4/PCGF4-containing complexes, and also reveal a previously unknown function of CBX4. Highlights below (1/11).
May 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Excited for this summer’s NYC Chromatin Club!

Grad students & postdocs: submit your abstracts for a chance to present a poster or talk. Come connect w/ fellow epigenetic New Yorkers!

#NYCChromatinClub
@dshechter.bsky.social @vivrisca.bsky.social @epicypher.bsky.social
@kjarmache.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
May 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎉 Excited to share my postdoc work in the Bernstein lab now online @cp-molcell.bsky.social!
🔎We explored the unique functions of the SWI/SNF PBAF complex and its relationship with TFs, and unveiled a PBAF/REST-controlled neuronal-like signature with potential implications in #melanoma brain mets🧬
The SWI/SNF PBAF complex facilitates REST occupancy at repressive chromatin
By mapping SWI/SNF complex subfamilies in the melanocytic lineage, Grossi and Nguyen et al. find that PBAF-only sites harbor PRC1/2 modifications and the repressive transcription factor REST. PBAF is ...
www.cell.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
I miss when the biggest controversy about mRNA was whether it correlated with protein or not.
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in @cellpress.bsky.social

From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection
A reconstituted cccDNA platform facilitated the discovery of an early chromatinization event that promotes transcription of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) regulatory X gene. The use of a small-molecule c...
www.cell.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Elena Grossi
🚨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!
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.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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🧬 We’re excited to introduce D&D-seq, a single-cell technology that maps DNA:Protein interactions through molecular footprinting. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Genomics #Epigenetics
Single-cell mapping of regulatory DNA:Protein interactions
Gene expression is coordinated by a multitude of transcription factors (TFs), whose binding to the genome is directed through multiple interconnected epigenetic signals, including chromatin accessibil...
biorxiv.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM