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Jerome Govin
@jeromegovin.bsky.social
Epigenetics 🧬, fungal infections 🍄 and cancer 🦀. And outdoor adventures 🏔️
Genes are the code. Epigenetics is the choice. 💊
Great review ! 👏
Toxoplasma facing career options:
🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life)
😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper)
🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready)
Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call.
Our recent review in Current Opinion in Microbiology decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
Redirecting
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
Absolutely brilliant science communication by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social and Marta Tufet of GAVI. Clear explanation of why placebo controlled trials are not required for vaccines already known to be efficacious. I had to share.
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
What's this all about?

A new study from @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and co which suggests that warmer climates will be more hospitable for environmental growth of Aspergillus fumigatus, A. flavus, and A. niger

assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-654... (preprint)
May 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It is time to fear fungi.
New panic gripping newsrooms 🌍

💥"Deadly Fungus Could Kill Millions In Asia, Europe And The Americas, Study Warns"
💥"Fatal Fungus Similar to “The Last of Us” Disease Could Spread Worldwide"
💥"Dangerous fungus could spread to parts of US"

They're talking about...<checks notes> Aspergillus
May 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
April 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@nature.com just highlight the risk of fungal infections.
It is time to fear fungi.🍄

"High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections
To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.
www.nature.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The last of us, Season 2, is out. 🍿
Fungi infections aren't just fiction. 🎦
They kill millions of people. ☠️
It is time to fear fungi. 🍄
gaffi.org
April 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Superbe initiative de vulgarisation scientifique par @inserm.fr avec la bande dessinée InScience. A lire sans modération !

www.inserm.fr/culture-scie...
Bande dessinée – InScience : cultive ta santé avec l’Inserm ! · Inserm, La science pour la santé
La bande dessinée InScience : cultive ta santé avec l’Inserm ! nous entraîne au cœur de la recherche biomédicale, avec pédagogie et humour. Ses deux tomes, écrits et dessinés par Maïté Robert, sont ac...
www.inserm.fr
April 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is huge.
Can't wait to see a talk on it. Any virtual presentation soon ?
Would also love to see a similar analysis in fungi. 🍄
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
New Article: "An Oryza-specific histone H4 variant predisposes H4 lysine 5 acetylation to modulate salt stress responses" rdcu.be/eg0Zs

An Oryza-specific histone H4 variant (H4.V) forms condensed, less stable nucleosomes, regulating the salt stress transcriptome.
April 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
OK. I don't need to explain the importance of 'blue-sky' research to people on here, but this story in @nature.com is so cool! The area of research that delivered CRISPR gene editing has exploded and is turning up all kinds of cool tools for molecular biology. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Microbial warfare brought us CRISPR. What big breakthroughs could be next?
Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms race.
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
Cracks in the Curriculum: The Hidden Deficiencies in Fungal Disease Coverage in Medical Books

Isabela Rost / Alessandro Pasqualotto and colleagues

academic.oup.com/ofid/article...
Cracks in the Curriculum: The Hidden Deficiencies in Fungal Disease Coverage in Medical Books
Abstract. Textbooks remain a primary source of reference and education for many health care professionals and students. This study assessed the mycology co
academic.oup.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Great news. But unfortunately, pathogenic fungi not funded...
embl.org EMBL @embl.org · Feb 17
EMBL, @pasteur.fr, MIMS, HZI, and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social awarded Amplifying Funds grants to seven new projects. 🦠 👏

The collaborative projects will foster interdisciplinary research in infection biology across Europe.

Discover more here: www.embl.org/about/info/i...

🧪 #AcademicSky
April 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
📅 Save the Date! The EMBO Workshop "Host-Parasite Relationship: From Mechanisms to Control Strategies" organized by @ParaFrap will take place on October 5-8, 2025, at Les Embiez Island. Stay updated on registration opening —enter your email here: coming-soon.embo.org/w25-83 #Science #Parasite
February 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
Built a peer review system that doesn’t take forever.
Spoiler: scientists love it.
Huge thanks to the amazing team at The Company of Biologists for making Fast & Fair happen.
Read the preprint: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social
Fast &amp; Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
bit.ly
March 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🚨Our new prepint 🚨
▶️ When a bromodomain goes rogue

Rsc1 bromodomain 2 doesn’t bind acetyl-lysines.
It grabs DNA instead — and yeast cells die 💀 without it.

Plot twist? Read our preprint:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#chromatin #bromodrama #DNAlover

And a 🧵👇 1/5
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Todays was the 28th meeting of the Grenoble #Epigenetics Club,
with enthusiastic talks from @hakimi.bsky.social , J. Timmins and Hana Petrzilkova.

Kindly hosted by W. Galej at EMBL Grenoble. Thanks !

epigenetics.fr
March 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
📢 #PhD and #postdoctoral positions available in Pedro Oliveira lab. We seek candidates for Microbial Genomic and Epigenetic teams to work on #epigenomics of #bacteria and #microbiomes. Start: Fall 2025.
Please RT!

@cea.fr @univparissaclay.bsky.social @genopole.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I've been waiting so long for this. Great !
AlphaFold can be used to predict the oligomeric states of proteins www.biorxiv.org/cont...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint
March 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
A slight modification to the standard yeast lithium acetate transformation protocol increases transformation efficiency substantially.

Basically, 2 fold increase if you resuspend in 2M sorbitol after heat shock, and an additive increase with some sorbitol during heat shock.
Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
In red are the proposed improvements to the classical yeast transformation protocol.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Jerome Govin
@science.org RNA polymerase II at histone genes predicts outcome in human cancer 🧬💊 @fredhutch.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
ChatGPT just invented "histonic modifications".
I kind of like it.
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM