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Mekhail Lab at U. Toronto 🍁🇨🇦
@karimmekhail.bsky.social
Explorers of nuclear/genome organization & stability, chromatin, RNA-DNA crosstalk, ribosome biogenesis, AI, cancer, and aging (basic to translational research).

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🚀 New Paper Alert! Our latest @natrevmcb.bsky.social explores how nuclear and genome organization drive DNA double-strand break repair! 🧬

📖 Free access: rdcu.be/edViW

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Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Changes in nuclear and genome organization promote the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and genome stability. Processes that are involved include the...
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Looking very much forward to the 2nd edition of the Fusion Conference on Spatial Genome Organisation #SGO25 @fusionconf.bsky.social @karimmekhail.bsky.social @chiololab.bsky.social. Early bird registration closes soon: June 2nd, 2025. Slots available for selected talks from abstracts: bit.ly/4492G6i
2nd Spatial Genome Organisation Conference | Fusion Conferences
Our scientific research conferences support the development of physical, medical and life sciences, providing a powerful platform that encourages discussion and collaboration in luxury locations acros...
www.fusion-conferences.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The first cancer-related story from our group @WeillCornell
is now published in @MolecularCell. We investigate the role of hyperconnected 3D regulatory hubs in controlling oncogenic programs and properties in glioblastoma and also across 16 cancer types. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Three-dimensional regulatory hubs support oncogenic programs in glioblastoma
Here, Breves et al. profile the 3D enhancer-promoter connectomes of patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs), identify hyperconnected 3D regulatory “hubs” relevant for GBM biology, examine the i...
www.cell.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist who studies the mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the brain, has been named #UofT’s 17th president. ➡️ uoft.me/uoftpres
March 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Our new findings on how chromosomes get ready for cell division are now published in @cellpress.bsky.social!

Congratulations, Kai, @andibrunner.bsky.social and everyone else involved! 🤩

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The final piece of my postdoctoral work in the @freudlab.bsky.social was recently published!

Quite amazing what this small little repair polymerase can do to fill 1-nt gaps in chromatin.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This RNA modification drives prostate cancer progression

Our recent study reveals that m6A RNA modification promotes prostate tumour growth and relapse. Specifically, it boosts the production of a cell movement molecule to aid cancer metastasis.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Our latest article, in collaboration with Helle Ulrich, explores how the timing of lesion bypass and gap processing impacts genome stability.
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
March 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🚨 Excited to announce the 2nd Spatial Genome Organisation Conference! #SGO25
📅 Oct 31–Nov 3, 2025 | 📍 Riviera Maya, Mexico

🪑 Chairs: @altmeyerlab.bsky.social, @chiololab.bsky.social, @karimmekhail.bsky.social

🔗 Registration: fusion-conferences.com/conference/188

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March 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The source code for AlexNet – the neural network developed at #UofT that kickstarted today’s AI boom & led to a Nobel Prize – will be preserved by the Computer History Museum in partnership with Google. 💻 uoft.me/bqR
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I've reviewed 10 consumer-facing companies that are in the business of promoting longevity and healthspan
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-busine...
Open-access, in the new edition of Ground Truths
March 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set

thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...
🔭 The Einstein AI model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
thomwolf.io
March 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As relevant today as ever: “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
March 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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A unified model for cohesin function in sisterchromatid cohesion and chromatin loop formation: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
A unified model for cohesin function in sisterchromatid cohesion and chromatin loop formation
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are thought to shape genomes by extruding DNA loops, but recent genetic tests have challenged the “loop extrusion hypothesis.” Here, Uhlmann explo...
www.cell.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Almost 17 years after opening our yeast cell division lab, our first transcription paper in mouse embryonic stem cells! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚀 New Paper Alert! Our latest @natrevmcb.bsky.social explores how nuclear and genome organization drive DNA double-strand break repair! 🧬

📖 Free access: rdcu.be/edViW

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Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Changes in nuclear and genome organization promote the repair of DNA double-strand breaks and genome stability. Processes that are involved include the...
rdcu.be
March 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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1/Out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social,

“A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection”.

Here we identify the mechanism that unwinds telomere-loops (t-loops) during mitotic arrest to activate the DNA damage response and signal mitotic stress.

www.nature.com/articles/s41....
A CPC-shelterin-BTR axis regulates mitotic telomere deprotection - Nature Communications
Here the authors reveal how telomeres signal mitotic stress. A key protein network alters their structure exposing telomere ends to signal mitotic stress, ultimately triggering a controlled DNA damage...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM