marcelvanvugt.bsky.social
@marcelvanvugt.bsky.social
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We are excited to welcome Evi Soutoglou and @rubenvanboxtel.bsky.social as our guest speakers at the upcoming GIIN webinar on Tuesday, November 4th at 5 PM Rome / 11 AM NYC.
Join us on zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403
Register here to become part of our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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We have an open position for a PhD student to join our team. If you have an interest in cancer biology, genome maintenance, or both, please apply! Details can be found in the link below. With @marcelvanvugt.bsky.social.

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PhD student DNA repair in kidney cancer | Werken bij UMC Groningen
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August 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The Genome Integrity Webinar Series continues on Tuesday, May 6th at 5PM (Rome) / 11AM (New York) with an exciting discussion on DNA damage response and repair @kajastelab.bsky.social
Join via Zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403
May 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A must for all DNA repair aficionados!

Egmond DNA Repair Meeting → April 19–24, 2026 🇳🇱
✔️ Confirmed top speakers
✔️ Ample opportunities for talks & posters

Don’t miss it: dnarepairmeeting-egmond2026.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Extremely happy to share that my main PhD project about CIP2A-TOPBP1 and the SMX complex is now available online as pre-print.

Huge thanks to all co-authors but especially @marcelvanvugt.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to work on this exciting project!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
CIP2A is required for mitotic recruitment of the SLX1/XPF/MUS81 tri-nuclease complex to replication stress-induced DNA lesions to maintain genome integrity
Perturbed DNA replication can lead to incompletely replicated DNA when cells enter mitosis and can interfere with chromosome segregation. Cells therefore require mechanisms to resolve these lesions du...
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April 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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REV7 functions with REV3 as a checkpoint protein delaying mitotic entry until DNA replication is completed
REV7 functions with REV3 as a checkpoint protein delaying mitotic entry until DNA replication is completed
How cells ensure that they enter mitosis after completing replication of their genome is not fully resolved. Sobkowiak et al. describe a checkpoint involving REV7. This checkpoint has mechanistic similarities to the spindle anaphase checkpoint mediated by…
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March 19, 2025 at 12:36 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...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Happy to post a new study on BioRxiv, where we show Integrated Stress Response activation as an off-target effect of multiple clinically evaluated WEE1 inhibitors. Team effort with the lab of Dan Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social and many others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
WEE1 inhibitors trigger GCN2-mediated activation of the integrated stress response
The WEE1 kinase negatively regulates CDK1/2 to control DNA replication and mitotic entry. Genetic factors that determine sensitivity to WEE1 inhibitors (WEE1i) are largely unknown. A genome-wide inser...
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March 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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We show transcriptomic buffering of tumour suppressor loss via syn. lethal genes is not anecdotal but a cancer hallmark. Buffering also seen in BRCAness, predicts penetrant syn leth effects and outcome. @icr.ac.uk @cancerresearchuk.org @breastcancernow.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The transcriptomic architecture of common cancers reflects synthetic lethal interactions - Nature Genetics
Tumor cells upregulate compensatory buffering genes following tumor suppressor loss. These genes may represent new synthetic lethal partners that could be harnessed therapeutically.
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March 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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SAVE THE DATE! The next EMBO | EMBL Symposium on 'DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease' will be held October 20-23, 2026.
 
Organized by Helle Ulrich (IMB), Johannes Walter (Harvard) and Anja Groth (Danish Cancer Institute).

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DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to disease
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February 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Nice resource! #AlphaFold #PPI #ProteinInteractions

Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Predictomes, a classifier-curated database of AlphaFold-modeled protein-protein interactions
Schmid and Walter train a classifier that discerns functionally relevant structure predictions in proteome-wide protein-protein interaction (PPI) screens using AlphaFold-Multimer, and they use this co...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany

It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer
Professorship in genetics and molecular cell biology (W3) (f/m/d) - Academic Positions
The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its i...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🚨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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Dear all,

Postdoc positions are available to work on (1) the role of DNA strand break repair proteins during DNA replication and (2) the molecular/structural biology of XRCC1 protein complexes, as part of our work on genetic diseases & cancer. Contact me if interested: k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Excited to present Social DNAing tomorrow. I’ll talk about our work led by @szmyd-radoslaw.bsky.social in collaboration with @radoncdocgee.bsky.social.

12 pm Eastern USA

Thanks Shan Zha for the invite.

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Social DNAing
Social DNAing Webinar Series, sponsored by the Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program at Columbia University, aims to provide a virtual meeting room for the genomic instability community worldwide.
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February 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Today @naturesmb.bsky.social 🥳, we report that the activation of NF-κB after DNA damage can occur through two distinct mechanisms. While ATM triggers NF-κB activation after DSBs, we found that IRAK1 specifically induces NF-κB in response to DNA damage causing transcriptional stress.
ATM and IRAK1 orchestrate two distinct mechanisms of NF-κB activation in response to DNA damage - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
In this study, the authors show that DNA-damage-mediated transcriptional stress induces NF-κB through IRAK1, allowing damaged cells with impaired transcription to initiate an inflammatory response wit...
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January 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Mark your calendar: the next Egmond DNA repair meeting will take place in 2026 from April 19 - 24!

You can pre-register to receive announcement here: forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/Egmond

Registration will open by June 2025/
December 23, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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NEW in @science.org, so happy to contribute to our understanding of the molecular machine, Fidgetin-like 1 (FIGNL1), and elucidating the mechanism of why cells cannot survive when it is lost! #ScienceResearch science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/7)
Molecular basis of FIGNL1 in dissociating RAD51 from DNA and chromatin
Maintaining genome integrity is an essential and challenging process. RAD51 recombinase, the central player of several crucial processes in repairing DNA and protecting genome integrity, forms filamen...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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Announcing the NAR Cancer virtual 5th anniversary symposium: "Manipulating DNA repair and the DNA damage response to improve cancer therapy." First webinar Jan 9. In cooperation with Social DNAing at Columbia University. Read the program and register for free! academic.oup.com/narcancer/pa...
NAR Cancer 5th Anniversary Virtual Symposium
NAR Cancer is pleased to partner with the high-visibility Social DNAing webinar series, hosted by Columbia University, to present their 5th anniversary virtual
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December 6, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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What are your plans for October 2025? It would be a fantastic time to visit Norway for the Endogenous DNA Damage and Repair conference with a stellar set of speaker covering a wide range of topics. www.endodnadamage.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:14 AM