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Hear from Brittany Rosener, Postdoctoral Associate in Systems Biology, about why fighting cuts to federal research funding matters. #killthecuts
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Yesterday, we were excited to meet with Congresswoman Katherine Clark to share stories of how cuts to federal funding and attacks on international workers are impacting our jobs and the research we do at UMass Chan. Thank you for your support, @whipkclark.bsky.social !
October 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Finally out on @devbiol.bsky.social‬: we find that Epop mutant mice have near-perfect Polycomb phenotype (orderly posterior shift of vertebral identity🩻) linked to accelerated HOX clock⏰.

Bonus: Epop has maternal effect!

Study co-led by the the labs of Bernie Payer and @lucianodicroce.bsky.social
The PRC2-associated factor EPOP is required for Hox gene regulation during axial development in mice
The Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is an essential modulator of gene repression. We previously reported that, in mouse embryonic stem cells, PRC…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Columbia has dragged its feet for years on implementing protections against bullying that we won in our contract. As part of a meeting with the Vice Provost today, postdocs and associate researchers delivered a petition signed by the majority of our coworkers demanding action—no more delays!
May 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🧪 Looking to gain a fundamental understanding of the field of paternal inheritance and sperm epigenetics? Check out this review by @epididymosome.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40163890/
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This afternoon, UMass Chan postdocs and graduate workers filed to form our union with the Massachusetts Department of Labor with more than 70% support!
March 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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This afternoon, UMass Chan postdocs and graduate workers filed to form our union with the Massachusetts Department of Labor with more than 70% support!
March 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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We are excited to announce that a majority of postdoctoral and graduate researchers have signed authorization cards in support of forming our union, Coalition of Research Employees-UAW!
February 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM