Alara Erenel (she/her)
@alaraerenelmsc.bsky.social
Istanbul 🇹🇷 ┃ Oxford 🇬🇧
🔸ACU-MBG'18🔬B.Sc.┃MTB'22🧫M.Sc.┃MBG'19-22👩🏼🏫R.A.
🔸OBU-BMS'26🧬Ph.D.
CEOx1Day'19 Finalist👩🏼💼
Scientist with a phone 👻
🔸ACU-MBG'18🔬B.Sc.┃MTB'22🧫M.Sc.┃MBG'19-22👩🏼🏫R.A.
🔸OBU-BMS'26🧬Ph.D.
CEOx1Day'19 Finalist👩🏼💼
Scientist with a phone 👻
Late post- Had an amazing time at #EDRC2025 in Alicante!
I presented my poster on my PhD project and had so many valuable chats with fellow fly people.
Feeling inspired and grateful for this community. 🪰💛
I presented my poster on my PhD project and had so many valuable chats with fellow fly people.
Feeling inspired and grateful for this community. 🪰💛
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Late post- Had an amazing time at #EDRC2025 in Alicante!
I presented my poster on my PhD project and had so many valuable chats with fellow fly people.
Feeling inspired and grateful for this community. 🪰💛
I presented my poster on my PhD project and had so many valuable chats with fellow fly people.
Feeling inspired and grateful for this community. 🪰💛
Thrilled to present my PhD research at the NET Models Meeting 2025! 🎤 My talk: Investigating the molecular mechanism of Groucho protein function in Drosophila melanogaster 🪰 Grateful for the chance to follow my mentor’s path and presentation in showing how fruit flies can advance cancer research. 💡
September 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Thrilled to present my PhD research at the NET Models Meeting 2025! 🎤 My talk: Investigating the molecular mechanism of Groucho protein function in Drosophila melanogaster 🪰 Grateful for the chance to follow my mentor’s path and presentation in showing how fruit flies can advance cancer research. 💡
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
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June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Just returned from #Epigenetics2025 in Belfast and still buzzing from the experience! ✨
I presented my research on Gro protein function in Drosophila (including a 1-minute pitch challenge—what a rush!), and came away with invaluable feedback and lots of inspiration for future experiments.
I presented my research on Gro protein function in Drosophila (including a 1-minute pitch challenge—what a rush!), and came away with invaluable feedback and lots of inspiration for future experiments.
May 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just returned from #Epigenetics2025 in Belfast and still buzzing from the experience! ✨
I presented my research on Gro protein function in Drosophila (including a 1-minute pitch challenge—what a rush!), and came away with invaluable feedback and lots of inspiration for future experiments.
I presented my research on Gro protein function in Drosophila (including a 1-minute pitch challenge—what a rush!), and came away with invaluable feedback and lots of inspiration for future experiments.
This workshop is one of my highlights in my PhD journey! I highly recommend any Drosophila early career researcher!!! 🪰🩷
Gain theoretical insights and practical experience in the latest techniques to advance your #Drosophila research in EMBO Practical Course "Drosophila #genetics and #genomics" in Heidelberg, DE, 3–8 August
Deadline: 4 May
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#EMBODrosophila #EMBOevents 🧪 @events.embl.org
Deadline: 4 May
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#EMBODrosophila #EMBOevents 🧪 @events.embl.org
Drosophila genetics and genomics
EMBO Practical Course
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April 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This workshop is one of my highlights in my PhD journey! I highly recommend any Drosophila early career researcher!!! 🪰🩷
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025 part 2/2
Vallot: Breast cancer in single-cell detail 🧫
Davies: PAX8’s solo act in ovarian cancer ⚔️
Tomkova: Activating genes with methylation ✨
Behrens: Plasticity in pancreatic tumors 🔬 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Vallot: Breast cancer in single-cell detail 🧫
Davies: PAX8’s solo act in ovarian cancer ⚔️
Tomkova: Activating genes with methylation ✨
Behrens: Plasticity in pancreatic tumors 🔬 @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025 part 2/2
Vallot: Breast cancer in single-cell detail 🧫
Davies: PAX8’s solo act in ovarian cancer ⚔️
Tomkova: Activating genes with methylation ✨
Behrens: Plasticity in pancreatic tumors 🔬 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Vallot: Breast cancer in single-cell detail 🧫
Davies: PAX8’s solo act in ovarian cancer ⚔️
Tomkova: Activating genes with methylation ✨
Behrens: Plasticity in pancreatic tumors 🔬 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025, part 1/2:
Carroll: Nuclear receptors in cancer 🧬
Orr: Non-coding variant at 14q24.1 linked to breast cancer 🔍
Azad: Drug-tolerant colon cancer reprogramming 💊
Helin: Histone mods = disease switches 🎛️ @gensocuk.bsky.social
Carroll: Nuclear receptors in cancer 🧬
Orr: Non-coding variant at 14q24.1 linked to breast cancer 🔍
Azad: Drug-tolerant colon cancer reprogramming 💊
Helin: Histone mods = disease switches 🎛️ @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cancer epigenomics at #Epigenetics2025, part 1/2:
Carroll: Nuclear receptors in cancer 🧬
Orr: Non-coding variant at 14q24.1 linked to breast cancer 🔍
Azad: Drug-tolerant colon cancer reprogramming 💊
Helin: Histone mods = disease switches 🎛️ @gensocuk.bsky.social
Carroll: Nuclear receptors in cancer 🧬
Orr: Non-coding variant at 14q24.1 linked to breast cancer 🔍
Azad: Drug-tolerant colon cancer reprogramming 💊
Helin: Histone mods = disease switches 🎛️ @gensocuk.bsky.social
Congrats Janay 👏🏼👏🏼🏆🏆 @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Congrats Janay 👏🏼👏🏼🏆🏆 @gensocuk.bsky.social
Epigenetic twists in immunity at #Epigenetic2025:
Mehdipour: ncRNAs = cancer’s codewriters 🧬
Nally: GSK-J4 does more than demethylate ⚗️
Bauset: Inflammatory memory in histone marks 🔥
Chuong: TEs as stealth regulators in immune response 🧫
#Immunology #CancerBiology @gensocuk.bsky.social
Mehdipour: ncRNAs = cancer’s codewriters 🧬
Nally: GSK-J4 does more than demethylate ⚗️
Bauset: Inflammatory memory in histone marks 🔥
Chuong: TEs as stealth regulators in immune response 🧫
#Immunology #CancerBiology @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Epigenetic twists in immunity at #Epigenetic2025:
Mehdipour: ncRNAs = cancer’s codewriters 🧬
Nally: GSK-J4 does more than demethylate ⚗️
Bauset: Inflammatory memory in histone marks 🔥
Chuong: TEs as stealth regulators in immune response 🧫
#Immunology #CancerBiology @gensocuk.bsky.social
Mehdipour: ncRNAs = cancer’s codewriters 🧬
Nally: GSK-J4 does more than demethylate ⚗️
Bauset: Inflammatory memory in histone marks 🔥
Chuong: TEs as stealth regulators in immune response 🧫
#Immunology #CancerBiology @gensocuk.bsky.social
Epigenetic flashbacks at #Epigenetics2025:
Brickman: TFs remember, enhancers store 🧠
Metzis: A dual-function enhancer sets the Cdx2 timer ⏳
Wang: scMTR-seq = histone + RNA stories in one cell 🧬
Gribnau: Past enhancer activity maps future cell fate 🔍➡️
#Development @gensocuk.bsky.social
Brickman: TFs remember, enhancers store 🧠
Metzis: A dual-function enhancer sets the Cdx2 timer ⏳
Wang: scMTR-seq = histone + RNA stories in one cell 🧬
Gribnau: Past enhancer activity maps future cell fate 🔍➡️
#Development @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Epigenetic flashbacks at #Epigenetics2025:
Brickman: TFs remember, enhancers store 🧠
Metzis: A dual-function enhancer sets the Cdx2 timer ⏳
Wang: scMTR-seq = histone + RNA stories in one cell 🧬
Gribnau: Past enhancer activity maps future cell fate 🔍➡️
#Development @gensocuk.bsky.social
Brickman: TFs remember, enhancers store 🧠
Metzis: A dual-function enhancer sets the Cdx2 timer ⏳
Wang: scMTR-seq = histone + RNA stories in one cell 🧬
Gribnau: Past enhancer activity maps future cell fate 🔍➡️
#Development @gensocuk.bsky.social
Started strong on day 2 💪🏼
3D genome talks at #Epigenetics2025:
Oudelaar: How genome folds regulate genes
Sandovici: Promoter contacts in adipogenesis
Feldmann: Developmental gene activation via transient interactions
Furlong: Enhancer-promoter looping in focus
@gensocuk.bsky.social
3D genome talks at #Epigenetics2025:
Oudelaar: How genome folds regulate genes
Sandovici: Promoter contacts in adipogenesis
Feldmann: Developmental gene activation via transient interactions
Furlong: Enhancer-promoter looping in focus
@gensocuk.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Started strong on day 2 💪🏼
3D genome talks at #Epigenetics2025:
Oudelaar: How genome folds regulate genes
Sandovici: Promoter contacts in adipogenesis
Feldmann: Developmental gene activation via transient interactions
Furlong: Enhancer-promoter looping in focus
@gensocuk.bsky.social
3D genome talks at #Epigenetics2025:
Oudelaar: How genome folds regulate genes
Sandovici: Promoter contacts in adipogenesis
Feldmann: Developmental gene activation via transient interactions
Furlong: Enhancer-promoter looping in focus
@gensocuk.bsky.social
Powerful talks at #Epigenetics2025 on epigenetic memory:
Özdemir: Inheriting H3K27me3
Belton: Non-canonical imprinting insights
Cavalli: Polycomb & 3D genome in cancer
#Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation @gensocuk.bsky.social
Özdemir: Inheriting H3K27me3
Belton: Non-canonical imprinting insights
Cavalli: Polycomb & 3D genome in cancer
#Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Powerful talks at #Epigenetics2025 on epigenetic memory:
Özdemir: Inheriting H3K27me3
Belton: Non-canonical imprinting insights
Cavalli: Polycomb & 3D genome in cancer
#Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation @gensocuk.bsky.social
Özdemir: Inheriting H3K27me3
Belton: Non-canonical imprinting insights
Cavalli: Polycomb & 3D genome in cancer
#Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation @gensocuk.bsky.social
Cis-reg elements in the spotlight at #Epigenetics2025:
Buecker: Enhancer cooperation over distance
Vermunt: Transient repression elements
Flynn: DNA structure & communication
Bickmore: Cross-border enhancer action
#Epigenetics #GeneRegulation
Buecker: Enhancer cooperation over distance
Vermunt: Transient repression elements
Flynn: DNA structure & communication
Bickmore: Cross-border enhancer action
#Epigenetics #GeneRegulation
April 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Cis-reg elements in the spotlight at #Epigenetics2025:
Buecker: Enhancer cooperation over distance
Vermunt: Transient repression elements
Flynn: DNA structure & communication
Bickmore: Cross-border enhancer action
#Epigenetics #GeneRegulation
Buecker: Enhancer cooperation over distance
Vermunt: Transient repression elements
Flynn: DNA structure & communication
Bickmore: Cross-border enhancer action
#Epigenetics #GeneRegulation
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🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan on receiving the 2025 Mary Lyon Medal! @niakanlab.bsky.social's Mary Lyon Medal lecture is on the genetic approaches to study early lineage specification in human embryos.
#Epigenetics2025
#Epigenetics2025
April 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan on receiving the 2025 Mary Lyon Medal! @niakanlab.bsky.social's Mary Lyon Medal lecture is on the genetic approaches to study early lineage specification in human embryos.
#Epigenetics2025
#Epigenetics2025
This time conference is at Belfast! Looking forward to #Epigenetics2025 ! @gensocuk.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This time conference is at Belfast! Looking forward to #Epigenetics2025 ! @gensocuk.bsky.social
Past ten years I spent in higher education showed me people in academia are being asked to do more and more outside of their expertise. We are scientists, but also editors, authors, graphic designers, social media advocates, public engagement officers, web designers, and so on...
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Past ten years I spent in higher education showed me people in academia are being asked to do more and more outside of their expertise. We are scientists, but also editors, authors, graphic designers, social media advocates, public engagement officers, web designers, and so on...
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Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our beloved developmental biologists from the ISDB team. Here is a heart made out of some migrating immune cells. It's only right that they are in pink. Do you spot another heart somewhere in the photo? 😌 💗
February 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our beloved developmental biologists from the ISDB team. Here is a heart made out of some migrating immune cells. It's only right that they are in pink. Do you spot another heart somewhere in the photo? 😌 💗
If anyone is interested 🙏🏼
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February 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If anyone is interested 🙏🏼
🔬 Last session of the symposium!
🩸 Vascular development – K. Red Horse (Stanford)
🏗 Epithelial patterning – S. Weevers (Basel)
🛠 Tissue morphogenesis – M. Rocha Martins (Max Planck)
💪 Embryonic contractility – T. Lecuit (Marseille)
Wrapping up with organ formation!
🩸 Vascular development – K. Red Horse (Stanford)
🏗 Epithelial patterning – S. Weevers (Basel)
🛠 Tissue morphogenesis – M. Rocha Martins (Max Planck)
💪 Embryonic contractility – T. Lecuit (Marseille)
Wrapping up with organ formation!
February 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔬 Last session of the symposium!
🩸 Vascular development – K. Red Horse (Stanford)
🏗 Epithelial patterning – S. Weevers (Basel)
🛠 Tissue morphogenesis – M. Rocha Martins (Max Planck)
💪 Embryonic contractility – T. Lecuit (Marseille)
Wrapping up with organ formation!
🩸 Vascular development – K. Red Horse (Stanford)
🏗 Epithelial patterning – S. Weevers (Basel)
🛠 Tissue morphogenesis – M. Rocha Martins (Max Planck)
💪 Embryonic contractility – T. Lecuit (Marseille)
Wrapping up with organ formation!
Afternoon talks!
⚠️ PCP & what we haven’t learned – J. Wallingford (UT Austin)
❤️ Heart regeneration – J. Bakkers (Hubrecht)
🔄 Asymmetric division – A. Mietke (Oxford)
🌀 Hydra regeneration – K. Keren (Technion)
Fascinating insights on cell behavior!
⚠️ PCP & what we haven’t learned – J. Wallingford (UT Austin)
❤️ Heart regeneration – J. Bakkers (Hubrecht)
🔄 Asymmetric division – A. Mietke (Oxford)
🌀 Hydra regeneration – K. Keren (Technion)
Fascinating insights on cell behavior!
February 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Afternoon talks!
⚠️ PCP & what we haven’t learned – J. Wallingford (UT Austin)
❤️ Heart regeneration – J. Bakkers (Hubrecht)
🔄 Asymmetric division – A. Mietke (Oxford)
🌀 Hydra regeneration – K. Keren (Technion)
Fascinating insights on cell behavior!
⚠️ PCP & what we haven’t learned – J. Wallingford (UT Austin)
❤️ Heart regeneration – J. Bakkers (Hubrecht)
🔄 Asymmetric division – A. Mietke (Oxford)
🌀 Hydra regeneration – K. Keren (Technion)
Fascinating insights on cell behavior!
🔬 Final session of the day!
🦠 Wingless morphogen gradients – Jitu Mayor (NCBS)
🐣 CRISPy Chickens: Neural tube fate – Ashley Libby (Crick)
❤️ Mechanical fractures in heart development – Christopher Chan (Crick)
📡 Signaling & tissue homeostasis – Ina Sonnen (Hubrecht)
🦠 Wingless morphogen gradients – Jitu Mayor (NCBS)
🐣 CRISPy Chickens: Neural tube fate – Ashley Libby (Crick)
❤️ Mechanical fractures in heart development – Christopher Chan (Crick)
📡 Signaling & tissue homeostasis – Ina Sonnen (Hubrecht)
February 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🔬 Final session of the day!
🦠 Wingless morphogen gradients – Jitu Mayor (NCBS)
🐣 CRISPy Chickens: Neural tube fate – Ashley Libby (Crick)
❤️ Mechanical fractures in heart development – Christopher Chan (Crick)
📡 Signaling & tissue homeostasis – Ina Sonnen (Hubrecht)
🦠 Wingless morphogen gradients – Jitu Mayor (NCBS)
🐣 CRISPy Chickens: Neural tube fate – Ashley Libby (Crick)
❤️ Mechanical fractures in heart development – Christopher Chan (Crick)
📡 Signaling & tissue homeostasis – Ina Sonnen (Hubrecht)
Poster is up and I am looking forward to connect with everyone and discuss my research!! Find me at P36! #BeddingtonConf
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Poster is up and I am looking forward to connect with everyone and discuss my research!! Find me at P36! #BeddingtonConf
Today's view at #BeddingtonConf at Francis Crick!
February 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today's view at #BeddingtonConf at Francis Crick!
🔬 Afternoon session highlights!
🦎 Axolotl regeneration – Elly Tanaka (IMP)
⚡ Flash talks from @OfficialUoM, @TheCrick, @warwickuni, @EdinburghUni, @UCSanDiego, & AMOLF!
🦠 Senescent cells in cancer – Juan P. Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
Fascinating insights into regeneration & cancer biology!
🦎 Axolotl regeneration – Elly Tanaka (IMP)
⚡ Flash talks from @OfficialUoM, @TheCrick, @warwickuni, @EdinburghUni, @UCSanDiego, & AMOLF!
🦠 Senescent cells in cancer – Juan P. Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
Fascinating insights into regeneration & cancer biology!
February 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🔬 Afternoon session highlights!
🦎 Axolotl regeneration – Elly Tanaka (IMP)
⚡ Flash talks from @OfficialUoM, @TheCrick, @warwickuni, @EdinburghUni, @UCSanDiego, & AMOLF!
🦠 Senescent cells in cancer – Juan P. Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
Fascinating insights into regeneration & cancer biology!
🦎 Axolotl regeneration – Elly Tanaka (IMP)
⚡ Flash talks from @OfficialUoM, @TheCrick, @warwickuni, @EdinburghUni, @UCSanDiego, & AMOLF!
🦠 Senescent cells in cancer – Juan P. Martinez-Barbera (UCL)
Fascinating insights into regeneration & cancer biology!