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Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Very excited to share the first publication from the Price Lab, "Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture", is now online at Journal of Virology!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture | Journal of Virology
This research provides powerful new tools to rapidly study adenovirus gene expression
and replication. By integrating fluorescent and secreted luciferase reporters into
native viral regulatory element...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Very excited to share the first publication from the Price Lab, "Replication-competent adenovirus reporters utilizing endogenous viral expression architecture", is now online at Journal of Virology!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...
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First ever Price Lab paper accepted this morning!!! Hopefully follow-up post soon to showcase our new systems.
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
First ever Price Lab paper accepted this morning!!! Hopefully follow-up post soon to showcase our new systems.
Excited to share our latest paper on how macroH2A is targeted by IE1 during HCMV infection- featured as an editors pick in Nature Communications! Fantastic work by Laurel and team!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human cytomegalovirus induces neuronal gene expression through IE1 for viral maturation - Nature Communications
HCMV rearranges the host cell to produce infectious virus but molecular details are still unclear. Here, the authors analyze the transcriptome of infected cells and show that HCMV turns on dormant neu...
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August 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excited to share our latest paper on how macroH2A is targeted by IE1 during HCMV infection- featured as an editors pick in Nature Communications! Fantastic work by Laurel and team!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plug: @sauravk05.bsky.social is hitting the faculty job market, aiming to launch the Kumar lab in 2026. He’s truly exceptional and is building a cutting-edge induced proximity research program. Reach out!
June 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Plug: @sauravk05.bsky.social is hitting the faculty job market, aiming to launch the Kumar lab in 2026. He’s truly exceptional and is building a cutting-edge induced proximity research program. Reach out!
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Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.
www.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰
Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.
Postdoc positions available! Please re-post!
Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at:
avgoustilab.org
Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at:
avgoustilab.org
Avgousti Lab
Investigating viral manipulation of host chromatin dynamics
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June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Postdoc positions available! Please re-post!
Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at:
avgoustilab.org
Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at:
avgoustilab.org