Alicia Byrd
Alicia Byrd
@byrdlab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UAMS interested in helicase mechanisms in DNA replication and repair. Views are my own.
I'm excited to share our new paper from @thompsonlab-lyon.bsky.social.
Untargeted CUT&Tag reads are enriched at accessible chromatin and restrict identification of potential G4-forming sequences in G4-targeted CUT&Tag experiments url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Untargeted CUT&Tag reads are enriched at accessible chromatin and restrict identification of potential G4-forming sequences in G4-targeted CUT&Tag experiments
Abstract. G-quadruplex DNA structures (G4s) form within single-stranded DNA in nucleosome-free chromatin. G4s modulate gene expression and genomic stabilit
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July 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm excited that my first graduate student, @thompsonlab-lyon.bsky.social, is now Dr. Matthew Thompson! He's had a busy week with a first author paper accepted and his dissertation defense. Starting this fall, Dr. Thompson will be an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Lyon College.
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We're excited to be able to have summer students in the lab this year. Welcome to Zaryah Smith (Emory University), Carmella Lewis (University of Arkansas), and Luis Vidal (Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts).
June 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Congratulations to Carmella Lewis, an @armathsciarts.bsky.social high school student who did her capstone research project in our lab. She won 3 awards at the regional and state science fairs and qualified for ISEF!
April 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Congratulations to PhD student Matthew Thompson! He won 1st place for the best cancer research presentation from the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and 3rd place for the Bhuvan Award for Excellence in Biochemistry Research at Student Research Day.
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Alicia Byrd
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I'm excited to share graduate student Matthew Thompson's first preprint. He found a surprising similarity in untargeted CUT&Tag, BG4 CUT&Tag, and ATAC-seq enrichment. We plan to submit for review soon and would appreciate feedback.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Untargeted CUT&amp;Tag and BG4 CUT&amp;Tag are both enriched at G-quadruplexes and accessible chromatin
G-quadruplex DNA structures (G4s) form within single-stranded DNA in nucleosome-free chromatin. As G4s modulate gene expression and genomic stability, genome-wide mapping of G4s has generated strong r...
www.biorxiv.org
October 1, 2024 at 3:38 PM