Daniel Gerlich
danielgerlich.bsky.social
Daniel Gerlich
@danielgerlich.bsky.social
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1/ New preprint alert!
In collaboration between the Rosen, Redding, Collepardo-Guevara & Gerlich labs, we uncover a surprising principle of chromosome organisation: electrostatic repulsion positions centromeres at the chromosome surface during mitosis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
An electrostatic repulsion model of centromere organisation
During cell division, chromosomes reorganise into compact bodies in which centromeres localise precisely at the chromatin surface to enable kinetochore-microtubule interactions essential for genome se...
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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We found a new asymmetry in the large-scale chromosome structure: sister chromatids are systematically shifted by hundreds of kb in the 5′→3′ direction of their inherited strands! The work was led by Flavia Corsi, in close collaboration with the Daniel Gerlich lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.
March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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New #preprint from the lab! Do you want to see the invisible? So did we! When DNA genomes get broken, cells somehow find related sequences to fix the break. But how do they find it? We developed a way to look at sequence *search*, not just sequence usage.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Really excited to share our latest pre-print on the role of cohesin in homology search, now available on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search.
Cohesin folds genomes into chromatin loops, whose roles are under debate. We report that double strand breaks (DSB) induce de novo formation of chromatin loops, with the break positioned at the loop b...
www.biorxiv.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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New preprint from the @gerlichlab.bsky.social @imbavienna.bsky.social!

How do DNA breaks locate homology sites in the vast space of the human genome? We show how cohesin guides homology search for faithful repair!

Read more 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10

Follow along for key insights! 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM