David Llères
davidlleres.bsky.social
David Llères
@davidlleres.bsky.social
CNRS researcher in Marcelo Nollmann's team at Centre de Biologie Structurale (CBS) in Montpellier, France. Microscopist interested in using advanced imaging techniques (Hi-M, FRET, etc) to study 3D genome organization, gene regulation and epigenetics.
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Excited to share our new preprint on Myxococcus xanthus!
We show that two distinct motility motors can propel the same bacterial cell simultaneously, and that this dual propulsion is tunable by environmental calcium. 🧵 1/6

📄 Read it here →https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685086v1
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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En ce début d’automne 2025, le CNRS continue de mettre à l’honneur les #FemmesEnScience. Tandis que "La Science taille XX elles" lance sa 8e édition, CNRS Ingénierie inaugure avec "Ingénieuses" une nouvelle exposition itinérante. Et le 15/10 paraît "Les filles sont parfaites pour les sciences".
Au CNRS, les femmes en science sur le devant de la scène
Au CNRS, les femmes en science sur le devant de la scène
www.cnrs.fr
October 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Really excited to share our latest work led by @mattiaubertini.bsky.social and @nesslfy.bsky.social: we report that cohesin loop extrusion creates rare but long-lived encounters between genomic sequences which underlie efficient enhancer-promoter communication.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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September 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
September 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!
August 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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How do enhancer-gene contacts relate to transcription activation? In mouse embryonic stem cells, a combo of STED, oligoFISH & RNA FISH shows that 3% of Dppa3 alleles transcribe. For these, enhancers and promoters come closer (panel E). Stumberger ... Leonhardt & Harz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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🚨 Postdoc wanted (🇳🇱NL based) for our exciting collaboration with the lab of Alexander van Oudenaarden @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social in Utrecht, with collaborative visits to our lab Copenhagen 🇩🇰. We seek a computational scientist to model epigenetic inheritance, see more below 👇!
🧬Postdoc position alert! 🚨 We're hiring a postoc in Computational Modeling of Epigenetic Inheritance at the Hubrecht Institute (Alexander van Oudenaarden, Utrecht 🇳🇱) & Danish Cancer Institute (Anja Groth, Copenhagen 🇩🇰).

Come work in our collaberative team of top scientists

shorturl.at/avBBy
Postdoctoral Researcher - Computational modeling of Epigenetic Inheritance - 38 hours p/w - Hubrecht Institute
About the Project Faithful inheritance of the epigenome in proliferating cells critically underpins human development and health. While DNA replication fidelity and DNA mutation rates are well underst...
shorturl.at
May 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Hello World! Are you passionate about epigenomics and evolution 🧪🧬🐭🐵 ? Are you looking for a postdoc in a stimulating and inclusive environment ? Look no further... We are seeking creative postdocs for our ERC project EvoEpi @igred.fr ! 👇Details👇
tinyurl.com/PostdocEvoEp...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Celebrating 10 years of our lab with a new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How does enhancer location within a TAD control transcriptional bursts from a cognate promoter?
Experiments by Jana Tünnermann and modelling by Gregory Roth
March 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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36 slots for selected talks from abstracts! Join us and share your latest research!
Deadline for early registration coming up next week
March 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Excellent keynote lecture by Susan Gasser at EpiGene3Sys @institutcurie.bsky.social.

A summary of ground-breaking work on the role of H3K9 methylation in restricting access of activators to chromatin.

In addition Susan has a track record as excellent mentor.

'People is all what it is about.'
March 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
scim.ag
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Our study on how TAD boundaries actively influence the neighboring domains published today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Exciting outcomes from this interdisciplinary genomics/biophysical modeling strategy. See the thread for the BioRxiv preprint for a summary of highlights.
March 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#Enhancer folks, submit your abstracts and register soon! Deadlines are around the corner and there are many opportunities for short talks.
Join us for this exciting @embo.org workshop to explore recent advances in our understanding of enhancer mechanisms and the critical roles of enhancers in human health! 🧬 🧪
Submit an abstract by March 17 to be considered for short talk.
Register by April 1 to participate! 😊

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February 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Paper out !!🥳big thanks to all authors @marliesoomen.bsky.social @diego-rt.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @lorenzamottes.bsky.social & 'bluesky-less'

Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology

Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/
February 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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We highlighted new research from the past two years on examples of long-range gene regulation - within large TADs, across TADs, and across chromosomes - comparing mechanisms in flies and mammals 🪰❤️🐁.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Excited to share James Jusuf's preprint:

By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%)

We quantify mESC 36k loops: are generally rare (2.3%)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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L’Institut Pasteur décide de quitter X (ex-Twitter) pour rejoindre BlueSky ! 🦋
L’Institut Pasteur a pris cette décision en raison de plusieurs dérives graves constatées sur la plateforme X depuis son rachat. Rejoignez-nous pour continuer à défendre la science ! www.pasteur.fr/fr/espace-pr...
L’Institut Pasteur a décidé de quitter X
L’Institut Pasteur, organisme de recherche engagé depuis plus de 130 ans dans la lutte contre les maladies infectieuses, le partage des connaissances et la défense de la science, a décidé de quitter l...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Highly recommended (I am co-organizing this exciting meeting)! Please come and join us!
The GfG is delighted to reconnect with everyone here on Bluesky!

We're excited to announce our upcoming symposium, "Epigenetics & Chromatin", taking place September 24–26 in Giessen, Germany.
Stay tuned for more details!
(... and become a member of the GfG...!)
January 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM