Ruopu Jiao (RJ)
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Ruopu Jiao (RJ)
@rjiao.bsky.social
PhD Student in the Hilton lab at @Rice BE, uncovering new ways to understand and engineer the epigenome
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You like engineering T cells, but you are missing the right flavor?

Check out 'one-pot' PASTA recipe 🔥🍝: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675267v1

We combined a unique mix of CRISPR knock-in with serine integrases for easy-to-adopt
𝐏rogrammable
𝐀nd
𝐒ite-specific
𝐓ransgene
𝐀ddition
🧪
Versatile and efficient non-viral integration of large transgenes in human T cells via CRISPR knock-in and engineered integrases
Current gene transfer methods often lack the precision, versatility, or efficiency when integrating large transgenes, limiting the ability to engineer therapeutic T-cells with more complex payloads. H...
www.biorxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭
Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!!
We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology
Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers!
rdcu.be/enVDN
github.com/tobiaszehnde...
Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances
Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...
rdcu.be
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Our new study of chromatin ubiquitylation by variant PRC1 on the single-molecule scale: We visualize directly how vPRC1 ubiquitylates neighboring nucleosomes during a single binding event, showing a potential mechanism how H2Aub domains are established.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-molecule analysis reveals the mechanism of chromatin ubiquitylation by variant PRC1 complexes
Single-molecule experiments show that active conformation formation controls chromatin ubiquitylation kinetics by variant PRC1.
www.science.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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New NAR #Breakthrough Article from the Hilton lab "Biomolecular condensation of human IDRs initiates endogenous transcription via intrachromosomal looping or high-density promoter localization"

👉 Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf056
February 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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So excited that our work on predicting gene expression from histone modifications using deep learning is out in NAR today. Brilliant to work with lead author @al-murphy.bsky.social and collaborators Aydan Askarova, @borislenhard.bsky.social and Nathan Skene 🧬⭐️🙏
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Predicting gene expression from histone marks using chromatin deep learning models depends on histone mark function, regulatory distance and cellular states
Abstract. To understand the complex relationship between histone mark activity and gene expression, recent advances have used in silico predictions based o
academic.oup.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:02 PM