Sarah Shammas
sarahshammas.bsky.social
Sarah Shammas
@sarahshammas.bsky.social
Biophysicist who loves disordered proteins and transcription. PI at Univ of Oxford, UK. She/her.
Why are transcription factors disordered? Come join us in Oxford as a postdoc and we'll find out together!

Help publish 3 mature projects, AND develop cool new single molecule fluorescence binding assays!

biophysics
transcription
protein:DNA interactions

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Over 10% of human transcription factors are oligomeric. Stoichiometry might be dialled to modulate transcription. We show CREB searches in DNA mixtures as a dimer, and suggest this might be common amongst other members of the bZIP family which fold on binding DNA.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM