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  • Leonid Mirny and Irina Zhegalova visit the Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam campus

    Leonid Mirny and Irina Zhegalova visit the Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam campus

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    “This week, HPI welcomed 13 researchers from MIT Morningside Academy for Design in the United States to its Griebnitzsee campus for a workshop. This workshop takes place every six months, alternating between the two institutions, and is part of the research collaboration between HPI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The mixed teams of researchers…

  • Looking forward to the next year! Lab Retreat 2025

    Looking forward to the next year! Lab Retreat 2025

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    We spent a beautiful lab retreat day at the MIT Endicott House, touring the grounds, reflecting on the past year, and setting strategy for the year ahead. In the afternoon we got creative capturing shadows with cyanotypes, imprinting porcelain cups, and creating custom flatbreads and ice cream sundaes with our friends and families. Thank you…

  • Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome

    Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome

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    Gavrilov, A.A., Shamovsky, I., Zhegalova, I. et al. Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09396-y Abstract Unravelling how genomes are spatially organized and how their three-dimensional (3D) architecture drives cellular functions remains a major challenge in biology1,2. In bacteria, genomic DNA is compacted into a highly ordered, condensed state…

  • Welcoming Prof. Valentina Boeva to Campus

    Welcoming Prof. Valentina Boeva to Campus

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    We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Valentina Boeva from ETH Zurich today for a special joint group meeting with the Hansen lab. Dr. Boeva, who leads the Computational Cancer Genomics Group, shared her recent work on “UniversalEPI: harnessing attention mechanisms to decode chromatin interactions in rare and unexplored cell types.” The day provided a…

  • The World Called

    The World Called

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    Soprano and Mirny Lab postdoc, Aleksandra Galitsyna, performed a beautiful program of Anton Bruckner, Adolphus Hailstorck and Francis Poulec with the MIT Concert Choir in Kresge Auditorium. The choir was particularly proud to host Adolphus Hailstorck for the East Coast premier of his work “The World Called”. Congratulations!

  • Rt.1 shopping tour for Irina!

    Rt.1 shopping tour for Irina!

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    This weekend, Aleksandra, Irina, and I went on a Sunday shopping adventure to help Irina find the finishing touches for her apartment. Our first stop was Savers, where we were soon lost in the sheer variety of treasures. Aleksandra scored a practical shelving unit. Irina was able to fill in the housewares that she was…