Tag: Leonid Mirny
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Does chromatin organization shape immune responses?
Our recent study with Nick Adams of the Reizis Lab and Leonid Mirny explores how cohesin, a key player in chromatin loop extrusion, controls the chromatin architecture essential for conventional dendritic cells
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Science, Sun, and Seaworms. Falmouth 2024
The lab escaped to Falmouth for 4 days of science and summer. We had two days packed with talks by lab members and guests (Johan Gibcus and Anders Hansen) where we caught up on each other’s work and discussed the exciting directions our research is heading in the next year. We were lucky to visited…
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2024 Summer School Lectures & Genome Architecture and Function Workshop | Boston, MA
Ed Banigan and Aleksandra Galisyna help co-organize the 2024 International Summer School & Genome Architecture and Function Workshop this July 8th to 12th at Northeastern University. Ed and Sasha organized speakers and the summer school, increasing the diversity and participation by your researchers.
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Spandrels of the Cell Nucleus
Irina Solovei, Leonid Mirny,Spandrels of the cell nucleus,Current Opinion in Cell Biology,Volume 90,2024,102421,ISSN 0955-0674,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2024.102421.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955067424001005) “S.J. Gould and R. Lewontin in their famous “Spandrels paper” (1979) argued that many anatomical elements arise in evolution not due to their “current utility” but rather due to other “reasons for origin”, such as other developmental processes, physical constraints and…