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Jan 14, 2021

Protecting the genome from transposon activation

Transposons are foreign DNA elements capable of random insertion into the genome, an event that can be very dangerous for a cell. Their activity must be silenced to maintain genomic integrity, which is primarily achieved by H3K9me3-mediated repression. Researchers from the Gasser group identified two parallel pathways that are essential for H3K9me3- mediated transcriptional repression and thus for protecting the genome from toxic transposon activation.

Jan 06, 2021

Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills
Dec 23, 2020

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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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Jan 25, 2021 - 13:00

The role of chromatin loop extrusion in generating a diverse antibody repertoire

  Seminar - Meinrad Busslinger, IMP Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
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Jan 28, 2021 - 10:00-12:30

Organoid Symposium: Design principles of multicellular systems

  Other - Organized by FMI and D-BSSE
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Feb 16, 2021 -

Computational Neuroscience Initiative Basel
Human decision bias and variability from cognitive limitations

  Seminar - Rava da Silveira, IOB Basel and ENS Paris
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Latest Publications

Jan 11, 2021

Preprocessing choices affect RNA velocity results for droplet scRNA-seq data.

Soneson C, Srivastava A, Patro R, Stadler MB

PLoS Comput Biol
Jan 6, 2021

A functional map for diverse forelimb actions within brainstem circuitry.

Ruder L, Schina R, Kanodia H, Valencia-Garcia S, Pivetta C, Arber S

Nature
Jan 01, 2021

Argonaute NRDE-3 and MBT domain protein LIN-61 redundantly recruit an H3K9me3 HMT to prevent embryonic lethality and transposon expression.

Padeken J, Methot S, Zeller P, Delaney CE, Kalck V, Gasser SM

Genes Dev
Dec 26, 2020

Changing memories on the fly: the neural circuits of memory re-evaluation in Drosophila melanogaster.

Felsenberg J

Curr Opin Neurobiol

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