October 2019

Chromatin Club 7

I'm very happy with how the Chromatin Club is growing. We're up to a rotating cast of ~20 people from a variety of labs in Boston. This month we went to Russell House Tavern and had some oysters, steak tips and salmon. Our discussion mostly centered around phase separation this time. This is still a rather contentious topic. On one side, you have a lot of excitment for all the cool phase separation experiments that are being published in high impact journals and on the other side you have the wet blankets (myself included) who complain that i) there is no functionality ascribed to...

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Chromatin Club 6

Another great meeting with a few new faces! This week we had Jan-Hendrik Spille from Ibrahim Cisse's lab. Jan is going to be starting his own lab next year at University of Illinois at Chicago - good luck Jan! Aditi Chakrabarti also joined us from the Mahadevan lab. Aditi heard me talk about image processing during a HCBI talk where I also shamelessly advetrised the Chromatin Club. Aditi has a tonne of interests and we had a nice chat about the nuclear mechanics. This month we also had a Sirui Liu who joined the Ovchinnikov and my lab recently as a jointly advised...

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