Sean Montgomery
Postdoc in the Sebé-Pedrós lab at the CRG studying heterochromatin diversity and function across eukaryotes. Can be found chasing frisbees when not in the lab.
- Check out this tremendous work from @ianakim.bsky.social! An enormous effort to gather micro-C data from 9 species and uncover insights into how animal genome organization evolved and diversified!
- I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Excited to see all the EvoChromo people again at this meeting! A fantastic collection of kind and curious researchers made the last edition the top meeting I've attended, and I expect v2 to be even better!
- Registrations are now open for the next @embo.org EvoChromo meeting in December. meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Join us in beautiful Costa Brava to discuss chromatin evolution! Co-organized with @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social @levine-lab.bsky.social and Nick Irwin
- Fantastic study on so many levels, check it out! DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, developmental biology, horizontal gene transfer, and my favourite, Marchantia! This paper has it all
- I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13
- Excited to share this story from the “Chromatin Dream Team” in the @arnausebe.bsky.social lab on chromatin evo across eukaryotes! 12 histone mark profiles from 12 species, including rhizarians, discobans, and cryptomonads. Read on to see what we found! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
- Intriguing work on an H3K27me3-reader protein leading to transcriptional activation: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Ciliates continue to impress! The authors also draw nice parallels to Rhino (H3K9me3 reader) and piRNA cluster expression in Drosophila
- Check out the lab website for more details on what we do! www.sebepedroslab.org
- We have two open PhD positions in my group at @crg.eu. We are seeking candidates with a background in computational and/or molecular biology, and with a broad interest in evolutionary biology, gene regulation, and comparative genomics. 📅Apply before January 12 here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
- Very nice to see this work on silencers from the Stark lab! doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
- Looks like a great new method and reads very nicely! Also a fantastic way to preprint: all supplementary figures are present AND links to supplementary tables!!
- Great to have this review out on what we know (so far) about imprinting in Marchantia! It was a good chance to summarize many of the musings we had on potential molecular mechanisms and biological implications! doi.org/10.1111/nph....
