Anton Goloborodko
@golobor.bsky.social
A bio-physicist turned phys-biologist,
building models and software in genome biology.
3D genome structure in mitosis | DNA repair | meiosis.
A group leader at @IMBA_Vienna.
Dad x2.
building models and software in genome biology.
3D genome structure in mitosis | DNA repair | meiosis.
A group leader at @IMBA_Vienna.
Dad x2.
Pinned
Anton Goloborodko
@golobor.bsky.social
· Jul 15
We found a new asymmetry in the large-scale chromosome structure: sister chromatids are systematically shifted by hundreds of kb in the 5′→3′ direction of their inherited strands! The work was led by Flavia Corsi, in close collaboration with the Daniel Gerlich lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Here is a copy of last year's Twitter thread explaining our preprint - jump to (21) for the new stuff 👀
Synergy between cis-regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
now revised and journal accepted at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧵👇
Synergy between cis-regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
now revised and journal accepted at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Here is a copy of last year's Twitter thread explaining our preprint - jump to (21) for the new stuff 👀
Synergy between cis-regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
now revised and journal accepted at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧵👇
Synergy between cis-regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
now revised and journal accepted at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧵👇
my experience with scientific coding was also relatively positive. I think autocompletion-style AI greatly speeds up data analyses when you know what you're doing; it also prevents typos.
With modeling, it was worse - a draft of a 1D lattice simulation from Claude Code was bloated and inefficient
With modeling, it was worse - a draft of a 1D lattice simulation from Claude Code was bloated and inefficient
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
my experience with scientific coding was also relatively positive. I think autocompletion-style AI greatly speeds up data analyses when you know what you're doing; it also prevents typos.
With modeling, it was worse - a draft of a 1D lattice simulation from Claude Code was bloated and inefficient
With modeling, it was worse - a draft of a 1D lattice simulation from Claude Code was bloated and inefficient
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📣 I hereby make my Bluesky debut to announce that our work linking DNA binding affinities and kinetics 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 and 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 for the human transcription factor KLF1 just got published in Cell! @cp-cell.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Key findings in a thread (1/6):
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Key findings in a thread (1/6):
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📣 I hereby make my Bluesky debut to announce that our work linking DNA binding affinities and kinetics 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 and 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 for the human transcription factor KLF1 just got published in Cell! @cp-cell.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Key findings in a thread (1/6):
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Key findings in a thread (1/6):
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The hinge bypass gate paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We show how loop-extruding SMC complexes can maintain DNA entrapment while bypassing obstacles on DNA — including transcription machinery & potentially other SMCs.
A lucky convergence of 3 projects lead to the initial discovery!
We show how loop-extruding SMC complexes can maintain DNA entrapment while bypassing obstacles on DNA — including transcription machinery & potentially other SMCs.
A lucky convergence of 3 projects lead to the initial discovery!
The SMC Hinge is a Selective Gate for Obstacle Bypass - Nature Communications
SMC complexes are ring-shaped motors that fold DNA by extruding loops, but how they navigate large DNA obstacles is unclear. Here, Liu et al., show that SMC complexes bypass obstacles by threading obs...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The hinge bypass gate paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We show how loop-extruding SMC complexes can maintain DNA entrapment while bypassing obstacles on DNA — including transcription machinery & potentially other SMCs.
A lucky convergence of 3 projects lead to the initial discovery!
We show how loop-extruding SMC complexes can maintain DNA entrapment while bypassing obstacles on DNA — including transcription machinery & potentially other SMCs.
A lucky convergence of 3 projects lead to the initial discovery!
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Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General.
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999.
www.embl.org/news/people-...
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“…[at the IMP] collaborations can develop naturally across many projects…”
We sat down with Jacob Schreiber after he wrapped up his one-year stay at the IMP, and he told us all about it: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
@jmschreiber91.bsky.social, @viennabiocenter.bsky.social
We sat down with Jacob Schreiber after he wrapped up his one-year stay at the IMP, and he told us all about it: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
@jmschreiber91.bsky.social, @viennabiocenter.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“…[at the IMP] collaborations can develop naturally across many projects…”
We sat down with Jacob Schreiber after he wrapped up his one-year stay at the IMP, and he told us all about it: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
@jmschreiber91.bsky.social, @viennabiocenter.bsky.social
We sat down with Jacob Schreiber after he wrapped up his one-year stay at the IMP, and he told us all about it: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
@jmschreiber91.bsky.social, @viennabiocenter.bsky.social
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We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Postdoctoral Fellow - H Yardimci Lab
www.crick.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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an thought-provoking perspective on the state of the protein structure prediction field.
Also, nice to see blogging is not dead!
Also, nice to see blogging is not dead!
I wrote a blog post about the future of structural bioinformatics.
Where to go after AlphaFold? How do we avoid the field becoming a load of half-baked LLMs?
Let me know what you think.
jgreener64.github.io/posts/struct...
Where to go after AlphaFold? How do we avoid the field becoming a load of half-baked LLMs?
Let me know what you think.
jgreener64.github.io/posts/struct...
Where next for structural bioinformatics?
jgreener64.github.io
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
an thought-provoking perspective on the state of the protein structure prediction field.
Also, nice to see blogging is not dead!
Also, nice to see blogging is not dead!
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Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics
Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
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Great career opportunity at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social: The @impvienna.bsky.social is looking for a new Junior Group Leader in cell and molecular biology, synthetic biology, genomics, gene regulation, development, cancer, immunology or infection biology.
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Junior Group Leader Positions | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
www.imp.ac.at
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Great career opportunity at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social: The @impvienna.bsky.social is looking for a new Junior Group Leader in cell and molecular biology, synthetic biology, genomics, gene regulation, development, cancer, immunology or infection biology.
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
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🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions!
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery.
Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
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The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
Wilkinson Lab
We discover and study reverse transcriptases
wilkinsonlab.bio
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬
annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)
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🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells
Please RT! 🙏
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Absolute must-read thread.
also this is one of the funniest papers you will ever read, both in itself and on the meta level of just how bitchy it is
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Absolute must-read thread.
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Update: the mustard seeds have joined the cumin seeds in the reticulum
October 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Update: the mustard seeds have joined the cumin seeds in the reticulum
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Excited to share our paper on dynamics of microcompartments during M-to-G1 is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compared to biorxiv, published includes new analysis from James Jusuf and Viraat Goel (from @andersshansen.bsky.social lab) on transcriptional spiking
Compared to biorxiv, published includes new analysis from James Jusuf and Viraat Goel (from @andersshansen.bsky.social lab) on transcriptional spiking
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Excited to share our paper on dynamics of microcompartments during M-to-G1 is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compared to biorxiv, published includes new analysis from James Jusuf and Viraat Goel (from @andersshansen.bsky.social lab) on transcriptional spiking
Compared to biorxiv, published includes new analysis from James Jusuf and Viraat Goel (from @andersshansen.bsky.social lab) on transcriptional spiking
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ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis!
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Tenure-based Research Staff Scientist Position in Computational Structural Biology
ISTA (www.ista.ac.at) is seeking a highly skilled Staff Scientist in Computational Structural Biology to support and advance the Institute’s structural biology research through the development and imp...
ista.ac.at
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis!
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
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Paper alert! doi.org/10.1038/s443... - "A scheduler for rhythmic gene expression". We show how 9 txn factors suffice for rhythmic gene expression of thousands of genes with any phase or amplitude in #Celegans larvae (and also look at the tissues where oscillations happen) 1/n
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Paper alert! doi.org/10.1038/s443... - "A scheduler for rhythmic gene expression". We show how 9 txn factors suffice for rhythmic gene expression of thousands of genes with any phase or amplitude in #Celegans larvae (and also look at the tissues where oscillations happen) 1/n
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Off he is ...
Ulrich is one of the most remarkable scientists I had the pleasure to work with. I learned so much from him about biochemistry, proteins, structural biology, and so much more.
Great people make great things happen.
The really great people are rare.
Ulrich is one of them ...
Ulrich is one of the most remarkable scientists I had the pleasure to work with. I learned so much from him about biochemistry, proteins, structural biology, and so much more.
Great people make great things happen.
The really great people are rare.
Ulrich is one of them ...
Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Off he is ...
Ulrich is one of the most remarkable scientists I had the pleasure to work with. I learned so much from him about biochemistry, proteins, structural biology, and so much more.
Great people make great things happen.
The really great people are rare.
Ulrich is one of them ...
Ulrich is one of the most remarkable scientists I had the pleasure to work with. I learned so much from him about biochemistry, proteins, structural biology, and so much more.
Great people make great things happen.
The really great people are rare.
Ulrich is one of them ...
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Connecting different “neighborhoods” of a genome has many benefits. For one, it can allow a gene to be regulated by multiple sources, increasing the possibility for more complexity.
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine
New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Connecting different “neighborhoods” of a genome has many benefits. For one, it can allow a gene to be regulated by multiple sources, increasing the possibility for more complexity.