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- November 10, 2025
A Novel Climate BioStress Model and Sentinel System Seeks to Track Global Climate Impacts - November 7, 2025
(Not So) Spooky Science - October 10, 2025
Announcing the 2025 Epigenetics Core Pilot Award Winner! - August 5, 2025
New Study Reveals Simple Peptides Can Mimic Nature’s Protein Protection Strategy - June 11, 2025
Stress of Superstorm Sandy Affected Babies in Utero

- December 11, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Neuroscience Fall 2025 Seminar Series – Michelle Monje - December 16, 2025 @ 4:30 pm
Alumni and Friends Community Science Night - January 13, 2026 @ 10:00 am
Epigenetics Core Presents – Hands-on Bioinformatics: Exploring Single Cell RNA-Seq

P. Deshpande, A. Geissmann, H.-J. Park, J. Liu, P. Casaccia, S. Elbaum-Garfinkle. Telomeric RNA and HP1α Form Interfacial Clusters That Stabilize HP1α-DNA Condensates. Commun Biol, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09173-7.
C.J. Vörösmarty, M. Trujillo, P. Casaccia, A. Cak, K.H. Gardner, D.I. Greenfield, P.M. Groffman, A. Reinmann, W. Solecki, M. Serreze, J. Waldman, J.M. Bhatnagar, H. Brumberg, A. Carnaval, J. Cullmann, S.P. Egendorf, M.E. Hauber, J. Herlan, I. Kavouras, C.E. Mason, P. Marcotullio, M. McCracken, D.A. McKay, F. Miszlivetz, T. Muth, Y. Nomura, C.A. Penick, J. Rising, R. Toledo-Crow, and C. Zarnoch. A Climate BioStress Sentinel System: Identifying climate impacts from the genome to the urbanized biosphere. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2025, 2, 100558.
P. Ayata, J. M. Crowley, M. F. Challman, V. Sahasrabuddhe, M. Gratuze, S. Werneburg, D. Ribeiro, E. C. Hays, V. Durán-Laforet, T. E. Faust, P. Hwang, F. Mendes Lopes, C. Nikopoulou, S. Buchholz, R. E. Murphy, T. Mei, A. A. Pimenova, C. Romero-Molina, F. Garretti, T. A. Patel, et al. Lymphoid Gene Expression Supports Neuroprotective Microglia Function. Nature, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09662-z.
