Eva D'haene
postdoc @ http://debaerelab.com @ https://fungenlab-ugent.be | 3D genome, gene regulation, structural variation | retina, neurodev, space!
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneJoin us today at Sept 23rd2025 from 5pm to 6.30 pm (Central European Time) for our ERN ITHACA webinar on the non-coding genome and human disease by @svergult.bsky.social , @mspielmann.bsky.social , Florence Petit and @stefanbarakat.bsky.social ern-ithaca.eu/events-news/...
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneExcited to share the latest work from the lab led by @eharo84.bsky.social, in which we have used synthetic biology to explore the mechanisms by which different types of long-range enhancers ensure robust and precise developmental gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- 👇 Highly recommend applying if you want to join a great team and work on a high-profile, inter-university project! #postdocjobs
- 📣Job Alert: We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with hands-on experience in neural tissue culture, preferably neural organoids, for a collaborative project on Alzheimer's disease and MS between KULeuven, UHasselt and UGent in Belgium. Deadline August 31: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- Reposted by Eva D'haene🚨 New paper alert 🚨 I am excited to share our new work on epigenetic enhancer priming in early mammalian development genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Fantastic collaboration with Wolf Reik’s team, with key contributions from many others, led by the excellent Chris Todd. Short 🧵
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneOur paper describing the Range Extender element which is required and sufficient for long-range enhancer activation at the Shh locus is now available at @nature.com. Congrats to @gracebower.bsky.social who led the study. Below is a brief summary of the main findings www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneTextbooks: “Enhancers are just a bunch of TFBSs” But how do they REALLY work? New paper with many contributors here @berkeleylab.lbl.gov, @anshulkundaje.bsky.social, @anusri.bsky.social A 🧵 (1/n) Free access link: rdcu.be/erD22
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneHow to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...
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- We're looking for a new colleague! If you're excited by 2D and 3D neural models for neurodegenerative disease and want to join a fantastic lab, apply!!! 👇 Sharing would be great as well 🙏 #postdoc #jobs #neurogen #neurogenomics
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneComparison between a neuronal massively parallel reporter assay for 50,000 sequences and 20,000 variants with mouse enhancer assays provide complimentary information. Great work by Michael Kosicki, Dianne Laboy Cintrón, Len Pennacchio, Martin Kircher lab & many others. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Eva D'haene🤗 Hugely excited to share our work on automating iterative reanalysis in #raredisease, preprint out: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🤖🧬 github.com/populationge... A superb collaboration with @dgmacarthur.bsky.social @cassimons.bsky.social @heidirehm.bsky.social @ksamocha.bsky.social and many more!
- Looking forward to exciting science and to connect with colleagues in Milan at the Neurogenomics conference @humantechnopole.bsky.social Presenting our research ( @svergult.bsky.social @lisahamerlinck.bsky.social ) on noncoding variants in the FOXG1 locus during the poster session (#88) #neurogen25
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneVery happy to share the peer-reviewed version of our paper in which we study the formation and function of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in gene regulation (see thread below): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 📣 Preprint alert! We have studied the formation of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in the #3Dgenome in a lymphoid-to-myeloid transdifferentiation system and learned interesting new things about their function in #GeneRegulation. 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneCheck out our latest work on the evolution of animal genome regulation out today in @nature.com. Nicely summarized below by @ianakim.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a major output from our ERC-StG project Evocellmap @erc.europa.eu at @crg.eu
- 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...
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneDelighted to share our latest work deciphering the landscape of chromatin accessibility and modeling the DNA sequence syntax rules underlying gene regulation during human fetal development! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read on for more: 🧵 1/16 #GeneReg 🧬🖥️
- Reposted by Eva D'haene🚨I could not be more excited to share our new preprint on saturation genome editing of the small nuclear RNA (snRNA) RNU4-2: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... A super fun collaboration with incredible duo @gregfindlay.bsky.social @joachimdejonghe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk 🧬🖥️🩺 🧵1/12
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneSymposium on ‘Enhancer Sequences’ at beautiful @collegedefrance.bsky.social in Paris, by April 11th. Open and free, no registration. Come to relax listening to facts #TherapeuticEffects #VillageGauloix Final programme below. Tell your friends! 🙏🤘
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- 📢 New preprint from the FunGen lab @svergult.bsky.social on how non-coding structural variants disrupt FOXG1 regulation during early neurodevelopment. Great teamwork from Lisa Hamerlinck and everyone in the lab! Thread below👇 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #GeneRegulation #RareDisease #Epigenomics
- Looking forward to attending this great meeting and connecting with #RareDisease colleagues!
- Join leading experts working in #RareDisease research at our #GRD25 conference. 📅 Dates: 9-11 April 2025 💭 Share insights in person Explore the latest #genomics advances accelerating improvements in clinical care for rare disorders, globally. ⏰Secure your place by 11 March: bit.ly/3BpAe44
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneDo you have a new and exciting chromatin/transcription story that you'd like to share with an enthusiastic audience? If so, you should apply to give a talk in the 2025 Fragile Nucleosome seminar series: forms.gle/fwMYPFDf4az3...! We're open to scientists at all stages of their careers!
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneMassively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) testing >680,000 sequences combined with machine learning to improve regulatory element & variant effect prediction. Amazing work by @vagar.bsky.social, Fumitaka Inoue, @jshendure.bsky.social and many others as part of ENCODE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneHow to test the functional impact of non-coding variants in vivo? We developed a new method called dual-enSERT, which can quantitatively compare the effects of enhancer variants in live mouse embryos in under two weeks. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneNot checking nuclear markers like MALAT1 or intronic reads in your scRNA-seq data?🚨 We show their power to flag low-quality cells—even in top public datasets. It’s time to prioritize better QC for cleaner, more reliable genomics research! Read more: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/8
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneThe international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring? Apply before Feb 15th 📌
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- Reposted by Eva D'haene📣 Preprint alert! We have studied the formation of pair-wise and multi-way enhancer-promoter interactions in the #3Dgenome in a lymphoid-to-myeloid transdifferentiation system and learned interesting new things about their function in #GeneRegulation. 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Eva D'haene📣 Big news! Our tag-team effort on common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out in Nature 📣 Co-first authoring with the brilliant Qinqin Huang🌟—proof that teamwork does make the dream work. 💪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneI couldn't spot a starter pack for rare disease / clinical genomics, so I started one: go.bsky.app/SUWZ9Hw Very much a work in progress, and biased by who I have already found here, so please suggest people to add! Self-nominations encouraged. #ClinicalInformatics #genomics #bioinformatics 🖥️🧬at://did:plc:q6g2iowtzf3zln6luofy7e7z/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lay46eeejp23
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneIncredible resource for DNA binding protein specificity from the Codebook consortium. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Am reading these in detail & will have a lot to say. Stay tuned for thoughts.
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneHi Bluesky! I made a 3D chromatin starter pack. Let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/6tTQdqQat://did:plc:axdy3lf36ypjbprjqzzplrq5/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3latvc4scfc2o
- Reposted by Eva D'haeneInterested in difficult to access parts of genetics, cellular & structural biology? Join us in Edinburgh 2-4th April 2025 for "Hidden Cell, Dark Genome" Regulation in the dark genome Uncharted proteins, RNA complexity Atomic structures at cellular scale Cell diversity www.ed.ac.uk/c/hidden-cel...
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- Reposted by Eva D'haeneI created a genomics+bioinformatics starter pack. If I left you off, *please* reply and I'll add you! go.bsky.app/B5YYBfq
