Biologist by training, basketball player at heart
Professor for Translational Epigenetics & Genome Architecture, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany.
www.papantonislab.eu
Akis (Argyris) Papantonis
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Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy.
A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy.
Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us.
Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I am very happy (and proud) of our good friend and neighbor @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social — and equally sad to see her and her lab leave Goettingen. A great hire for @mpi-ie.bsky.social!
I know that this might only concern my Greek friends and colleagues, and I know that it has nothing to do with my science… but I always so thrilled when I get to see my fiction in print — this time, a collection of 26 short stories about losing and finding affection at different life stages.
Ali Shaib
And here is the (Greek) back cover for an extra taste of the book.
Yours truly staring at a picture of the historical Sternwarte during Day 2 of the great CLEPIC2026 meeting, followed by @dewitlab.bsky.social, @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social with amazing talks.
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Please see the followign papers by Dawn:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23070852/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27536002/
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...and although you can read all about our findings in my breakdown of the preprint thread, I want to use this opportunity to thank Dawn O'Reilly (from @dunnschool.bsky.social), whose pioneering work in Shona Murphy's lab on vU1s inspired us, and who was constantly helping with data and advice.
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And I also must thank the SPP1935 speakers, Niels Gehring and Utz Fischer, for supporting our project @uni-goettingen.de / @goettingen-campus.de via this Priority Program for 6 years, as well as @kurianlab.bsky.social, who has been my go-to person for anything RNA over more than 10 years now.
Akis (Argyris) Papantonis
Our preprint on how variant U1 snRNAs control transcriptional and splicing homeostasis of hiPSCs is now officially out in @natcomms.nature.com and accessible via this link:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This has been the culmination of our work as part of the SPP1935 program funded by @dfg.de
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