(image by Jean-Christophe Lachance, et al, lnkd.in/eMNrYaS ) There are still unfinished discussions about what exact event can be pinpointed as the beginning of synthetic biology. Here we listed up some major landmarks in the history of synthetic biology.

Many surprises on SMC proteins in this nature #CDlab paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… : - DNA loops can mutually exchange size. - Condensins can pass one another! - to form totally new type of ‘Z-loops' - that can fill DNA gaps - and can form a symmetric DNA-pulling dimer motor

How Coronavirus Hijacks Your Cells - The New York Times nytimes.com/interactive/20…

#cellPAINT timelapse! So happy to be a part of this amazing project! It was very fun, thanks David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 deargreer and Adam. Now you all can go and play with it ccsb.scripps.edu/cellpaint/

The ludovic vallier has decided to use the current time to learn new skills on bioinformatics. For that, Rute Tomaz Anna Osnato Fatima Lugtu created a website combining useful tutorials and courses. Very nice tools for all. Please retweet and comment. vallierlab.wixsite.com/pipelines

Dr. Eunhee Choi Selected as Recipient of Alice Bohmfalk Charitable Trust Award pathology.columbia.edu/news/dr-eunhee…

My new drawing of a fascinating division of labor for #PCNA loading during #DNA replication! A new Molecular Cell paper reveals that two RFC complexes play distinct roles at both sides of the replication fork to promote replication and sister chromatid cohesion. #SciArt #SciComm

Excited to share our paper online ⁦Science Magazine⁩ reporting the cryoEM structure of DNA-bound human cohesin-NIPBL complex. Great collaboration between ⁦Hongtao Yu Lab⁩ and ⁦@bxc82⁩ lab. Many thanks to editors’ and reviewers’ efforts! science.sciencemag.org/content/early/…

The SpaceX #CrewDragon launched at 3:22pm EST today with Col. Doug Hurley & Liam onboard. It will dock to the space station Sunday about 10:29am. #LaunchAmerica go.nasa.gov/2Mg2V69

New paper from Kim Nasmyth lab shows Scc2 and Scc3 have different roles in DNA entrapment by cohesin. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting finding: The cohesin SMC complex is not only a DNA-loop extruder but can also induce phase separation! Now at bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Check out this major surprise! Great work of postdoc Je-Kyung Ryu (JK) at #CDlab together with #Uhlmann & Davide Michieletto labs.

A structure provides insight into how cohesin, a protein that mediates sister chromatid cohesion, entraps #DNA. Read the research in Science: ($) fcld.ly/0vebzlf

Christian Haering and Jan Lowe labs reported multiple conformations of yeast condensin in apo and ATP-bound states. nature.com/articles/s4159…

🎉🎉NEW RESEARCH🎉🎉 Mikhail Spivakov & colleagues in our Functional Gene Control group have asked whether cohesin really is the driving force behind bringing enhancers and their target genes into close proximity. Find out more in this video & link: lms.mrc.ac.uk/genes-and-enha…

A similar DNA trapping state of yeast cohesin-Scc2 complex as in our human cohesin-NIPBL structure.

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

This map shows how America voted in every election since 1824 ti.me/34EV6AV

On July cover #Review by Iain Davidson and Jan-Michael Peters IMP on SMC complexes in genome folding #ChromatinFolding #3Dgenome go.nature.com/3cUKCS9