
Pietro Berico
@locusbearico
Researcher at @nyulangone @nyugrossman @NYUGSOM_Path | PhD at @IGBMC | MSc at @BtBsUNIMIB | 3D chromatin & melanoma.
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Excited to share our latest work, showing GATA6 is a critical regulator in colorectal cancer and 3D genome organization. Led by Huijue, Zoe and thanks to our wonderful collaborators Lu Wang_Northwestern U and Dr. Guanyu Yang. Lurie Cancer Center Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine science.org/doi/10.1126/scā¦

Itās #MRFResearchWednesday and today weāre highlighting the work of Dr. Pietro Berico, PhD, from NYU Grossman School of Medicine School of Medicine, NYU GSOM Pathology, NYUGSOM Interdisciplinary Melanoma Program, a recent MRF Career Development Award recipient. Discussing his work, Pietro Berico shares: āThe skin is our

Thrilled to share our publication in PNASNews š„³šš¤© that proposes a novel approach to enhance immune checkpoint blockade response by using thiopurine pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn⦠Huge thanks to my amazing group & my great collaborator Kjeld Schmiegelow Melanoma Research KrƦftens BekƦmpelse

This week, I was thrilled to kick off the immersion phase of University of Sydneyās PERIscope Commercialisation Award with co-winners & brilliant colleagues Dr. Nigel Maher and Dr. Ismael Vergara! š We are working to bring our incredible, novel diagnostic test to the publicāone that


Another great preprint out from the Hernando lab, lead by M. Ćngeles Gómez and Allie Kartz. Melanoma brain metastasis upregulate the carnosine dipeptidase CNDP1 through MITF to prevent intracellular copper accumulation? NYUGSOM Interdisciplinary Melanoma Program NYU GSOM Pathology biorxiv.org/content/10.110ā¦

CPGE hosts an online archive of talks from world-class researchers on topics such as chromatin biology, super-resolution imaging, computational genomics, modeling, epigenetics, 3D genome structure, transcription and much more. Check it out at: physicalgenomics.northwestern.edu/education/virt⦠#chromatin


Perturb-tracing integrates CRISPR screening with barcode readout and chromatin tracing for loss-of-function screens, facilitating the study of chromatin folding regulators. Siyuan (Steven) Wang Yale School of Medicine Yale UniversityĀ Yale Department of Genetics Yale Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦



Our work on 3D genome organization in human cancer is out! In collaboration with Yanding Zhao Howard Chang William J. Greenleaf and TCGA we used HiChIP to profile enhancer connectivity and rewiring in primary tumors. nature.com/articles/s4158ā¦


Why do some melanoma patients respond to immunotherapy while others donāt? Our new study links inherited mitochondrial DNA differences to treatment response, offering insights for personalized cancer care. āļø nature Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health š Read more: nature.com/articles/s4159ā¦

Dr Milad Ibrahim of NYU Langone Health discusses EGFR, a promising therapeutic target in NF1 mutant #melanoma ecancer.org/en/video/12353ā¦

Our scMicro-C paper is out in Nature Genetics! Huge thanks to the reviewers for their valuable insights, to SunneyXie for unwavering support, and to fantastic collaborators Jiankun Zhang & Longzhi Tan. Thrilled to share this work!


More than 2700 3ā²UTRs are highly conserved. These 3ā²UTRs are essential components in mRNA templates, as their deletion decreases protein activity without changing protein abundance. Highly conserved 3ā²UTRs help the folding of proteins with long IDRs. biorxiv.org/content/10.110ā¦