Maxim Greenberg

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Group leader at Institut Jacques Monod. When I say "epigenetics" what I really mean is "DNA methylation". www.maximgreenberglab.com

Flyer for free mental health support for students. email: etudiants@apaso.fr
"Melting House" art instillation at Paris Gare de Nord, raising awareness for climate change
Arthur fence meme
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
From Sunday Long Read Newsletter: The “Melania” reviews piled up like a multi-vehicle crash on Friday and the digital rubbernecking, while a horrifying new batch of 3 million Epstein files documents dropped to, uh, digest, made for a macabre delight. Why did Jeffrey Bezos pay $40 million for this bizarrely bad, bland infomercial (and another $35 million to promote it)? And it was impossible to ignore the fact that this zero-stars bomb debuted the same week of reports that Bezos’ Washington Post is kneecapping the paper’s beloved and legendary sports desk and gutting its vaunted foreign staff. How many Post journalists’ (relatively meager) salaries could be paid for a fraction of the cost of a “horrific” film that Xan Brooks calls “an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne?” The answer is obvious, of course. Too often these days, billionaires choose to pay to placate power rather than pay people to speak truth to it.
A classic story that Dave repeatedly shared was how his lab members exploded in excitement after their peptide sequencing results revealed that SUV39H1 did, in fact, methylate H3 lysine 9. He laughed and said the enzyme’s name already gave it away: SUV“3" for H3 and “9” for lysine 9.
Fan Zhou's lab
Videos show security forces firing directly into crowds in at least six cities