Atlasi lab
for stem cell & cancer epigenetics
News
October 2025 - A warm welcome to our visiting researcher, Maryam Hosseini Moghadam, who will investigate the epigenetic plasticity in DLBCL.
September 2025 - Congratulations to Ralph Samarista for successfully passing his PhD Viva.
September 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving an MRC project grant to investigate the epigenetic-metabolic crosstalk downstream of Betaine metabolism in stem cells and disease models.
September 2025 - We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma. We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
August 2025 - A warm welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Laure de Pontual, who will investigate the epigenetic-metabolic crosstalk in mESCs.
July 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving a BBSRC project grant to investigate mechanisms of chromatin regulation downstream of WNT-signalling in stem cells.
April 2025 - We are excited to organise the 1st Genetics Society conference in Northern Ireland: Epigenetics-2025: from mechanisms to disease.
February 2025 - Congratulations to Axelle on her new collaborative paper describing the role of USP7-PRC1.1 in controlling neural differentiation; published in Genes and Development genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2025/02/07/gad.352272.124.
February 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant to investigate the role of metabolic-epigenetic crosstalk in stem cells.
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November 2024 - A warm welcome to our new BSc student, Erin Sethuraman, who will investigate the roles of TEAD TFs in CRC.
November 2024 - A warm welcome to our new MSc student, Sarah Brown, who will investigate the role of USP7 in NHL.
September 2024 - Congratulations to Fatemeh for winning the Poster Presentation Prize at the Chromatin and Transcription UK conference, organized by the Biochemical Society!
June 2024 - A warm welcome to our summer student, Dalal, who joined us from MBRU UAE for a research visit.
April 2024 - Congratulations to Axelle for her review paper published in Stem Cells
https://academic.oup.com/stmcls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/stmcls/sxae027/7643395.
April 2024 - Congratulations to Ralph for receiving a Genetics Society travel grant to
attend the ISSCR 2024 meeting in Hamburg.
February 2024 - Axelle presented a poster at the 60th IACR annual conference in Dublin.
February 2024 - We are very grateful for receiving the Royal Society Research Grant to investigate the 3D genome reorganization in drug-resistant cancer cells.
February 2024 - The lab participated in the PGJCCR Open Day as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival, showcasing our research in stem cells and cancer.
January 2024 - Axelle obtained a bursary for attending the 60th annual IACR conference in Dublin next February.
November 2023 - Congratulations to Yaser on being elected as a committee member of the Genetic Society UK.
November 2023 - A warm welcome to our new MSc student, Talal Huda, who will investigate the role of USP7 in NHL.
October 2023 - Congratulations to Yaser for receiving two EMBO travel grants to attend the EMBO Developmental Metabolism meeting in Heidelberg and the EMBO Enhanceropathies meeting in Marseille.
October 2023 - A warm welcome to our new PhD student, Sachin Luharia, who will investigate the role of 3D genome organization in cancer.
October 2023 - Fatemeh presented her Spic paper as a poster at the Transcription and Chromatin meeting organized by the UK Biochemical Society.
September 2023 - Congratulations to Fatemeh for receiving a travel grant from the Genetic Society UK to attend the ISSCR meeting in Vienna.
August 2023 - Fatemeh's paper on role of SpiC in ground state pluripotency is published in Science Advances
July 2023 - Fatemeh presented a poster on her research at The Milner Therapeutics Symposium held in Cambridge.
June 2023 - Axelle obtained the 2nd prize for the presentation of her research project at the yearly PGJCCR Symposium.
June 2023 - Ralph was awarded the Genetics Society Conference Grant and present his research at the 2023 Paris-Munich Epigenetics Workshop & Symposium held at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich.
May 2023 – Yaser attended the Stem Cell Niche 2023 (Novo Nordisk Science Cluster) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
May 2023 – Axelle presented a poster at the All-Ireland Chromatin Consortium (IACC) conference in Dublin, Ireland.
February 2023 – Ralph and Axelle presented their posters at the 2023 Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) annual conference in Athlone, Ireland. Their visit was supported by a travel scholarship from the QUB School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science.
February 2023 - The lab volunteered for the PGJCCR Open Days during the NI Science Festival.
November 2022 – The lab recently published a paper in Science Advances describing a new epigenetic axis composed of USP7-PRC1.6-H2AK119Ub.
October 2022 – Yaser was awarded the MRC New Investigator Research Grant to investigate the epigenetic USP7-PRC1.6 axis in stem cells and cancer.
June 2022 – Axelle received a travel scholarship to visit the Verrijzer lab at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam to set up organoid culture in the lab.
March 2022 – Axelle was awarded with a DfE-funded PhD position at the PGJCCR.