Jesper Svejstrup Laboratory
@SvejstrupLab
Tweets about DNA repair, transcription, and the evidence that connects the two. Social posts by lab members, science and discussions by Jesper @UCPH_health
We are recruiting! Center for Gene Expression has 2 or more open positions for PhDs @uni_copenhagen. Come join our team to work on RNAPII and transcriptional regulation (gregersenlab.com) Great city and amazing research environment. Deadline March 6 jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1634…
After a great collaboration with the Luijsterburg and Cramer labs, we finally know: STK19 is a key component of the basic machinery for transcription-coupled DNA repair. The story is online at Cell now: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Extremely happy to share our new work on a transcription checkpoint at the beginning of genes. Congratulations to Dan Blears and Jiangman Lou for their impressive work on this. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
Please join the ERC for the Nobel Prize dialogue! erc.europa.eu/news-events/ev… Via livestream, perhaps? youtube.com/live/LxjTCm8g_…
dropbox.com/scl/fi/mv3ky1l… Happy to share our recently completed work on a promoter-proximal transcription checkpoint and how Integrator and RNAPII ubiquitylation/degradation by ARMC5-CUL3 complement each other to execute it.
Book your (free) seat! Join the first ever Nobel Prize Dialogue in Brussels: Tue 5 March 7PM. “Fact & Fiction: the Future of Democracy” with @NobelPrize laureates @MariaRessa, @Avalaina, @FeringaLab, Sir Paul Nurse; @DemisHassabis and ERC grantees. 👉 tickets.bozar.be/selection/even…
Book your (free) seat! Join the first ever Nobel Prize Dialogue in Brussels: Tue 5 March 7PM. “Fact & Fiction: the Future of Democracy” with @NobelPrize laureates @MariaRessa, @Avalaina, @FeringaLab, Sir Paul Nurse; @DemisHassabis and ERC grantees. 👉 tickets.bozar.be/selection/even…
Congratulations, @Ili_Ivanova! The @ERC_Research is looking forward to working with you on the future of research in Europe!
Thanks for your trust! I am grateful to the Honourable members of the @Europarl_EN for their positive vote on my appointment at today’s plenary! #innovation #research #culture #education #sport #youth
Lab get-together on a typical Danish summer eve😉😎

Great news - a new round of @ERC_Research Starting Grants that will give starting PIs the independence to pursue ambitious curiosity-driven research. Congratulations! And, this call saw one of the highest shares of female grantees!
🎉 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 400 bright minds have been awarded over €628 million to fund ideas at the frontiers of science & scholarship. Find out who, where and why 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne… 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU
Very happy to finally see Zhong Han’s beautiful work on the mechanism of transcription termination in print!!
DNA-directed termination of RNA polymerase II transcription: Molecular Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…
Here is a great opportunity to do a PhD or Posdoc in our Center of Gene Expression in Copenhagen with a young and talented group leader doing cool genome editing screens
📣 I'm launching my lab at @UCPH_health and we're looking to recruit at all levels! See full job advertisements here: PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1599… Postdoc: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1599… Deadline: 3rd of September 2023! Please retweet and spread the word!
Very happy that our new Center for Gene Expression is off the ground! healthsciences.ku.dk/newsfaculty-ne…
I very much look forward to serving as the new vice-president for Life Sciences of the ERC, a fantastic organisation, which has transformed European science. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
@SvejstrupLab we're looking forward to your presentation at #BGFP23 in Mexico, May 2023. Please RT to let your followers know you'll be speaking & the talk/early bird deadline remains open until 24 Nov 2022📅. 💰Grants also available! More info: bit.ly/3Tb30Jr
Looking for an exciting job in Science Admin? Look no further! nature.com/naturecareers/…
In Oxford for #EMBOrna3primeEnds? @SvejstrupLab is presenting several projects during the meeting! Jesper is talking tomorrow and postdocs David (Tue) and Melvin (Wed) have posters Come talk to us if interested in transcriptional CDKs, Integrator, RNAPII CTD or termination!
Transcription folks at #EMBLtranscript, do check out Anouk's poster 184 tonight! Come and chat about the role of RNAPII levels on gene expression

Want to be a group-leader, in the field of 'Gene Expression' in wonderful Copenhagen? Please apply! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…