September 14, 2026
Our department held its retreat at the Chaminade Resort near Santa Cruz CA on Sept. 9-11 2026. Over 100 department members attended, with dozens of trainee talks and posters being presented. Each year the department awards "Best Talk", "Best Paper", and "Best Poster" prizes. We're delighted to announce that the Chistol lab "cleaned up" at this year's retreat: Dr. Benjamin Duewell received the "Best Talk" prize, while Dr. Jinho Park received the "Best Paper" prize (manuscript accepted for publication in Nature, still under embargo for the next ~month).
Congratulations to Jinho and Benjamin!!!
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September 1, 2026
We are excited to announce that the "sequel" to our 2024 Cell paper has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications (September 2026).
Congratulations to the entire Replication Initiation Team!
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May 13, 2024
Our manuscript titled "Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals the Mechanism of Bidirectional Replication Initiation in Metazoa" was officially accepted for publication in Cell. The project started in the summer of 2020 (that first glorious COVID summer) when Scott started imaging how GINS is recruited to replication origins. He later did the same for Cdc45. In 2021 Riki joined the project and focused on imaging firing factors (TopBP1, RecQL4, and finally DONSON). It took a while to explore various hypotheses, sort out various technical difficulties, develop new assays, and develop new tools for analyzing the data. We submitted the paper in November 2023, and after a somewhat bumpy review process, the paper was accepted on 13th of May 2024 :)
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April 10, 2024
Tomoko, a 1st year CSB graduate student, just started her 2-month rotation in our lab. She will be working with Riki on understanding the mechanism of the CMG helicase activation. We're delighted to double the Japanese contingent of our lab :)
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August 15, 2023
The Chistol lab organized their annual retreat day filled with fun activities - Breakfast at the Palo Alto Creamery, mini golf, dinner at Nola's, and ending the day with a little treat at Salt & Straw Ice Creamery.
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