How the "Fragile Nucleosome" Science Community Came to Life (Christine Cucinotta, Melvin Noe Gonzalez)

<p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us">In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Dr. Christine Cucinotta and Dr. Melvin Noe Gonzalez to talk about how they brought the #fragilenucleosome seminar series and Discord channel to life.</p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Christine Cucinotta and Melvin Noe Gonzales are part of the organizing committee of the independent scientific community "Fragile Nucleosome." This community consists of a Discord channel with more than 1,000 members, a biweekly seminar series, a mentoring program, and a journal club series. The Fragile Nucleosome is organized exclusively by early-career scientists, without external sponsors or under the roof of a single graduate program or university.</p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us">In this interview, Christine and Melvin share the story on how the Fragile Nucleosome community got started, what has happened so far, and what the future plans are for the #fragilenucleosome.</p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </p> <p lang="en-us" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;" xml:lang="en-us">References</p> <ul style="margin-left:.375in;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;" type="disc"><li lang="en-us" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle;" xml:lang="en-us"><a href='https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fragilenucleosome&src=typed_query&f=live'>#fragilenucleosome</a> on Twitter</li> <li lang="en-us" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle;" xml:lang="en-us">Fragile Nucleosome <a href