Publications by Eftychia Kyriacou

Oxidative stress at telomeres triggers internal DNA loops, TRF1 dissociation, and TRF2-dependent R-loops

Joachim Lingner, Thomas Frédéric Lunardi, Eftychia Kyriacou, Thu Trang Nguyen, Wareed Ahmed

Telomeres are the nucleoprotein structures at chromosome ends. Telomeres are particularly sensitive to oxidative stress, which can induce telomere damage, shortening, and premature cellular senescence. How oxidative damage influences telomere structure has ...

2025

Spotiflow: accurate and efficient spot detection for fluorescence microscopy with deep stereographic flow regression

Joachim Lingner, Suliana Manley, Gioele La Manno, Can Aztekin, Irina Khven, Eftychia Kyriacou, Albert Dominguez Mantes, Evangelia Skoufa, Martin Weigert, Georgios Tsissios

Identification of spot-like structures in large, noisy microscopy images is a crucial step for many life-science applications. Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (iST), in particular, relies on the precise detection of millions of transcripts in low sig ...

2025

TERRA long noncoding RNA: At the interphase of telomere damage, rescue and signaling

Joachim Lingner, Eftychia Kyriacou

TERRA long noncoding RNAs play key roles in telomere function and maintenance. They can orchestrate telomeric chromatin remodeling, regulate telomere maintenance by telomerase and homology-directed repair, and they participate in the telomeric DNA damage r ...

CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD2024

Centromere structure and function: lessons from Drosophila

Eftychia Kyriacou

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster serves as a powerful model organism for advancing our understanding of biological processes, not just by studying its similarities with other organisms including ourselves but also by investigating its differences to u ...

Genetics Society America2023

Centromeres are dismantled by foundational meiotic proteins Spo11 and Rec8

Eftychia Kyriacou

Meiotic processes are potentially dangerous to genome stability and could be disastrous if activated in proliferative cells. Here we show that two key meiosis-defining proteins, the topoisomerase Spo11 (which forms double-strand breaks) and the meiotic coh ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021