Craig Pikaard

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@Marisa_S_B Congratulations, Marisa!!

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

Researchers fill the final gaps in the Arabidopsis genome sequence https://t.co/m1AiBFPvLe via @physorg_com

[The Genetics Society @GenSocUK]

🏅The Genetics Society is delighted to announce Prof Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @CSHL, as the winner of the 2024 Genetics Society Medal. This award that recognizes outstanding research contributions to #genetics!

https://t.co/TsgTuzuLbu

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

Great work of authors Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti to fully sequence the Arabidopsis NORs (adding the final missing ~9.4 Mbp of the genome), and map the positions of active and silenced rRNA genes within them, is now published, open access ! https://t.co/qgavvpyQiS

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@DamonLisch Old fashioned hair dryer with a hat and a hose?

[Keith Slotkin @Slotkin_Lab]

The @Slotkin_Lab at the @DanforthCenter is recruiting a Postdoc to investigate the intersection of Transposable Elements, Epigenetics and Genome Editing! Please apply here: https://t.co/cheRsphAb4

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@rm0sher @hendersi Definitely! Very pretty!

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

9.5 Mbp of new sequence to fill the last gaps in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome: the rDNA loci on chromosomes 2 & 4! Kudos to Drs. Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti!
Sequence and epigenetic landscapes of active and silenced nucleolus organizers in Arabidopsis https://t.co/Mm2Sbyvw3V

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@hendersi @RamyaEnganti Thanks, Ian! Sequencing and assembling the two NORs took a lot of ingenuity and teamwork by the crew: Dr. Dalen Fultz, Dr. Anastasia McKinlay and Dr. Ramya Enganti.

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@Xuemei_RNAlab Congratulations, Xuemei! I am sure you will accomplish big things there!

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@APecinka Legends indeed! And wonderful people and dear friends.

[Keith Slotkin @Slotkin_Lab]

New job alert: @MizzouBiology and @DanforthCenter seek a Full or Associate-level plant biologist 🌱🌾🔬. Come be our colleague! https://t.co/Gtb0poJH3I

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@LugerLab I like big blots and I cannot lie,them other methods can’t comply , with the need for the size and the quantifies that give conclusions I can’t deny.

[Genes & Development @GenesDev]

In this study, @FengWang21 et al. and @CraigPikaard demonstrate how AGO4’s RNA slicing activity drives cytosine methylation providing insights into the mechanisms of RNA-directed DNA methylation. Read more here: ➡️https://t.co/NiErh4WrCe

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@clairewalczak This is a pernicious and under-appreciated source of moral injury in academia, playing a big role in burn-out. Compliance training for this and that, surveys and questionnaires to fill out, forms to sign etc-all designed as defenses, and all distracting us from scholarship.

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

Broken up but still living together: how ARGONAUTE's retention of cleaved fragments explains its... - https://t.co/VZTWm1trUa #ScholarAlerts

[Feng Wang @FengWang21]

My first tweet ever. I am super happy to see our most recent paper about AGO4 slicing and retention of RNAs in RNA-directed DNA methylation now published in Genes & Development. I really appreciate all the co-authors and all members of the Pikaard Lab!

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

Enzymatic reactions of AGO4 in RNA- directed DNA methylation: siRNA duplex loading, passenger strand elimination, target RNA slicing, and sliced
target retention

https://t.co/qitqQyyF36

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

News release about my lab's latest paper:
Argonaute protein slicing and retention of RNA fragments plays a role in the chemical modification of DNA for gene silencing https://t.co/u2lT6YEkwr via @EurekAlert @IUNewsroom

[Craig Pikaard @CraigPikaard]

@LugerLab Congratulations!! Very well deserved!!!