Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 🤔This paradox concerns a wide range of protein complexes: if protein A needs B to function, and B needs A, how did the ‘loop’ begin? In our latest preprint, we explore this dilemma through the lens of what we 🩷 most—genetic conflict
We have a 2y postdoc position open in my group. The profile is quite broad, from bioinformatics to molecular biology. If you are interested in giant virus endogenization, EvoDevo, epigenetics and evolution, do apply and gent in touch. Please RT. Details: https://t.co/RXzmujXP1i
I am very excited to share our latest manuscript on the axolotl nervous system. We established the use of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to perform circuit tracing in the axolotl brain and retina: https://t.co/OTlsURssHX with @Tanaxolotl@IMPVienna
I'm excited to announce a Postdoc position in my group at @IMPvienna!
If you're all about instrumentation, software dev, super-resolution and single molecule studies and you're driven by innovation in optics and biology, I'd love to see your application!
https://t.co/lsgOv2G56Z
Very happy to share our manuscript on positional memory, in which we ask how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
https://t.co/shd1dXgR1a
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura and Elly Tanaka @Tanaxolotl@IMPvienna!
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If Darwin's finches were transposons, and the Galapagos islands were the Drosophila ovary, this cool new paper is all about the diversification of their beaks!🦜Congratulations Kirsten, @juliusbrennecke and all co-authors for this tour-de-force! 🥳👏
https://t.co/ZLBG2n57YM
‼️ Breakthrough in evolutionary genetics ‼️
#Virus-like #transposons wage war on the species barrier 🧬🦠🪱🐠🪼 An all-IMBA paper #JustPublished in @ScienceMagazine
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/urXInQ713u
IMBA's Burga Lab @arburga with co-first authors @SonyaWiden & @CampoBes nail down a vector of #HorizontalGeneTransfer (#HGT) in eukaryotes:
The "culprits" are called #Mavericks - Ancient virus-like transposable elements
@viennabiocenter@TrainingVbc@oeaw
Link to the paper in Science ➡️ https://t.co/NX6IxAOC89
More on the Burga Lab's research ➡️ https://t.co/6YKmA5cXK0
Congratulations to all authors: Sonya Widen, Israel Campo Bes, Alevtina Koreshova, Pinelopi Pliota, Daniel Krogull & Alejandro Burga on this groundbreaking work 🎉🎊
Giant genomes? Transposable elements? Check out our review on how recent advances might help us understand how animals transitioned from water to land. Written by @DiegoRTerrones, @Tanaxolotl and myself :).
Excited to see that our review on the genome dynamics 🧬 of the vertebrate water-to-land transition 🐠➡️🦎 is out now in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development !
@FcoJFalcon@Tanaxolotl@IMPvienna
https://t.co/Fs4mOAiizD
In #Bioinformatics, we train years and years and years to be able to do really complicated bio #dataScience in not that long time. So if I run an analysis and deliver results which goes in the #research paper, then yes, I do expect a co-authorship (1/n)
Bioinformatician - Job alert: Are you passionate about genomics, development and evolution? Please consider this joint position with amazing colleagues @jwjach and @NRivron
@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org Otherwise I would try and manually annotate them with a self alignment in blast (looking for inverted repeats), a global search maybe using blastx and maybe using a protein domain search (https://t.co/mcoLh3oL3x) (2/2)
@rm0sher @TransposableMan @GIRInst_org DFAM has a search engine that could probably work, although I couldn't find any plant annotations in there. Another option but limited is using RepeatExplorer through their Galaxy pipeline (tutorial included) https://t.co/plj5Nt1uHQ. (1/2)
Amazing work by @tbrown91 and @egypsci assembling Pleurodeles genome. Undoubtedly a very valuable resource for salamander researchers and evolution aficionados. Congratulations to all authors! :)
And it is finally out: Proud to present our giant P.waltl genome assembly: https://t.co/dGX3141dk0 with @asimonstockholm @niche_leigh @DcGenomeCenter Huge tx to all authors and collaborators! @CRTDpress@mpicbg@PoLDresden