Geoffrey Thomson

Molecular plant biologist in the Jacob lab @MCDB_Yale - from 🇳🇿

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@jrossibarra My institution uses this sbatch (slurm) wrapper for running arrays of job submissions. I think it's neat.

https://t.co/Lcsq5bKMeO

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@pmoyniha @ATinyGreenCell If organism A and B are in the Plaza or Zoonomia databases you can just use them.
Otherwise the OrthoFinder program is straightforward to use to identify orthologs for large numbers of genes.

[Gendron Lab @GendronLab]

Congrats to Qingqing and the rest of the team! Check out our new paper showing plants can sense two seasons simultaneously to control growth and flowering. https://t.co/EYym6SuTpx

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@triplettlr I didn't realise this was a reference that translated to America

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ATinyGreenCell also

https://t.co/29F1FYmYOh

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ATinyGreenCell I recommend looking into the fruit development literature then.

The authors usually focus on the fruit which develop but often document floral phenotypes along the way.

For example,

https://t.co/UwE8z5z72W

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ATinyGreenCell https://t.co/5bHzFpkgqs

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ATinyGreenCell These seem good:

https://t.co/3uUzurnp55

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Maybe the core problem isn't who is, as Thorp describes "performing the hard intellectual labor of choosing, from the mass of research, those discoveries that deserve publication in a top journal" but that they are doing this at all.

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

Does anyone know the record for the Arabidopsis plant with the most independent T-DNA insertions?

Has someone made a octuple mutant by crossing or something?

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

Another year with no funding for plant biology from the #MarsdenFund

[Marsden Fund @MarsdenFund]

A list of all 2023 #MarsdenFund awardees is here. Congratulations to all recipients- ka rawe! https://t.co/T96IdDrJsq

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ATinyGreenCell Welcome to the Nutmeg state. You are welcome to stop off in New Haven if you are passing through

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@gmopundit Absolutely, introduce double strand breaks in DNA and such outcomes are bound to occur

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

Agro is frequently used in Plant Sci to create transgenic plants. Yet, beyond expressing the genes on the T-DNA, how many pause to consider the effects of transgene insertion into the genome of a plant?

We review this here:
https://t.co/KCKEDKRDrQ
#Plants #TDNA #Agrobacterium

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ChenxinLi2 Personally, i find it unsatisfactory that the field seems content with such variable outcomes.

We are far from genetic "engineering" 😜

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@ChenxinLi2 Yes, that is why independent lines are essential!

However remember the ida-2 mutant has a 11.8 Mb translocation no one noticed for 14 years, and the disruption of BSM causing the lethality in the abp1-1 allele was not detected for 15 years

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

it is important to recognize that a high level of genomic disruption is inherent to the creation of transgenic plants.
This is not an argument against their use, but I believe that we need to be upfront about the potential consequences of this technology

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

I think few plant scientists realize that 10–20% of transgenic plants have some sort of chromosomal translocation. Thus while there is a lot of discussion around the precision of contemporary gene editing tools ...

[Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson]

@jlsteenwyk @M_L_Carpenter @OmicsOmicsBlog @CantataBio I have also used @CantataBio and am very happy with the service

[Benoit Mermaz 🇫🇷 🧬🔬🍊 @MermazBe]

Had a BLAST at the 2023 @MCDB_Yale retreat 🤩.

Alongside my brilliant fellow Postdocs, @cintiasagawa and @GojThomson, we had the privilege of showcasing our incredible Citrus project, which aims to combat the #citrusgreening disease using gene editing.🍊