Shujun Ou

Spartan, Assistant Professor @OhioState. Trying to understand how plants co-evolve with TEs. Author of LTR_retriever, LAI, EDTA, panEDTA...

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

My department has a tenure-track position at the Associate Professor level. Investigators addressing fundamentally important biological questions in *any area* of Molecular Genetics are encouraged to apply. Application period closes October 15, 2025. https://t.co/recm13F9VC

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

Glass germ corns of the year!

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

@szintri Both your checks and taxes come in white envelopes ;)

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

Summer Grill Heave Of Ou Lab (SGHOOL) and families!

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

@DamonLisch As long as they are pollinated and filled!

[Mingyuan Zhu @Mingyuan2328]

Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! Actively recruiting!

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[Meixia Zhao @MeixiaZhao]

We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: https://t.co/rRUEtXLLQZ

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

@jinfeng7chen Thank you!

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

I want to share our latest work on a forward simulation framework on transposable element evolution. The TE Evolution Simulation Suite, or TESS, contains three components that can simulate many scenarios of genome evolution under the impact of TEs.

[bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv_bioinfo]

TESS: A Forward Simulation Framework for Studying the Role of Transposable Elements in Genome Expansion and Contraction https://t.co/kzGdBWUkBu #biorxiv_bioinfo

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

TESS is an open-source package developed by Dr. Chris Benson (@OhioState ), Dr. Ting-Hsuan Chen (@plantandfood) & Mr. Tianyu Lu (@OhioState Senior UG). The study is conceived with Drs. Susan Thomson and Cecilia Deng (@plantandfood). Please try it out! https://t.co/IRU6rT5SVv /n

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

Using TESS and parameter sweep, we were able to approximate the TE dynamics of these three rust fungus genomes, revealing the two-stage evolution of myrtle rust (A. psidii), with a long-lasting genome expansion transitioned to aggressive contraction ~1.2 million generations ago.

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

@MaizeZynskiHI Nice! Thanks for sharing!

[Ian Henderson @hendersi]

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @plantsci
https://t.co/mW072iZPGz