🧬Happy Transposon Day!
🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).
Check out quotes from editors and popular content on our #TransposonDay2025 page
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📌 Explore a cutting-edge post-doc role in genome editing of potatoes 🧬🌱 with Agroscope 🇨🇭. Work on drought and disease resistance using sustainable, transgene-free breeding innovations in collaboration with leading EU institutions. See details at: https://t.co/lASrHeLwKF
A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @plantsci
https://t.co/mW072iZPGz
Very proud of our latest work with Zach Lippman, Jesse Gillis, Joyce Van Eck, Matthias Benoit, Katie Jenike and many others. @JohnsHopkins@CSHL@JHU_BDPs https://t.co/yLLhTLVR51
Another piece to add in the emerging golden era of centromere research. Our review of centrophilic transposons in plants @AnnualReviews with @hendersi and @KakutaniTe https://t.co/uCSMgeHGUK
Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes
https://t.co/P8iX5LV5JP new @AnnualReviews from @abousios@KakutaniTe and myself on my favourite class of mobile genetic element
Un guide de 4 pages dédié aux insectes pollinisateurs. Vous y retrouverez les questions fréquemment posées par les entreprises et gestionnaires qui souhaitent s’engager pour accueillir les pollinisateurs.
https://t.co/DXbvBKJ91V
Office pour les insectes et leur environnement
#Ants hold a grudge – they remember who attacked them and fight back harder against those enemy colonies! Our new paper led by @bey_melanie is now published @CurrentBiology
https://t.co/Lajh6csnhi
FastOMA is out now in Nature Methods 🎉: https://t.co/6nNVfbCVqr A new orthology inference algorithm that scales linearly and is highly accurate. FastOMA can process all >2000 eukaryotic UniProt ref proteomes <24 hours 🚀. Try it out at https://t.co/QUPiRx33J9
#CIRAD has published an evaluation report highlighting its impact in support of transforming #FarmingSystems & #FoodSystems. CIRAD's #ImpresS impact assessment approach makes it a key player in terms of analysing & learning from its operations.
More 👉 https://t.co/IGWWZrQKAy
#Cirad40 | A l'occasion des 40 ans du #Cirad, focus sur le projet #Cocoa4Future, financé par le programme #DeSIRA 🇪🇺 et l'@AFD_France.
Ce projet étudie des solutions innovantes d’agroforesterie pour lutter notamment contre le virus Swollen Shoot ⬇
https://t.co/XlLDpPv9MY
Today, application open for the African BioGenome Project @DAISEA_AfricaBP Open Institute West Africa Regional Workshop 2025. There are several free genomics & bioinformatics hands-on practical workshops available for African scientists. Pls click & apply: https://t.co/RnmE0Ii5sE
I'm proud to share that our article has been published in @NatureComms Our findings reveal fascinating patterns, explained by a theoretical model proposed over 100 years ago by the legendary J.B.S. #Haldane ⭐️ #Hybridization#Adaptation#Evolution
It's an absolute scandal and tragedy that India is forced to spend $250m/year to provide access to the latest science to its people. A complete and total failure of global science leadership and of science writ large.
Please check our latest paper on using @GoogleDeepMind AlphaFold 3 to study NLR immune receptors. Here we use AI-guided structural modelling to distinguish between sensor and helper NLRs! 👇🧵 (1/10) #EvoMPMI#NLRbiology#PlantPath#PlantSci
https://t.co/rwx7pqcM2L
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𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞
Guest editors: Zsuzsanna Kolbert & Christophe Bailly
Deadline: 28th Feb '25
Email us if you'd like to submit a paper - there's still time!
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My first Preprint from my postdoc @bornberglab
Looking at Transcription factors in cockroaches and termites and the regulatory changes that are associated with Eusociality
https://t.co/tCRE5zTbSo