Heng Chen

DPhil student in Biology at the University of Oxford.

[Danve Castroverde @DanveC]

Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s https://t.co/n3CXGvJPOS

[Shuai Huang @HuangShuai]

The Department of Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State University is hiring ANOTHER assistant professor, very broad search. Please RT and apply!

https://t.co/UCWJZGjJZH

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

Today in @NatureBiotech we report OptiPrime, a mechanism-based machine learning model for predicting prime editing (PE) efficiencies and suggesting pegRNAs to achieve a user-specified edit. OptiPrime incorporates biochemical knowledge about PE into its mathematical structure, enabling training on ~300,000 PE efficiencies collected using 40 experimental conditions in multiple labs, and outcome predictions of PE variants such as twin prime editing not used in its training. OptiPrime enabled the rapid identification of efficient PE strategies across a variety of applications in vitro and in vivo, and could outperform months or years of manual experimental optimization.
Try out OptiPrime here: https://t.co/ahQPQ9MjYW
PDF: https://t.co/0xHQa5og0f
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[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position available in my department at Ohio State. People using imaging, quantitative biology, computational biology, multi-omics or systems biology in any area of Eukaryotic Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, or Genomics are welcome to apply!

[NAASC & North American ICAR @NAASC_NA_ICAR]

We're excited to announce the Epigenetics, sRNAs & Chromatin plenary session invited speakers for #ICAR2027Madison!

🌱Claudia Köhler- Max Planck-MPP
🌱Xuemei Chen- Peking Univ.
🌱Xiandong Fu- CAS info & updates https://t.co/WN74MflFlJ

@Xuemei_RNAlab

[The Sainsbury Laboratory @TheSainsburyLab]

📣 VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group @wenboEffector

Exciting opportunity to investigate small RNA-based plant immunity, applied to crop disease resistance 🧬 🌱

📍 @NorwichResearch, UK
⏰ Apply by 1 Sept 2026
✨️ 2 positions available
https://t.co/rqUsLKHF1N

[Heng Chen @chenheng1908]

@Hortres @PlantPhys @NewPhyt @NaturePlants @ThePlantCell We’d really appreciate your help spreading the database to the plant research community! 🌱🧬

[Heng Chen @chenheng1908]

🌱 AraBase: a free genomic database for the Arabidopsis community!

🧬 Enhenced TAIR12 annotations
🌐 Online genome browser
🔄 TAIR10/Araport11 ↔ TAIR12 comparison
📊 Expression atlas & GO enrichment
🧩 AlphaFold 3 tools

🔗 https://t.co/i9tUjGCLCM

#Arabidopsis #PlantGenomics

[Yiliang Ding @YiliangDing]

Very interesting project! Please apply the PhD programme!
https://t.co/tgEZUlHgQb

[Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla_1]

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2. PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
Apply-
https://t.co/Z0NqylaZcJ
#plantscijobs #AcademicJobs

[Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla_1]

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
https://t.co/zwaUmfZ6p7

[Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants]

Launch your own independent research group!

2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships.

📆 Apply by 30 Jan 2026

More info:
👉 https://t.co/BGWPXSBoSI
Job details:
👉 https://t.co/60zDT8eDS9

Please share this post #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

[Ronelle Roth @RonelleRoth]

Please RT PhD on ‘EV-mediated cross-kingdom communication in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis’ available in the Roth lab https://t.co/2meUxJPmac

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

Minimap2-2.29 released with the support of short RNA-seq read alignment. More explanation and results here: https://t.co/NHRJqRQHVt

[Shujun Ou @SigmaFacto]

Hello world! I have a postdoc position immediately available in my lab. It will focus on identifying high-quality transposons in many genomes and finding their impacts in evolution and traits. Most works, including EDTA2 development and annotation of 400+ genomes, are done! 1/n

[Friml Lab @FrimlLab]

New edge to canonical auxin signalling – cAMP acts as second messenger - now on @nature

https://t.co/2KJ0v1vBLU

[Cambridge RNA Club @CambridgeRNA]

This Thursday 🧬 Join us at the Sanger Building for another RNA club! We’re happy to have @sonigruiz and @elis0012 for some interesting RNA talks followed by pizza and drinks! 🍕 😎 Thanks to @RNASociety @lexogen @2BScientific @NEBiolabs

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

📢 Applications are open for our Independent Research Fellowship Mentorship Programme!

To support promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. Details if you’re looking to make the move 👇
https://t.co/u5Q7CE4k0U

[Steve Jacobsen @SJacobsenUCLA]

Why is it that gene promoters are so good at avoiding DNA methylation? Work from Ming Wang, Yan He et al., shows that H3K4me3, enriched at promoters, acts as an anti-DNA methylation mark by recruiting DNA demethylase enzymes! Nice work guys! https://t.co/oSZ0jDZ295

[𝚄𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚛 @UmairxAhmad]

PhD position in plant genetics at the Department for Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

Application deadline: May 1, 2025

Informal enquiries should be send to Prof.
Sebastian Soyk ([email protected])