Claire Menard

PhD Candidate studying “jumping genes” in maize 🌽 | Hirsch Lab | Bioinformatics & Genomics | she/her

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Resource: "Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers" https://t.co/dpGUhupbOd

11 genomes of wild and domesticated pepper: transposable elements have shaped the evolution of genome structure.

[Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte @CedricFeschotte]

A genetic element aka a transposable element. Just say it ffs!! 😜🐒
https://t.co/JqoNVJMem8

[Claire Menard @ClaireCodes]

@freeaSarahgene these are so amazing!!

[Sarah Fitzsimmons (Oliver) @freeaSarahgene]

Swiftie maize geneticist + watercolor paints + time off = Corn (Taylor's Version)

A thread 🧵

[Claire Menard @ClaireCodes]

@mike_schatz Thank you!! It was a lot of fun.

[Claire Menard @ClaireCodes]

Very excited for #PAG31 this weekend! Looking forward to connecting with people & hearing about all of the awesome research everyone is doing. I'll be giving a talk on TEs & detecting new insertions with short-reads this Saturday (1/13) at 4:40 PM in the TE session. Stop by! 😁🌽

[Damon Lisch @DamonLisch]

“…the Mu promoter often provides gene expression levels and patterns that are similar to the wild-type gene.” Fascinating how this notoriously mutagenic TE has actually evolved to be relatively benign.

[Max Wilkinson @maxewilkinson]

How do LINE family retrotransposons jump around?
Can we reprogram retrotransposons?
What does this have to do with Rum and Raisin?
Answers here and below!

[MaizeZynski Hawaii @MaizeZynskiHI]

MGM 2023. “Transposons - the important part of the genome!” @DamonLisch A classic line.

[Nathan Catlin @NathanSCatlin]

Hey #MGM2023, come and check out our method for detecting TE presence/absence in a maize diversity panel at poster 224. @emjosephs, Adrian Platts, and with collaboration with @ManishaMuna and @SpringerNathan.

[Bob Schmitz @Schmitz_Lab]

We found an epigenetic clock in plants! Some DNA methylation changes possess a clock-like behavior. This "epimutation-clock" is orders of magnitude faster than DNA-based clocks and enables phylogenetic explorations on a scale of years to centuries. https://t.co/hdiBk1AmEu

[Manisha Munasinghe @ManishaMuna]

On my way to #MGM2023, excited to meet and talk with folks -- I'll be talking Saturday at 7:20 PM about our work looking at how TEs contribute to structural variation in inbred maize lines 🌽🌽

[Manisha Munasinghe @ManishaMuna]

Relatedly, check out these awesome posters by @Hashtag_Read , @ClaireCodes, and @NathanSCatlin building upon this work!

[Manisha Munasinghe @ManishaMuna]

🚨 We've got a new preprint out 🚨 - We developed a series of logical frameworks for analyzing how transposable element content contributes to structural variation (SV) within maize 🌽🧬🌽. How'd we do this + what did we find?? - 1/11

[Claire Menard @ClaireCodes]

Here are some more highlights from the week 🌾🌽

[Claire Menard @ClaireCodes]

An incredible week spent at CIMMYT headquarters in Texcoco, Mexico. We all learned a ton on how a first-class international organization coordinates the wheat breeding, pathology and genetics it takes to feed the world. 🌾Thanks again for hosting us!

[Alison Bentley @AlisonRBentley]

More highlights from last weeks @UMNplantbreed study abroad trip to @CIMMYT 🇲🇽
A range of activities with the team including a hands-on visit to our wheat & maize activities at Centro Experimental Sanjaya Rajaram in Toluca.

[Alison Bentley @AlisonRBentley]

Last week @CIMMYT we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of graduate students @UMNplantbreed for a study abroad trip. Fantastic to meet & interact with this engaged & enthusiastic group of future crop science leaders! Thanks @_mbbanting @ClaireCodes @burnsmj7 @coop0409

[Nathan Catlin @NathanSCatlin]

If you're free at 3:30pm, come and check out how we are detecting TE presence/absence in a maize diversity panel at poster #969. @emjosephs, Adrian Platts, and with collaboration with @ManishaMuna and @SpringerNathan. #PAG30

[Mira @StanimiraVlaeva]

well... that's something new. Google Docs supports code blocks now.