Kelly Dawe

plant geneticist

[UGA Plant Biology @uga_plantbio]

We're hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA! #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #FacultyJobs #UGA

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

The CI66 inbred. What a beauty!

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

@MaizeZynskiHI @agentindeed No, just too-tall corn. Seems they often stretch out like that in the summer. And its so hot now the tassels are frying up there.

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Jonathan Gent @agentindeed

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Thank you André for hosting me. It was great to visit Max Planck and meet all the great scientists and see the wonderful facilities. Also nice to see the sights of Cologne.

[André Marques @marques_et_al]

I am very grateful and glad for the visit of Kelly Dawe @corncolors to @mpipz_cologne as our special seminar speaker! Thanks a lot for the inspiring discussions 🙌

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

And here is my perspective on the new human artificial chromosome work. The methods deployed by Gambogi et al should be directly applicable to plants.
https://t.co/KlzNrkVUY4

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Ben Black's lab describes a superior method for preparing human artificial chromosomes. The chromosomes are small enough to be engineered in yeast, but large enough to carry multiple genes and segregate like normal human chromosomes in cultured cells
https://t.co/7CH8UJv88I

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Very pleased to see our cenh3 haploid inducer being used to improve commercial maize lines!
https://t.co/8BTicsTCn4

[John Fowler (he/him) jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jefowlerjr]

New! Methylation-controlled gene regulation in maize pollen, led by Jonathan Gent (@corncolors group). Tldr: Two maize DNA glycosylases (DNGs, which demethylate DNA) redundantly enable high transcript levels of a small set (~50) of pollen-specific genes, https://t.co/Yo0cnU5FGk

[UGA Plant Biology @uga_plantbio]

We’re hiring! We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology to start Aug 1, 2024. The position will be a joint appointment b/t UGA Plant Biology and @uga_iob. For full consideration, apply by Nov 10, 2023. Please spread the word!

[CJ Tsai @TsaiLabUGA]

Out now @plantjournal 717 genome-not one but two T2T assemblies for P. tremula & P. alba @phytozome! Creative work by @RanRichard uncovered aspen-specific megabase satellite repeats that form chromosome knobs! @corncolors @Schmitz_Lab @jgi @hudsonalpha https://t.co/4IcJuMTHsv

[Ian Henderson @hendersi]

Teosinte Pollen Drive guides maize domestication and evolution by RNAi https://t.co/VjSZudnw0m very beautiful work from Martienssen lab and colleagues

[Charlie Underwood @charliesousbois]

Great coverage of apomixis research in this headline news article this week @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/PXvjAP8lfJ

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Including two of my favorite colleagues and scientists, Luca Comai (@lucacomai) and Sundar. Richly deserved!

[National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences]

We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 23 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. https://t.co/Uei58ej6WI

Congratulations to our new #NASmembers! #NAS160

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

And congrats to Jianing Liu @ljn017 for following through on this difficult paper, years after graduation.

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Much of the maize pan-genome is ancient. We show that about a third of the pan-genome diverged earlier than ~100 kya and another third diverged ~10-30 kya, with centromere haplotypes appearing as evolutionary strata https://t.co/cv2JJFzh60

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

@colreeze @hendersi Thanks Yaowu! - yes, about 15 years

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

A nice summary of our work on maize synthetic centromeres by @hendersi

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Article: "Synthetic maize centromeres transmit chromosomes across generations" https://t.co/6IA7B55980

N&V: "Plant genetics: Creating synthetic maize centromeres" https://t.co/jzHvPME21z

Based on a LexA–CENH3 fusion; stably inherited and self-sustaining neochromosomes.

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Our successful effort to create synthetic maize centromeres is now published! We hope to use this method to alter karyotypes in maize and other plants. And one day engineer entire chromosomes. https://t.co/tYfoA1BLlE

[Kelly Dawe @corncolors]

Meghan Brady

[Athens Science Observer @AthSciObserver]

It’s corn! I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing. Check out our latest article here: https://t.co/OFeQaumrSV