Excited to share our @NaturePlants News & Views article highlighting how two independent studies uncover transcription factor mediated recruitment of the key siRNA-producing protein, RNA polymerase IV to specific DNA sequences in plants.
Full article: https://t.co/vWx37wkgOL 1/3
@GuanghuiXu1 And this great Nature Plants News & Views by Pandesha and Slotkin covering this breakthrough discovery
https://t.co/w38k0LcqH0
@hadse.bsky.social @KeithSlotkin @natplants.nature.com
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Have you ever wondered how new patterns of DNA methylation are established?
Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on TFs and DNA motifs rather than chromatin marks to regulate the methylome
https://t.co/HZewb8TgLu
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@GuanghuiXu1 Interested in learning even more?
Check out complementary work from Wu and Jacobsen revealing roles for a TF binding protein in this new mode of DNA methylation targeting. https://t.co/rtTcjV7UHK
@jacobsenucla.bsky.social @ZhongshouWu
7/8
Salk researchers are using a little flowering plant to answer the question: How do cells generate new epigenetic change? The answer marks a major paradigm shift in plant biology and may inform future epigenetic engineering strategies with medical and agricultural applications.
Read more: https://t.co/yhK8GJ9H3g
#plantbiology #epigenetics #SalkInstitute
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The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT! https://t.co/gfaaxgavee
Our lab at @cnrs_ibmp is delighted to announce the @NatureComms publication from a PhD student and postdoc-driven collaboration with @jlaw_lab and @FlorentWaltz revealing how CLSY proteins dock with Pol IV to produce siRNAs and silence transposons: https://t.co/SslnO84Vic
Joanne Chory dedicated her life to tackling climate change by enhancing plants’ ability to store carbon. Through the Harnessing Plants Initiative at Salk, she worked to use crops to protect our planet. Her visionary work lives on. 🌱🌎 Thank you, @WSJ, for sharing her story. #JoanneChory
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Deadlines are approaching for @KeystoneSymp#NonCodingRNA Biology: New Roles and Diversity, this January in Keystone! See scholarship, abstract and discount reg dates: https://t.co/nSQjFRWXkv #KSncRNA25
Two postdoctoral positions available in my group to investigate centromere structure, function and evolution - please get in touch if you are interested!
https://t.co/8quBMun2NY
https://t.co/g8byOa3OEa
So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in @Naturepub. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by @mcliupeng. https://t.co/wSvr1uuEbF. 🧵
The @Slotkin_lab@DanforthCenter is hiring a new laboratory technician. Lots of cool work to be done on transposable elements! Please retweet to spread the word! https://t.co/33KiNk4PeG