#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Super outreach of En Quête de Bio this morning, with a group of 18 volunteers coming to amaze kids with developmental biology! Since June, 2022: 4280 kids , 64 volunteers, and 15 cities! Go on www.eqd-bio.org for more info @sfbd.bsky.social @bardinlab.bsky.social‬

Bardin Lab@bardinlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Fantastic outreach of En Quête de Bio www.eqd-bio.org of the @sfbd.bsky.social today at the Wurtz primary school Paris. Thanks to the scientist volunteers @maitrejl.bsky.social @maxvcg.bsky.social @antoinezalc.bsky.social and many others and especially @drosopachea.bsky.social for coordinating!

In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper on Alternative epigenetic states of Arabidopsis Transposable Elements is finally out in Genome Biology ! rdcu.be/d6Yly

To kick start the New Year, I'm delighted to share the lab's first preprint - now online: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... See below for a couple of highlights👇 Any feedback is welcome! "TEsky" HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! 🥂

An endogenous retroviral element co-opts an upstream regulatory sequence to achieve somatic expression and mobility

Retrotransposons, multi-copy sequences that propagate via copy-and-paste mechanisms involving an RNA intermediate, occupy large portions of all eukaryotic genomes. A great majority of their manifold c...

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For my first post on Bluesky I am happy to share our recently accepted review in Plant Physiology on the epigenetic control of a fascinating mobile DNA : the Agrobacterium TDNA, during plant transgenesis and pathogenesis track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Epigenetic control of T-DNA during transgenesis and pathogenesis

A review of the mechanisms that silence the T-DNA in transgenic plants and during Agrobacterium infection and the crosstalk between the T-DNA and genome-wi

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