Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Crop Biotechnology and Epigenetics Climate Stress Memory in Crops 🌱🍅🍓@dundee.ac.uk @James Hutton Institute Former Senior PostDoc at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and PostDoc at @cam.ac.uk #newPI
How does a geminivirus replicate its genome using a pick&mix strategy with host proteins? 🦠🦠🌱🧬 Our new preprint identifies plant proteins repurposed by geminiviruses to carry out rolling-circle replication. Congrats @chaonan123.bsky.social , who spearheaded this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)
Now #EpiPlant GDR Director @alineprobst.bsky.social from @igred.fr taking us on a chromatin journey: histone variant H2B.8 plays a major role in the reprogramming of gene expression during the seed-to-seedling transition. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I’ve Ben looking forward to this talk by @thanvisrikant.bsky.social, who is speaking about her postdoctoral work with @kbomblies.bsky.social on the effect of #polyploidy on #chromatin architecture!
"… some of the most creative, climate-resilient innovations are emerging … from the regions experiencing the greatest challenges of climate volatility, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity," writes Ismahane Elouafi in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/4vN7skk
Congratulations David! It's absolutely great to see a Plant Scientist leading a college with such a remarkable contribution for the history of Science. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/new-mas...
Trinity College's next Master: Sir David Baulcombe
His Majesty King Charles III has appointed the plant scientist and geneticist Professor Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci to succeed Professor Dame
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The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to support the inaugural UK Plant Epigenetics Network Meeting, 'Plant #Epigenetics: From Model to Crop species', taking place in Dundee, UK on 11-12 June. www.dundee.ac.uk/events/uk-pl...
UK Plant Epigenetics Network Inaugural Meeting | University of Dundee, UK
Bringing together researchers interested in plant epigenetics across academia and industry
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Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social and all the authors on this beautiful work exploring the inheritance of endogenous viral insertions in algae. It was a pleasure to contribute to this study and I am sure this is only the beginning of many exciting discoveries! 🌿 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 3mo agoOut Now! Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host #MicroSky
Apologies - registration still possible until 21 April!
Claudia Martinho@cssmartinho.bsky.social · 4mo agoStill time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!
Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!
Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
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📌Have a look at this meeting¡ It sounds too good to miss✨ Aline Probst, @alineprobst.bsky.social, one of our @episeedlink.bsky.social supervisors, is one of the keynote speakers 👏
Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!
🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community
Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!
How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...
🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #epigenetics #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I am extremely grateful to receive a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust to study the epigenetic mechanisms underlying environmental stress memory in crops @dundee.ac.uk and @hutton.ac.uk 🍓🍅🌱 I’ll be advertising positions in our group soon - stay tuned! buff.ly/pI5Bqoo
Excited to share our latest publication on interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood, spearheaded by the amazing Olivia Grant and co-led with @leo-schalkwyk.bsky.social and Meena Kumari. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Systematic investigation of interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood - Genome Biology
Background Interindividual genetic variability is well characterised, but we still lack a complete catalogue of loci displaying variable and stable epigenetic patterns. Results Here, we report a catal...
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences" doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
One single protein, one big decision: how brown algae know when to reproduce. New press release on how researchers in the Department of Algae Development and Evolution have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae. Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate. New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS: Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS
ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...
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I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · 7mo agoAbstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉 Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence. More information www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html
Our paper on the newest version of the Registry of candidate cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) is out 🧬 Huge thanks to the many collaborators, experimentalists, analysts and software developers who made this work possible — truly a team effort! A "meme-torial" of the science is coming soon 👀
An expanded registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements - Nature
The existing ENCODE registry of candidate human and mouse cis-regulatory elements is expanded with the addition of new ENCODE data, integrating new functional data as well as new cell and tissue types...
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New paper on genome editing in brown algae by Dr. Claudia Martinho, former member of Susana Coelho's Algal Development and Evolution Department, in collaboration with Masakazu Hoshino, Morgane Raphalen, Viktoriia Bukhanets, Anagha Kerur, @kbogaert.bsky.social, Rémy Luthringer, and Susana Coelho
Claudia Martinho@cssmartinho.bsky.social · 7mo agoGenome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
