André Marques
@amarques.bsky.social
A lover of chromosome biology 🧬🔬🔎 Studying (not only) meiosis, centromeres & genome evolution in plants! Group leader at MPI for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany Lab website: https://www.mpipz.mpg.de/5028512/marques
Haplotype-specific chromosome painting unveils recombination patterns in the holocentric species Rhynchospora breviuscula H.Pfeiff. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.24.733714v1
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Projeto SolidarESA, da Casa do Produtor Rural, doa mais de 3 mil espigas de milho verde para doze entidades assistenciais de Piracicaba, beneficiando crianças, adolescentes e idosos da região
Projeto da USP doa mais de 3 mil espigas de milho para entidades assistenciais em Piracicaba
Projeto de extensão da Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz da USP une agricultura sustentável e solidariedade ao beneficiar 12 entidades assistenciais de Piracicaba
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‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!
Let s dive into the world of holocentric chromosomes with @amarques.bsky.social Wonderful talk ! #smbe2026
Heading now to #Copenhagen for attending the @official-smbe.bsky.social with several team members. Looking forward to exciting conversations and networking! Hope to see some of you there!
Happy to have two preprints of the lab featured within the 1% Read them: Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Pangenome analysis reveals the evolutionary dynamics of repeat-based holocentromeres www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
QED Science@qedscience.bsky.social · last mo.🎉 Meet The 1%. Out of 57,455 bioRxiv life science preprints, QED Science selected 574 exceptional manuscripts through blind evaluation. The 1%: the-one-percent.qedscience.com Good science deserves to be seen. @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @openrxiv.bsky.social @richardsever.bsky.social
Time from submission to acceptance: 3 UK Prime Ministers.
It was "only a temporary place until they find a lab for her". She did not complain. But was it worth it? Will she make The 1%? 57,455 preprints evaluated, 574 selected. See you in 48 hours! #The1Percent #QEDScience #Preprints
Big week! Wednesday: "The 1%" (Wait for it!) Thursday: Traveling to Australia
#SMBE2026 S11: The evolution of recombination landscapes 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
Talks by: @aruizherrera.bsky.social Linda Odenthal-Hesse Marinela Dukic Tom Parée @mariontalbi.bsky.social @amarques.bsky.social Irene Tiemann-Boege Lou Guyot Laurie Steviso
RSPS2026 | Finalist: Dr. Andre Seco Marques da Silva | Presentation: Jun 2 13:00-13:30 (GMT) | Breaking the rules: Unconventional strategies in plant reproduction and chromosome organization | FREE to Watch via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)
🌱In unserem letzten Beitrag zum #fascinationofplantsday erklärt André Marques @amarques.bsky.social vom MPIPZ @mpipz.bsky.social was eine erfolgreiche Pflanze ausmacht und welche Rolle unterschiedliche Chromosomen dabei spielen können. Wirklich faszinierend! 😉
CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌱Heute ist #fascinationofplantsday! Wir stellen euch diese Woche CEPLAS Forschende vor, die von Pflanzen - vom Samenkorn bis zur ausgewachsenen Pflanze - fasziniert sind. Findet heraus warum! 🔎 @leibnizipk.bsky.social @hhu.de @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social
🌱Zum #fascinationofplantsday erklärt euch heute Bart Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social von der Universität zu Köln @unicologne.bsky.social was am Zusammenspiel von Pflanzen und Bakterien so faszinierend ist! @hhu.de @mpipz.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de
CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌱Heute ist #fascinationofplantsday! Wir stellen euch diese Woche CEPLAS Forschende vor, die von Pflanzen - vom Samenkorn bis zur ausgewachsenen Pflanze - fasziniert sind. Findet heraus warum! 🔎 @leibnizipk.bsky.social @hhu.de @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social
Happy to be selected as finalist!
Molecular Plant & Plant Communications@mplantpcom.bsky.social · 3mo agoRising Stars in Plant Sciences 2026 (RSPS2026) | Finalist Oral Presentation Contest | Jun 2 12:55-15:30 & Jun 3 13:00-15:35 (GMT/UTC) | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) or WeChat (MolPlant Channel)
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Somatic genome-doubling is the most parsimonious route to allopolyploidy nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @robinburns.bsky.social @alisondawnscott.bsky.social @pnovik.bsky.social
I am building a new website for my group. Any suggestions of good lab websites? It would be nice to get some good ideas 😀
Amazing to receive the @hfspo.bsky.social Research Grant to pursue the project I have been dreaming of since I started my lab..!!🧬: how meiotic drive impacts sex ratios in vertebrates👩🏻🔬👨🔬 I am so fortunate to collaborate on this project with Jiri Hejnar at IMG and @amarques.bsky.social 🎉🙏🏼
Super excited to share some great news 😊 Our team has been awarded a @hfspo.bsky.social grant! We’ll be working on genetic conflict over sex ratio in vertebrates, together with @takashiakeralab.bsky.social and Jiri Hejnar. Really looking forward to this new adventure! Science is a team sport!
Beautiful work from @piotraz.bsky.social and team!
Piotr Ziolkowski@piotraz.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣Our paper is out! 🤩 We found that local modification of H3K9me3 using CRISPR/dCas9 at hotspots changes crossover activity, bringing us closer to targeted recombination in plants.🌱 Huge thanks to @szymanskalejman.bsky.social, Wojtek, Ania, and Karolina! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.
Home | Alyrata Resource
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Nothing like a delicacy from Brazil with GMO corn and soy bean 😅
Interested in the molecular mechanisms and evolution of atypical reproductive modes ? Since 2025, we are running a (bi)-monthly online series. You can join us to watch or present! More information : tinyurl.com/EvoRepro Sign-up to our mailing list : go.unil.ch/QYYNa
📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵
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I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...
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