MANGO LAB
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Extrachromosomal DNA, Transposable Elements, Structural Variations
“Monsieur le Président, On meurt dans vos Universités. On meurt dans mon Université. Dans mon université, en 5 ans, il y a eu 4 suicides de personnels titulaires (le précédent remontait à 25 ans), 3 crises cardiaques au travail, 2 AVC” www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/communiqu...
Lettre ouverte d'Anne Fraïsse Présidente de l'Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry au Président de la république | UPVM
Monsieur le Président,On meurt dans vos Universités. On meurt dans mon Université. D’excès de travail, de stress, d’usure, de désespoir, d’indifférence.
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To all TE-addict colleagues 😊: have you already seen a clear excision of a plant MITE? We see them jumping in but not out..🤷♀️
How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers go.nature.com/4sEMwLH
Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells
How did eukaryotic cells with complex architecture evolve from simpler prokaryotic cells? DNA analyses offer possible answers.
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Have we been overstating the role of transposable elements in adaptation to local or rapidly changing environmental conditions? Happy to share my (somewhat unpopular?) opinion paper on this matter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to those who already shared the link!
Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…
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And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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Happy to share a review on powerful plant MITEs written with Abirami Soundiramourtty! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Plant MITEs: miniature transposable elements with major impacts - Mobile DNA
Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are short, non-autonomous transposable elements that have attracted considerable attention over the years due to their ubiquitous presence and f...
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Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes - Genome Biology
Plant organelle genomes, particularly large mitochondrial genomes with complex repeats, present significant challenges for assembly. The advent of long-read sequencing enables the assembly of complete...
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Great point. But, we academics should ideally be able to avoid/not comply with that. Ultimately, we submit, we review, we evaluate…and together can build #BetterPublishing: peeer.net
PEEER: Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research
No Researcher Left Behind
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L'Université de Perpignan a ouvert une Chaire de Professeur Junior en Biologie Végétale, poste à pourvoir à l'automne 2025: www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...
Personnels enseignants : Recrutement - Université Perpignan Via Domitia
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Our lab (LGDP) is recruiting a Young Professor in Plant Biology in Perpignan! Apply before Sept 1st www.univ-perp.fr/upvd/concour...
Personnels enseignants : Recrutement - Université Perpignan Via Domitia
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Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. https://go.nature.com/4c2QfuJ
Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal
Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.
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"Whatever your diet, from chicken nuggets to organic tofu, the food you consume is the result of generations of work by agricultural scientists and plant breeders to meet the ever-changing needs of farmers and consumers." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o... #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #Sustainability
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
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TULIP International Summer School 2025 "Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems" 🗓️ From June 21 to 27 🏔️at Germ, French Pyrénées Registration OPEN ✅ www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul... Open to PhD students, masters students and postdocs.
🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature
Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.
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Un scientifique français a été refoulé à l'entrée des US après que son téléphone et son ordinateur, fouillés, ont révélé des échanges dans lesquels il exprimait une opinion personnelle sur la politique de l'administration Trump en matière de recherche www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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L'administration Trump impose 9 "demandes" pour restaurer le financement récurrent de l'université de Columbia (400M). Parmi lesquelles : interdire les maques, la mise sous tutelle de certains départements de recherche, renforcement de la police sur le campus, etc. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The university faces a Thursday deadline to yield to the administration’s demands.
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⚠️JOB ALERT ⚠️ @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social is hiring an @inrae-france.bsky.social tenure-track Associate Professor on the genetics of sunflower 🌻 - 🐝 polinator interactions 🔽 Come and join us in Toulouse! resana.numerique.gouv.fr/public/share...
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Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).
ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.NEW: Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...
L’IRD soutient le mouvement #StandUpForScience et l’ensemble de nos partenaires scientifiques dans le monde. Face aux grands défis mondiaux, la science a un rôle central pour le développement social, environnemental et économique des sociétés, et nécessite une coopération internationale renforcée.
Very happy to present our latest study on heat-induced transcription of transposable element in A. thaliana. Using Oxford Nanopore, we tested the extent to which read-through formation is important in the regulation of adjacent genes. More here 👇 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...