#TEsky Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Managed to get some Cuscuta plants started in Sheffield just in time for student projects next year- glad that the seeds germinated despite all the challenges during lab move from USA to UK!

How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

We are looking for undergrads to visit us over the next summer! If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬 Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR Do excellent science in Bonn next summer! @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social #TEsky #TEworldwide authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6MC,LqAZ...

piRNA-directed DNA methylation may not be a mammalian invention, but can already be found in the germline of axolotl salamanders Donal O’Carroll and coworkers www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Alex de Mendoza@alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026: www.findaphd.com/search/Proje... Open to UK/International students. #ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A manifesto for plant science education

Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...

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N End Rules@n-end-rules.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology@gmivienna.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper! Work led by @p-bourguet.bsky.social and Frédéric Berger at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social and @esasaki007.bsky.social identified how protein CDCA7 helps plants stably maintain epigenetic modifications across generations. Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Differential LTR-retrotransposon dynamics across polyploidization, speciation, domestication, and improvement of cotton (Gossypium) - Genome Biology

Background Transposable elements are major components of plant genomes and major drivers of plant genome evolution. The cotton genus (Gossypium) is an excellent evolutionary model for polyploidization...

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Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026: www.findaphd.com/search/Proje... Open to UK/International students. #ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

Toby Baril@tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 11mo ago

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched. Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis: • As fast as 3 day turnaround • $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry • Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample • Interactive results Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

This work was led by Young Jun Kim, a very talented student in the lab. If you have ONT data and want to investigate DNA methylation, DMRcaller would be able to provide you more information than what was previously possible.

It was a pleasure to be part of this collaboration with the amazing @benebachelot.bsky.social and Parker Bartz, excited for the next manuscript stemming from this study!

Bene Bachelot@benebachelot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Our study on warming and free-living nitrogen fixation is out! Great work led by one of the lab alumni, Parker Bartz, the @forestwarming.bsky.social team and @psaima.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd

FindAPhD : NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow

Apply for a PhD: NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow

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Great to have Mike Axtell at Sheffield for a fantastic PPS cluster seminar on Cuscuta trans-species microRNAs- looking forward to seeing more exciting research from Mike’s group! #parasitic_plants

🚀 Today is the day! Excited to talk about our nanopore sequencing activities in Freiburg 🌱🧬 Including our plant genome sequencing workflow 👉 www.doi.org/10.20944/pre... @puckerlab.bsky.social @pietzenuk.bsky.social

TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...

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Chenxin Li, PhD@chenxinli2.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe. Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity. But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing? PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time. read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

The Fromm Lab@frommlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Paper alert!🔔 Think you know how microRNAs look like? Think again!! Giant hairpins in multiple animal phyla! Very happy to have contributed to this awesome paper with @lucksmith.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint! We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠 Highlights below! 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From recall to reset: the role of DNA (de)methylation in modulating plant immune memory

Epigenetic reprogramming is increasingly recognised as a driver of plant immune memory, yet its molecular basis remains poorly understood. Using a chemically inducible transgene in Arabidopsis, we tra...

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The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies enable host generalism in the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

How generalist pathogens infect phylogenetically diverse hosts remains a central question in plant-pathogen biology. In particular, the extent to which broad host range is enabled by genetic variation...

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I’m missing out on the amazing science at #Botany2025, but super happy that my student Megan Adler is giving her first talk! July 29, TUE, 9 AM (PDT): “Dynamic DNA (de)methylation underpins parasitic #Cuscuta-host plant communication” If you are attending, don’t miss Megan’s talk!

This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better! Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social

Plantae.org@plantaeofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program!🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by August 31! buff.ly/JqoDSHq #plantscience

⏱️ T - 7 days to go ⏱️ Only 1 week left to submit an abstract and apply for a travel grant to attend #JXB75 in Edinburgh in September 🌱 Don’t miss your chance - apply today! 🌱 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

Journal of Experimental Botany@jxbotany.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Announcing the #JXB75 Travel Grants 🌍✈️ Want to join us in beautiful Edinburgh this September? 🏰 Apply now for a travel grant to support your attendance: 🔗 bit.ly/jxb75-travel 🗓️ Deadline: July 22 🎤 Priority will be given to presenters #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social