Piwi interacting small RNAs are conserved across animals, often are essential for fertility and play a key role in repressing transposable element. And yet... many species (most notably nematodes, but others too) have lost piRNAs completely! Why?

Very excited to share news of my Wellcome CDA, to work on transposons in pregnancy complications. Hailing from the Medical and Molecular Genetics dept at King's College London, the Frost lab will be recruiting postdocs soon! (This is super straightforward at the moment, right?)

Nice paper from Harmit S. Malik and colleagues that delves deeply into the evolution of domesticated LTR retrotransposons in mammals that have Gag capsid domains (~24 of them!), including Arc and the PNMAs. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

Why do transposons jump at highly variable rates, and what does that mean to host evolution? In this 
Annual Reviews, Andrea Betancourt, Kevin Wei, Yuheng, and I integrated classic pop gen theories and new empirical data to explore this long-standing question. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

One of our new shining stars Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell Reproductive Sciences !! We are so excited for you to join us, Jongmin!!

It was a pleasure working with popo on this review of CRISPR-Cas associated transposons (CAST). Hopefully it gives a sense for the diversity of Tn7-like transposons and CRISPR systems that independently combined.go.shr.lc/444PwFh

Important read: To do the best science we need top scientists. And top scientists come from the everywhere in the world 🌎✨

TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group #TIME100 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 TIME
time.com/6964230/akiko-…

New Faculty profile is up!

🩸🧠 Excited to share our most recent paper (published yesterday) on how Doping (Erythropoietin) boosts our brain - by restraining the inhibitory potential of Interneurons
nature.com/articles/s4138…

Hope you'll have fun reading it. Massive shoutout to Yasmina Curto 🍾🍾🎇

Look4LTRs: a Long terminal repeat retrotransposon detection tool capable of cross species studies and discovering recently nested repeats dlvr.it/T5b0Jb

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Happy to share our review dx.doi.org/10.1002/wrna.1…
we highlight the similarities and differences between ciliates and other eukaryotes in small-RNA-directed chromatin silencing.
Institut Jacques Monod CNRS Biologie Thomas Balan Danny Holoch

another #giantvirus with #histones y'all! Medusavirus has them all - even a putative linker histone! Check out Medusavirus nucleosome structures (and more) in our new preprint by the amazing Chelsea Toner and Nicole Hoitsma, PhD biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

this guy thinks you should apply!

IMBA is recruiting! Apply!

Who am I if I’m not a #DevelopmentalBiologist ? A (long) thread. Today for #BlackInDevelopmental , I would like to tell you how I got here. I am a #FirstGen college attendee and graduate. I was raised in a single-parent household. We struggled financially when I was growing up. 1/

Happily missing #Eclipse2024 for another day in #StJohnUSVI