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So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in Nature Publishing. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by Peng Liu. nature.com/articles/s4158…. 🧵

Congrats to Dr Jake Montgomery Jake Montgomery for passing his PhD defense today! 🎉 Fantastic work on herbicide resistance in kochia and wheat as well as weed genomics

We have an open faculty search for TWO positions in microbiology and virology at the University of Illinois! We have world class core facilities and a fantastic collaborative group of young faculty...you could be next! Please RT!

OMFG IT WORKS?!?! tsPurple + 6xHis tag eluted in water Added 20uL of 100mg/mL silicon dioxide to 200uL of protein sample. Vortexed and incubated 5mins at room temp against empty sand control. Will do a better experiment tomorrow. WOW Sand link: a.co/d/09XCT0C

New work out, on the evolution and diversity of sex in waterhemp!

Next up in the Weed_Genomics webinar series hosted by Caio Brunharo is Dr Kenta Shirasawa on the T2T genome project! Great plant genomics speaker live at 4 pm JST on 30 September and recorded for later viewing

Very excited to see our paper finally out Nature Plants ! The manuscript is fully accessible from here: rdcu.be/dVjxX nature.com/articles/s4147…

Characterization of a novel eccDNA carrying both glyphosate and glufosinate target site due to co-duplication of their chromosomic native region - Ednaldo A. Borgato Luan Cutti Aimone Porri Ingo Meiners, Jens Lerchl, @GenomEric Jason Norsworthy

Curious about how major weed species are related? I published this phylogeny of ALS gene sequences from all the species currently hosted on WeedPedia along with the story of the international Weed Genomics Consortium. Check it out: doi.org/10.1564/v35_au…

Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1/8 An engineered insulin, NNC2215, whose activity is adjusted by glucose concentration Its affinity for the insulin receptor drops >3-fold when glucose levels fall - reducing the risk of hypoglycaemia nature.com/articles/s4158…

Many new machine learning tools for protein engineering have popped up in the last year. In these early days, it might be unclear how to actually use them for real molecular design tasks in industry. We demonstrate how to engineer a cholesterol drug and plastic degrading

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT! paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

New episode is available! This week we have Dr. Todd Gaines on to talk about some novel genetic methods to control weeds. He covers the evolution of genomics and how it's helping scientists understand and combat herbicide resistance. Thanks for listening!

CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments. Super proud to have made small contributions to this incredibly clever work by the amazing Chao Zhang and his PhD advisor S. Mirarab. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Right after the WSSA GSO Student Luncheon, we’ve got an exciting Panel Discussion lined up! Hear firsthand insights from experts across industry, academia, and government—perfect for anyone looking to grow their network and gain fresh perspectives. Bring your questions! 🙌

🚨 WSSA Student in-person Webinar! 🚨 Dive into Protein Modeling of Herbicide Resistance 🧬🌿 🗓️ Feb 25 ⏰ 4:45 💻 Bring your laptop & download pyMOL before the workshop! [pymol.org/2/]

New preprint! We find a novel signal of positive selection in georeferenced genotype data, then use this signal to identify in-progress selective sweeps in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Following the firing of thousands of young USDA scientists yesterday, I will no longer be posting on this platform. You can find me on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Latest work from the lab led by Yu-Hung Hung in The Plant Journal! We engineered a RNA-binding protein to sort and protect a Cas9 transcript for long term expression! Can be applied to any engineered transcript as a UTR: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…