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Thank you to my amazing lab members & colleagues, and the support from IMBA imbavienna.bsky.social Austrian Academy of Sciences European Research Council (ERC) for making our science possible. This is why we love curiosity-driven science. From time to time, we are fortunate enough to peek into the unknown and not return empty handed

"Springende Gene" 🧬 #ÖAW-Forscher:innen Alejandro Burga Sonya Widen Israel Campo Bes des IMBA imbavienna.bsky.social entdeckten, wie Gene zwischen verschiedenen Arten übertragen werden können 😮 Mehr dazu: oeaw.ac.at/imba/research-…

Welcome to the wild world of transposons! Mavericks viral-like elements captured and transferred genes across 🪱 species. One transferred gene then evolved into toxin-antitoxin system carried by yet another transposon! Very cool work by Alejandro Burga et al! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Here are 10 things I wish I had known about GMO and gene technology when I was a member of the Green Party/anti-GMO advocate.

Excited to share the final version of my Postdoc work in the StarkLab on mapping and unravelling the regulatory specificities between transcriptional corepressors (CoRs) and active enhancers. (1/5) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Maverick — top gun of horizontal gene transfer go.nature.com/3PXooTA #ResearchHighlight by @LinkoNRG #GenomeEvolution

If we ever find a suppressor of Mavericks, we should call it "Iceman" 😀 Thanks Nature Reviews Genetics for highlighting our recent work :)

Even though I left zebrafish development research over 3 years ago, watching the first day (one day!) of embryonic development will never not blow my mind. What an incredible thing to see.

Join us at Vienna BioCenter next year for #evoworm2024 in the world's most liveable city!

‼️ In this new #PrePrint, IMBA Research Associate Kirsten-Andre Senti and the Brennecke Lab investigate the evolutionary diversification of insect endogenous retroviruses (iERVs) in the fruit fly 🪰🦠🧬 #Drosophila #fruitfly #transposon #evolution #iERV #iERVs #piRNA #smallRNA

Did you know that bacterial #viruses glue #RNA to proteins? We discovered that a T4 #phage #ART links NAD-RNA to E. coli proteins. We call this an #RNAylation. Great collaboration with Jaeschke Lab and Urlaub Lab. Congratulations to Maik Wolfram-Schauerte 🍾 nature.com/articles/s4158…

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 30 fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which opens today. Further details: vbcphd.at IMP IMBA imbavienna.bsky.social GMI Vienna gmivienna.bsky.social Max Perutz Labs Vienna Universität Wien MedUni Wien

Thanks Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte! Always a pleasure to chat about this with the father of Mavericks. See you at my poster for round 2, if you've put your brain back together in time :)

We just updated our large database of PhD fellowships. For each of the 190 entries, we provide description of the fellowship, link, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Downlonad this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Our next "IMPloyable talent" interview features Jelle Jacobs, postdoc in the StarkLab & aspiring #youngPI. Jelle would like to apply his expertise in #generegulation to explore the molecular basis of memory formation. Read on & get in touch! ⬇️ imp.ac.at/career/beyond/…

💥Excited to unleash ENCOTE: Encyclopedia of Transposable Elements with cis-regulatory activity in the human genome! Collab w Ting Wang for #ENCODE led by🔥trio Alan Du, Jason Chobirko & Xiaoyu Zhuo TEs = 25% of all cCREs = 200,000+ elements!! Deep dive! 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So pumped to be a part of this systems virology journal club series🦠! Tune in for all the exciting talks, link to free registration below 🥳

Happy to finally share the peer-reviewed version of this work! In case you missed it on biorxiv, read on to learn about a battle between zinc fingers and transposable elements, playing out across 750 million years of animal evolution... genome.cshlp.org/content/33/8/1…

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Interested in transposable elements and fungi? Come join us at Uppsala University. I'm currently hiring a PhD student to work on developing a model system to observe horizontal transfer of giant transposable elements (Starships) under lab conditions. uu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…