Very excited to have been awarded my first postdoctoral fellowship, to study chromatin architecture dynamics during adaptation to polyploidy :) Thanks to Kirsten Bomblies⁩, Bomblies lab members and @PlantEvolution⁩ for their support! snf.ch/en/nZYE5j2PuX7…

1/ Blast season in Europe has started!! x.com/TheSainsburyLa… bio.mpg.de/292621/news

1/6 Happy to see the final chapter of my PhD thesis now published in itou nobumasa -> "Deleterious Phenotypes in Wild Arabidopsis arenosa Populations Are Common and Linked to Runs of Homozygosity" academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva… [a thread]

A perfect snowy morning in Les Diablerets to conclude the SwissPLANT Early Career Meeting and conference. Excellent talks in diverse topics of plant science, and a very welcoming academic community! :)

Excited to share our latest work 'Multiple horizontal mini-chromosome transfers drive genome evolution of clonal blast fungus lineages' biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Sergio Latorre Angus Malmgren Adeline Harant Joe Win Yu Sugihara Hernán A. Burbano Sophien Kamoun Thorsten Langner (1/9)

Grateful to Kirsten Bomblies and all co-authors for the opportunity to be a part of this cool project! We describe how pollen tube growth is defective in new polyploids & reduces their fertility, and how naturally evolved polyploids find a solution to overcome this challenge

🧬Transposable elements are intriguing auto-replicative genomic units. But how do they encode the factors necessary for mobilization? How are they regulated? how do they evolve?🤔. Excited to share our latest research addressing these questions! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0….🧵

My first ETH PhD student, Amrita Möhl-Raj, graduated & did a great job! At the Apero, a reunion of some ex-Weigel folk (@PlantEvolution) - former technician (me), former postdoc Francois Parcy (@Francois_Parcy) and former PhD student, now Postdoc here, Thanvi Srikant (Thanvi Srikant)

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…. 🧵

🧬Excited to share our latest pre-print! We've developed a rapid eQTL analysis approach using single-cell/nucleus RNA sequencing of Arabidopsis pollen nuclei. This method uncovers cis- & trans-eQTLs, including a master regulator of sperm cell development! 🌱📊 #PlantScience #eQTL

We present a manuscript in which we describe the genetics of natural variation in the ploidy of A. lyrata from the White Sea to the Bering Strait, resequencing whole genomes of > 400 A. lyrata from herbarium and seed collections. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see our peer-reviewed work on recurrent horizontal mini-chromosome transfer in the blast fungus now out! ✨ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Thanks team 🌈 Sergio Latorre Thorsten Langner Sophien Kamoun Hernán A. Burbano Yu Sugihara Joe Win Adeline Harant Angus Malmgren

Our latest research on position-dependent transcriptional regulatory sequences in plants is now published! 🌿 More details in our preprint tweet and in this thread! 👇 nature.com/articles/s4158… 📄🔍 (1/5)

It is my absolute pleasure to share my incredible postdoc Dawei's Dawei Dai manuscript on epigenetics and aging in Arabidopsis. It is the work I am most proud of thus far in my career, and every figure has a breakthrough that we are excited about biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…