How flowering plants compact their sperm? Our new paper published nature shows that a histone variant condenses plant sperm chromatin via phase separation. Thanks Toby Buttress Shengbo He Liang Wang, Shaoli Zhou, Pilong Li and all involved! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nature research paper: Histone H2B.8 compacts flowering plant sperm through chromatin phase separation go.nature.com/3Tg0FMB

Nice write up of our recent work John Innes Centre nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Hundreds of germline-specific Caenorhabditis promoters derived from ancestral and recent TE co-option events. If you missed the preprint (or if you enjoyed it!) the paper is now out here: tdy.es/zJUGD Thanks to Julie and others from the Ahringer lab and to @adernburg

A couple of friends and I are running 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours to fundraise for Cambridge City Foodbanks, please sponsor if you can! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/toby-butt…

My name has changed! Last month we got married on the North Devon coast and I start my new chapter as Emily Buttress 🌳

📢Please RT We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic postdoc to join our group and study the molecular mechanisms of stem cell behaviours during brain development and regeneration. For more info visit: bayinlab.com Deadline: October 15th jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42894/

A Caenorhabditis elegans embryo highlighting repressed chromatin in the nucleus by immunostaining against histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation, the hallmark of heterochromatin. Imaging was undertaken with a STED microscope by Toby Buttress, a postdoc in the Ahringer lab.

Last 5 five days to apply for these PhD projects spanning RNA biology and vitamin B12 in C. elegans! Yiliang Ding The Taylor Lab Martin Warren Quadram Institute John Innes Centre @biouea Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research NRPDTP #UKRIFLF

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Very happy to share that our paper describing the HUSH2 complex is now out online Molecular Cell !!!!! The first paper from my PhD Gurdon Institute and a big big labour of love (and blood, sweat, and tears) from our team 🧑🏽‍🔬👩‍🔬💓 Thread 🧵 below! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…