I am beyond thrilled to share that I will be joining the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor in March 2025. Go archaea!!

Still time to apply for this PhD position to study somatic evolution in plants with Max Brown 🌱 and myself. Lots to explore in this field!

H3K4me1 recruits DNA repair proteins in plants academic.oup.com/plcell/article… interesting findings! Grey Monroe The Plant Cell

Lucky to be part of such a great team. New lab photos from resident photographer and PhD student Kehan Zhao💚

Preparations on the way! #EMBOplantGenome24 Can't wait for the start! Eva Dvorak Tomastikova Aleš Pečinka

Fantastic new study from a collaboration of two former WeigelWorld postdocs/group leaders: A phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors in metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria Hernán A. Burbano & Talia Karasov science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The @Slotkin_lab Danforth Center is hiring a new laboratory technician. Lots of cool work to be done on transposable elements! Please retweet to spread the word! paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

Scientific journal nature has published research authored by scientists in our Keith Slotkin. The publication focuses on a technology called TATSI, which enables faster and less expensive production of improved plants. Learn more: loom.ly/cTNDkKc

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…. 🧵

So proud to have been chosen to serve OfficialSMBE as president-elect. The society has inspired me in so many ways. I am glad to be granted the chance to promote its values. Thanks members! #SMBE2024

Maybe the best news of the year! New Director at the MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics/Max Planck Society 🥳 Nicola Iovino Lab Nicola Iovino is the new Director of the Department of Developmental Epigenetics – studying the impact of epigenetics on biological diversity & evolution. More: ie-freiburg.mpg.de/5852277/2024_0…

The real point is control: transposons as controlling elements in evolution, development and disease 20-22th Nov @ University of Leicester genetics.org.uk/events/the-rea… Early bird registration deadline approaching! The Genetics Society Fantastic speaker line-up and opportunities for talks

Very excited to share that our new work is finally out🎉 We demonstrate that the chromatin remodeling factor DDM1 “opens” the nucleosome structure. nature.com/articles/s4146… You can also access to the PDF file as bellow: rdcu.be/dNq8u

So excited that our work on the near century long Composite Cross experiments is now out in Science Magazine Congrats to all the awesome contributors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A couple of great lab talk/poster combos at #icar2024 this year. Starts with Mariele Lensink (co-advised with Grey Monroe) talking about mutation rate heterogeneity and evolution Tuesday in session C12. For bonus info, stop by poster and ask about trans plasticity work.

Happy to share our new preprint, reviewing the expansion of the MutS gene family in plants. Feedback welcome! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧵🌳 Our new manuscript is out! We explored how somatic mutations in trees spread and propagate through different layers of the plant, improving our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of plant growth and diversity. #PlantScience #Genomics doi.org/10.1186/s13059…

Interested in the evolution of expression noise and how it affects gene retention following duplication? Come to my talk at 10:15 on Sat (516B)!! This is part of the thematic symposium organized by Daniel Weinreich Dan Weinreich and Gonzalez Bravo Ignacio #Evol2024

I am hiring a postdoc to work on genomics of parasite adaptation to different hosts #Evolution psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…