New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in Science Magazine, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 tracks on our browser (Epigenetics and DNA Binding) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The next time you hear the phrase “causal SNP”…

Two new positions open at Danforth Center to collaborate with Spearhead_Bio! danforthcenter.org/careers/

Old school, but it works great

The nice thing about having a field season is that you don't have to pay someone else so that you can exercise.

Just spend three hours reviewing a paper, which is fine, except its three hours I didn't have to spend and I wasn't paid for it. Then again, it's summer, and no grant, so no one is paying me. So, win-win I guess.

In #GENETICS, Elli Cryan, Daniel J Kliebenstein, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, & colleagues identified sites under positive selection, estimated the timing of gene & loci divergence, and discovered a siRNA-mediated mechanism of silencing the reproductive barrier in #maize: buff.ly/cQFkzfP

New Resource: "Transcription factor binding divergence drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation in maize" rdcu.be/esSwW Genome-wide comparative analysis of DNA binding for 200 transcription factors in two maize inbred lines.

My happy place.

Wise words from my friend John Fowler. Gutting funding basic research is a profoundly bad idea. Shocking that this has been flying under the radar and that it well might happen.

🚨 Science Communication #OpportunityAlert: The McClintock Letters! Federal funding for scientific research is under unprecedented threat. But how the public responds to this threat depends on the stories they hear, and who they hear them from. Direct communication is how we

Morning at the beginning of a new field season in the paradise that is…Indiana

These keep popping up and I don’t know why

Sedona is spectacular.

We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: sites.google.com/view/bioinfowo…

This is one of the most beautiful hikes I've ever taken.

Take a look at our article! nature.com/articles/s4146…

A positive sign: Congress appears ready to reject Trump’s devastating proposed cuts to science funding, including for the NSF.

Cool mutant