Congratulations to Professors Peng Chen, CornellChemistry, and Mariana Wolfner '74, Cornell MBG!

They have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Happy to share our last work: 'Alternative silencing states of Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Extremely cool work (though no TEs involved… yet) 👇

Massively parallel jumping assay (MPJA). High throughput assay to assess the jumping potential of thousands of retrotransposon sequences/haplotypes. Amazing work by Navneet Matharu, Jingjing_Zhao, Martin Kircher and many others. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Startups probe hidden viruses in the ‘dark genome’ to treat disease - read: the industry wakes up nature.com/articles/s4158…

Exciting news from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - congratulations to MBG's Distinguished Professor Mariana Wolfner!
Mariana Wolfner Lab
news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

#ICTE2024 was a total blast! HUGE THANKS to the organizers: Pascale Lesage Gael Cristofari Emilie Brasset Rita Rebollo (ritarebollo.bsky.social) Didier Mazel Clement Gilbert & Clementine Vitte 🙏❤️🧬

One of the best things about conferences is to catch up with former mentees 🥰 here with a phenomenal trio of prior postdocs: Manvendra (Manu) Singh Clement Gilbert; Clément Goubert 🥖 [email protected] at #ICTE2024

Omg !!! I'm so honored!! Best meeting with the best people! #TErules

This was my first #transposon conference since 2019 and I did remember correctly that the TE community is just awesome. Thank you very much for organising such an inspiring and exciting conference. Going back home with a lot of cool new ideas International congress on transposable elements #ICTE2024

⁉️Interested in transposable elements⁉️
⁉️Do you want to learn how to analyse them⁉️

Join us in June for this great online course with Valentina Peona & Clément Goubert 🥖 [email protected] physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

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Totally 🤯 by Sam Sternberg talk at #ICTE2024 : phages have coopted bacterial RNA-guided transposons into RNA-guided transcription factors to precisely manipulate host gene expression! Likely used for inter-phage warfare!

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

An avalanche of cool talks
at #icte2024 - the transposon field is on 🔥🔥🔥

And... It is out! Great collaboration with Maaria Kankare #ICTE2024

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Totally wild story by Alex de Mendoza: DNA methyl transferase unique to Amoebidium unicellular holozoan (sponge-like) silences various endogenous giant viruses and transposons!
#icte2024

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Exciting talk by Deborah Bourc’his on novel transcriptional repressor complex acting on IAP retrotransposons in mouse. Beautiful work. The power of genetic screens! #icte2024

Brilliant keynote by Sandra DuharcourtLab on the extraordinary epigenetic gymnastics of TE DNA elimination in ciliates. So much good science at #ICTE2024 it’s guaranteed to send me back home with no brain left 🤯🤯🤯

Cool talk by Julia Fuchs on how Line 1 ORF1 might compromise nuclear integrity in neurons (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) #ICTE2024 ORF1 interacts with Lamin B, causes Lamin delocalization; a causal role for L1 in neurodegeneration!

(My brain cannot take in more 🤯 information!)

Really intriguing new results from Josh Dubnau 🇵🇸 implicating HERV-K in TDP-43 pathology that characterizes several neurodegenerative diseases #ICTE2024

What’s in our genome:
🧬~1% codes for cellular proteins
🧬~54% is transposable elements and other repeats, including 17% LINE1 and 10% Alu SINEs
🧬~45% is non-coding DNA of unknown origin (probably mostly ancient TEs)

As always, superb talk by Kathleen Helen Burns at #ICTE2024