Good to host students from University of Minnesota CIMMYT Toluca and share our experiences on accelerated wheat breeding activities

I'm going to be at #PAG30 this weekend! Looking forward to connecting with folks + hearing about all of the awesome research everyone is doing. If you're interested in TEs + structural variation in maize, swing by my talk this Saturday (1/14) at 6:40 PM in the TE session! 🌽🧬🌽

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If you're free at 3:30pm, come and check out how we are detecting TE presence/absence in a maize diversity panel at poster #969. Emily Josephs, Adrian Platts, and with collaboration with Manisha Munasinghe and Nathan Springer. #PAG30

Last week CIMMYT we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of graduate students UMN Plant Breeding Center for a study abroad trip. Fantastic to meet & interact with this engaged & enthusiastic group of future crop science leaders! Thanks @_mbbanting Claire Menard Michael Burns Julian Cooper

🚨 We've got a new preprint out 🚨 - We developed a series of logical frameworks for analyzing how transposable element content contributes to structural variation (SV) within maize 🌽🧬🌽. How'd we do this + what did we find?? - 1/11

On my way to #MGM2023, excited to meet and talk with folks -- I'll be talking Saturday at 7:20 PM about our work looking at how TEs contribute to structural variation in inbred maize lines 🌽🌽

Relatedly, check out these awesome posters by @Hashtag_Read , Claire Menard, and Nathan Catlin building upon this work!

We found an epigenetic clock in plants! Some DNA methylation changes possess a clock-like behavior. This "epimutation-clock" is orders of magnitude faster than DNA-based clocks and enables phylogenetic explorations on a scale of years to centuries. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey #MGM2023, come and check out our method for detecting TE presence/absence in a maize diversity panel at poster 224. Emily Josephs, Adrian Platts, and with collaboration with Manisha Munasinghe and Nathan Springer.

MGM 2023. “Transposons - the important part of the genome!” Damon Lisch A classic line.

How do LINE family retrotransposons jump around? Can we reprogram retrotransposons? What does this have to do with Rum and Raisin? Answers here and below!

“…the Mu promoter often provides gene expression levels and patterns that are similar to the wild-type gene.” Fascinating how this notoriously mutagenic TE has actually evolved to be relatively benign.

Swiftie maize geneticist + watercolor paints + time off = Corn (Taylor's Version) A thread 🧵

Very excited for #PAG31 this weekend! Looking forward to connecting with people & hearing about all of the awesome research everyone is doing. I'll be giving a talk on TEs & detecting new insertions with short-reads this Saturday (1/13) at 4:40 PM in the TE session. Stop by! 😁🌽

A genetic element aka a transposable element. Just say it ffs!! 😜🐒 nature.com/articles/s4158…

New Resource: "Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers" rdcu.be/d7YSt 11 genomes of wild and domesticated pepper: transposable elements have shaped the evolution of genome structure.