David Weidner did a great job presenting his research on transposable element regulation #SSASPB2022 ASPB

Tandi Germany with her poster describing the yellow leaf soybean mutant #SSASPB2022 ASPB

Kaili Renken, a high school student, represented Aiken Scholars Academy and USCA well in the poster session #SSASPB2022 ASPB

Thanks to the speakers at today's Transposable Elements Across Plant Genomes Workshop! It was a great set of talks #PlantBio2022

I climbed up to the top of a Sabal palmetto to collect tissue for the American Campus Tree Genome (ACTG) sequencing project! Funding campaign underway at giving.usca.edu/sfp/usca-palme… . Help us reach out 10000 goal so students can analyze this iconic species. Please retweet!

Always feels good to publish a story you have been working on for years! mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Come visit Lincoln, Nebraska! You will gain an appreciation of NE tour book slogan: “Not-At-All-What-You-Thought”

Excited to highlight recent work from the lab: CRISPR-targeted transposable element insertion for efficient plant genome engineering researchsquare.com/article/rs-267… Led by the terrific Peng Liu

The Slotkin Laboratory was a great host for our visit to the Danforth Center! They even included us on their Mississippi River float. The two undergraduate students I brought really benefited from seeing a productive plant science team.

2023 Biennial Cellular & Molecular Biology of the Soybean Conference #Soy2023

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…

Although Reviewer2 cringes at this term, we created a ‘synthetic CRISPR-Associated Transposon’ from the rice mPing/Pong TE. We built upon outstanding fundamental work done by Sue Wessler & Charles Nathan Hancock

Jumping on the jumping gene bandwagon to speed up plant breeding new.nsf.gov/news/jumping-j…

The most recent 5-year strategic plan (2024-2028) for the US soybean research community is now published: doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.2… I'm grateful to so many members of the soybean research community that contributed to this effort!

The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT! paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

So 🥳excited🎉 to publicly announce what we’ve been working on for over two years, 🔥Spearhead Bio🔥, which comes out of Danforth Center and my lab’s love of transposable elements!! danforthcenter.org/news/danforth-…

🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). Check out quotes from editors and popular content on our #TransposonDay2025 page 👉mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/transposonday2…

Spearhead Bio, a Danforth Technology Company startup, has received a grant from U.S. National Science Foundation that will allow them to fast-track their breakthrough genome engineering technology to develop corn varieties equipped for ag’s biggest challenges. Read more: loom.ly/zHfitlo

Excited to host Dr. Keith Slotkin Keith Slotkin for our Department of Genetics & Biochemistry Clemson University Genetics and Biochemistry seminar this Friday, Sept 12, at Clemson. He will discuss how plant cells control transposable elements. Join us and bring your questions. #PlantBiology #Genetics #Clemson

I will be hosting the Transposable Elements Workshop at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 33), to be held January 9-14, 2026, in San Diego. If you have cool stories about TEs to share, please contact me at [email protected].