Come & study at the top University for Biological Sciences Research according to the two most recent Research Excellence Frameworks (2014 & 2021). Spaces still available on our Biological & Biomedical Sciences courses. #Clearing2024 #UCASClearing #ClearingAdvice #ClearingHelp

Congrats to Dr Hajk-Georg Drost who's been awarded a The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. The funding allows Hajk to use computational methods to study billions of proteins at tree of life scale with the aim to understand where & how disease causing errors occur. buff.ly/3yuZWT9

If you are looking for a postdoc opportunity in meiosis and want to work at the very frontier of one of the hottest topics in the field, don't miss this one!

“Overly competitive labs where students do not support one another can hinder personal and collective growth.” Well-said, Sophien Kamoun. Prospective PhD students should read this piece on red flags to look out for when selecting a lab: bit.ly/3zSSZf1

This paper led by Dr. Atsushi Shimada is out Nature Plants! Centromere function can be dependent on a few TEs, and in RNAi mutants, small RNAs targetting these TEs are enough to reestablish normal chromosome segregation! Crazy! nature.com/articles/s4147…

Busy month with many excellent meetings (Plant Energy Management, EMA2024, upcoming AMPK2024). So, here is a LATE thread on our most recent work with Benoit Landrein, Henrik Jönsson, Pau Formosa-Jordan, and John Lunn doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Sixteen years ago I went to Portugal to start my lab in this unique place. I am VERY sad to see it in its ashes now. RIP IGC and thank you to all of those that made it so special 💔💔💔

Really enjoyed writing this Nature Plants news featuring the work by Yuan et al. rdcu.be/dVSnS showing that RNA polymerase V (Pol V) plays a role in regulating plant immunity, independently of its well-established function in RdDM and DNA methylation!🧐🧬🍃🌱

Wonderful news!! #sRNA rules!!🎊 Very very well deserved, but the importance of miRNA research on plants have been overlooked again.🌱 #plantblindness

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A transcriptomic molecular hourglass in the third most complex multicellular eukaryotic group! Congratulations to all authors, very nice job 🦠

As a proud co-advisor of Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong who showed remarkable intellectual independence to enable this project, check out his amazing R package {phylomapr} and new {myTAI2} functions which will make your own research much easier: 🧑‍💻 github.com/LotharukpongJS… 🍸 github.com/drostlab/myTAI

What are the immediate consequences of genome doubling on chromatin accessibility & transcription, and how do these change over evolution? Read our latest paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution to find out! Big shoutout to co-authors Kirsten Bomblies and Adrián Gonzalo ✨ [1/6] academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

The degree to which researchers in animal models completely ignore plants when making sweeping generalizations about phenomena common to all eukaryotes is disappointing, particularly when the plant research is obviously relevant.

A new 3D chromatin 🧬map in brown algae is out Nature Communications ! New insights on UV chromosome structure and an acient endogenous viral element (EVE) interacts with telomeres! Congratulations Pengfei Liu, Susana Coelho, Chang Liu and all team @MPI_Bio rdcu.be/dZAqH

The PhaeoExplorer paper is finally out! A collaboration of 50 research groups worldwide, generating genomic data for all major brown algal groups and conducting extensive analyses to unravel brown algal evolution. Props to everyone involved! 🎉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New paper, now published in nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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