🚨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…

1/ H3K27me3 mimicry has repeatedly emerged through evolution, but what's the physiological relevance? We show that JARID2 and PALI1 mimic H3K27me3 to antagonise PRC2 in vivo and restrict the spread of Polycomb domains. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to announce that we are looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join our lab @IMBA. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! I’m thankful for any retweet! imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

📌 PhD Funded Position in Characterization of inter-individual epigenetic variability in Arabidopsis at INRAE, France 🇫🇷, See details at: agristok.net/2025/03/25/phd… via Agristok

Thrilled to announce our study on the histone variant H2A.W & pericentromeric crossovers is now out in PNAS! We show that loss/knockdown of H2A.Ws boosts meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis pericentromeric regions: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🔬 New from the Farnung Lab: We have established a fully in vitro reconstituted chromatin replication system and we report the first cryo-EM snapshots of the human replisome engaging nucleosomes. 🧬✨tinyurl.com/replisome

Fascinating work showing that 4mC is a new eukaryotic silencing mark specific to genes & required for sperm function in Marchantia polymorpha.

🚀 New publication from the team led by @Chloroman in Nucleic Acids Res ! They engineered synthetic RNA editors to precisely rewrite organellar RNAs in plants. 🔗academic.oup.com/nar/article/53… #PlantBiotech #RNAediting #Chloroplast

Check out our paper on the cryo-EM analysis of chromatin derived from human cells! We have established a technically accessible method for analyzing the chromatin structure prepared from human cells. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gt…

Does someone work or know someone working with evening primroses (Oenothera app.)? I would be interested in starting some collaboration on that. RT please!

We have discovered plant cell penetrating peptides! Tag your protein of interest with these small peptides for direct protein delivery to plants! tiny.cc/8g5i001 Plantae | #NIFAImpacts

IVA Prime: automated primer design for in vivo assembly cloning ivaprime.com academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

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🧵 1/ New preprint! How do transcription factors (TFs) use intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) to find their target sites? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #TranscriptionFactors #IDPs #SingleMolecule #Biophysics

🚨 Preprint alert!! Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/ Bioinformatics is hard. But you know what makes it harder? Chaos. Your future self doesn’t need better tools. It needs better folders.

1/ How many hours do bioinformaticians lose matching sample IDs across assays? Too many. And it’s avoidable. Let’s talk about why this happens—and how to stop it.

Our latest paper is out in its final form in The Plant Cell We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context. Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

1/7 I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN NATURE!🌹 Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we shed light on Rosa canina’s bizarre reproduction! nature.com/articles/s4158… #Meiosis4eva #Centromere

I can only recommend working with Heïdi at the GReD, she is a terrific scientist and human being! Clermont-Ferrand has high quality of life, is affordable and the surrounding nature is charming.