#GARNetResearchRoundup 📖 ZYP1 is required for obligate cross-over formation and cross-over interference in Arabidopsis 🏠 james Higgins Genetics@Leicester Plantsci Brum PNASNews pnas.org/content/118/14…

High throughput measuring of meiotic recombination rates in barley pollen nuclei using Crystal Digital PCR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

Crossover-active regions of the wheat genome are distinguished by DMC1, the chromosome axis, H3K27me3, and signatures of adaptation genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo… our first foray into the frankly gigantic wheat genome Genome Research funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research sLola

Really nice work from Mathilde Grelon's lab and The Schlögelhofer Lab on the plant meiotic DSB proteins! Conservation and divergence of meiotic DNA double strand break forming mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Save the date: The British Meiosis Meeting will take place 3rd/4th May 2022 at the University of Leicester. The aim will be for us to meet face-to-face, but if COVID restrictions are in place then it'll go online. Hopefully see you there! #meiosis4eva

I've updated some information for the British Meiosis meeting 2022. There will be no registration fees/restrictions, so please attend if this is of interest. www2.le.ac.uk/departments/ge…

It turns out that FANCM promotes class I crossovers and suppresses class II crossovers in wheat. See our latest work nature.com/articles/s4146… University of Leicester Ian Henderson Cristobal Uauy

Meiosis in allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica | Candida Nibau | pubmed.gov/35759495

The FANCM helicase promotes class I interfering crossovers and suppresses class II non-interfering crossovers in wheat meiosis. james Higgins University of Leicester go.nature.com/3yutFJ7

Our work on SPO11 and PRD3 (Mer2 homologue) is online. I started this study during my PhD, continued it during my postdoc and completed it in my lab. Great journey and fantastic collaborative effort! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Unravelling mechanisms that govern meiotic crossover formation in wheat | James D Higgins | pubmed.gov/35901450

Had a great time at the British Meiosis meeting in Edinburgh. Thanks to Owen Davies Lab and Ian R Adams for inviting us! Paul J Seear

Great workshop opportunity for early career scientists (industry and academic). Great lineup of speakers across plant & agricultural sciences. Subsidised by AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social Deadline to apply 🗓️ 15th October. Full details ⬇️

SAVE THE DATE: British Meiosis Meeting at Nottingham, April 24-25th 2024 Brilliant opportunity for PhD students and postdocs to present work. All welcome! Please Retweet!

Big congrats to Julia Julia Dluzewska who did a really incredible work 🤯👏and the whole team! Wojtek Dziegielewski Maja Szymanska-Lejman Monika Gazecka, plus our great collaborators Ian Henderson james Higgins Here is the PDF: rdcu.be/dphfr

Our latest paper on SCEP3 suggests that CO interference is required to reduce numbers of COs for individual pairs to <3 so that there enough for all chromosomes to maintain the obligate CO nature.com/articles/s4147…