How TEs gain and lose between tropical and temperate maize inbreds? We found that tropical corns have 35Mb more TEs than temperates, and it's mainly due to a small number of LTR families that are young, less methylated, and more expressed in tropical maize.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39251347/

Who's hungry? I've never tried this mexican delicacy, and never saw it in @cshl fields before! #cornsmut

Happy to announce that the PEpiTE lab is officially open since 2 weeks now at the Institute of Biology of École normale supérieure | PSL in Paris! Studying all things related to Polyploidy, Epigenetics and TEs - feel free to get in touch for postdocs / PhD/ Master opportunities! IBENS Université PSL

Fun outreach from our highland adaptation grant. A video game for primary school kids to learn about maize, evolution, and archaeology. play.google.com/store/apps/det…

🚨 Excited to share this #preprint from my postdoc in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz & many others! Using pan-genomics & pan-genetics across the Solanum genus 🍅🥔🍆 we reveal gene duplications 🧬 as contingencies in crop engineering. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Now out in Nature Communications! With additional data documenting reduced DNA methylation associated with DNG targets in pollen - nature.com/articles/s4146…

New Article: "An RdDM-independent function of Pol V transcripts in gene regulation and plant defence" rdcu.be/dVzZd With News & Views: "RNA polymerase V: From RdDM to plant defence" rdcu.be/dVz0c

Very proud to share our second pre-print of the year, this time on the positive crosstalk between DNA methylation and Polycomb-group proteins at Arabidopsis transposable elements (TEs): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint! An atlas of conserved TF binding sites across flowering plants generated with multiplexed DAP-seq. When integrated with multi-species snRNA- and snATAC-seq reveals how TF activity shapes development and stress responses at the cellular level.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Shelling season is like a box of chocolate.. and this is a particularly beautiful and genetically complex one!

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

Have we been over-estimating the impact of m6A? Possibly! We present our evidence here New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… "mRNA ADENOSINE METHYLASE promotes drought tolerance through N6‐methyladenosine‐dependent and independent impacts on mRNA regulation in Arabidopsis"

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It is my absolute pleasure to share my incredible postdoc Dawei's Dawei Dai manuscript on epigenetics and aging in Arabidopsis. It is the work I am most proud of thus far in my career, and every figure has a breakthrough that we are excited about biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

My co-first author paper now out in nature SWR1 specifically exchanges H2A/H2B dimers for Htz1/H2B dimers in nucleosomes. Here we show double dimer exchange can be processive, explaining how SWR1 ‘proofreads’ dimer identity in a nucleosome. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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…

Interested in chromatin and transcription in plants?🌱🧬 looking for a lab to do a postdoc? 🤓 our lab invites applicants for the following calls: #JuanDeLaCierva from Agencia Estatal de Investigación tinyurl.com/y78ueh5v and #CIAPOS from GVA Educació tinyurl.com/bmrex8cc Interested, please PM!!

Ever wondered how transcription choreographs histone modifications? Our work reveals the basis of co-transcriptional H3K36me3 by SETD2. We visualize how a histone writer coordinates with the transcription machinery! This is the magnus opus of Jon Markert tinyurl.com/setd2

Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis nature from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres nature.com/articles/s4158…