Wonderful workshops on Science Communication by Dr. Lisa Steinhauser and on Visual Storytelling by Dr. Jo Richers 🔬 on first day of MPI PhD retreat 2023 @MPI_Bio

Fresh pre-print out of the department for algal development and evolution @MPI_Bio! Great work starting to uncover how U and V chromosomes operate by Jérômine VIGNEAU, Michael Borg, Susana Coelho and others.

Amazing interactive poster on the evolution of land plants MadLand follow the link and click in it! 🖱️ madland.science/greening.php

What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by Marleny García Lozano & out today in Current Biology! cell.com/current-biolog… 🧵1/n

Fantastic talk to wrap up day 1 of #EESPlantDiversity - Michael Borg on developing Bostrychia as a model rhodophyte, a route into studying this independent instance of complex multicellularity.

A stimulating and fun EMBL Events meeting topped off with a well-deserved prize for Romy Petroll! Very proud! What an excellent start to her career #EESPlantDiversity

Extremely thrilled to share that the Zygnema #genomes paper is now out Nature Genetics We hope that this will be a great resource for all #plantsci #algae MadLand #evolution rdcu.be/dGnWJ

Last month we had the pleasure of hosting the inaugural edition of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Diversity of plants: from genomes to metabolism' at the Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg 🪴 Four participants received a best poster prize for their outstanding work in the field.

🌱🌱 check out the amazing MAdLand poster series by @SchreiberMona in the Weihenstephaner Gardens of the HSWT in Freising TU München , more details here: hswt.de/news-list/deta…

Preprint alert 🚨 As we gear up to share out exploits in red algae, we took a detour down the green lineage to piece together the evolutionary dyanmics of epigenetic gene silencing in plants 🌱🤓 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Insights into the molecular bases of multicellular development from brown algae Read this #DevSIDiversity Review Article from Rita Batista, Liping Wang, Kenny Bogaert and Susana Coelho @MPI_Bio: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

I wrote a Quick Guide on Red Algae for Current Biology, check it out for some beautiful images ❤️

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this Trends in Microbiology article, Marleny García Lozano & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Does the aggregation of complex multicellularity follow a universal developmental pattern across the eukaryotic tree of life? Thrilled to announce that we found a convergently evolved transcriptomic hourglass pattern in brown algal development. nature 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am super happy my first first-author paper is out (nature.com/articles/s4158…)! There’s even a thoughtful “news and views” along with it (nature.com/articles/d4158…). Here is my summary of our work in 20 tweets:

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…

🧬 MSc & PhD opportunities in evolutionary genomics! Join my lab at Cinvestav Irapuato to develop projects around: - Taxonomically-restricted genes - De novo gene birth dynamics - Pseudogene co-option 📍 More info: josuebarrera.owlstown.net/projects 📩 Apply: [email protected]

Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying to our wonderful team in Dundee! dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportuni…