We present a manuscript in which we describe the genetics of natural variation in the ploidy of A. lyrata from the White Sea to the Bering Strait, resequencing whole genomes of > 400 A. lyrata from herbarium and seed collections. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Last few days for the pre-registration for the Non-seed meeting in Cambridge this December. We already have many participants and a preliminary set of speakers. Please, fill out the form soon if anybody else is interested.

Our next meeting in November is now sold out for in-person attendance but you can still join us online! Find out more here: genetics.org.uk/events/the-rea…

Why are centromeres so beautiful?!? Very much recommend ModDotPlot for exploring and visualising complex repeat regions Alex Sweeten Michael Schatz Adam Phillippy github.com/marbl/ModDotPl…

Retrotransposon addiction promotes centromere function via epigenetically activated small RNAs nature.com/articles/s4147… Nature Plants

We assembled 17 diverse *A. thaliana* (Ath) genomes using PacBio #CCS and annotated them using PacBio #isoseq reads that were obtained by challenging these accessions with three different Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis (Har) strains.

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Colmena de abejas en modo defensivo ☠️🐝

intlpag.org/2025/ I'm orgnanizing the Meiotic Recombination Workshop at the PAG (plant and animal genome) conference next January. If you have a cool story to share, drop me an email to be considered as a speaker. #PAG32 #Meiosis4ever

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Published today in nature, we describe an approach for single-molecule protein reading on Oxford Nanopore arrays. By utilizing ClpX unfoldase to ratchet proteins through a CsgG nanopore, we achieved single-amino-acid sensitivity. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Got tasty red-fleshed #Apples from this year’s harvest. These have high levels of expression of MYB10 gene. My kids love them. Would you be willing to try? #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics

NEWS - Royal Society Fellowship Awarded to Outstanding Early Career Researcher Congratulations to Dr Chris Morgan Chris Morgan who has been awarded a Royal Society The Royal Society Fellowship to carry forward his exciting investigations into meiosis. okt.to/eNPRr3

Excited to announce the speaker lineup for 2024-2025!

Interested in piRNAs and transposon DNA methylation? Our new collaborative work revels a key mechanism underpinning the precision of piRNA-guided LINE1 methylation. Congratulation to all the authors! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Distinct and interdependent functions of three RING proteins regulate recombination during mammalian meiosis - an important update to include new analysis of oocytes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our single cell analysis of dynamic transcriptional states in germinating embryos is on the cover of Nature Plants today. Well done Lim Chee Liew Lucas Auroux Quentin Gouil Yue YOU Marina Oliva Oliver Berkowitz Marta Peirats and team! La Trobe University @Plants4Space doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

🚨 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…