Sophie Maiwald Dresden with Tony Heitkam 🌱🔍💚 evolving retrotransposons and 5S rDNA together. Lots of coevolution, but no full 5S rRNA gene with retrotransposon LTR#IBC2024

Beautiful and hard work on getting full assembly of rDNA by Pat Heslop-Harrison I was so much into it I didn't take a pic! Thanks Pat for sharing slides #OpenAccess #IBC2024

Ped Casacuberta Barcelona opens transposon TE transposable element session @Ibc2024 #IBC2024 Great use of long read assemblies of 2x and 4x cotton showing different behaviours of different elements

Christian Parisod shows TE-driven based genome fractionation in Brassicaeae, along with recent activities, methylation and centromeric abundance driving reorganization. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #IBC2024

We continue with Christian Parisod at the #Transposon_takeover session at the #IBC2024. He presents dynamics of centromeric transposable elements. He uses Biscutella spp. as model, with a recent WGD (11.5 MYA). Centromeres in these species are not conserved. (1/2)

Diversity of Transposable Elements TE in beet Beta species by Nicola Schmidt showing huge differences in TEs with parallels in different taxonomic groups onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #IBC2024

#Transposon_takeover session at the #IBC2024 continues with Nicola Schmidt who is presenting about repeats and stable chromosomes in sugar beet. Different species have different ploidy levels with different content in repeat, mostly LTR retrotransposons (1/2)

Trude Schawarzacher & Pat Heslop-Harrison continue in this #transposon_takeover session at #IBC2024 with a great presentation about ERPVs, diversity and evolution. They are wide spread in plants. ePVCV are clustered with Ty3-gypsy TE in petunia (1/2)

I had such a blast talking to fellow transposon obsessives about New Caledonian Diospyros 🧬🌱 thank you to the organisers for laying on such a fabulous symposium Tony Heitkam 🌱🔍💚 Pat Heslop-Harrison Sara Lopez-Gomollon 🙏 #IBC2024

Amazing presentations by our #master students School of Biosciences, University of Kent University of Kent during the poster session! Congratulations! #ECR

Our new paper is out! LARGE-PD Huge 5 years effort to pull all these families and data together. Originally funded by a American Parkinson Disease Association grant! Incredibly thankful to all our collaborators but especially to all the participants that made this possible! doi.org/10.1002/mds.29…

Check out my brief conversation with The Plant Journal on starting my lab MPIMP Potsdam Golm 🌱🧪 after postdoc GMI Vienna, what I learned along the way and other tidbits. By the way, the lab is now bigger! Thank you Haim Treves for making this happen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

Wow!!! 👏👏 Congrats Hajk!!

I'm recruiting a postdoc to work on the evolutionary genetics of introgression, following on our recent work (doi.org/10.1126/scienc…). This is a 2yr joint position w/ collaborators at Huazhong Agricultural University, and the pdoc will spend 1 year at each locale. Please share!

The Plant Journal is calling for new reviewers to expand the breadth of our reviewers wrt expertise/diversity/location/career stage. Reviewers are crucial and much appreciated & as a SEB journal, reviewing efforts also support science & scientists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/136531…

The Plant Journal is calling for new reviewers to expand the breadth of our reviewers wrt expertise/diversity/location/career stage. Reviewers are crucial and much appreciated & as a @sebiology journal, reviewing efforts also support science & scientists tinyurl.com/ehvnf5cz

Are you considering to Study Biosciences either at undergraduate or postgraduate level? You can always consider School of Biosciences, University of Kent ! University of Kent | University of Kent | Virtual Experience #Clearing youtu.be/Roa--hsifhk?si…

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the The Linnean Society of London, the first public announcement of the theory. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

New fresh work from Katie Jeynes-Cupper in the lab! The supporting manuscript to our Bioconductor packadge #mobileRNA is available on bioRxiv! This describes an original approach for the analysis of mobile RNA molecules in #plant #grafting! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Hard to believe that 5 years have passed since the world lost two bright & shining stars. Taking a moment at Cam Botanic Garden to reflect & remember to "be more Greg" during a busy week in Cambridge. Here's some of the work he shared whilst NIAB acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…