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👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

The latest work from ours and @vram142.bsky.social lab is out! True teamwork to visualize nascent chromatin with strand resolution, using a fully reconstituted system. Very proud of superstar-PhD student Bruna, and @palindromephd.bsky.social. Learning so much from Vijay’s amazing technologies! RT

🌊 Season Finale Out Now! What does it really mean to “make it” in academia? A big lab? Prestigious awards? In Ep 5 of the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast, we challenge traditional definitions of success and explore new ways to measure excellence in science. 🔗 Listen now: https://loom.ly/N1a1jSg

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

On my way to Paris and am so(!) looking forward to this visit.. … and to the crepe I will have tonight. And tomorrow night. And..

Very excited to share an excellent review from @teresa-urli.bsky.social, published one week before her PhD defense! We did a deep dive into the fascinating biology of the variant Polycomb complex, PRC1.6 (1/5) journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

My thesis work has been published! I am so grateful for everyone who contributed to this study and the entire Cohen lab for their support 🥳🤩 @cohenlab.bsky.social @jcb.org rupress.org/jcb/article-...

Excited to share my postdoc work, out on bioRxiv today! Histones package DNA into nucleosomes to form the building blocks of chromatin, but how modular and programmable is this system? 1/9

🔖Last review from the lab👇 'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models' academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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You link #phenotype 🦜 to #genotype 🧬 with #comparative #genomics 💻? This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies. Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social! Please share! 🙂

Why do speciation rates vary across the tree of life? Some of the best yet most underappreciated places for this investigation are natural hybrid zones. This preprint takes you to the hybrid zones in the origin of species to find a clue. 👉 shorturl.at/N7FXE #Speciation #Evolution #hybridization

EpiSci - 🧪 - 🧬- 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

In a new GBE Review, @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social & J. Douglas give an overview on protein structural phylogenetics, how to obtain evolutionary insights from structural data, and key applications and future directions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf139 #genome #evolution

Hey Drosophilists: Might you maintain Fuyama's original gynogenetic "gyn-F9" (BDSC #5353) stock in your library? The current stock from Bloomington is not producing progeny with ms(k81) males. Thank you!!!

So long #ESEB2025! Exciting science & inclusive environment, we will all miss Barcelona. Special thanks to cecilecourret.bsky.social & Beatriz Navarro Dominguez for organizing to the Conflicts symposium. Very grateful for the invite tambien #evolution

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

Great talks at EUEA and JSM award receipient talks ! #ESEB2025

Hello World! So much going on in the field and much to discover. Lucky to have participated and witnessed all this enlightening science at #ESEB2025. Interested in a postdoc uncovering novel evolutionary conflicts involving chromatin? Please reach out, we are hiring. #MolaroLab #watwat @igred.fr

Science meets music en Gracia! #ESEB2025 #UB

At the end of his #ESEB2025 plenary on deep-time palaeogenomes, Love Dalén shared his history of trying to obtain a big grant for his work. It eventually worked out!

New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Here we go #ESEB2025

Mike Lynch: "The original mitochondrion must've been a parasite ... you don't go into a cell to be enslaved." #eseb2025

Michael Lynch kicks off #ESEB2025 proposing a parasitic origin for ribosomes

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

I'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really beautiful work led by Jessica Leismann in Joan Barau’s lab @imbmainz.bsky.social . If you like elegant mouse genetics, the transposon arms race, and a healthy dose of epigenetics, this one’s for you. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @emboreports.org

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

After 10 years of work, a complete telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome for C. elegans finally exists: it has 106 Mb rather than the textbook 100.3 Mb, and up to 366 additional genes. genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...

Agreed, truly a team effort - but a huge amount of credit to @kataruka.bsky.social for her leadership. Smarca5 is important for chromatin remodeling in DNA damage repair during male meiosis (among other things!)

I need you, and I can't stress this enough, to read this paper by Margaret Kidwell et al. on horizontal transfer of P elements from mites to flies and back...from *1991*: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GCUA has been updated to v2.5.1. It has some nice visualisations and the menu system got overhauled. It will do some parallelisations- particularly when reading in big files and if the dataset is big, then it only holds codon counts in memory, not sequences. See here: github.com/mol-evol/gcua

Spread the news! We are excited to expand our research team, working on cellular senescence, at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52026/ jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52027/

Our new story in Nature Genetics: endogenous retroviruses can produce viral-like particles in the embryo resulting in apoptosis and congenital malformation. If this would happen in human, it wouldn't leave a trace. No WGS or other analysis would identify this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello World ! This week we celebrate our summer interns Elise and Thomas. Elise characterized novel mouse models, while Thomas developed novel cross-species RNA-seq scripts. Proud of my team for mentoring these young scientists! #MolaroLab #ProudPI #BrightFuture @naell-lenoir.bsky.social @igred.fr

For those at #SMBE2025, here's the cool @plosbiology.org Drosophila "museomics" paper name-checked by @philipphummer.bsky.social at the start of his talk on TE spread in global D. melanogaster populations: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Our paper is now out in Molecular Cell! Check the thread in this former post: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

We are looking for new colleagues to come join us in Galway as group leaders (Junior and Senior). The Centre for Chromosome Biology is a great place and it is a good time to join. Please reach out if you want to chat about the opportunity! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

Hello World! Hosting our collab workshop in Clermont with team @deborahbourchis.bsky.social and Michel Cohen Tannoudji! Hiking the Puy de dome the next day got us in shape for the year to come! Sweet science on the way… @igred.fr #watwat #genetics #excitingtimes