✨Redefining epigenetic variation in evolution. Our @NaturePlants paper shows gene body DNA methylation as a major force shaping expression, traits, and adaptation in plants. Synergy with Shahzad @ShahzadZaigham & Zilberman Labs—congrats🎉. rdcu.be/eFRJy @MSU_PRI

Structure, function and assembly of nuclear pore complexes. #NuclearPores @natrevmcb.nature.com 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 PhD researcher wanted! Join the Heat DDR MSCA DN to study plant DNA damage responses – key for crop resilience & food security in a changing climate. 🌱🔬 👉 Apply now! 🔗 tinyurl.com/PecinkaHeatDDR

🍽️🧬 How do diet and gut microbes shape fertility across generations? 🪱🔬 Our Laboratory at #InstitutPasteur is recruiting a PhD student to study epigenetic inheritance of fertility using C. elegans. Fully funded via the International PPU program. Apply now! 🌍 #PhDposition #Epigenetics #Inheritance

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

🚀 Exciting EpiSeedLink update! @mairamd.bsky.social and @ShannonDerman, two @episeedlink.bsky.social PhD students, have just met up as Maira begins her secondment at the University of Zurich, in the lab of Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus 🌱🔬 New collaborations, new experiences, and great science ahead! 💥

🧵(2/2) From proposal writing and research presentations to podcast recordings and scenic excursions, our fellows and consortium members had a packed and productive week. Curious to see what we’ve been up to? 👉 Read it in this link url.td/qka_v @episeedlink.bsky.social #MSCA #PhDlife

🧵(1/2) Our 5th @episeedlink.bsky.social Newsletter is out! Full of updates and memorable moments from the 2nd Annual Meeting held this June in Galway, Ireland🌱 📩 Check it out: url.td/qka_v #MSCA #PhDlife #ScienceInEurope

🧵(5/5) Big thanks to everyone who made this #ScienceOutreach a success 🙌 Thanks @episeedlink.bsky.social fellows, @farronalab.bsky.social, @cellexplorers.bsky.social involved in the development of the kit. Let’s keep inspiring the next generation of scientists, one seed at a time 🌱

Plant Development Plenary: Gwyneth Ingram- embryo and endosperm conversations #arabidopsis #icar2025

Super nice talk by @shreyasbeedubail.bsky.social at #IPSAM2025 today. Shreyas is doing his thesis at BioAtlantis and visiting our lab as part of the @episeedlink.bsky.social network

So far, so good and getting ready for another session of cool science at #ICAR2025 we❤️🌱

Check out their full story here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/plce...

After a wonderful warm of of history and music, we are ready for the first keynote by Jane Parker speaking on NLR Immunity activation. #ICAR2025 @parkergroup.bsky.social

It‘s about to start - such an amazing venue for #ICAR2025

Two members of our lab, Mohan and Xinyi, had the opportunity to present their work at the @aicc-ireland.bsky.social annual meeting last week. They had a great time discussing about our fav topics 🌱❤️🧬

We are super proud of Nora @norapasqualimedici.bsky.social and her poster award at the College of Science & Engineering Research & Innovation Day last week 🤩🌱🥳 @episeedlink.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Welcome to the first edition of the EpiSeedLink newsletter! 🌱🪴🧬. Click this link: bit.ly/4d4SC0r Get to know the consortium behind this exciting journey in plant epigenetics research. Funded by the EU through the MSCA Doctoral Network, this project is sowing the seeds for future discoveries.

POSTDOC WANTED! Our group is looking for a postdoc to study DNA-protein crosslink repair in the heterochromatin. Apply to work on uncharacterized Arabidopsis proteins identified in the HZE genetic screen. @czechacademy.bsky.social @apecinka.bsky.social @evadt.bsky.social

Figure 1. Custom Micro-Roses, engineered in Arabidopsis thaliana 🌹 Top: Visible light, Bottom: Fluorescence (a) White: no pigment (b) Magenta: betalains (c) Pink champagne: betalains + betaxanthins (d) Champagne: betaxanthins

ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

Want to do a #PhD in Molecular #Plantscience / Plant Epigenetics? We are recruiting through two currently open Freiburg graduate school program calls by @mpi-ie.bsky.social and SGBM of @uni-freiburg.de! Consider to apply: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr... www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de/node/1847

A new secondment is happening at Sara Farrona's lab in @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Shreyas Padmanabha, one of the @episeedlink.bsky.social PhD from BioAtlantis is learning new techniques under the supervision of @farronalab.bsky.social, and supported by another EpiSeedLink fellows, Nora Pasquali.

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇

🚨 Exciting PhD Opportunity in Plant Cellular Biology 🌱🔬 Study: 🔥 Translation initiation regulation during stress 🧬 Stress granules & gene expression at single-molecule resolution 🔬 Super-resolution microscopy 📅 Apply by February 14, 2025 @albertcairo.bsky.social #PhD #PlantBiology #CEITEC

@uniofgalway.bsky.social, one of the @episeedlink.bsky.social beneficiaries where our supervisor @farronalab.bsky.social conducts her research, has featured our project on its website, in collaboration with @bioatlantis through Sujeeth Neerakal, another supervisor. See it on the link: bit.ly/4jCZCEu

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

If you are interested in plant stem cell systems, meristems and development of cereals: We are organising an international symposium on "Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems", see attached announcement. www.cscs2025.de for more details

We're hiring! Could you help us develop botanical skills across Northern Ireland & grow participation in the National Plant Monitoring Scheme? Apply by 16 Feb for this great new post: bsbi.org/vacancies/tr... @ukceh.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicountries.bsky.social science.bsky.social

Our first 2025 webinar is coming up in a few weeks - Jan 31st! Mark your calendars! @davidlabmsk.bsky.social will join us for her webinar on 'Turning back the clock: Targeting a new metabolism-epigenetic axis in T-cells.' Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @activemotifusa.bsky.social

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Impact Strategies for Fundamental Research🌱 👉 https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1395/1738072800000 #PlantScience

📣The webinar recording is now available for viewing. Enjoy! plantae.org/plantaeprese.... #PlantScience

Hi everyone, our lab is slowly moving to Bluesky. We will become more active very soon 🤗