Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

New: ‘Kronos’ #wheat genome preprint • PacBio+Hi-C; 99.9% BUSCO • 2.3k curated NLR loci (1,089 high conf) • 3k EMS datasets re-mapped; 📈 new mutations • Curated smallRNA atlas 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... zenodo.org/records/1021... #genomics #openscience team effort led by Dr Kyungyong Seong 💫

Exciting opportunities to establish your group at JIC! Come join our vibrant research community in Norwich! 🔹 Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions (path to tenure-track) tinyurl.com/yk576jms 🔹 GL in Discovery Plant Sciences (tenure-track or tenured) tinyurl.com/mwbs4dhn

Wrapping up our #Python course with inspiring student project presentations! 🚀 Topics range from bioinformatics to big data. 📂 Materials on GitHub: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #coding #OpenEducation #genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social

Excited to share the publication of MGSE, our new approach to genome size estimation, in BMC Genomics: Mapping-based genome size estimation doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social

New online! Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence using deep learning models

Day 3 at BLS meeting @umnplantpath.bsky.social. Proud of my PhD students Muhammad Ahmad and @tapishpwr.bsky.social whose talks on BLS host resistance in wheat were outstanding! Proud mentors Karl Glover, @shysol4u.bsky.social. @sdstate.bsky.social. Moment with a fellow Plant Pathologist- Borlaug!

Last week we @plantpath.bsky.social, Mural lab, & Toporek lab celebrated graduate student appreciation week bringing togather plant protection and genomics groups at @sdstate.bsky.social A loud shoutout to Sachin, Israel, Riya, and Nikhil. Awesome combination of Food,Fun,Gifts & Graduates.

To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Fun time in lab: Keyence BZ-X800 demo by Conor. I guess everyone likes it!

‘All major national academies of sciences say that genetically modified crops are as safe as traditional crops.’ Still, regulations have curbed GMO adoption, limiting gains for farmers.