Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

Grateful for a chance to contribute to this work on how mutations at many scales drive diversity in plant form and function. The content touches on many areas of scientific curiosity for me: ✨crop domestication✨, ✨breeding methodology✨, and ✨mutational outcomes✨ doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Their press claim that there are 80 genes that are dramatically distinct in dire wolves seems to just come from a dN/dS style analysis (41+39). Are their CRISPR genes for dire wolves project really based on this thin a line of evidence? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

Joking aside, this stuff about species concepts is such transparent BS. [deleted & reposted, as first draft was too annoyed.] www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

Excited to see the published version of this work on genome editing in maize using computationally derived Pol III promoters! Delighted to have contributed a small piece on using these promoter designs to target 30 unique sites in maize plants 💻 🌽 🧬 ✂️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

So cool. A colleague (the inimitable Michelle Stitzer not on here) showed me this. @sarperotto.bsky.social using methylation and math to figure out the number of cells in the life cycle of a maize plant. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...