Curious about plant genomics? 🌿 Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated. Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience @denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social

Curious about plant genomics? 🌿 Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated. Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience @denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social

New semester, new insights 🌿 Our Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics seminar starts this winter at Uni Bonn! Details 👉 github.com/bpucker/teac... #PlantScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics #UniBonn #DataLiteracy @puckerlab.bsky.social

🌿 Check out Carla Varleria Klinge’s book on cannabis — a nice example of how students can do impactful #SciComm and raise awareness about the fascinating world of plants! 👉 www.cannabis-diemysterioesepflanzeder1001molekuele-aktuelles.com

Yesterday, Nancy shared her Cucurbitaceae anthocyanin loss story with colleagues at our institute. Comprehensive talk highlighting the most striking discoveries. Please find the full story here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #PlantSci #Evolution

Registration is now open for SMBE 2026! Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃‍♀️ 📝 smbe2026.org/registration 🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026 If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts. #SMBE2026

Interested in long-read plant genomics? 🌱 We are sharing our ONT P2 Solo sequencing outputs per flowcell — explore our real data and experience here: 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSci @puckerlab.bsky.social

Interested in long-read plant genomics? 🌱 We are sharing our ONT P2 Solo sequencing outputs per flowcell — explore our real data and experience here: 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSci @puckerlab.bsky.social

🎃 Why are (Halloween) pumpkins orange – and not pink or blue? This secret is explored by @bpucker.bsky.social, @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social and Marie Hagedorn. Their research examines how carotenoids took over, making Jack O’Lanterns forever orange: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/colo.... Happy Halloween!

I think this is one of the most powerful displays of what genetic engineering can do. Flower size and organ identity changed. And flower colour changes in a temporal order. It shows we really understand flower development to a remarkable extent. Awesome @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social!

We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer! If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬 Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR Come do science in Bonn next summer! @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer! If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬 Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR Come do science in Bonn next summer! @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Our review article got published in 'Biotechnology Advances': "Decoding bioprocesses with transcriptomics: current status and future potential" doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #Biotech #ScaleUp #ScaleDown #Transcriptomics @puckerlab.bsky.social

Plant bioengineering is so cool.

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

Only two days left to apply for the open tenure track professorship in Computational Biology here in @uni-goettingen.de uni-goettingen.de/en/700631.html

Our review article got published in 'Biotechnology Advances': "Decoding bioprocesses with transcriptomics: current status and future potential" doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #Biotech #ScaleUp #ScaleDown #Transcriptomics @puckerlab.bsky.social

New semester, new insights 🌿 Our Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics seminar starts this winter at Uni Bonn! Details 👉 github.com/bpucker/teac... #PlantScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics #UniBonn #DataLiteracy @puckerlab.bsky.social

I'm thinking I should make this a weekly post - Does anyone have good literature on a anthocyanin biosynthetic mutant having a stress sensitivity phenotype in the wild beyond UV-B?

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!

Now we just need more target journal support (esp. plant journals) but this is really something needed....

Huge thanks to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social for this stunning design! 🌸 Do not miss his incredible flower sculpting and painting project — a beautiful blend of art and science: www.nickdesnoyer.com/plant-engine... #SciArt #Design #Innovation

What is your favourite gene duplication example? We would love to include some additional cases for benchmarking. Please comment below! #Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution

Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications: "DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications" doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution @puckerlab.bsky.social

Imperial Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) This is blue. I painted on hydrochloric acid to draw a smiley to showcase the color change due to acid directly on the petals.

New preprint from the group: 🧬 Large-scale Phylogenomics Reveals Systematic Loss of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes at the Family Level in Cucurbitaceae 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social

Check out our new preprint to know more about this loss: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈 While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Friday Flower 007: Petunia 💮✨ Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps. Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.

Soybean flavonol 3-O-glucosyltransferase (UFGT78D2) makes plants more susceptible to leaf-chewing insects, while its loss confers resistance #FlavonoidFriday (details: rb.gy/h21hpi) @puckerlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬 Large-scale Phylogenomics Reveals Systematic Loss of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes at the Family Level in Cucurbitaceae 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A deep dive into the genomic evolution of color in cucurbits 🎃🍉 — feedback welcome! @puckerlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬 Large-scale Phylogenomics Reveals Systematic Loss of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Genes at the Family Level in Cucurbitaceae 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A deep dive into the genomic evolution of color in cucurbits 🎃🍉 — feedback welcome! @puckerlab.bsky.social

Hard to believe — it has already been one semester of @puckerlab.bsky.social at @unibonn.bsky.social 🎉 New discoveries 🌿, great teaching 👩‍🏫, international visitors 🌍, and a growing team 🔬 — it has been an incredible start. Huge thanks to everyone who has been part of the journey! 💚 #Science #Genomics

Fantastical flowers, synthetic biology, and storytelling. Giving an accessible science talk tomorrow at 10:40 UK time... come join! Register here for the link 👉 jic.link/NBIAST2025

Multiple mechanisms explain loss of anthocyanins from betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales, including repeated wholesale loss of a key anthocyanidin synthesis enzyme doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #Anthocyanins #Flavonoids #Betalains #Caryophyllales #Evolution #Biosynthesis #TranscriptionFactor #Evolution

Data Reuse in Agricultural Genomics Research: Present Challenges and Future Solutions doi.org/10.1093/giga... #DataScience #OpenScience #Genomics #Agriculture #DataReuse #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #OpenData #BigData

NAVIP: Unraveling the Influence of Neighboring Small Sequence Variants on Functional Impact Prediction doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Bioinformatics #VariantCalling #VariantAnnotation #FunctionalGenomics #Genomics #PlantSci #DataScience #OpenData #OpenAccess #BigData #Python #100DaysOfCode

Mapping-based genome size estimation doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #Python #Sequencing #PlantSci #BigData #DataScience

Anthocyanin biosynthesis in grasses took a divergent evolutionary path, with key gene losses and independent evolutionary innovations #FlavonoidFriday (details: doi.org/10.1101/2025... & shorturl.at/dprjd)

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋 Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand. Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

Topic of this week's team discussion: Plum pox virus Did you know that sharka is the most serious viral disease for the stone fruit industry accounting for €2.4 billion in damage in the last 28 years?🍒🍑 Learn more in this review! doi.org/10.1111/aab.... #iGEM2026#SynBio#plantsciences#virology

Anthocyanin biosynthesis in grasses took a divergent evolutionary path, with key gene losses and independent evolutionary innovations #FlavonoidFriday (details: doi.org/10.1101/2025... & shorturl.at/dprjd)

🚀 Exciting news: our next @igemhq.bsky.social team is growing! We are thrilled to host the 2025/26 team in Bonn 🌱🧬 Meet them here: www.igem-bonn.org/team-2026/ and follow their journey @igembonn.bsky.social #iGEM2026 #SynBio @igemcommunity.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

#Nature #Fall #Leaves #Photography

Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science". "Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🚀 Today is the day! Excited to talk about our nanopore sequencing activities in Freiburg 🌱🧬 Including our plant genome sequencing workflow 👉 www.doi.org/10.20944/pre... @puckerlab.bsky.social @pietzenuk.bsky.social

Looking forward to exciting talks from our customers @nanoporetech.com Day: Sharing discoveries, shaping the future Talks from clinical applications to academic research