Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social #TEsky #TEworldwide authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6MC,LqAZ...

Having a lot of fun at #EMBOMobileGenome 😃 Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!! …and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see our paper published online natcomms.nature.com. Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this work during my time with @robklose.bsky.social and David Booth! Thanks also to collaborators @garcialabms.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social and the other authors!

📣 New preprint from the Jakobsson lab! We describe a detailed protocol to inhibit the expression of transposable elements in human pluripotent stem cells, developed thanks to @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org funding. Special shoutout to @anitaada.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🤩Join the Sci.STEPS 2026 Mentor Cohort! We invite #mentors from varied backgrounds and stages of their #scientific careers to apply and share their knowledge and expertise with our #mentees. ✏ Register here: lnkd.in/edZggY32 🗓 Deadline: November 10th 2025 👀more about #SciSTEPS: www.scisteps.org

Our collab w. V Goel, @nicholas-aboreden.bsky.social , J Jusuf, G Blobel, L Mirny, @irate-physicist.bsky.social out in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was co-submitted with @allanaschooley.bsky.social @jobdekker.bsky.social whose paper should also come out soon Brief thread 👇

So excited to see this out on bioRxiv! Huge thanks to @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and the amazing cerebellum team (@marisepp.bsky.social and @ioansarr.bsky.social) for all the support and insightful discussions that made this work possible!!

Did transposable elements shape brain evolution — and if so, which ones, and in which cell states and lineages? Led by @tyamadat.bsky.social, we explored this question in cerebellum development using sequence-based deep learning models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org

Interested in understanding how new cell types evolve? Consider joining our group for a PhD!

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology In this Perspective, each of our 2025 Pathway to Independence Fellows discuss future outlooks for #DevBio and how their work will contribute to this exciting new era. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

⚡⚡Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work. 🔬🦠I'm hiring at all levels! 🔬🦠Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab

Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK. Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

So glad to be among these good eggs, as @mads100tist.bsky.social once called us!

If you want to know why we should care about protein expression dynamics have a read of the perspective piece I wrote for @dev-journal.bsky.social. While you're there check out my fellow Pathway to Independence fellows' interesting pieces! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Together with my other wonderful 2025 PI fellows @biologists.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social, I offer a perspective about the future of my respective field. Have a read - spoiler alert: its about brain evolution and neural lineages (I know - SHOCKER). journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In need of a positive outlook on the future (of developmental biology)? Read our perspectives by my fellow @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows and myself. I'm hoping my future will contain much more TE biology and mammalian genome regulation! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

With perspectives from my esteemed colleagues @ethanewe.bsky.social @maxfarnworth.bsky.social @anzymiller.bsky.social @marliesoomen.bsky.social @giuliapaci.bsky.social @sonyawiden.bsky.social and Toshimichi Yamada 🧪RNAs of all kinds, junk, jumping, and fluctuating genes, cells&tissues with opinions!

New work from my lab with the Brown lab on how genome folding changes during motor neuron maturation, and how this process goes awry in ALS motor neurons. Led by Dr. Ozgun Uyan. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to post my first #JobOffer! I am looking for a research technician to help me build new projects from the grounds up at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social We will use medaka to study how organs can be reprogrammed! Details on how to apply below 👇 #JobOffer #ScienceJobs #EvoDevo #GeneRegulation

ICYMI, the recordings of our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation are now available. Check out the talks from @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-... #devbio 🎥

💥 New preprint! 💥 We show that transposons are directly linked to a cell-type and region specific inflammatory state in Parkinson’s Disease 🧠🦠 What a team @jakobssonasap.bsky.social! Funded by @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #Parkinsons #Neuroinflammation #TEworldwide #singlecell #TEs

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

Thank you for the interview @dev-journal.bsky.social! Very excited to be part of the Pathway to Independence program Interested in my research? I'll be presenting my postdoc work at the 'Development presents' webinar, tomorrow afternoon: thenode.biologists.com/development-...

Excited to share our latest work!! 🌟🌟 Thank you for all the amazing work and congratulations to @anitaada.bsky.social and all the coauthors! 🍾

Interested in transposable elements in mammalian preimplantation development? It's not too late to register for the 'Development presents' webinar next Wednesday. Together with Anzy @anzymiller.bsky.social who will talk about her postdoc work as well!

Two of Development’s PI fellows, Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, will be giving talks in our upcoming #DevPres webinar on gene regulation. 🗓️Wednesday 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our featured article: Epigenome dynamics in early mammalian embryogenesis by Adam Burton & Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla go.nature.com/45UA8Ob

Interested in how cells read biological time? Next week I'm talking about my recently published work on how protein expression oscillations are read by cells and their impact on the timing of cell differentiation. Link below to register!

Our next #DevPres webinar focusses on gene regulation with talks from 2025 Development PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, chaired by James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. 📆 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I spoke with @reinierprosee.bsky.social about my journey in science, and my hope and dreams. Thank you @dev-journal.bsky.social for this oppotunity! I'm looking for a home for the Ewe lab. Let's talk if you're hiring! :) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

My Pathway to Independence interview is now live on @dev-journal.bsky.social ! I had a great time speaking with @amjeve.bsky.social about my research journey and what's ahead journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In case you've ever wondered, I talked with @amjeve.bsky.social about science, myself, and the future of #DevBio as part of the Pathway to Independence Fellowship @biologists.bsky.social 🧪 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

My interview as part of @dev-journal.bsky.social Development's Pathway to Independence is live! I had a great time chatting to Saanjbati Adhikari - thank you. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Very happy that this (last?) piece of my PhD time in the Dekker lab is now out in Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... @jobdekker.bsky.social @pablonavarrolab.bsky.social @genomeresearch.bsky.social

Is the annotation of viruses in the human genome accurate? We think not. Take a look at our new paper and let us know if you agree! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📖 Happy to share our recent preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We discovered how SINEs are kept silent: the ChAHP protein complex acts as a molecular brake on POL III transcription retrotransposons. A 🧵:

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

New preprint of @trono-lab.bsky.social and my PhD work! By modulating SWI/SNF remodeling at ancient transposable elements - LINE/L2s and SINE/MIRs, a "noncanonical" KZFP called ZNF436 protects cardiomyocytes from losing their identity. 🫀heartbeat on 🔁 repeat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #TEsky

I am thrilled to share our preprint where we take advantage of the unique opportunities offered by human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism potentially playing a role in preimplantation 🧵. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢The peer-reviewed version of our work on TEs driving innovation of F-box genes is out now on @molbioevol.bsky.social. 🎉 paper here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Check my previous, but still up-to-date 🧵 to read the highlights. #TEsky #evosky #Celegans

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see @marliesoomen.bsky.social in the path to independence programme of @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎊

Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Very excited (and honored!) to be part of this amazing group of scientists! Looking forward to going through the Pathway to Independence program together

In this study, Hermant et al. describe the evolution of the retrotransposon MERVL and its cis-regulatory transcription factor binding motifs, highlighting the phyloregulatory adaptation at play during early embryogenesis. Learn more here: ➡️ tinyurl.com/gd352270

Here is-🥳🥳😇 tremendous effort by @palmrinmoy.bsky.social brilliantly supported by @tamas-schauer.bsky.social &super help by federico,iliya,tsune,adam,@mamartirenom.bsky.social Very happy to see this come to fruition- Look forward to feedback from colleagues ! More 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How does the genome find its place in the 3D space of the nucleus after fertilization? Out now @cellcellpress.bsky.social: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 👇 A thread 👇

💥🥳 At long last, our latest paper is out! Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n