Vincent CASTRIC
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Evolutionary biologist @CNRS - European citizen 🇪🇺.
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
2 days ago
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples... What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology
#plantscience
#scisky
#cropscience
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Sina Majidian
1 day ago
Nicole Brown gave a fantastic talk on Identifying introgressions across pangenomes with Panagram It uses k-mer conservation to annotate genomic variation across hundreds of genomes, followed by normalization of k-mer profiles to identify introgression events
github.com/kjenike/pana...
#GI2025
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Jake Harris
1 day ago
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
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CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis
Nature Communications - Binenbaum et al. demonstrate that precise CRISPR-based targeting of a key chromatin mark (H3K4me3) can switch on genes, boost disease resistance, and unlock meiotic...
https://rdcu.be/eNEf4
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Britt Koskella
2 days ago
Hi folks- I recently saw a call from a journal that was looking for novel findings in Plant sciences. I can’t remember if it was a special issue or what but it was specifically for results that might not be a full publishable paper but were nonetheless important data sets or findings. Any ideas??
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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱
2 days ago
Only a few days left to register and join us in Lille for this first ever French edition of PopGroup!
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Looking forward to the next POPGROUP meeting ? Still a few more days for registration. 👇
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Adrian
3 days ago
Hermaphroditic plants also use TIME ⏰🌿 to avoid selfing. Two new
@currentbiology.bsky.social
papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family. Both
@vincentcastric.bsky.social
and I summarized these findings 👉
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S...
#Evolution
#PlantBiology
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With
@aconga.bsky.social
we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
by
@jeffgroh.bsky.social
,
@gcbias.bsky.social
and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Judith Mank
4 days ago
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab.
biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
Deadline January 15th!
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Richard Kadrey
4 days ago
Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Timothée Poisot
4 days ago
"The pupils do not learn the scribal craft" is the new "the midterm average was 62%"
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Lukas Kunz
5 days ago
A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dual recognition of structurally unrelated mildew effectors underlies the broad-spectrum resistance of Pm3e in wheat
Broad-spectrum resistance genes are highly valuable for sustainable crop protection, yet the molecular basis of their activity is often unknown. The Pm3 allelic series in wheat encodes NLR receptors t...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.26.683672v3
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Josselin Clo
7 days ago
The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context. Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation
Polyploidy is widespread in plants, yet the establishment of neo-polyploids is limited by minority cytotype exclusion (MCE). As polyploidy has been associated with higher selfing rates in empirical st...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685356v1
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Chris Tape
7 days ago
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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OMG you win Halloween ! Well done. Now would you return the jewels s'il vous plait ?
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Denis Duboule
7 days ago
Notons que depuis deux ans, la probabilité de devenir ministre est plus élevée que celle d'obtenir une ERC. Peut-être lié au fait qu'une ERC, elle, dure 5 ans.
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Tony Gamble
11 days ago
New Charlesworth & Charlesworth just dropped!!! 🧪🧬 HJ Muller and the relationship between sex chromosome degeneration and the evolution of dosage compensation url:
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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HJ Muller and the relationship between sex chromosome degeneration and the evolution of dosage compensation
Abstract. A lack of recombination in the heterogametic sex between parts or all of newly evolving sex chromosomes results in the gradual accumulation of de
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf195/8299869
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Cédric Brun
7 days ago
Quand notre ministre de tutelle nous insulte devant la représentation nationale. "Bande de nuls" "complètement à la ramasse". Nous reprocher des taux de réussite faible à Horizon Europe et ERC, quand manquent les moyens pour assurer nos missions de service public. Surtout changez rien!👌
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Rum Deer Research
7 days ago
Scottie has been coming back to the study area to rut for 5 years now. As an incoming rutter, we don't know where he lives for the rest of the year. He is very distinctive with his wide antlers and pale eyes. Saba is ruminating behind him.
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c0nc0rdance
about 1 year ago
Let's talk about barreleye fishes in family Opisthoproctidae. Take a minute to take in the image below. What look like 'eyes' above the tiny toothless mouth are in fact chemosensory organs equivalent to nostrils. The EYES are the green domes INSIDE THE TRANSPARENT HEAD. And they look *up*...
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Oded Rechavi
7 days ago
“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
7 days ago
Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685356v1
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
10 days ago
50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of
#DevoEvo
#EvoDevo
, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
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Ashar Malik
29 days ago
We’ve set up a dedicated Bluesky space for structural phylogenetics:
@strphy.bsky.social
. Follow for community updates.
#StrPhy
#StructuralPhylogenetics
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Leah Houri-Zeevi
10 days ago
The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴) - and creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt it when under pressure, and generally: how to change a nervous system.
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David Lowry
10 days ago
Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 47.
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Lars Eicholt
10 days ago
Join our next ProSe seminar 11th November 5PM CET and follow us
@proteinstructure.bsky.social
!
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Pleuni Pennings
11 days ago
I started a new job in Montpellier, France! Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US.
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...
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We left the US and moved to France
Hello readers, I got big updates! Some of you already know this, but it’s getting more real and more official every month: my family and I have left the US and moved to France! A few months ago I q…
https://abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/we-left-the-us-and-moved-to-france/
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Annette Becker
15 days ago
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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Piotr Ziolkowski
13 days ago
⏰ Last week to apply! Don’t miss the chance to join our lab and explore the fascinating world of meiotic recombination 🌿 👉 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
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Mario Vallejo-Marin
14 days ago
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland!
www.evobio.eu
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EMPSEB31
15 days ago
🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
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Oh, this is wonderful news, congrats Cécile ! I look forward to the next steps !
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Achille Lenglin
14 days ago
#cjm25
It's already over (sniff), with a final day of fascinating talks and interesting discussions Goodbye Roscoff
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David Enard
15 days ago
Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with
@lucievirevolte.bsky.social
and
@psudmant.bsky.social
on Rapid host adaptations to infections:
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
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E. Yağmur Erten
15 days ago
Applications for the MEME programme (
www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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Camille Marchet ⚡
15 days ago
Je vais conseiller ces stages à nos étudiants, c'est une belle occasion de découvrir un environnement très spécial en Europe
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José Aguilar-Rodríguez
16 days ago
One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation
The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.30.621178
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David Marx
16 days ago
trying to find a preprint, stumbled across this concurrent work published just a few weeks ago from an unrelated lab which is also based in new york. weird.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Transcriptional interference gates monogenic odorant receptor expression in ants
Ant pheromone communication relies on an expanded odorant receptor repertoire, with many genes in large genomic tandem arrays. Glotzer et al. describe a novel mechanism, conserved across ants and othe...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01196-0
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Achille Lenglin
16 days ago
Wonderful day ending with
@couplingdmi.bsky.social
who spoke about dock mussels and how anthropogenic hybridization altered marine habitats Thanks, now I want to go diving in commercial ports in Brittany to see them
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Achille Lenglin
16 days ago
@crouxevo.bsky.social
presented a project he led, recently published in
@science.org
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Christian Landry
16 days ago
This is the saddest thing I have realized over the years. We train people to seek truth, facts, and rationality through education, but these values have little importance in politics and decision-making. When your job is to try to learn how the world works objectively, this is particularly hurtful.
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Yves Clément
16 days ago
20 years after ‘can a biologist fix a clock radio’, can a biologist make a plane fly The answer is still no
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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy
17 days ago
What a nice start to the Jacques Monod conference
#cjm25
on speciation in Roscoff, Britany. What an inspiring lineup of talks and scientists. Even the weather is remarkably welcoming, for now, at least. 🤩
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c0nc0rdance
19 days ago
From
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: This fossil of a giant crinoid colony (Seirocrinus subangularis) attached to a piece of driftwood was found in Germany. Crinoid means "lily-like", but they're not flowers, they're animals, the ancestral line leading to modern sea stars & sea urchins.
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
19 days ago
'It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life' 🧪 🐋🍃
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35045910/
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Graham Coop
22 days ago
Congratulations to
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on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012618?dgcid=coauthor
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Jeff Groh
22 days ago
Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In most species within the walnut family, two genetically determined morphs alternate between male and female flowering phases in time. Groh et al. identify a distinct locus for this dimorphism in two...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01261-8
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Nature Plants
about 1 month ago
New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant"
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SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
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