TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty. Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion. With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEworldwide

Gene expression divergence following gene and genome duplications in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes (Fabricio Almeida-Silva, Yves Van de Peer) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

I am delighted to share our latest work on memory gene circuits for plants. This work was led by the phenomenal PhD student @patrickgong.bsky.social A lot of debugging & highlights how even simple components in synthetic biology can have unexpected properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Such a cool pre-print on making sentinel plants - so much potential! Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Powerful read processing with matchbox https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.09.685711v1

Strigolactone perception and nutrient responses #TansleyInsight by Hu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

The podcast version of my Raising the Bar talk is now online. If you are interested in "Cosmic Crops" or my work on genetic engineering of plants, please give it a listen (I have not listened to it, I hate listening to myself, so hopefully it is good, but no promises). soundcloud.com/raising-the-...

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄 I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

A new method for the precise insertion of large DNA sequences into the genome using engineered recombinases that don’t require DNA cutting or rely on the cell’s repair machinery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fusing transcription factors (TFs) to intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), to drive the formation of transcriptional condensates that concentrate TFs at their target promoters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Rewiring protein function through genetically encoded oxidative chemistry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686050v1

Big update: My the first Lloyd Lab conceived and conducted study has been accepted and published: Start Right to End Right: Authentic Open Reading Frame Selection Matters for Nonsense-Mediated Decay Target Identification www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/16... Now larger and better than the pre-print

I am delighted to share our latest work on memory gene circuits for plants. This work was led by the phenomenal PhD student @patrickgong.bsky.social A lot of debugging & highlights how even simple components in synthetic biology can have unexpected properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really cool work by the @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social lab @embl.org www.cell.com/molecular-ce... #archea #evochromo

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Any good quality genomes (long reads, chromosome scale) in the Crassula genus? #PlantScience

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our work on transcription initiation and termination being spatially coordinated out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On Wednesday the student got to whole genome sequence their isolates on the exploratory laboratory course (studies.helsinki.fi/courses/cour...). Next weeks we will analyse the data and try to assemble as many complete genomes as possible. Thanks @nanoporetech.com for the support.

#BlueSkyMossFotos Sphagnum medium

Beautiful! Here's some winter PNW moss. #blueskymossfotos

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

Here's the details for Elisabeth Bik's talk in Auckland www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/dr-elisabe... [sign-up required, but it's free] Monday Nov 3 on the Grafton campus (505-007). A workshop follows the talk

Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to eukaryotic DNA replication machinery. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news from #eleva, the company I founded 26 years ago: Eleva advances CPV-104 into Phase 1b clinical testing in patients with C3G, following the successful completion of single ascending dose evaluation in healthy volunteers #biopharmaceutical #mossmade elevabiologics.com/eleva-is-adv...

Our @theccdm.bsky.social @CurtinEand #advancedscience student @CarliaHerbst turn to present her research on protein-protein interactions in Parastagonospora nodorum 😎. @callumverdonk.bsky.social

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

#TansleyReview: #Lithium in #plants Sebastian Garcia-Daga, Sina Fischer and Matthew Gilliham 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

I have popped over to Perth for the ESA-SRB-ANZOS 2025 meeting (www.esa-srb-anzos.org.au). I made the most of being on Sydney-time exploring Kings Park & Botanic Garden this morning & now it is time for Science. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues & learning #ANZOS @unswbabs.bsky.social

Our paper on the evolution (duplicated) gene expression divergence in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes is now out @theplantcell.bsky.social w/ @yvdp.bsky.social #PlantSci #Evolution academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our work on viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their DPANN symbionts is out today in Nature Microbiology! @mkrupovic.bsky.social @deemteam.bsky.social @anagtz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potential for aerobic hydrocarbon oxidation in archaea ->Nature | More from Lil' Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx

Pleased to share our review on “Synthetic Mechanotransduction” — now live at Nature Reviews Bioengineering. May the force be with you! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Differential impact of dawn and dusk watering on tomato metabolism and biomass allocation (João Antonio Siqueira, Auxiliadora O Martins, Thiago Wakin, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

BREAKTHROUGH REPORT: Structural insights into plant DNA CG methylation maintenance by MET1 (Zhihui Zhang, Wentao Li, Yue Liu, Cheng Chi, Jing Nan, Changshi Wang, Yongkun Zhu, Jun Zhao, Yan Xue, Yong Li, Peiyi Wang, Jixian Zhai, Jiamu Du) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Heat-shock inducible CRE-LOX of RUBY making cool sectors in my primary transformants (though a bit leaky) 🌱🧬

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

"DNA synthesis is solved" "We can just print any sequence" "Biology and biotech are solved fields" "Sequence-agnostic synthesis is on the horizon" *plant introns enter the chat* Humbug.

A week to go... #EngBio ECRs Meetup returns on 20 Oct. Join us to hear great talks from Konstantina Beritza and Caroline Faessler 🌱 Don't miss it! @camplantsci.bsky.social Sign up here👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin... #plantsciences #marinemicroalga #Nicotianabenthamiana

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

After many years of hm-ing and haw-ing about why some of the fusion proteins I’ve cloned showed cytoplasmic background I’ve finally found the culprit

PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

UPF1 shuttles between nucleus and cytoplasm independently of its RNA binding and ATPase activities rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...