Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

💥 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

Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206 #evobio #molbio #TEsky

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@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky

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Rapid adaptation to green lentil in seed beetles, awesome demonstration of the role of SVs in rapid adaptation over extremely short timescales! Fantastic work by Brian Kissmer at Utah State! #ESEB2025

Huge amount of low-divergence TEs in Brown Algae…and cool patterns of accumulation in introns, lovely talk from @ericadinatale.bsky.social! #TEsky #TEworldwide #ESEB2025

Really nice talk by @alicegodden.bsky.social on TE activation under heat stress in Zebrafish - fascinating patterns of non-reference insertions across the genome in the germline!

Thrilled to have been selected for a short talk at the EMBO mobile genome meeting in Heidelberg in November! Want to hear about the adaptive potential of TEs but can’t wait til then, and happen to be at #ESEB2025? Come and see my talk at 16.20 today, room 120+121! #TEsky #TEworldwide

Extremely excited to share that I’m joining Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! We will explore how the mobile genome works—how transposons shape us, our DNA and how they can be harnessed to build useful technologies. #NewPI #RNAsky #TEsky thawanilab.org

Rather you than me! Awesome insight into the role of TEs in deep sea adaptation in H. gigas. A ~19.6Gb assembly(!), and @tillysscott.bsky.social also decided to manually curate the TE families(!!!). Amazing body of work demonstrating the power of TEs to facilitate adaptation! #TEsky #TEworldwide

Nice talk from @timothyfuqua.bsky.social on the emergence of promoters from random DNA sequences - very cool work!

At @eseb.bsky.social #ESEB2025 and want to connect with other researchers working on transposable elements? Take a look at the #TEWorldwide #TEsky feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Transposable elements in brown algae? 🌊 Yes, they’re full of surprises ✨ Come meet Ectocarpus at #ESEB2025! 📍Room 113 - S28.03 🗓️ Thursday, 2:30pm

Unfortunately I cannot be at #ESEB2025, one of my favourite conferences, but the lab is well represented with @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social presenting her work today on S29 @3.45pm on Transposable elements and nervous and sensory system diversification in cichlid fishes. @eseb2025.bsky.social

Here’s an interesting new paper on ROS1, an enzyme that removes DNA methylation and that is POSITIVELY controlled by DNA methylation. It’s repression during heat stress 🥵🌱 is crucial to suppress transposon mobility! 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pangenome analysis of transposable element insertion polymorphisms reveals features underlying cold tolerance in rice. #TransposableElements #TE #Pangenomes #RiceGenomes @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💥🥳 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

@shashankpritam.bsky.social first research paper on the effect of insertion bias on transposon fitness!! With @almoroscarpa.bsky.social and @rokofler.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking forward to attending my first #ESEB meeting in Barcelona next week #ESEB2025! Interested in the adaptive potential of transposons? I’ll be presenting my latest work in the Ecological Genomics of Coevolution satellite symposium on Weds 20th - feel free to join! #TESky #TEworldwide

#TEsky Phylogenetic relatedness rather than aquatic habitat fosters horizontal transfer of transposable elements in animals doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

🚨New paper just dropped!🚨 We found that transposable element transcripts that are elevated in the blood of older adults and those with dementia are also epigenetically dysregulated, and may predict peripheral markers of inflammation & neurodegeneration link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ Excited to share our latest opinion piece published today in Trends in Microbiology (@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social): Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown Here, we argue that the origin of hypermutation follows defined principles, rather than...

last call! submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!

My colleague David Garfinkel is looking for a postdoc to join our NIH-funded project on the “Evolution of Retrotransposon Control Mechanisms” More info here: reporter.nih.gov/search/u7dKr.... The official job listing can be found here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/437... Please repost! #TEsky

Pls. share widely Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025 → Vibrant & friendly community → Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology → Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating) submit abstract by July 29

Just dropped our Mobile DNA review on HERVH, an ancient retrovirus now repurposed to build and defend the early human embryo. Call it genomic up-cycling! I felt HERVH went unnoticed this year, so we published this as a refresher; two fresh data papers - coming soon. 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s131... 🧵1/3

🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830 Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics

Vous êtes à #JOBIM2025 et vous avez manquez le poster de @marienewan.bsky.social sur la nouvelle version de #REPET ? Rassurez vous une demo est organisé aujourd'hui à midi en amphi E. Vous découvrirez toutes les évolutions mises en place pour vous faciliter l'annotation des #transposons

The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.

In @elife.bsky.social: Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This is the revised version of our manuscript, which will become the final published version !

Could horizontal transfer be abundant not just in bacteria but also in eukaryotes? A recent work by Pianezza R, Haider A, Scarpa A, Signor S and Kofer R finds 3 HTs of transposons in a mere 30years. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... #evolution #drosophila

🧬🌽 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

Exciting work from the Guarné lab indicating how the elusive TnsE pathway of prototypic Tn7 recognizes DNA replication features using an asymmetric dimer to integrate multiple signals at DNA replication forks linking target recognition to transposase recruitment doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Temperature and genetic background drive mobilization of diverse transposable elements in a critical human fungal pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654958v1

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Great week! Would highly recommend to any others thinking of attending some @embo.org courses!

scTELL: A Single-Cell ATAC-seq Tool for Locus-Specific Transposable Element Identification in Chromatin Accessibility #TEsky #TEworldwide www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Transposon activity eliminates a crucial fungal secondary metabolite cluster while preserving pathogenicity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653967v1

🧬 New research shows how structural variants, driven by recombination & transposons, shape adaptability in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 🌾 Despite low gene diversity, SVs impact key traits—offering insight into pathogen evolution. 📖 buff.ly/VfhztgL #GRDC #CurtinUni @mcderbyshire.bsky.social

We dive into the dynamics of #starships 🚀 in a fungal pathogen to ask: how might these giant #transposons impact human health? We find they drive genome-wide variation, encode clinically-relevant traits and even transpose within the same strain! 🍄🧪 out today in mBio #goteam doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

#TEsky DNA gains and losses in gigantic genomes do not track differences in transposable element-host silencing interactions doi.org/10.1038/s420...

An excuse to come to sunny Neuchâtel for those interested in RIP! #TEsky #TEworldwide

Our May issue is live! Yukihide Tomari et al outline repression mechanisms for transposons (which “jump” through the genome like monkeys [see cover]). Meanwhile, Sarah Signor et al dive into the evolution of one of these mechanisms: the piRNA system. More here! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

🐡 My new cover art highlights research from the Miska lab @miskalab.bsky.social at U of Cambridge @cambiochem.bsky.social 🧪 The authors present the first pangenome for Lake Malawi cichlids built from the genomes of seven representative species. Full paper 🔗 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5... (1/3)

In case anyone wanted a simple solution for #EarlGrey with the whole of Dfam 3.9 preconfigured, the latest Docker container now has this (and somehow successfully uploaded to Docker hub...), Just make sure you have a spare terabyte or so 😅 hub.docker.com/repository/d... #TEsky

Very excited with @tobybarilbio.bsky.social to share this preprint about his latest work on TEs! We knew that TEs were very pretty active in this global fungal pathogen of wheat. Now with nearly 2000 Illumina genomes available, we could finally ask questions about historic TE activation waves.

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA) Excited by fungi, genomes, transposons, sustainable agriculture, microbiomes or other topics? Looking for a friendly and interactive lab located in one of the most beautiful towns in Switzerland? 🇨🇭⛰️⛵ Get in touch and please share! pathogen-genomics.org