🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social

Cool and neat story led by my former PhD student @p-bourguet.bsky.social Congrats Pierre and crew!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A TE insertion controls throat colour in wheatears. The gene involved (ASIP) is the same one that is epigenetically affected by an IAP insertion the famous Avy mice. As if we needed more reasons to love TEs.

New record!

#ResultatScientifique 🔎 L'équilibre entre activation et répression des gènes est crucial pour le développement et chez les plantes ils existent des protéines "gardiennes" de ce mécanisme ! ✍️ O. Mathieu & G. Moissiard 👉 L'article dans @natplants.nature.com buff.ly/v7R7mbj

Our paper is finally out in Nature Plants. MAIL proteins antagonize Polycomb-mediated silencing. Full text here: rdcu.be/eJisX

Last good news from 2024! Our latest paper on TE-derived small RNAs is finally out! It reveals a beautiful buffering mechanism involving epigenetics, chromatin organization, and pathogen resistance. A great collaboration with @plantevolution.bsky.social, don’t miss it! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 #EMBOMobileGenome is open for registrations! Assembling experts in genomics, epigenetics, structural biology, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology to discuss the broad impact of TEs on organismal biology. 🧬🔍 📜 Submit abstract by 29 July! 👉🏼 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl

In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

while Plants == Mammals: use(H3K4me3, mode="anti-DNA methylation", target="Arabidopsis") www.nature.com/articles/s41...