First paper from the Kasimatis Lab is now online! We investigate of the maintenance of mate plugging in C. elegans along with its function www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Jeremy Hollis’ detective story on centromeric histone chaperones (HJURP/Cal1) is now published after peer review with a few extra goodies. @jeremyahollis.bsky.social @nlehrbach.bsky.social @cbmoens.bsky.social @irinakitop.bsky.social @basicsci.fredhutch.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

Thrilled to share our latest work on Sindbis virus immunity evasion, now out in @SciAdvances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A single codon offers an elegant solution that outsmarts two evolutionarily distant hosts using the same strategy—viral economy at its finest. A true duel of the fates!

New paper from the Stern and Gronenborn labs on structure and evolution of aphid bicycle effector proteins. We show how alphafold can generate accurate predictions for these rapidly evolving proteins and that these proteins are diverse in every possible way. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hiring Alert: My lab(www.labofpie.org) is looking for BS/MS-level research assistants to study fungal-bacterial competition. Come join us if you are interested! ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/recruitme...

Our story on the evolution of colistin resistance is just out on @plosbiology.org (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Evolution doesn’t happen in isolation. We show that competing fungi can rewire the evolutionary trajectory of colistin resistance in P. aeruginosa. Great teamwork with the Ernst lab

Another announcement! 📣 Our work on hybrid incompatibility in cohesin protection in 🐭oocytes is published!! Congrats Warif El Yakoubi and Eddie Pan!!🎉 We found hybrids with cohesion errors in two distinct genus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new paper in early access at Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Another selfish element in the best worm!

Hello World! It took a minute, but much improved version (thank you peer review) of Joris paper is out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/geno...

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Check out this new Levine-Lampson collaboration, led by the talented Hyuk-Joon Jeon. We explored the consequences of inheriting long telomeres from dad and short telomeres from mom. Or the reciprocal. Turns out, parent-of-origin matters (in mice, at least). authors.elsevier.com/c/1loW-3QW8S...

Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution at IPMB at Academia Sinica (ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en)! 🎉Our brand-new website is live: (www.labofpie.org). Check the lab of PIE out!!🥧🎈

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Evolution of Chromosomes and Genomes (ECG) Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Our lab website is now live—come check it out! sites.google.com/view/ecg-lab...

Absolutely stoked to be part of the JCC community! Let’s do some awesome science together!

9 minutes. Hah. That's 8 mins too late in the worm community.

@lewsiferase.bsky.social fighting the good fight to put animal toxin-antidote elements on the map! Quite jazzed to see this story published. Tag yourself, I am the transient blob #teamTAs

Beautiful work showing how PEEL-1 gets away with murder Congrats @lewsiferase.bsky.social et al!

#Celegans peel-1/zeel-1 is one of the best-characterized animal #toxin-antidote systems, but how does it work? @lewsiferase.bsky.social &co show that PEEL-1 co-opts the PMPL-1 to exert toxicity by creating a novel #IonChannel that leads to cell swelling @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3HfH8LN

Sometimes a paper stops you in your tracks. New work from Loppin’s group found that histone eviction during sperm development ensures that paternal chromosomes aren’t mistaken for maternal chromosomes in the Drosophila embryo. My Perspective: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 1/2