We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

Genetic modification of obligate biotrophic pathogens like #powderymildew is often not possible, in part because they cannot be grown without a host. We took a detour and established Arachnopeziza, closest extant relative of powdery mildew, as substitute! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to share that our TEtrimmer paper has just been published in Nature Communications! A big thank you to all collaborators — the article is now online ;) 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...

Bring your #PlantScience publishing questions for our Editors! Catch Holly on our stand at #2025ISMPMI with @hacquardst.bsky.social, Ralph Panstruga, Ari Sadanandom, @pietrospanu.bsky.social and Ertao Wang! 📅 TODAY ⏰ 13:00–14:00 🗺 New Phytologist Foundation stand, poster hall

#Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across #fungal genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I want to share our latest work on a forward simulation framework on transposable element evolution. The TE Evolution Simulation Suite, or TESS, contains three components that can simulate many scenarios of genome evolution under the impact of TEs.

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs

Our paper is now published in its final form: rdcu.be/elV6u @biomedcentral.bsky.social @salehlabparis.bsky.social @merklinglab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

Our recent paper is out where we propose kmer-based phylogenetics for fungal Starship TEs (which are unalignable as highly variable). We think it could help with spotting bonafide HGT events (and suggest direction of transfer?) doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... @mcmullan0.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

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

Harnessing transposable elements for plant functional genomics and genome engineering #plantscience

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's been a while because I've felt distracted lately with...*gestures at everything* but, I've gone and updated TE Hub @tehub.bsky.social with new tools, databases and TE lineages tehub.org #TEsky

📣 #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

We created a comprehensive video tutorial on how to use TEtrimmerGUI to curate your TE consensus sequences. Watch it here: youtu.be/52GYZUQyzSE?...

Great tall from @clementgoubert.bsky.social to present GraffiTE: a pipline that finds polymorphic TE in genomes #PAG32 github.com/cgroza/Graff...

@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi! Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation. What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our novel tool for finding recent TE invasions without repeat library - great work by amazing student Riccardo (not yet on bsky) genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Now hiring: Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬? We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply! www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...