🚨 New paper alert on telomeres! 🚨 Something different from the group! Thanks to Yuxin, a talented student in the lab, we used long-reads in 75 human trios to study telomeres and their inheritance.

Hominoid-specific retrotransposons fuel regulatory novelty in early brain development , by @retrogenomics.bsky.social. ➡️ www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

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

Connaissez-vous l'histoire des gènes sauteurs ?🧬 Dans cette vidéo, Gaël Cristofari, chercheur ( #UniCA, @cnrs.fr, @inserm.fr) explique de manière claire et illustrée comment ces gènes se déplacent et quel rôle essentiel ils jouent dans notre génétique. ➡️https://youtu.be/twtOhB-TPJk?feature=shared

🦟 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

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

Thrilled to receive @anrs-mie.bsky.social grant with @lambrechtslab.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social! Making mosquitoes intolerant to arboviruses. Thanks @pasteur.fr, @inserm.fr & @cnrs.fr for support. Exciting times for #ARBORETRO project! Stay tunned.

Don't miss the first edition of the CSH-Asia meeting on "The Repetitive and Mobile Genome" taking place in Suzhou, China. 📅 Abstract submission deadline extended: Feb 21, 2025 👉 www.csh-asia.org?content/2544 #transposon #mobileDNA #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

Very proud of this work led by @sophielanciano.bsky.social 🖥️🧬🧪 #TEsky

I'm so excited to announce that our story on LINE-1 DNA methylation has been published in @CellGenomics 🥳🥳 With @retrogenomics.bsky.social @aurelien-doucet.bsky.social and all other authors. Enjoy the reading! www.cell.com/cell-genomic... See original thread below.

Forgot to say we already have at least 230 registered! A record! And if we are more than 200 at the gala diner, we can have our own dance floor 🕺 #TEworldwide

Did you ever wondered how "jumping genes" actually jump? 2 papers now published in Nature show the 3D structure of the enzyme responsible for this process for human LINE-1 retrotransposon (links 👇). Congrats to the authors! #TEsky #TEworldwide #transposon 🧪🧬🔬"Genome Stability" 👇