Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

How diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#TEsky A Concise Guide for the Characterization and Curation of Transposable Elements in Insect Genomes from valentinapeona.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Happy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM. "Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr

Super excited to share our new preprint! 🎉 This project has been an incredible learning experience, thanks to the amazing lab and wonderful people I get to work with. Huge thanks to my supervisor! @plantevolution.bsky.social

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

1/2 Somatic TE transposition in plants is getting traction again (70 years after McClintock's discovery of "controlling elements")! A very large collection of somatic TE insertions in A. thaliana described by Ambreen et al.(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).

It's finally out!🎉 We known that the #microbiome confers colonization resistance against #pathogens, we know that some meds 💊 affect gut microbes 🦠 So, do 💊 alter colonization resistance? It turns out that some do! If you wanna know more, check out our latest work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

In this study, Hermant et al. describe the evolution of the retrotransposon MERVL and its cis-regulatory transcription factor binding motifs, highlighting the phyloregulatory adaptation at play during early embryogenesis. Learn more here: ➡️ tinyurl.com/gd352270

New study with @petrollromy.bsky.social @borglab.bsky.social traces the evolution of epigenetic silencing in plants. Deep conservation of PRC2-mediated H3K27me3 marks across green algae suggest ancient, conserved networks of gene repression. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molevol #plants

The Custom-Lab Institute was featured in Germany's most important journal on the latest news from the life sciences sector, the "Laborjournal"! 😍

When you go to wrong hotel, but right plant

Deadline was just extended to 30th March! :)

🧪 I know it sounds like a cliché but I am TRULY AND UTTERLY THRILLED that this work from my postdoc at #unimi is out. SPL/NZZ is a very important gene (it initiates sporogenesis) but a very mysterious one. 🧵 1/8

Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). 1/2

I am very excited to see my first PhD paper out as a preprint. "The expanded Bostrychia moritziana genome unveils evolution in the most diverse and complex order of red algae". Huge thanks to @borglab.bsky.social for the great supervision and guidance through this exciting project!🎉

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@movillome.bsky.social first-author preprint at @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social from his PhD work at @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social, tackles the detection of TE mobilization. It’s inspiring to follow his progress and see his contributions to the field. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Looking forward to seeing more! #Plantsci

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...

🌱⤴️🧬⤵️ Really interesting preprint on somatic TE activity detected in methylation-deficient Arabidopsis lines! From @movillome.bsky.social et al. A notable point is the variable extent of mobilization across individuals. Is it random or an environmental factor? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

...and, of course, "activists" destroyed the trial field of the first CRISPR-edited crops grown in Italy. mycrispr.blog/2024/06/21/s... It's always the same with these people, and exactly what orgs like #GreenPeace promote. 🤮 #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

I just published: Distrutto! Vandali distruggono un campo sperimentale di riso in Italia 🇮🇹 “Come scienziati pubblici esprimiamo sconcerto e tristezza per aver subito una violenza ingiustificata, frutto di oscurantismo e pulsioni antiscientifiche.” link.medium.com/EeUDArEQGKb

Wonderful news to see our basic research on the effector targets sHMA make it into GE field trials. Kudos Team #BLASTOFF #openriceblast #effectorwisdom @ThorstenLangner @ryoheiterauchi @vittoriabr www.nature.com/articles/d43...