If you like flowers, molecular mechanisms, friendky meetings and the Côte d'Azur, register to the 'Flower meeting' at the presqu'ile de Giens in June (15th-19th) www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/FlowerWo...

Hot off the press, our latest publication on the functional role of gene body methylation (gBM). academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Work spearheaded by Jakub Zastapilo with help from @robynemm.bsky.social and Liudmila Mikheeva and co-led by Marco Catoni and @ubechtold.bsky.social 1/3

Macedonian tortoises made the NYT 🐢

Dear postdoc fellows, interested in applying for MSCA Postdoc Fellowship with team Epi2Trans at LGDP CNRS/UPVD in Perpignan, France? Get in touch with us! #MSCA #Postdoctoral #PlantScience #Epigenetics #TransposableElements #CNRS #UPVD www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume...

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

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Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form 📅 22–24 Sept 2026 In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls #plantsi

Wow, big time preprint drop from @jacobsenucla.bsky.social lab! One of the holy grails of DNA methylation research. Also, the 2-figure paper reminds me of the classic Science Brevia from Simon Chan and Steve showing RNA-directed DNA methylation drives de novo DNAme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nobori lab 2026 (Feb): 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇹🇭🇨🇳🇹🇼🇨🇦🇳🇱🇲🇰🇹🇿🇨🇱 Thank you all for the inspiration, curiosity, and energy you bring every day!

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I can recognize someone's handwriting @turchil.bsky.social 👀

Come visit us at the Norwich Science Festival today! #norwichscifestival @vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social

February Issue. Read FREE: Focus issue on plant epigenetics (see artist inspired cover); Defining the epigenetic toolkit as an evolvable trait; Precision plant epigenome editing; Expanding plant epigenetic code & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA: 🔹 Bioinformatics / AI 🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics 🔹 Proteomics Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 📅 Closing date: 27 February Apply via JIC website: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/ Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏

We're recruiting a PhD student to try and understand stress memory and gene function, using gene editing, in trees! #plantscience

TSA treatment may induce cellular and structural memory !! Happy to have been part of this beautiful story, lead by @fpaldi.bsky.social in Giacomo Cavalli's lab. Now published in @natgenet.nature.com 👏. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪🧬New preprint We present cryo-EM structures of reconstituted CTCF–nucleosome complexes, showing CTCF dimerization drives nucleosome oligomerization into defined higher-order assemblies. Disrupting CTCF–CTCF interfaces in mESCs reduces looping and impairs differentiation. tinyurl.com/CTCF-nucleos...

Look at the replies and then understand why I yell at the nonsense initiatives the EU has pulled instead of reinforcing what we already have 🧪

Did you know… 🤔 #OnThisDay 100 years ago, William Bateson, first director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, died on 8th February 1926. Bateson was an important, sometimes controversial figure in the history of genetics. He coined the word “genetics” and Mendel’s theory of heredity 🧬

!!!! PhD position!!!! #SUMO modification in plant DNA damage repair. Join our team @pecinka-grp.bsky.social and work on this cool & still understudied topic. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ely cathedral @turchil.bsky.social

We made the front cover of @theplantcell.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to co-first authors @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister, corresponding author @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and everyone at JIC, @earlhaminst.bsky.social and @vizgen.bsky.social who collaborated on this exciting work 👏

H3K79me2/3 is sufficient to antagonise PRC1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱 EPIPLANT is live! Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–25). We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms! 👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

Delighted to welcome Nanne Taks (@nwtaks.bsky.social) as a new postdoc in our lab! Nanne completed his PhD in Amsterdam with @havandenburg.bsky.social and @pfeilmeier.bsky.social, working on plant-pathogen interactions at hydathode water pores. Welcome!

During germline epigenetic reprogramming, Polycomb must be restricted in the gametes to ensure proper genome regulation in the fertilized embryo. 2 must-read papers assess what happens when Ezhip (Polycomb antagonist) is lost. They come to highly similar conclusions and should be read in tandem 1/4

Can plant pathogens boost vector fitness? Together with @hassansalem.bsky.social, we review how phytopathogens can spread further by moonlighting as insect symbionts 🪲 More on this nifty lifestyle in @annualreviews.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Cool work, but comments like "protein centric view of the central dogma" have to stop. 1) That's not what the central dogma was about & 2) Jacob/Monod/Lwoff were awarded the Nobel in 1965 for demonstrating that genes are regulated by non-coding regions.

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Definitely highly recommended!

For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science. I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback) www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...

It's been 25 years since the publishing of the human genome project. I'd like to commission a review article for CSH Protocols on how the sequencing methods have evolved and where we might be headed. If you're interested, let me know!

Spotted our very own @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, @turchil.bsky.social and @vgeshkovski.bsky.social going through the JIC Historic Collections 👀 A wonderful resource well worth a visit! 📖🌷

It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @umr-iam.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to study the effect of #microbiota on #tree #health. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply !

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's an amazing collection! Here are some chromosomes 🧬

We recently ran our second intro event for colleagues from across the JIC and Norwich Research Park to come and explore our Historic Collections 📖🔬 If you‘re interested in arranging a visit, you can learn more on our website now: www.jic.ac.uk/research-imp...

"Reproductive phasiRNAs are the piRNAs of plants" by María Ximena Anleu Gil & Blake C. Meyers "piRNAs and reproductive phasiRNAs emerged and evolved independently in animals and plants, yet share striking parallels..." Read more: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Online Now: Why m⁶A? An RNA surveillance model Online now:

Here's an article I wrote that @nature.com turned down, on Crick and his half-century relationship with Nature. It condenses all the material relating to Nature that appeared in my Crick biography (apart from the double helix, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here's one of my fave's, which is well known in epigenetic circles. The drosophila line Su(var)3–9 had a mutation in the gene that codes for the H3K9 methyltransferase. So the name SUV39 is just a complete coincidence! From David Allis' obituary www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Got my PhD yesterday! Had a great discussion during my viva and I'm truly grateful for the support from my supervisors + examiners + friends and peers at TSL. Where I am today has been shaped by all of you — and exciting journeys ahead! 🎓✨

The Sainsbury Laboratory is delighted to announce that it has received $2 million in funding as part of Google.org's $20 million AI for Science Fund to support organizations focused on cutting-edge AI for science research. @kamounlab.bsky.social @amiralito.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/news/the-sai...

I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

Vertebrates in general a boring. Plants, fungi, nematodes, unicellular eukaryotes, that’s where it is happening.

@labcosta.bsky.social Out now in ScienceAdvances our new work with @AndreaBassi78 MAcro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The new textbook Essential Plant Biology, written by @johninnescentre.bsky.social and TSL experts, is now available! 🌱 This richly illustrated textbook is accessible undergraduate biologists and will be a valuable resource for all biology students and teachers 🌿 Full announcement ➡️ buff.ly/AmDw3en