1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our group is moving from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social to the maritime city of Kiel! ⛵️🩵 I will lead the Department of Marine Plant Development and Physiology @uni-kiel.de 🌱🪸🌊 Look out for opportunities to join us in this exciting & growing hub for Plant, Marine & Evolutionary Biology in North Germany 🇩🇪

PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social BBSRC competition. Please RT👇 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

Liquid gold 🥗

Excited to share our new preprint led by Fred and me in collaboration with the archaeal community! We found that the molecular foundation of histone-based chromatin has pre-eukaryotic roots in Asgard archaea. (1/4) #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to present our brand new project at #h2s2026 @unifr.bsky.social. Genetically encoded #biosensor for #Hydropersulfides. PersIc, was developped in @messenslab.bsky.social at @vib-vub-csb.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered how the epigenome is modified during the transition from seed to seedling? Here, we show that water uptake by Arabidopsis seeds triggers the eviction of the H2B variant H2B.8, thereby revealing replication-independent chromatin reprogramming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD project on Blast Fungus host pentration open in my #Proteomics group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for an October 2026 entry. Collaborative project with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social. Deadline: 30th July. Open to Home Fee status applicants. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...

Nobori lab 2026 (July): 🇯🇵🇬🇧🇹🇭🇨🇳🇹🇼🇨🇦🇳🇱🇲🇰🇨🇱🇩🇪🇲🇽

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Well done Carlo!

Congratulations to the #EpiPlant poster prize winners! 🥇Steffi Raju @steffiraju.bsky.social @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social 🥈Vangeli Geshkovski @vgeshkovski.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 🥉Léa Feit @igred.fr

📆 Save The Date! The Plant-Bacteria Interaction Meeting (18th RPB) in Aussois, Savoie will take place from January 11 to 15th, 2027 👉 More info on the keynote speakers & sessions: plants-bacteria-2027.symposium.inrae.fr Deadline: September 25th @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

The results of the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 buff.ly/uiU9x5K #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch

Fascinating opening lecture by Frédéric Berger @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social on how chromatin regulators cooperate to maintain transcriptional silencing in Arabidopsis and beyond! #EpiPlant

Kick-off of EPIPLANT 2026 by Leïla Tirichine and @celineduc.bsky.social in the beautiful city of Nantes! Three days of exciting science on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms 🌱🧬 Check #EpiPlant for all the latest posts about the conference!

The next EPIPLANT 🌱 conference will start on Monday the 22nd of June. We are looking forward to 2.5 days of great science! Thanks to celineduc.bsky.social and Leïla Tirichine for the organization.

VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes Closing date: 1 September 2026 Salary: competitive Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Very happy to host Peter at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social !

Teach a man to fish, and he'll spend six years cloning and analyzing data with the hopes to publish it in a high impact factor journal

Matthew Cobb at the Norwich History Festival! Very cool!

🚨Preprint Drop🚨 We are very pleased to release our study on DNA methylation dynamics at enhancers during ESC differentiation! This work was led by Marlet Morales-Franco and Priscillia Lhoumaud 🧵(1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It's taken 17 years, but finally I am a maize geneticist. Thanks @briandilkes.bsky.social for the recognition (and apologies to Ivan Baxter),

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

Our new Review is out now! @carolinedean.bsky.social @miguelmontez.bsky.social We discuss how plants monitor seasonal temperature exposure, highlighting interconnected mechanisms of short-term transcriptional regulation & long-term epigenetic memory rdcu.be/fnLmG 🌱❄️

TSL Synbio just deposited 192 highly requested plasmids on @addgene.bsky.social! 🧪 Popular by demand: Our deposits include MoClo Plant promoters, plant terminators, C-terminal and N-terminal tags. Find them here: www.addgene.org/kits/youles-...

Using tobacco rattle virus for somatic gene editing in tomato with the compact ISYmu1 TnpB endonuclease. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

Cool special issue on plant evolution just dropped at @currentbiology.bsky.social our 2 cents: Fruits of tons of fun discussions with the one and only Susana Coelho: www.cell.com/current-biol... Reflections on evolution of auxin response with @jorgehg.bsky.social : www.cell.com/current-biol...

‼️Job alert📢🚨 We are recruiting a Junior Group Leader (f) in Protein Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, jointly hosted by the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and our Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1664 "Plant Proteoform Diversity – SNP2Prot."

We are hiring! Together with @bastien-boussau.bsky.social, we are looking for a motivated candidate in bioinformatic and deep-learning to develop an approach for non-coding regions prediction in eukaryotes. More information and application here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.

Need to brush up on my Italian...thanks @turchil.bsky.social for the gift!

How do cells tune PRC2 allostery? We find EZH2 Ser21-phos restrains PRC2 adoption of the compact active state. Loss of this restraint promotes H3K27me3, redistributes cPRC1, and impairs differentiation. New bioRxiv with @kasinath-lab.bsky.social & @garcialabms.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/4369kmh2

Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in @cellcellpress.bsky.social ! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!

Peer-reviewed version of our study led by @aliceeseola.bsky.social first seen on @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social showing the exquisite level of control of organelle trafficking & autophagy exerted during plant infection by the blast fungus. Thanks to all co-authors. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

As well as the permanent lecturer position we also currently have a 3-year fixed-term lecturer position available. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

We're here! A bit fashionably late to Bluesky, but glad to have made it. Follow along for lab news, preprints and publications, and science that excites us!

This is your regular reminder that Plant Reproduction is running a special issue on Epigenetics. We'd love to see your research on the topic! link.springer.com/collections/...

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

Chromatin organization in Asgard archaea: histones, SMC complexes, and the archaeal roots of eukaryotic chromatin: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet... New review by @jvhooff.bsky.social & @damelab.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC

@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social and I reviewed what we know about our favourite cereal killer and compared it to human-infecting relatives. Check it out! 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

⚡New preprint from the lab⚡: A key early checkpoint in gene expression is promoter proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II. For over 20 years, we as field have not been able to recreate pausing under realistic cellular conditions. @robertovn.bsky.social shows that ELOF1 is the missing piece.

I couldn't agree more! I absolutely loved my time in Banyus-sur-Mer @biom-banyuls.bsky.social as an undergrad (8 years ago 🤯)!

We are looking for candidates to fill a PhD position in Grenoble, France. Please share with anyone interested in microbial symbioses! #dinoflagellate #symbiosis www.linkedin.com/posts/johan-...