1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Super happy to share that I’ve passed my PhD defense! 🍾 It’s been an amazing journey doing my PhD in the Weigel World. Huge thanks to my supervisor, Detlef @plantevolution.bsky.social , even with your crazy schedule, you always made time to guide me. Couldn’t have done it without all your support!!!

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...

Large repeats are common in plant organellar genomes. Half of the A. thaliana mitogenomes we assembled have two large repeat pairs, while others have only one, where we identified two potential HGT events. Large repeats link to geography and cold traits. Feedback welcome on bioRxiv, Email, etc.!

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super excited to announce that our SCRM story is officially published!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Want to discover the exciting new functions of ICE1/SCRM? Want to dive into the latest model of plant embryo initiation? Don’t miss out—check it out here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Accessory proteins increase the efficiency of RNA editing by Arabidopsis chloroplast editosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.05.588343v1

Effects of spontaneous mutations on survival and reproduction of Drosophila serrata infected with Drosophila C virus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.04.588202v1

How cool is that -- would not have guessed that the type of genetic incompatibility, hybrid necrosis, that we've studied for many years, is also the cause for graft incompatibility. I wonder whether it's a story of mismatched helper NLRs... @kamounlab.bsky.social

Transposable elements as evolutionary driving force to ecological speciation in cactophilic Drosophila species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.27.587021v1

The Event Horizon Telescope has measured the *polarized* radiation from our friendly neighborhood black hole, Sgr A*! Press release: eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astrono..., papers in next skeet 🔭🧪

last week my latest paper on #cycads came out. The article deals with the idea of cycads as "living #fossils", but what does this mean exactly, and what did we actually test? A thread for #FossilFriday! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Asymmetry has never been so pleasing! Hubble’s near-infrared and visible-light view shows jostled dark brown dust lanes and a core knocked off center. Why? Galaxy M96 is part of a group of galaxies in a gravitational “tug of war.” Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, and the LEGUS Team. 🔭 🧪

Permutation analysis prior to variable selection greatly enhances robustness of OPLS analysis in small cohorts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.18.585475v1

reposting to 🧪 cause it's a very cool paper

IDRWalker: A Random Walk based Modeling Tool for Disordered Regions in Proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.17.585378v1

Estimation of spatial demographic maps from polymorphism data using a neural network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.15.585300v1

T2T with ONT-only 🏃🏻🍅🌽

Characterising tandem repeat complexities across long-read sequencing platforms with TREAT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.15.585288v1

German-Spanish-Argentinean collaboration on haplotype-resolved Malbec 🍇🍷genome. Trio-binning used short reads from the parental varietals Prunelard and Magdeleine Noire des Charentes, which are both almost extinct academic.oup.com/hr/advance-a...

Global climate change effect on Asian Mus musculus; Implication from last glacial maximum to the end of the 21st century https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.14.584992v1

FST and genetic diversity in an island model with background selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.15.585154v1

Genome streamlining: effect of mutation rate and population size on genome size reduction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.14.584996v1

The #Hubble images used in this animated science visualization present a full rotation of #Jupiter. It's not a real-time movie, but snapshots of the planet, taken in January, have been photo-mapped onto a sphere, and the model is then rotated in animation. 🔭 🧪

#Fungal24 gone the sorry way of Gordon Conference with overly restrictive policy on social media, posters etc. pretty bad given the conference is way oversubscribed. ECRs, why don’t you publish your posters instead? kamounlab.medium.com/why-you-shou...

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás #EffectorWisdom youtu.be/CmLNM6WHUHc?...

New study gives support to the “RNA World” hypothesis. An RNA has been synthesized that can replicate other RNA, showing an in-principle mechanism for how it could have worked. #evobio 🦫🦋 🗃️🧠 🌱🐋🧪🌎

For funders, departments, and institutions: Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, degree requirements, fellowship eligibility, tenure, and promotion. #preprintreview journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Are you constructing genome graphs, and are you wondering how different graphs compare to each other? Then check out Sebastian Vorbrugg's Gretl - Variation GRaph Evaluation TooLkit! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔭 🧪 Two teams using the James Webb Space Telescope peered across space and time to learn secrets of strangely bright GN-z11 and its enormous black hole. GN-z11 is one of the youngest and most distant galaxies ever observed: webbtelescope.pub/3IiTZtG

Mr. 40,000 points! www.nba.com/news/lebron-...

How did we lose our tails? Blame it on the Alu! Really interesting work lead by @itaiyanai.bsky.social 🧪 #Science #EvoDevo

I couldn't help but feel my eyes well up with tears

Our current record is 40 out of 46 diploid chromosomes in T2T scaffolds straight from Verkko. We are closing in on the routine assembly of complete, personalized human genomes!

What is the main force in evolution? Selection or drift? academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...

I am happy to announce that our story on transposable elements in Thlaspi arvense has been published in PLOS Genetics 🥳. Want to know how TEs are shaping the genomic landscape of this future oilseed crop? Have a look: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... #TEworldwide 🧬🌿

When you have high-quality sequencing data, don't forget about the chloroplast genome🌵 Thanks Detlef! @plantevolution.bsky.social

High-throughput selection of human de novo-emerged sORFs with high folding potential https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.22.576604v1

GTDrift: A resource for exploring the interplay between genetic drift, genomic and transcriptomic characteristics in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.23.576799v1

Anti-gene oligonucleotides targeting Friedreichs ataxia expanded GAA:TTC repeats increase Frataxin expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.25.577034v1

REPrise: de novo interspersed repeat detection using inexact seeding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.21.576581v1