Bacot et al. investigated the genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation of tiger mosquito to deltamethrin in La Réunion Island; results indicate that multigenic metabolic resistance observed in this territory mainly results from local adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag039 #genome #evolution

Really happy to see this preprint out on bioRxiv! An exciting project and results, a huge amount of work, and many people involved along the way. Thanks to everyone in Team PATHOCOM. Special thanks to Wei Yuan, Kevin Murray @kdm9.bsky.social, Ilja Bezrukov and Detlef @plantevolution.bsky.social!

1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥 We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📌 New review out today from my colleague Aurore Johary and our PI @zoejolylopez.bsky.social! An overview of TE-based epigenome engineering in plants. 🧬🌿 #PlantScience cbgg.hapres.com/htmls/CBGG_1...

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result

🌱 New preprint out on bioRxiv! How do plants sense seasonal changes in day length? In our new study, we profiled high resolution (2h) RNA seq time courses in tomato across three photoperiods to uncover how light duration shapes gene expression dynamics. Summary in next post...

Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader @luisapallares.bsky.social in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉 The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies. Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...

'What I love about fundamental research is that even if you work on the same topic for years, your questions, your methods, and your understanding shift in ways you never expect.' In #Profile: @genezgi.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Um es nochmal laut zu sagen: Theo Müller (Müllermilch,Weihenstephan, Landliebe, Sachsenmilch, Milsani, Milbona, Käserei Loose, Homann, Nadler, Hamker, Lisner uvam.) untertützt die AfD! www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.

🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf! If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required

Following the successful completion of the Series A funding round, our plant disease resistance start-up Resurrect Bio @resurrectbio.bsky.social is hiring for its London lab: (1/2) AI Research Scientist | Protein-Protein Interactions jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/resurrect/ai...

@maxplanck.de on its strategy for collaboration with #Africa: “This is about a genuine partnership with Africa” www.mpg.de/26109563/afr...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "TSS-proximal TFBSs are implicated in rapid, tissue-wide transcriptional stress responses....distal upstream regions contain conserved TF clusters that overlap rare cell type-specific accessible chromatin"

🚨📢📄 Article in press in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130... We introduce panREPET, a reference-free pipeline to detect shared transposable element (TE) insertions across pangenomes and retrace their evolutionary dynamics #TEsky 🧵👇

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...

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #plantscience

Check out this immensely useful but super easy to create gel electrophoresis preview tool for safe stains! Material list: custom-lab.de/blogs/news/n... More awesome tools in our shop: custom-lab.de

This is how "Myriam", our fully customizable powder dispenser for 96-well plates works by "fill-and-flip"! Find it here: custom-lab.de/products/cus... This, and many more dispenser systems, mag racks and many more tools (all customizable) are available at the Custom-Lab Institute ➡️ custom-lab.de

We visited Plasmidsaurus and had tons of interesting takeaways, so we went back to record a whole podcast episode with them and film a lab tour for our YouTube channel. Here are both:

🚨Last chance to submit your abstract for a GRS talk! Deadline: Feb 15, 2026. Apply soon! General application deadline (poster presentations only): April 25, 2026. #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here). academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

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

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences" doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Pleased to share our article in @nature.com 'Pesticide mixtures harm soil biodiversity'. Along with Alex Pedrinho, we highlight policy implications& future research of new pub from @mvanderheijden.bsky.social group to support pesticide regulations & soil biodiversity protection rdcu.be/e1aHs

Rational improvement of pennycress using CRISPR. #PlantScience From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well... community post confirms it: ONT is getting rid of P2 Solo, their most cost-effective platform. By transitioning to P2i-only and "contact for quotes" purchase models, ONT is now in the realm of the sequencing companies that they initially claimed to be distancing themselves from.

Meet Yasin Kaya of Max Planck, one of the volunteer researchers behind #TAIR12 We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to this new annotation, soon to be published on the ENA! 🧪 #plantbiology #plantscience #TAIR #Arabidopsis @ysnky.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social bit.ly/4bJBBKt

New preprint on technologies to scale up CRISPR screens. We use them to map 665,856 pairwise genetic perturbations and outline a path to comprehensive interaction mapping in human cells. We also introduce an approach for cloning lentiviral libraries with billions of elements.

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

Novel compact CRISPR systems unlock easier delivery and more applications... epigenome editing anyone 👀 Very happy to be involved in work to rationally engineer enhanced Cme2 - an ultra-high fidelity & compact Cas, delivered in vivo in a single AAV (with gRNA) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal github.com/ranwez-searc... Pretty convenient!

You can find the original article in Plants People Planet: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 6/6 #PlantScience

Excited about our new preprint showing bidirectional adaptive introgression between invasive and native crop pests over ecological timescales www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New episode of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast! 🎙️ I had a wonderful discussion with @ajeetchaudhary.bsky.social Ajeet about his recent Molecular Plant paper. His work made it to the cover as well. Podcast: tinyurl.com/3ppeys36 Article: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Missed our live event with @pcronald.bsky.social ? 🎥 The full recording is now available on the Women in Genomics YouTube channel. youtu.be/mwv3TkEt_aA

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*A new pre-print on increasing gene expression!* 🧬📈 doi.org/10.64898/202...

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @levine-lab.bsky.social very cool work

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation! We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now. Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱 euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

🇪🇺 Warum sich eine moderne, sachgerechte Regulierung von NGT lohnt 🌱🧬 Die Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGT) bieten ein echtes Potenzial für eine nachhaltige, klimaresiliente & effiziente Landwirtschaft. Wissenschaftliche Studien liefern keine belastbaren Hinweise auf Gefahren, während gleichzeitig/

Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein: Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.

We are editing a #Special_Issue “ #Panomics🧬 for #climate-smart crop improvement 🌾 under combined #abiotic stresses❄️🌊🫧🔥” in #PlantStress 🆒 🤩 🖇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @marianasartur.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social #omics