Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social and all the authors on this beautiful work exploring the inheritance of endogenous viral insertions in algae. It was a pleasure to contribute to this study and I am sure this is only the beginning of many exciting discoveries! 🌿 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Apologies - registration still possible until 21 April!

Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice paper!

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

📌Have a look at this meeting¡ It sounds too good to miss✨ Aline Probst, @alineprobst.bsky.social, one of our @episeedlink.bsky.social supervisors, is one of the keynote speakers 👏

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...

🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #epigenetics #plantscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am extremely grateful to receive a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust to study the epigenetic mechanisms underlying environmental stress memory in crops @dundee.ac.uk and @hutton.ac.uk 🍓🍅🌱 I’ll be advertising positions in our group soon - stay tuned! buff.ly/pI5Bqoo

Excited to share our latest publication on interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood, spearheaded by the amazing Olivia Grant and co-led with @leo-schalkwyk.bsky.social and Meena Kumari. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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

One single protein, one big decision: how brown algae know when to reproduce. New press release on how researchers in the Department of Algae Development and Evolution have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae. Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba

One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate. New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS: Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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. :-)

Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬

Our paper on the newest version of the Registry of candidate cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) is out 🧬 Huge thanks to the many collaborators, experimentalists, analysts and software developers who made this work possible — truly a team effort! A "meme-torial" of the science is coming soon 👀

New paper on genome editing in brown algae by Dr. Claudia Martinho, former member of Susana Coelho's Algal Development and Evolution Department, in collaboration with Masakazu Hoshino, Morgane Raphalen, Viktoriia Bukhanets, Anagha Kerur, @kbogaert.bsky.social, Rémy Luthringer, and Susana Coelho

Do plants and animals evolve organs under different molecular evolutionary constraints? 🌱🐾 A really nice paper just out in Cell.

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the @aspbofficial.bsky.social SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship) aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now! #PlantSci

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...

Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚 Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀 We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to share my work @kent.ac.uk! Great atmosphere and amazing discussions with @gomollonsara.bsky.social and all colleagues about plants, genomics and heredity.

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3… rdcu.be/eNEf4 A short thread:

Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️ genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉

A beautiful life ❤️

So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈 A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately: rdcu.be/eITQH

We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species! Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years. We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #CRISPR #Algae

Tremendous bias.

📣 The Plant Cell welcomes Sara Lopez-Gomollon to the Editorial Board for the 2024-2025 year!🌱 #plantscience #WeAreASPB

Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier takes a look at the history of women in the Royal Society library and finds they undoubtedly worked and studied there long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/04...

And a 3 year tech position is also now live. Synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply / RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51027/ @camplantsci.bsky.social

It’s 30 years since The Beijing Declaration when world leaders agreed how to achieve equal rights, opportunities, power & safety for women & girls. A @natureportfolio.nature.com collection gives a snapshot of progress & where we could/should do better #womeninSTEM www.nature.com/collections/...

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

#FreeFeatured A #Review by Chenwei Zhou, Sarah Wagner, and Fu-Sen Liang @cwru @CWRUchemistry describing the recent advances in induced proximity strategies for labeling the epigenetic machinery and editing the epigenome. http://dlvr.it/T8bV5s