So grateful to contribute to the #TAIR12 community effort! It was a truly fun and informative journey refining the Arabidopsis thaliana annotation. Looking forward to the release on ENA! 🌱

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!

Two research highlights and three full papers about NLR-mediated resistance in wheat. Plant research is taking over @natgenet.nature.com !

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social

#PacBio expands HiFi methylation detection with new deep learning models from CUHK: 5hmC, hemimethylated 5mC, 6mA - no added cost, no new prep. Hear more at our #AACR25 workshop today.

🔗 bit.ly/4jNCnHT

#HiFisequencing

Efficient near telomere-to-telomere assembly of Nanopore Simplex reads Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly is the ultimate goal for de novo genome assembly. Existing algorithms capable of near T2T assembly all require Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) ultra-long reads w...

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato - Nature A haplotype-resolved pan-genome of autotetraploid European potato founder lines shows high nucleotide diversity at remarkably low haplotype diversity, which is probably the result of hybridization eve...

📣Paper Alert! 📣New publication out @nature.com by @labschneeberger.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on the genome reconstruction of historic potato cultivars. 👏🌿🥔 Congratulations! 🥳👏Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3GeGcGX
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

📣Paper Alert! New publication @science.org by the group of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social, colleagues @ucph.bsky.social & others on the Casparian strip and its role in metabolic trade between plants & bacteria. 👏Learn more 👉https://bit.ly/4bJe4Yd
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The #CologneSpringMeeting poster session featured over 70 presentations, fostering a vibrant social and networking atmosphere. Great discussions, new connections, and inspiring science all around!

Cologne Spring Meeting starts with “Plant Ecological Genetics: From Lab to Nature and Back” talk by @meauxjuliette.bsky.social Exploring the bridge between laboratory insights and real-world plant ecology. #EcologicalGenetics #PlantScience

Join the “PhD Career Perspectives Event” at the Cologne Spring Meeting 2025, March 17th at 17:00!

Speakers:
👩‍🔬 Dr. Dorit Grundewald, Scientific Coordinator, Food Security Network
💡 Christina Kothes M.Sc., Innovation Manager, Institute for Plant Sciences

📍 MTI-Building (44b), Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9

Our review on k-mers + pop gen is now published!

doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
new review @annualreviews.bsky.social from @abousios.bsky.social, Tetsuji Kakutani, and myself on my favourite type of mobile genetic element

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

We made it 😀 - excited to share our latest research and engage with this vibrant community here at Bluesky 🌿🪴

New Resource: "Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers" rdcu.be/d7YSt

11 genomes of wild and domesticated pepper: transposable elements have shaped the evolution of genome structure.

New Article: "Convergent reduction of immune receptor repertoires during plant adaptation to diverse special lifestyles and habitats" rdcu.be/d6uFq

A survey of plant immune receptor repertoires in 808 angiosperm genomes. #PlantScience