#TEsky Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
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Posts by Saima Shahid
Managed to get some Cuscuta plants started in Sheffield just in time for student projects next year- glad that the seeds germinated despite all the challenges during lab move from USA to UK!
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A conceptual model summarizing how the balance between environmental fluctuations and the epigenetic toolkit can affect plant homeostasis.
A draft network of 33 epigenetic toolkit proteins, whose encoding genes repeatedly occur as candidates under selection in different contexts in various plant studies.
How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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Congratulations Hanna! 🎉
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Undergrads visiting @PuckerLab during the summer of 2025. Details: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de
We are looking for undergrads to visit us over the next summer!
If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬
Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Do excellent science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
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Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social
#TEsky #TEworldwide
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piRNA-directed DNA methylation may not be a mammalian invention, but can already be found in the germline of axolotl salamanders
Donal O’Carroll and coworkers
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Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026:
www.findaphd.com/search/Proje...
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇
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picture of the Schornacklab team
Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
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Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026:
www.findaphd.com/search/Proje...
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom.
👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial!
👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome!
👉 Contribute and get recognition!
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Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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🦖 Something HUGE just hatched.
Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis:
• As fast as 3 day turnaround
• $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry
• Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample
• Interactive results
Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.
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This work was led by Young Jun Kim, a very talented student in the lab. If you have ONT data and want to investigate DNA methylation, DMRcaller would be able to provide you more information than what was previously possible.
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It was a pleasure to be part of this collaboration with the amazing @benebachelot.bsky.social and Parker Bartz, excited for the next manuscript stemming from this study!
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New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd
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Great to have Mike Axtell at Sheffield for a fantastic PPS cluster seminar on Cuscuta trans-species microRNAs- looking forward to seeing more exciting research from Mike’s group! #parasitic_plants
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Title slide of nanopore sequencing talk. More details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news
🚀 Today is the day! Excited to talk about our nanopore sequencing activities in Freiburg 🌱🧬 Including our plant genome sequencing workflow 👉 www.doi.org/10.20944/pre...
@puckerlab.bsky.social @pietzenuk.bsky.social
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TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share.
careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity.
But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing?
PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time.
read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Happy to see the preprint out - really nice work!
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Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint!
We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠
Highlights below! 1/9
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I’m missing out on the amazing science at #Botany2025, but super happy that my student Megan Adler is giving her first talk!
July 29, TUE, 9 AM (PDT):
“Dynamic DNA (de)methylation underpins parasitic #Cuscuta-host plant communication”
If you are attending, don’t miss Megan’s talk!
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