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Excellent networking opportunities and inspiring conversations at the 12th Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) Forum!
I had the pleasure of presenting @puckerlab.bsky.social ’s research activities and exchanging ideas with so many brilliant minds
🔗 Learn more: www.biosc.de/forum_2026
#Biotech
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Excellent networking opportunities and inspiring conversations at the 12th Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) Forum!
I had the pleasure of presenting @puckerlab.bsky.social ’s research activities and exchanging ideas with so many brilliant minds
🔗 Learn more: www.biosc.de/forum_2026
#Biotech
1/ BRAKER4 hatched!
The Earth BioGenome Project is on track to sequence ~1.5M eukaryotic species. Every one needs a structural annotation. No Perl monolith was going to survive that. So we rewrote BRAKER from the ground up. github.com/Gaius-August...
Maybe it works out next time. We will keep offering Python courses and you would be very welcome here in Bonn :)
quinoa, figure source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quinoa_02.JPG
Are scientific papers always right? Not necessarily.
Our students revisited a study on quinoa leaf pigmentation. Here is what they found:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #PlantScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social
quinoa, figure source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quinoa_02.JPG
Are scientific papers always right? Not necessarily.
Our students revisited a study on quinoa leaf pigmentation. Here is what they found:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#OpenScience #Reproducibility #PlantScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Slides of the Python course for life scientists at the University of Bonn. Details: https://github.com/bpucker/PyBo
Starting Monday: Python course at the University of Bonn 🚀
Teaching Plant Sciences master’s students how to handle big data with Python & apply AI to real-world problems 🌱💻
Slides & materials: github.com/bpucker/PyBo
#Python #AI #DataScience #PlantScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Slides of the Python course for life scientists at the University of Bonn. Details: https://github.com/bpucker/PyBo
Starting Monday: Python course at the University of Bonn 🚀
Teaching Plant Sciences master’s students how to handle big data with Python & apply AI to real-world problems 🌱💻
Slides & materials: github.com/bpucker/PyBo
#Python #AI #DataScience #PlantScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Would you like to confirm your cloning success with full plasmid sequencing? NanoPlasmiQC allows automatic analysis of dozens of plasmids in a single ONT sequencing run:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
Would you like to confirm your cloning success with full plasmid sequencing? NanoPlasmiQC allows automatic analysis of dozens of plasmids in a single ONT sequencing run:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenScience
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
PuckerLab header in Easter flavour. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb
🌱🐣 Happy Easter from our Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Group! 🧬
Celebrating renewal, curiosity, and the hidden “Easter eggs” in biological data 🧪💻
🌿 Happy Easter! 🌼
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences
@bpucker.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
#ERGAReads | Cookbook for plant genome sequences 🌱 🌴 🌵 🌿 🌾 🌿 🍀
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@bpucker.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social 🌱 🖥️
#Plant #genomes
PuckerLab team in early 2026. Team: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/team
Already one year at Uni Bonn since our move from TU Braunschweig. Great science, new ideas, and a growing team — thanks to all collaborators and supporters who made it possible.
More to come!
www.pbb.uni-bonn.de
#AcademicJourney #Teamwork #Science
@bpucker.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
Check out Nancy's latest work about the long history of anthocyanin research and the strong growth of this research topic 👇 #PlantSciences #Evolution
Hannah
We are delighted to welcome Hannah to our group. She will conduct long-read sequencing to explore plant genomes. We are excited to have her on board and look forward to amazing discoveries ahead!
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/team
#PlantGenomics #LongReadSequencing #Bioinformatics #Nanopore
Happy to share our new review mapping the journey of anthocyanin research and highlighting where it is heading next!
The explosion of publications in the last decade says it all 📈
Definitely a space to watch👀 And we're here for it!✌
lnkd.in/eCsfB-RE
#Plants #Anthocyanins #EarlyCareerResearch
Plant genome sequence assembly and annotation workflow. Figure source: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z
Interested in the genetic secrets of your favorite plant?
A genome sequence might reveal them. We wrote down a workflow from DNA extraction & sequencing to genome sequence assembly & annotation. It includes a hands-on guide with example commands.
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics
@nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
Very interesting idea. The spread of knowledge about anthocyanins probably leads to more papers naming them. I am afraid that a substantial proportion is also due to studies doing transcriptomics+metabolomics in the next plant species.
This is also the reason why we use everything connected to pigments frequently in our courses for students
Timeline showing major discoveries in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Histogram showing increase in scientific publications about anthocyanins. Figure source: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.2058.v1
Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday
doi.org/10.20944/pre... & shorturl.at/Hrm4c
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Timeline showing major discoveries in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Histogram showing increase in scientific publications about anthocyanins. Figure source: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.2058.v1
Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday
doi.org/10.20944/pre... & shorturl.at/Hrm4c
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Schematic illustration of Plant Bioinformatics course content. Generated with the help of ChatGPT. Details about our courses and teaching materials: https://github.com/bpucker/teaching
Completing "Plant Bioinformatics" 🌱
Students worked with CLI, big data, and cloud computing. Critically assessed papers and reproduced analyses. Alarming how often methods are incomplete or data is not shared. Teaching #OpenScience is crucial.
🔗 github.com/bpucker/teac...
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Schematic illustration of Plant Bioinformatics course content. Generated with the help of ChatGPT. Details about our courses and teaching materials: https://github.com/bpucker/teaching
Completing "Plant Bioinformatics" 🌱
Students worked with CLI, big data, and cloud computing. Critically assessed papers and reproduced analyses. Alarming how often methods are incomplete or data is not shared. Teaching #OpenScience is crucial.
🔗 github.com/bpucker/teac...
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Katharina presenting her poster at #GCSB2026
Katharina is presenting her pigment engineering work at #GCSB2026. Check out P50 and read her recent review paper (doi.org/10.1111/plb....) to learn more
#SynBio #PlantBiotech #Yeast
Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns.
Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨
Zoë
We are excited to welcome Zoë to our group. Her work with molecular biology methods will contribute to our ongoing research on functional plant genomics. We are looking forward to the ideas and energy she brings to the lab.
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/team
#MolecularBiology #PlantGenomics
Begonia manicata plant with red, soft outgrowths emerging from the leaf and stems. Photo credit: Jakob Maximilian Horz. Source: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.26.708300
🌿 New preprint: Genome sequence of Begonia manicata and genes responsible for striking red color of its leaf/stem outgrowths. Pigmentation appears linked to anthocyanin biosynthesis genes that are strongly expressed in the red tissues
📄 doi.org/10.64898/202...
#PlantGenomics @puckerlab.bsky.social
Koushik
Meet Koushik, our newest bioinformatics team member! 💻
He is a master's student who is passionate about RNA-seq data analysis using machine learning and working with @shakunthalan.bsky.social .
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/team
#Bioinformatics #RNAseq #AI #MachineLearning #BigData #DataScience
