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Abdou Akkouche

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Transposable elements, Chromatin, piRNAs, Drosophila/iGRED-Clermont FERRAND

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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We watched piRNAs and transposons across development, saw them dance tightly and wrote a paper about it. It's so cool to see it online and we will make a thread about it all very soon. Stay tuned :-)

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Antoine Molaro @antoinemolaro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hello World ! We have another postdoc position open in the lab! Are you a freshly minted Ph.D. with a passion for chromatin and evolution ? Come join our ERC project #EvoEpi ! Inclusive environment + cool people + great science = success details 👉 tinyurl.com/3r6zk54n Repost are always appreciated

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Antoine Molaro @antoinemolaro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We got to hear from our newest recruits - PIs in the making - exciting and cutting edge research questions!!! @abdouak.bsky.social @bertillem.bsky.social @pierreosteil.bsky.social

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 18/05/2026

Host-transposable element coexistence: a matter of resistance, tolerance and trade-off Read this new review by Séverine Chambeyron, Charlotte Grimaud, Mikiko Siomi et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Baptiste Rafanel @baptisterafanel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'm super happy to finally see the paper published ! Check out the full story here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Emilie Brasset @emiliebrasset.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Love Drosophila genetics — this journal club was a great way to share that enthusiasm and pay tribute to the pioneers of transposons regulation 🪰 How classical genetics uncovered key determinants of TE silencing #transposon @igred.fr @igred.fr 👇👇

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Thomas Balan @thomasbalan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

First first-author paper out! 🎉 We show that the classically repressive mark H3K27me3 can be linked to active transcription through a newly identified reader complex 🤯 Really grateful to everyone involved in this project during my PhD! Thread below 👇

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Marie Fablet @mariefablet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We are recruting an assistant engineer for 18 months at LBBE (Lyon, France) in molecular biology of Drosophila. The project is to study the interactions between response to viral infections and control of transposable elements. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Assistant Ingénieur / Assistante ingénieure (H/F) en biologie moléculaire et zootechnie des drosophiles

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Rita Rebollo @ritarebollo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hi! Florence Hommais, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , and I are looking for a postdoctoral candidate to investigate the molecular dialogue between three weevil species and their endosymbiotic bacteria #symbiosis! Please see the #post-doc offer for more information. #SymbioSky #Bioinformatics

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

piRNAs are essential for transposon silencing in the animal germline. But how do hosts trap transposon sequences in genomic loci that help establish a piRNA response? Looking at a natural transposon invasion, Baptiste Rafanel and Kirsten Senti made some remarkable observations.

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Emilie Brasset @emiliebrasset.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Honored to see our work highlighted in this News & Views by Germano Cecere @cecerelab.bsky.social and @arantxarojas.bsky.social in @natsmb.nature.com! A great read on how H3K27me3 shapes piRNA transcription in 🪱 worms and 🪰 flies. rdcu.be/euuRJ

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H3K27me3 expands the epigenetic control of piRNA transcription

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Constitutive heterochromatin can promote piRNA transcription, a crucial step in genome defense. Two studies now show that piRNA transcription in...

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Emilie Brasset @emiliebrasset.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A little late to share, but still thrilled 🤗! What started as two independent stories, one in Clermont-Ferrand (@igred.fr) and one in Cambridge (Hannon’s group @cruk-mi.bsky.social ), turned into a joint adventure to decode how Rhino picks its favorite piRNA clusters. When forces unite… 👇👇👇

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