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Felipe Karam Teixeira

@felipekteixeira.bsky.social
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Group leader in Cambridge (UK), interested in germline biology |epigenetics | transposons | development and more Misses Rio on a daily basis 🇧🇷

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Updated Transposable Element Libraries for Drosophila melanogaster in Dfam 4.0 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.
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Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Finally - the 🧵! So, the piRNA pathway defends the animal germline from transposons. But most of what we know comes from narrow developmental windows like late oogenesis, where it's easiest to study. We asked if the pathway is the same across development. It is not! /+
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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 16/08/2026
Four claims about Jason Arday spread like wildfire in the days around his death: that he was unqualified, that he plagiarised his thesis, that he was hired as a poster boy, that he lied his way to the top. All four are checkable, so I checked them. giorgio.gilest.ro/four-lies-ar...
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Four lies about Jason Arday that spread too easily – la bottega
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Jelle van den Ameele @jellevda.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Visualising heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA variants in situ? Now out as #mtDNA-smFISH in @cp-devcell.bsky.social! We find purifying selection against pathogenic mtDNA variants through genetic bottlenecks in the germline and the developing brain. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Single-molecule mitochondrial DNA imaging reveals heteroplasmy dynamics shaped by developmental bottlenecks and selection in vivo
Chandrasegaram et al. directly visualize mitochondrial DNA inside intact cells and tissues and reveal how genetic cell-to-cell variability arises during development. They show that somatic bottlenecks...
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
On April 18, 1905, William Bateson introduced the term “genetics,” giving identity to the study of heredity and variation. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/Yuqq3aC
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Reminder: PhD position in my lab is open for two more weeks. How do germ cells use their own private transcription factors? Come help us find out. Fully funded. Deadline May 1. Flyer attached — please boost! 🙏
Flyer for a PhD position in the Andersen Lab on Genetic Innovation at Aarhus University, Denmark. Title: "Transcriptional regulation in Drosophila germline development." Start date between August 2026 and January 2027, application deadline May 1, 2026. The flyer describes a project on germline-specific transcription factor paralogs, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (PARAGLIDE programme). Includes example data figures: genomics browser tracks, a proximity-labeling proteomics volcano plot, and fluorescence microscopy of germline tissue. Contact: pra@mbg.au.dk. Apply via phd.nat.au.dk.
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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19/02/2026
The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI
Time-calibrated phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae showing major species groups, surrounded by representative adult flies that highlight the remarkable morphological diversity of this model insect group. The composite image was created using Microsoft PowerPoint. Fly photographs were taken by Darren J. Obbard and are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License with permission.
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Changwei YU @changweiyu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Very happy to share my postdoc work (on preprint), where we try to understand a long-standing transcription-silencing paradox, and uncovered a hidden RNA decay arm of nuclear piRNA pathway, see detailed threads quoted from @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social
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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Intrigued by a long-standing conundrum in small RNA biology—how nuclear Argonaute proteins silence transposons when they *need* target transcription for their own recruitment—we studied the piRNA pathway. And found a hidden RNA-decay axis from Piwi to the RNA exosome.
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
RNA decay via the nuclear exosome is essential for piwi-mediated transposon silencing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...) ➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/karam-teixeira) in
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Katy @katyboots.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Aaand... my first cover!! RpS6 phosphorylation (magenta) in a Udd (ribosome biogenesis factor) mutant ovary 🔬
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Katy @katyboots.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So excited to finally be able to share my first paper and the culmination of my PhD work with @felipekteixeira.bsky.social 🪰🔬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Systematic analysis of noncanonical ribosomal protein paralogs does not provide evidence for specialized functions in Drosophila
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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge @geneticscam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group. ➡️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...
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Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Update on the future of FlyBase: On 2/1/2029 FlyBase funding will come from the Alliance grant. By then, www.alliancegenome.org will access all FlyBase data. NIH has had a long term plan for a common MOD web site. We are formulating a comprehensive plan to transition FlyBase data to the Alliance.
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Alliance of Genome Resources
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 16/01/2025
🪰 🧬 Do you want to enhance your knowledge of Drosophila as a model organism? Then 'Drosophila genetics and genomics' might be the right course for you! Apply now and join us in Heidelberg for lectures and practical sessions delivered by renowned experts 👉 s.embl.org/drg25-01-bl #EMBODrosophila
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HunterLab.bsky.social @hunterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.
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Steve Russell @steverus.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The School of Biological Sciences in Cambridge is recruiting an Associate Professor or G11 Professor in Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/. The post builds on our successful cross-department research theme in Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/fun...).
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Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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Steve Russell @steverus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Department of Genetics has opportunities to support early career researchers looking to apply for independent fellowships. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49356/
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Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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