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Hatem Rouached @hatem-rouached.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🔜Two postdoc positions are available in Rouached Lab for a creative individual to lead a project that will explore a new dimension in the field of plant nutrition. Please contact me if you are interested in TOR signaling, epigenetic and/or plant development rouached@msu.edu

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Emmanuelle Bayer @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

PhDs apply to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science. 1 month of hands-on training with leading experts. A unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge plant science methods and build your network. 🌱 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/

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GDR EPIPLANT @epiplant.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🌱 EPIPLANT is live! Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–24). We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms! 👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

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Pierre Bourguet @p-bourguet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Using CG methylation (mCG) of heterochromatic transposons as a trait for GWAS, we identified a major genetic association to an uncharacterized gene: a plant ortholog of vertebrate CDCA7.

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This new targeting mode for DNA methylation also opens new avenues for pursuing precise epigenomic editing to correcting DNA methylation defects and or engineer new epialleles for crop improvement. 6/8

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This discovery transforms our view of how DNA methylation patterns are regulated in plants—moving from purely chromatin-driven models to an integrated framework where TFs guide methylation reprogramming during development. 5/8

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This new TF-based mode of targeting controls the vast majority of siRNAs used by the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway to target methylation in anthers and ovules, revealing it plays a massive role in shaping the epigenome in plant reproductive tissues. 4/8

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Leveraging genome engineering, we demonstrated that the DNA motif bound by a RIM TF is required to target methylation and that mis-expression of this TF can remodel the epigenome in a locus- and tissue-specific manner. In short, the DNA motifs and TFs are necessary AND sufficient. 3/8

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Using forward and reverse genetics approaches we identified several REM family TFs that Instruct DNA methylation, designated as RIMs. We showed that different RIMs regulate methylation patterns in male and female reproductive tissues. 2/8

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jlawlab.bsky.social @jlawlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Have you ever wondered how new DNA methylation patterns are established? Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5 1/8

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Salk Institute @salkinstitute.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Salk researchers are using a little flowering plant to answer the question: How do cells generate new epigenetic change? The answer marks a major shift in plant biology and may inform future epigenetic engineering strategies with medical and agricultural applications. www.salk.edu/news-release...

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Epigenetic changes regulate gene expression, but what regulates epigenetics? - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

LA JOLLA—All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are express...

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Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Excited about the future of plant epigenetics? Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF... Registration is open! #PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia

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🌿 Join Us for Plant Epigenetics in Fort Collins! 🌿

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jameswalker303.bsky.social @jameswalker303.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13

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Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function

Global N4 cytosine methylation in Marchantia polymorpha sperm regulates gene expression and promotes sperm fertility.

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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Excellent to see this amazing work out from James Walker and Xiaoqi Feng - amazing stuff! Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function

Global N4 cytosine methylation in Marchantia polymorpha sperm regulates gene expression and promotes sperm fertility.

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