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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369

Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements @dfam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

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The Feschotte Lab at Cornell

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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate. New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS: Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS

ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...

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Silvia Ramundo @sramundo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here we go again! Join us in Vienna, May 21–22, for two days of plant science—talks, discussions, and celebration of what makes plants both beautiful and essential 💚Full program + registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve... Come be part of it — each of you counts!

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Jana Helsen @helsenjana.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery? Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

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Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

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Toby Baril @tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rory Craig @rorycraig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Excited to introduce Auxenochlorella as a new algal reference organism for fundamental plant science and bioengineering. A paper in two parts: a genetic toolkit for site-specific genomic manipulation, paired with the most unusual genome I’ve ever worked on academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella

Auxenochlorella, green algae shaped by evolutionary forces acting on vegetative diploids, are amenable to discovery research and bioengineering via efficie

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Programmed DNA elimination was present in the last common ancestor of Caenorhabditis nematodes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Erica Dinatale @ericadinatale.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈 A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately: rdcu.be/eITQH

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Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome | Genome Biology

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Rory Craig @rorycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Fortunate to have played a small role in this project led by @caroleduchene.bsky.social. Phaeoviruses likely integrate into their host genomes using a promiscuous tyrosine recombinase, before reactivating in reproductive cells. Exciting to see diverse latency mechanisms emerging for giant viruses

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