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Shujun Ou

@sigmafacto.bsky.social

Spartan, Assistant Professor @OhioState. Trying to understand how plants co-evolve with TEs. Author of LTR_retriever, LAI, EDTA, panEDTA, TESS...

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position available in my department at Ohio State. People using imaging, quantitative biology, computational biology, multi-omics or systems biology in any area of Eukaryotic Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, or Genomics are welcome to apply!

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Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We reengineered the TIR-Learner for 60-100 times faster de novo search of Terminal Inverted Repeat transposons. We completed annotating 579 vertebrate genomes in 4 hours! Kenji Gerhardt did all the heavy lifting for this "side project".

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Well done @sigmafacto.bsky.social !!! Proud to have had a very small part in EDTA v2 for improved large-scale repeat annotations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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EDTA v2: enabling scalable TE annotation in animal genomes

The Extensive de-novo TE Annotator (EDTA) automates transposable element annotation in plant genomes but lacks direct LINE/SINE detection, limiting its applicability to animal genomes. We present EDTA...

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John Fowler (he/him) @jefowlerjr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Interesting new preprint from the Ou lab, using long-read sequencing to characterize transcriptional initiation in LTR transposons in maize

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Summer Grill Heave Of Ou Lab (SGHOOL) and families!

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I want to share our latest work on a forward simulation framework on transposable element evolution. The TE Evolution Simulation Suite, or TESS, contains three components that can simulate many scenarios of genome evolution under the impact of TEs.

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I start to screen for interview candidates. If you are interested, please hurry up!

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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hello bluesky world! Newbee here! I have a postdoc position immediately available in my lab. It will focus on identifying high-quality transposons in many genomes and finding their impacts in evolution and traits. Most works, including EDTA2 development and annotation of 400+ genomes, are done! 1/n

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