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Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy to have contributed to this exciting project conceptualised and co-led by @adriangonzalo.bsky.social :)

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏

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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens

Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...

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GDR EPIPLANT @epiplant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A fantastic #EpiPlant 2026 closing lecture by @plantevolution.bsky.social from @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social taking us on a transposon journey! In depth analysis of somatic transposition events revealed new fascinating aspects of TE biology.

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache! Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share: crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...

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Home – genomepanel_nf

Nextflow pipeline for reference genome mapping, SNP calling and quality checks on large genome panels

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Piotr Ziolkowski @piotraz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📣Our paper is out! 🤩 We found that local modification of H3K9me3 using CRISPR/dCas9 at hotspots changes crossover activity, bringing us closer to targeted recombination in plants.🌱 Huge thanks to @szymanskalejman.bsky.social, Wojtek, Ania, and Karolina! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Modifying meiotic recombination by targeting chromatin regulators to crossover hotspots in Arabidopsis

Targeting chromatin modifiers to DNA hotspots reveals causal link between histone marks, transcription, and meiotic recombination.

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Polina Novikova @pnovik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

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Home | Alyrata Resource

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Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨ Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️ jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Application deadline: January 31st, 2026

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PhD position to study epigenomic diversity and altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina

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Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

A conceptual model summarizing how the balance between environmental fluctuations and the epigenetic toolkit can affect plant homeostasis.

A draft network of 33 epigenetic toolkit proteins, whose encoding genes repeatedly occur as candidates under selection in different contexts in various plant studies.

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Hajk-Georg Drost @hajkdrost.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @snsf.ch Ambizione grant to begin my independent research, starting summer 2026 at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich! I will use (epi)genomics to study altitude adaptation in Arabis alpina - stay tuned for more updates & PhD opportunities!

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Alexandre Marand @marand-lab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Grateful to share that our study on "The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize" is now published in @science.org! Huge thank you to all co-authors and the 4 tough, but fair, reviewers who all helped to improve the study 🌽🧬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize

Gene expression and complex phenotypes are determined by the activity of cis-regulatory elements. However, an understanding of how extant genetic variants affect cis regulation remains limited. Here, ...

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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Partial redundancy buffers deleterious effects of mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1) in polyploid wheat

Varying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the le

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