Dr. Tyler A. Elliott

🧬🔎 Deep dive into plant #TransposableElements

❓ If you identify all autonomous #TEs, you will automatically also have all non-coding derivates, right? Right?

Well, no! Not even close. Check out here, how much you are missing:

📚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#TEsky

I’m happy to announce that our preprint is out! 🧬🐭

We show that the mouse HSR selfish DNA kills embryos that do not inherit it through a toxin–antidote system, thereby increasing its transmission to the next generation. ⚡

Feedback is welcome!

@takashiakeralab.bsky.social

#SelfishDNA #meiosis4eva

We have published a preprint entitled “Island species as models for small population biology and conservation.” 🏝️🩵🌍

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#TEsky a short paper from @mbonar.bsky.social , myself and others on our reannotation of TEs in the Octopus vulgaris genome. More work to come using genome ecology to analyze TEs in this species bsky.app/profile/bior...

Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits Vast study in Peru and Kenya confirms limited defenses against rising temperatures, redoubling climate concerns

🧪🌎🔬🌡️Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits www.science.org/content/arti...

Control of retrotransposon-driven activation of the interferon response by the double-stranded RNA binding protein DGCR8 Abstract. The type I interferon (IFN) response is the main innate immune pathway against viruses in mammals. This pathway must be tightly regulated to prev

I'm so happy to share our latest paper! Now out in @narjournal.bsky.social 🥳

Did you know that transposable elements embedded in mRNAs can form dsRNA and activate innate immunity? 🧬🦠 Have a look! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

#TEsky #RNAsky #RNAbiology #immunity #NAR

Artificial competition shows the replicative superiority of KP elements over complete P elements in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans
#Drosophila

RepeatOBserver: Tandem Repeat Visualisation and Putative Centromere Detection see also the Perspective by Amanda M. Larracuente and John S. Sproul

#TEsky Missed this last year but I've been playing with it recently: RepeatOBserver: Tandem Repeat Visualisation and Putative Centromere Detection doi.org/10.1111/1755...

#TEworldwide #TEsky

Join us at the EMBO Workshop “RNA-guided genome protection” 🇨🇭 June 16–20. Transposon silencing • stem cell biology • RNA-guided immunity. Keynotes: Déborah Bourc’his + Ian MacRae. Register now + submit your abstract! meetings.embo.org/event/26-gen...

10,000 tons of insects migrate across Switzerland per year, according to this cool preprint by @birgenhaest.bsky.social and his colleagues. 🧪 🪰 🦟

That's 21 billion insects, weighing the equivalent of 50–65 blue whales, flying overhead. 🤯

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hide and seek: de novo identification in sugar beet reveals impact of non-autonomous LTR retrotransposons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.708851v1

Happy to share our new preprint! 📊

We benchmarked methods for locus-level transposable element quantification in short-read scRNA-seq, using both real datasets and simulations with read-level ground truth.

Huge thanks to @catavallejos.bsky.social and @antonio-scialdone.bsky.social!

#TEsky

Convergent evolution of hexenal isomerases in Lepidoptera and plants - Nature Ecology & Evolution Phylogenetic and functional analyses across 34 Lepidoptera and 183 plant species show that hexenal isomerases found in Lepidoptera exhibit functional convergence with those found in plants despite hav...

Phylogenetic and functional analyses across 34 Lepidoptera and 183 plant species show that hexenal isomerases found in Lepidoptera exhibit functional convergence with those found in plants despite having evolved independently from unrelated enzyme families 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

Incredible article about Art Borkent, biting midges, and aging taxonomists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you want to explore ncRNA dynamics during mammalian development, love microscopy, and are not afaraid of transposons biology, apply‼️
We are looking for a postdoc to join our team at @imbavienna.bsky.social
More details 👇🏻

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org

The video you see here is confirmatory proof:
Wolves. Love. Blueberries.

As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.”

Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

Excited to say that I am on the job market and will be looking for postdoc or job opportunities either remotely or in the Seattle, WA area. I will be finishing up my PhD in Plant Genomics/Bioinformatics sometime late summer or early fall of this year. Please let me know if you know of anything!

Protocol for efficient CRISPRi-mediated silencing of retrotransposons in human pluripotent stem cells Here, we present a workflow for transcriptional silencing of transposable elements (TEs) in human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). We describe steps for designing guide RNAs (gRNAs) to target ...

Are you interested in achieving efficient silencing of transposable elements using CRISPRi? 🧬 🧫
Go ahead and have a look at this STAR protocols where Adami et al. share all the tips & tricks they use in the Jakobsson lab.

@anitaada.bsky.social @raquelgarza.bsky.social @jakobssonlab.bsky.social

#TEsky Classification of SINE Tails in the Porcine Genome and Its Potential Impact on VWA8 Gene doi.org/10.3390/gene...

Benchmarking computational tools for locus-specific analysis of transposable elements in single-cell RNA-seq datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.708244v1

Trump’s attack on Iran violates UN rules Canada has agreed to uphold. It contradicts numerous values PM Carney claimed he supported in Davos. Endorsing illegality, violence, & destruction over dialogue and peaceful resolution is not what Canadians were promised, or support.

This a disappointing statement from the government on this clearly illegal action by the US and Israel. Continuing to be subservient to US will not serve us in any positive way.

玉險 Office of the Prime Minister Cabinet du Premier Ministre Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran-related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and to ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throughout the region." February 28, 2026

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer.

Nope.

🐝🧬🇨🇦 We are genome sequencing Canadian insects — from pests to pollinators to the species that keep ecosystems running.

Big thanks to funders @genomecanada.ca, @genomebc.bsky.social, & @genomequebec.bsky.social for powering the science that helps protect #ecosystems, #agriculture, and #biodiversity.

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My commemorative qual survival gift-to-self earrings have arrived!! There’s no shortage of TEs in my present & future, so seeing this weekend drop from lilbeedesignzz on insta felt too perfectly serendipitous to pass up. Still 2 pairs left, if you’re interested! 🌽
www.instagram.com/p/DVCZoiGEsq...

Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) · shenwei356/seqkit Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit!

- 10 years
- 2 papers, 3500 citations
- 20 contributors
- 40 subcommands
- 880 commits
- 500 issues
- 685.5K Bioconda total downloads

Thank you all, dear contributors and users!
I'll keep maintaining it.

github.com/shenwei356/s...

#TEsky Vertebrate Hox Clusters as Transposon Repellents Against the Genomic Accordion Model doi.org/10.2108/zs25...

Parallel evolution of industrial melanism in the peppered moth: one locus, many alleles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.707722v1