Rita Rebollo

A little late to share, but still thrilled 🤗!
What started as two independent stories, one in Clermont-Ferrand (@igred.fr) and one in Cambridge (Hannon’s group @cruk-mi.bsky.social ), turned into a joint adventure to decode how Rhino picks its favorite piRNA clusters.
When forces unite…
👇👇👇

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

@mirimerenciano.bsky.social @sianalarue.bsky.social et al. review recent discoveries showing that TE activation can be both a cause and a consequence of ageing, emphasizing the importance of studying these genomic elements.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf088

#genome #evolution #TEsky

Join us for a week of hands-on experience in the computational analysis of transposable elements with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social

Check it out 👇

Now this is really cool! Double-extreme #genome reduction in #endosymbionts from #planthoppers. They go all the way down to ca. 50 kbps!!! 1/2

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Work by @annamichalik.bsky.social, @sympiotr.bsky.social, and others not here

#SymbioSky

The June cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of @mirimerenciano.bsky.social @sianalarue.bsky.social et al., who explore the relationships between transposable elements and aging in a new Review article.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf088

🖌️ Merenciano et al.

#genome #TEsky

Today sees the close of the REID - IMMUNINV conference (reid2025.sciencesconf.org) at @insa-lyon.fr Many members of @inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social were involved in organizing the congress, and some of our PhD and post-doctoral students were able to present their research work brilliantly 👏

Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...

The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Celebrating DNA Day with transposable elements Each year on DNA Day, we celebrate the DNA double helix structure and the Human Genome Project's completion. Here we dive into a fascinating genomic component: transposable elements. Once seen as mere...

go.nature.com/3S27sLp

Interested in the analysis on Transposable elements? 🧬
Have a look at our course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social

We'll cover everything from TE biology to de novo library construction, quantification, & transcriptomic analysis.

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We have a PhD profil open for concours at GAIA doctoral school on #pangenomics. You are M2 student in info or bioinfo ? You want to work in #biodiversity and #graph ? Come to see us!

adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen Transposable elements (TEs) can drive the evolution of host-pathogen interactions and gains in antimicrobial resistance. However, how adaptive TEs arise in populations and historical contingencies aff...

Excited to share our latest preprint 🥳
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen
@danielcroll.bsky.social
#TESky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Loss of H3K9me3 maintenance in human neural progenitor cells leads to transcriptional activation of L1 retrotransposons Heterochromatin is characterised by an inaccessibility to the transcriptional machinery and associated with the histone mark H3K9me3. Heterochromatin erosion is a hallmark of human ageing and H3K9me3 ...

New preprint from our lab! Why is not everyone working on Transposons?

Loss of H3K9me3 maintenance in human neural progenitor cells leads to transcriptional activation of L1 retrotransposons

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Hi! Here is a PhD opportunity at Montpellier, IGH institute with Séverine Chambeyron to study endogenous retroviruses ! #TEsky #PhD

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

IMPRS

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

A great opportunity in a nice place 👇

Hi BlueSkyers! I'm an evolutionary biologist, microbiologist, entomologist, lover of nature, and long-time researcher on symbiosis.

I'm realizing that BlueSky is useful and generally non-toxic so here I am (having quit Facebook in Jan 2017, and Twitter in Oct 2022).

PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) & Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) July 06...

🚀 Registrations are open: 2025 SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses, Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal
👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

Please help us sharing this announcement 📣

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social #CBR @moorefound.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR

Stand up for science Lyon / Grand Est :

*Lyon*
16h00 – Rassemblement place des Terreaux.

*Nancy*
10h00 – Débats. Amphithéâtre de la présidence Léopold, 34 cours Léopold, Nancy.
12-30-13h30 – ronde des obstiné·e·s.
Place Stanislas, Nancy.

Interested in the contribution of TEs to the evolution of regulatory pathways in plants? 2-year post-doc position open in URGI in Versailles!
jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-23441
@johannconfais.bsky.social

My alma mater, the University of British Columbia, Dept of Medical Genetics, is hiring for a tenure track junior faculty position specializing in chromatin regulation / gene regulatory mechanisms. Beautiful city and vibrant epigenetics research. Please share!

medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...

Ah, when you see a beautiful offer for a UBC assistant professor, your heart skips a bit ! 😍 Wonderful department, amazing city, best sushi ever, oh to be back in Vancouver #dreamjob #Epigenetics

Transposable elements may enhance antiviral resistance in HIV-1 elite controllers - Genome Biology Background Less than 0.5% of people living with HIV-1 are elite controllers (ECs)—individuals who maintain undetectable plasma viremia without antiretroviral therapy, despite having replication-compet...

Feels awkward but necessary to celebrate scientific progress in this imperiled time for US biomedical research.

Proud of our latest paper out today exploring the role of transposable elements in antiviral resistance to HIV 🦠

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🧵1/n

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project!

🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean

Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/]
📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/]

Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

Hey everyone! I’m a functional microbial genomics researcher who loves symbiosis and cocktails :) follow if interested in either!

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