Benjamen White

Happy Lunar New Year!

Thanks TSL for the best wishes -
I am running new experiments today 😆

Purifying selection on deleterious variants affected by the combination of subgenomes and gene expression in bread wheat Halstead-Nussloch et al. quantify genome-wide purifying selection on deleterious variants using high-quality annotation of 10 genomes of bread wheat. Strong purifying selection is observed in the cate...

Our new publication from the 10+ Wheat Genome Project in Cell Reports! The combined effect of #polyploidy and expression on selection will inform the target of future #wheat breeding to mitigate the effect of deleterious variants. By a former PhD Gwyn and a postdoc Moeko
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If you're less than 10 years post PhD and have translated your research commercially, you have until Nov 1st to apply for the Science and BII essay prize for bioinnovation. $10-25k prizes and your essay published in @science.org
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De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome Nature Communications - Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat...

Our new study, led in collaboration with Helmholtz Munich as part of a global collaboration, was published yesterday.

It generated the first wheat pan-transcriptome – a comprehensive map of gene activity across multiple wheat varieties. rdcu.be/eJOPs

New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX

SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Biomolecular Design and Structural Nanomedicine Group DescriptionWe are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join Roger Castells-Graells’ lab at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). The successful candidate will work on innovative biom...

We’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to join our team. 😊

The project focuses on protein design and cryo-EM applied to cancer research. 🔬🧪

The position is fully funded for 3 years.

Please share 🙏

Job description and application details (deadline: October 11th): www.cnio.es/en/empleo/po...

Made the mistake of clicking the Discover button, now I remember why I stopped going to the x echo chamber.

Source: trust me bro.

Machine learning models highlight environmental and genetic factors associated with the Arabidopsis circadian clock - Nature Communications The authors introduce ChronoGauge as a machine learning model which can estimate a plant’s internal circadian time using gene expression. This can be used to compare the circadian clock across differe...

Our paper exploring the use of ensemble machine learning models to assay the plant circadian clock at the transcriptional level is now available in Nature Communications.

A fruitful collaboration between @ajwhall.bsky.social at EI and @antdodd.bsky.social at JIC

An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation A comprehensive single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis across multiple tissues enables the quantification of leaf cell aging state at a single-cell level, highlighting the senescence-relat...

Amazing resource for the Arabidopsis and plant community

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Co-first authors 😝

Extremely honoured to receive one of the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Research Awards!

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

They might need to work on making them a bit bigger first. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thrilled to share our latest work on wheat pantranscriptome with @ManuelSpannagl! 🌾 Exciting international collaboration with the 10+ Wheat Genome Project. 🌍🔬 Check out the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to @EarlhamInst, @BBSRC, @WheatInitiative for support! #Research