Vangeli Geshkovski

#RejoignezLeCNRS 🫵 Les concours chercheurs CNRS 2026 ouvrent le 8/12 !
Envie de faire avancer la science au sein d’un des plus grands organismes de recherche ?
👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-...

#ConcoursChercheurs #Science #Recherche #Icicarecrute #recrutement

Some news 🎉
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.

Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠

Dr Hassan Salem

PRESS RELEASE – Dr Hassan Salem to lead independent research group on plant-insect interactions

Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Dr Hassan Salem @hassansalem.bsky.social will be joining us in early 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.

Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Welcome!! @berasymbionts.bsky.social 🎉🥳🤩

📣NEWS: We are delighted to share that Dr Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social will join us as a new group leader next year.

“Aileen is an exceptionally talented scientist and brings new expertise to TSL in plant-insect-fungal interactions” says @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social

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RNA polymerase II coordinates histone deacetylation at active promoters Transcription initiation limits histone acetylation and H2AZ incorporation at promoters.

Unpause! I'm super happy to now be able to share the published version of our paper at Science Advances showing that:
1) active histone mods occur independently of transcription
2) transcription coordinates histone deacetylation at active promoters
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When publication becomes a graduation requirement, the student’s fate depends far more on the efficiency of their environment than on their talent or effort. That’s not academic excellence, that’s structural luck.

What a nice coincidence to have Kelly Dawe present his work on karyotype engineering for todays seminar @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org
#PlantScience
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perspective here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Wow” moments in the life and career of young scientist Miguel | John Innes Centre The past few months have been a truly memorable time in the life and career of Dr Miguel Montez.

BLOG - “Wow” moments in the life and career of young scientist Miguel

Dr @miguelmontez.bsky.social has had a memorable few months. From dual academic research publications, to winning a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fellowship - and even finding the time to get married!

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/wow-mom...

Phon is an icon! A well deserved recognition 👏

Congrats to all the @thesainsburylab.bsky.social prize winners this year! A special shoutout to our own Phon Green for her incredible research support, especially managing a HUGE number of plants, from Arabidopsis to crops 🤯

Fun week for DNA methylation research! Here is a thread of three cool papers that came out, all with an evolution angle. And a bonus 4th that examines DNAme/PcG interplay (certainly an interest for our lab!) #Epigenetics

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

Our new lab logo (created by the amazing @hsuanpai.bsky.social)!
tatsuyanobori.com

Great opportunity to join the Norwich science community 😉 #newPI

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

A drawing that Crick did of the Central Dogma "“Once information has got into a protein it can’t get out again.” Information here means the sequence of the amino acid residues, or other sequence related to it. This is we ma be able to have DNA to RNA (arrow connecting), RNA to protein (arrow again), DNA to protein (arrow connecting), and DNA to DNA (circular arrow of DNA back to DNA) or RNA to RNA (circular arrow). But never protein to protein, protein to RNA, or protein to DNA.

With Watson's death can we stop teaching his simplified version of the Central Dogma (DNA-RNA-protein) & instead teach what Crick actually proposed? It promotes understanding & critical thinking. wellcomecollection.org/works/xmscu3...

Research question for the #epigenetics community: Anyone on here tested using NEB's EM conversion with Illumina Infinium microarrays and want to share there experiences? Please share 🙏

Vertebrate rna directed dna methylation!

Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.

This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes

📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre Supported by the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using species outside of seed-bearing plants…

Only two days left to register for the UK NonSeed meeting (Dec 12th, Norwich). We’re still accepting flash talks!! www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...

Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬

The Matthew Effect is alive and well in academia - always makes me wary of programs aimed at identifying rising stars in an already highly talented pool...

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Please share, deadline approaching soon!

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905.

His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development.

On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape.

🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

It is possible to recognise that Watson's treatment of Franklin was despicable and at the same time to acknowledge that Matthew is right.