Saima Shahid

Congratulations Hanna! 🎉

Undergrads visiting @PuckerLab during the summer of 2025. Details: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de

We are looking for undergrads to visit us over the next summer!

If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬

Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR

Do excellent science in Bonn next summer!

@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social
#TEsky #TEworldwide

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piRNA-directed DNA methylation may not be a mammalian invention, but can already be found in the germline of axolotl salamanders
Donal O’Carroll and coworkers
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026:
www.findaphd.com/search/Proje...
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇

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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
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Differential LTR-retrotransposon dynamics across polyploidization, speciation, domestication, and improvement of cotton (Gossypium) - Genome Biology Background Transposable elements are major components of plant genomes and major drivers of plant genome evolution. The cotton genus (Gossypium) is an excellent evolutionary model for polyploidization...

Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme - Decoding the epigenetic language shaping root parasite-host communication at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social #PhD project on Striga epigenomics at Sheffield by 7th Jan 2026:
www.findaphd.com/search/Proje...
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom.

👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial!
👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome!
👉 Contribute and get recognition!

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched.

Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis:
• As fast as 3 day turnaround
• $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry
• Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample
• Interactive results

Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

This work was led by Young Jun Kim, a very talented student in the lab. If you have ONT data and want to investigate DNA methylation, DMRcaller would be able to provide you more information than what was previously possible.

It was a pleasure to be part of this collaboration with the amazing @benebachelot.bsky.social and Parker Bartz, excited for the next manuscript stemming from this study!

FindAPhD : NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow Apply for a PhD: NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow

New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd

Great to have Mike Axtell at Sheffield for a fantastic PPS cluster seminar on Cuscuta trans-species microRNAs- looking forward to seeing more exciting research from Mike’s group! #parasitic_plants

Title slide of nanopore sequencing talk. More details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news

🚀 Today is the day! Excited to talk about our nanopore sequencing activities in Freiburg 🌱🧬 Including our plant genome sequencing workflow 👉 www.doi.org/10.20944/pre...
@puckerlab.bsky.social @pietzenuk.bsky.social

TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share.

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PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity.

But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing?

PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer

www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time.

read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Happy to see the preprint out - really nice work!

From recall to reset: the role of DNA (de)methylation in modulating plant immune memory Epigenetic reprogramming is increasingly recognised as a driver of plant immune memory, yet its molecular basis remains poorly understood. Using a chemically inducible transgene in Arabidopsis, we tra...

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint!

We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠

Highlights below! 1/9

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Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies enable host generalism in the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea How generalist pathogens infect phylogenetically diverse hosts remains a central question in plant-pathogen biology. In particular, the extent to which broad host range is enabled by genetic variation...

The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m missing out on the amazing science at #Botany2025, but super happy that my student Megan Adler is giving her first talk!

July 29, TUE, 9 AM (PDT):
“Dynamic DNA (de)methylation underpins parasitic #Cuscuta-host plant communication”

If you are attending, don’t miss Megan’s talk!

This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better!
Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social

⏱️ T - 7 days to go ⏱️

Only 1 week left to submit an abstract and apply for a travel grant to attend #JXB75 in Edinburgh in September 🌱

Don’t miss your chance - apply today! 🌱

#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

#Argonautes2025 - argonautes.img.cas.cz
Join us in Prague 27-30/8/2025 for the next edition of the Argonaute meeting #miRNA #siRNA #piRNA & #PIWI

Abstract submission for talk selection deadline is 30/6!

Please, spread the word @rnasociety.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social