@hendersi.bsky.social
Plant genetics and epigenetics @ University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences
Read more about the projects: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
09.12.2025 11:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Monday morning dot plot...
08.12.2025 09:02 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting study suggesting that nucleus, cytoskeleton, and endomembranes preceded acquisition of mitochondria, during eukaryogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
04.12.2025 18:29 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @levine-lab.bsky.social very cool work
27.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 27 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0Amazing work - congrats !!
25.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
differential contribution of H3K9 methyltransferases to boundaries at satellites
A new and fascinating story from @bencarty.bsky.social and the group, with crucial help from the teams of @naltemose.bsky.social, Simona Giunta, and @dfachinetti.bsky.social. Many thanks to all for a fantastic collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a nice coincidence to have Kelly Dawe present his work on karyotype engineering for todays seminar @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
21.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Genetics Society Anniversary Day 25-26th June, Edinburgh genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...
Society Prize Winners: Hilary Martin, Joe Felsenstein, Richard Durbin, Zam Iqbal
Honorary Members: Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth, Kay Davies, Paul Nurse, David Sherratt, Veronica van Heyningen
Chromosome Dynamics 2026 @ Awaji Japan www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw...
21.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues
Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo giving the Genetics Society public lecture at @crick.ac.uk. Svante is recounting how Neandertals and Denisovans live on in many of us!
13.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!
14.11.2025 12:35 — 👍 37 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 3
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
14.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
Congratulations to @vinuesalab.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk on winning the 2026 JBS Haldane Lecture. Carola will present her JBS Haldane Lecture next year at @rigb.org!
14.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!
14.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 101 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 2
Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!
14.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 83 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3It’s a patch of centromere dna sequence compared against itself - glad you like it !
12.11.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a close up dot plot of a centromere , a region of the chromosome required for segregation, in this case composed of transposon nests.
12.11.2025 06:32 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FastGA -> ALNview; step into the centromeric matrix! github.com/thegenemyers Probably the best dot plot software on the planet...
11.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 200 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 0A truly special meeting; the walks in the woods in the evening by moonlight were even more magical. I absorbed a tremendous amount of information; the level or openness and sharing was wonderful; thanks for organising Julius!
08.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Some impressions from the rather fabulous #EMBOmobilegenome Mobile Genome meeting in Heidelberg
Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, …
@events.embl.org
The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!
After 5 years of waiting, the new #CRISPR classification by Makarova et al. is out @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
06.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 48 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Magnus Nordborg of the GMI from the @oeaw.bsky.social has received a Synergy Grant from the @erc.europa.eu. With Richard Durbin and @felipekteixeira.bsky.social, they will investigate how transposable elements shape genome evolution in eukaryotes.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
Our latest paper has just been published in Cell!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.
great to be at the #EMBOMobileGenome meeting in Heidelberg with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, speakers and attendees.
this meeting is a good reflection of the excitement and collegiality in the transposon field.
kindly sponsored by @embo.org
😀 see you in a day or two Deborah!
02.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Active ingredient sodium bisulfite ?
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