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Wayo Matsushima

@wayomayo.bsky.social

EMBO/JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the Trono lab, EPFL. Studying regulatory evolution driven by transposable elements.

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John Gurdon John Gurdon is at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology in Cambridge. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he changed from classics to zoology. Dur...

β€œFor Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him”

He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon

www.cell.com/current-biol...

07.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

⚑⚑Excited to announce I'll be starting my lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics (@molgen.mpg.de) in Berlin in December! Leaving sunny California to join a fantastic environment with colleagues who do super cool work.
πŸ”¬πŸ¦ I'm hiring at all levels! πŸ”¬πŸ¦ Check: www.molgen.mpg.de/fueyo-lab

06.10.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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AussiERV 2025 AussiERV: Australia’s first symposium dedicated to endogenous retroviruses. Join us for this one-day virtual event on November 7th!

Do you research endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) or want to learn more about them? πŸ§¬πŸ€”

Consider presenting at or attending AuusiERV - an inaugural online symposium for ERV research in Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί (and abroad) πŸ—ΊοΈ

Abstracts due 1st October!

events.humanitix.com/aussierv-2025

#ERV #retrovirus

27.09.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

πŸ“£ Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

23.09.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Bioinformatician / Data Scientist (m/f/d) Bioinformatician / Data scientist position in the Aztekin Lab focusing on Structural Regeneration and support the working group together with the other members

πŸš€ Looking for a Bioinformatician / Data Scientist to join our crew and explore regeneration through single-cell genomics & evolutionary biology! @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
πŸ“© Questions? Contact us βœ‰οΈ
πŸ”— Apply here: www.mpg.de/25243280/bio...

15.09.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am excited to share that I will join the Friedrich Miescher Institute @fmiscience.bsky.social in Basel as a group leader, starting my lab in March 2026 πŸŽ‰

We will explore cell fate regulation during organogenesis, with a focus on how cell elimination underlies the emergence of functional tissues.

25.08.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 6
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Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes - Nature Genetics Activation of an LTR retrotransposon inserted upstream of the Fgf8 gene produces viral-like particles in the mouse developing limb, triggering apoptosis and causing limb malformation. This phenotype c...

Finally out! πŸ₯³ Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁
Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

09.07.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 10
Barbara McClintock portrait

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

16.06.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 478    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10

Thank you so much!

22.04.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come to Lund! We are looking for a postdoc to join the team. #transposons #epigenetics

17.04.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Huge congrats, Diego!

26.03.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab!

Thankful for any retweet! 🫢

imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

20.03.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Thank you, Miguel! Any feedback is welcome.

10.03.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, just updated!πŸ™

10.03.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zinc-finger proteins with a co-opted capsid domain anchor nucleosomes over transposon sequences Transposable elements (TEs) are frequently co-opted as cis -regulatory sequences that govern multiple aspects of host biology. The regulatory activity of these domesticated sequences are controlled by...

Sorry broken link. New one here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

10.03.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New preprint of my postdoc work! We found a novel group of zinc-finger proteins that rapidly evolved in a lineage-specific manner to repress regulatory activities of transposon-derived sequences through anchoring nucleosomes. #TEsky

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

10.03.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! Hope you’ll find the elements even stranger after my talk.

03.03.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very excited to share our paper on Gene and Transposable Element expression in mammalian preimplantation development, online today! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A short thread to highlight some of our findings 🧡

20.01.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

Huge congrats, Marlies!

20.01.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate legs or arms like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
Our preprint tackles (part of) this BIG question with surprising findings about oxygen sensing
πŸ”— www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy New Year, everyone! πŸŽ‰
🐭 vs 🐸 #evodevo #regenerative #cellbio πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

06.01.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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