Matthias Benoit

TIRIS Postdoc fellowship call will soon be open in Toulouse! If you're interested in plant microbiota, or plant-plant interactions or experimental evolution, the ECOGEN team at the @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social would be happy to support and help with your application!

Amazing work, Pierre! Congratulations to you and everyone involved 👏

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
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Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

I am editing a collection on "plant epigenetic regulation" for BMC Plant Biology. If you think that your paper might fit there please contact me or send it through the submission system to our collection: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Hi! We are looking for a PhD to work on the cross talk between transposable elements, insects and intracellular bacteria on the bioinformatics side. The PhD would be supervised by @mariefablet.bsky.social and myself along with @nicolasparisot.bsky.social Deadline December 2025! Please share! #tesky

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Job opportunity!

Research Laboratory Technician in Plant Molecular Engineering

Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 30 September 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

#plantsciences #plantsciencesjobs #academicplantjobs

Thank you to the Advanced Plant Growth Center (apgc.org.uk) @hutton.ac.uk for the invitation to talk about our recent study on the impact of gene duplications on predictable trait engineering in crops 🍅🥔🍆 I enjoyed the stimulating discussion!

🌟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🗣️

Excited to share the first members of our keynote lineup!
🔹 Federico Ariel
🔹 Brian Gregory
🔹 Polly Hsu @pollyhsulab.bsky.social
🔹 Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social
🔹 Hervé Vaucheret

More speakers and more info coming soon!

Rapid origin and turnover of genomic imprinting by transposable elements Genomic imprinting, the preferential expression of alleles based on their parent-of-origin, is an epigenetic mechanism that plays a key role in endosp…

I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction

Precision plant epigenome editing: what, how, and why Advances in genome engineering have paved the way for targeted epigenome engineering, providing fundamental insights into the role of epigenetic modifications in trait inheritance. Engineered epialleles have already delivered stable, heritable changes in agronomic traits. Despite this capacity, progress in the field has not yet achieved its potential, leaving many avenues of research unexplored. In this review we examine the factors influencing this progress, including the advances in current epigenome editing techniques, the key research goals and translational applications, and the challenges in the selection of ideal target loci. We propose that improved tools for the selection of target loci, particularly in large and complex genomes, are needed to propel the field forward.

Precision plant epigenome editing: what, how, and why #plantscience

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

Julia Qüesta giving a seminar at the TULIP graduate school

Thrilled to have @jiquesta.bsky.social from @cragenomica.bsky.social as an invited speaker for the @tulip-gs-labex.bsky.social Guided Tour!

Exciting discussions on transcriptional and epigenomic reprogramming during plant development and response to cold temperatures 🌱 🧬 🥶

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase AeRLCK2 mediates Nod-independent rhizobial symbiosis in Aeschynomene legumes Many plants interact symbiotically with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to enhance inorganic phosphorus uptake, and legumes also develop a nodule symbiosis with rhizobia for nitrogen acquisition. The establishment and functioning of both symbioses rely on a common plant signaling pathway activated by structurally related Myc and Nod factors. Recently, a SPARK receptor-like kinase (RLK)/receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (RLCK) complex was shown to be essential for arbuscular mycorrhiza formation in both monocot and dicot plants. Here, we show that in Aeschynomene legumes, the RLCK component of this receptor complex has undergone a gene duplication event and mediates a unique nodule symbiosis that is independent of rhizobial Nod factors. In Aeschynomene evenia, AeRLCK2 is crucial for nodule initiation but not for arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Additionally, AeRLCK2 physically interacts with and is phosphorylated by the cysteine-rich RLK, AeCRK, which is also required for nodulation. This finding uncovers an important molecular mechanism that controls the establishment of nodulation and is associated with Nod-independent symbiosis.

Outstanding paper ! -> receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase AeRLCK2 mediates Nod-independent rhizobial symbiosis in Aeschynomene legumes | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic

Excited to be in Oxford for the #ENFC2025 organised by @poolelaboxford.bsky.social! Looking forward to a great conference with the nitrogen fixation community.

➡️ Join me at the Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation session on Wednesday to discuss about the epigenetic regulation of nodulation 🍀🧬🦠

Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide?

Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations.
#PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis

@camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

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My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!

- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis

Link to both preprints below

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have

@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131

#genome #evolution #TEsky

PLOS Biology Associate Editor- FTC UK-Remote

Great opportunity! #PlantScience
PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor.
Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience
"Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science"
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...
I know folks who should apply to this!

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱Are you interested in epigenetic, stress responses & priming?
Join us at the @episeedlink.bsky.social international conference "Priming, stress & epigenetic memory: an integrated view from model plant to crops"

📅 9th-10th February,2026
📍 Amsterdam
👉 Don’t just watch science happen, be part of it!

Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?