Matthias Benoit

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...?

Plantae Fellows group photo

Plantae Fellows from past and present, near and far, gathered #IRL at #PlantBio2025, creating community year after year!🌱

📣Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program! Learn more and apply by August 31! plantae.org/2026fellowsapp/

The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.

#PlantBio2025. Be sure to stop by the ASPB booth in the exhibition hall to learn about the AFE program. We have more than 20 AFEs at the conference!
👉 The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors share.google/wqUgOmxQYW4u...
Apply by September 15 #PlantBio

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

🚨Don’t miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org 🌱
📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

We are looking for quantitative geneticists here @kwsgroup.bsky.social

Group Lead #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics
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Quantitative #Genetics Scientist #Sugarbeet & #Cereals
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#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantGenetics #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #Agriculture

1/2 Somatic TE transposition in plants is getting traction again (70 years after McClintock's discovery of "controlling elements")! A very large collection of somatic TE insertions in A. thaliana described by Ambreen et al.(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).

Are chromatin remodelling complexes targets of bacterial effectors PopP2 & XopJ6 ? Check out our work at #2025ISMPMI ! P-163 presented Wednesday afternoon by my amazing PhD supervisors Laurent Deslandes & Valerie Pacquit. @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social @ismpmi.bsky.social

Nissolia brasiliensis as a non-nodulating model legume The nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis (RNS) is specifically formed by four orders of angiosperms. The largest of these four orders include the legume family, the Fabaceae. Among legumes, historica...

Latest #preprint from the lab @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

Please welcome Nissolia brasiliensis, the new non-nodulating model legume ☘️ developped by Camille Girou in the team!

Work led by Tatiana, with input from many!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stimulating discussions around the work of our stellar postdoc ⭐️ @yaranoureddine.bsky.social about regulatory convergence/divergence between legume-rhizobium symbiosis and nematode infection ☘️ 🪱 🧫

👏👏 Well done Melissa for presenting your excellent work on lncRNA-based regulation of mycorrhizal and nitrogen-fixing #symbioses !🌱 🧬 🍄

@melissa-simonnet.bsky.social
Inspired poster presentation at the Occitano Catalan plant biology meeting in Perpignan
Proud PI 😉

Thanks Ignacio, hope to see you next time!

Ibrahim’s work is funded by @agencerecherche.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social and @occitanie.bsky.social ☘️🦠🧬

Excellent talk from @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social presenting his PhD work on the regulation on symbiotic gene expression by lncRNAs 🧬 👏 👏 #proudPI

@ibrahimkeita.bsky.social
Giving a great speech at the occitanocatalan plant biology meeting in Perpignan

Excited to attend the Occitano-Catalan plant biology meeting with this amazing group! @andreasniebel.bsky.social @yaranoureddine.bsky.social @melissa-simonnet.bsky.social @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social

Stimulating meeting organized by colleagues from @upvd.bsky.social LGDP 🙏

The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres Centromeres are specialized chromosome regions essential for sister chromatid cohesion and spindle attachment during mitosis. Many centromeres comprise highly variable, megabase-scale satellite DNA ar...

The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely stunning new preprint on centromere mutation from ‪@labschneeberger.bsky.social‬ @plantevolution.bsky.social ‪@jurriaanton.bsky.social‬ @lisasmith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social‬ & colleagues

"[early career scientists can focus their short training period] by asking sharp questions in a good frame in an optimal organism- Arabidopsis- and still can contribute to a longer-term project that is done in crops." - Federico Ariel
[@theplantcell.bsky.social Translation from Arabidopsis to Crops]

Flyer with speaker photos and QR code to register for Plant Postdocs June 4 webinar.

Join us for our next webinar exploring editor roles & tools for scientific publication. Webinar features a panel discussion with Nancy Hofmann, Ellen Kuwana, & Mary Williams followed by a short applied section.

Wednesday, June 4
10 AM PT/ 12 PM CT/ 1 PM ET
Register here: tinyurl.com/4p8sk5us

If you're exploring careers outside of academia, or just want some advice about how to be a better writer, please consider joining the webinar Wed 4 June (6pm UK, 7pm central Europe).

Exploring the untapped potential of single‐cell and spatial omics in plant biology Advances in single-cell and spatial omics technologies have revolutionised biology by revealing the diverse molecular states of individual cells and their spatial organization within tissues. The fie...

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n] 

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the most recent episode we talked with Dr. Frank Johannes from @tum.de in Freising about his work on evolutionary clocks and epigenetic inheritance in plants. #podcast #epigenetics

Listen here: activemotif.com/podcasts-fra...

Swiss Alps seen from Neuchatel

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?

We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!

Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs

Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Comment les plantes déploient le tapis rouge pour accueillir les bactéries fixatrices d’azote Les légumineuses peuvent se nourrir sans engrais chimique, en réalisant une symbiose avec des bactéries appelées rhizobia, pour recevoir l’azote indispensable

#RésultatScientifique🔎 Les plantes seraient-elles des hôtes VIP ? @fdecarvalhonie.bsky.social et ses collaborateurs analysent comment les plantes déploient le tapis rouge pour accueillir les bactéries fixatrices d’azote 🌱 ✨

🤝 @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

Downstream signaling induced by several plant Toll/interleukin-1 receptor-containing immune proteins is stable at elevated temperature Demont et al. show that immune signaling induced by Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains, including EDS1 and the SA sector, is maintained at elevated temperatures (30°C), in contrast to signaling...

Very glad to see #HéloïseDemont PhD work online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social #REACHteam

Downstream signaling induced by several plant Toll/interleukin-1 receptor-containing immune proteins is stable at elevated temperature: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...

New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles

159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)

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@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣📣📣 PCI Plants @pciplants.bsky.social has been launched!!!
@bourgeoisyann.bsky.social @mangolab.bsky.social @francoissabot.bsky.social @jorisbertrand.bsky.social

Scientific naming conventions should keep in step with contemporary science A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.

How are researchers around the world tackling problematic names that persist in science today?

https://go.nature.com/44JYhXs