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Brown-algae, independent of other species, evolved an hourglass pattern of development go.nature.com/3BXTRjx

As a proud co-advisor of Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong who showed remarkable intellectual independence to enable this project, check out his amazing R package {phylomapr} and new {myTAI2} functions which will make your own research much easier: 🧑‍💻 github.com/LotharukpongJS… 🍸 github.com/drostlab/myTAI

Nature research paper: A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae go.nature.com/3BP8LZh

Couldn’t be more proud of my friend - Sodai - for his achievement on the first author Nature paper from his PhD. A stunning achievement and definitely, definitely one of the best. Sodai passion in science is admittedly second to none I’ve met. Well done!!

I am super happy my first first-author paper is out (nature.com/articles/s4158…)! There’s even a thoughtful “news and views” along with it (nature.com/articles/d4158…). Here is my summary of our work in 20 tweets:

What are the immediate consequences of genome doubling on chromatin accessibility & transcription, and how do these change over evolution? Read our latest paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution to find out! Big shoutout to co-authors Kirsten Bomblies and Adrián Gonzalo ✨ [1/6] academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Interesting to see that the brown algae Fucus also shares an hourglass model of development with animals, plants and fungi. This suggests the transcriptomic hourglass may be needed for embryonic development- Congrats to all authors! #development #multicellularity

Just like building a house, organisms such as algae develop with an hourglass pattern: flexible beginnings and endings, but a rigid middle. Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong Hajk-Georg Drost Daniel Liesner UoD Life Sciences The Royal Society @MPI_Bio nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

20 years ago today, Jim Procter Jim Procter joined my group UoD Life Sciences as part of the UK eScience initiative. Through multiple Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research and Wellcome grants Jim has built Jalview @jalview.bsky.social into one of the most widely valued open-source interactive bioinformatics tools! 1/5

Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta Chandni Bhickta nicolas chiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn is finally out nature . Link⏩: nature.com/articles/s4158… Preprint⏩: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5)

Plant Science Research Weekly -- The ”hourglass” model of embryogenesis extends to brown algae (Nature) Hajk-Georg Drost Jaruwatana (Sodai) Lotharukpong (Summary by Mary Williams mary williams) buff.ly/40MO3E7 #PlantaePSRW

A new 3D chromatin 🧬map in brown algae is out Nature Communications ! New insights on UV chromosome structure and an acient endogenous viral element (EVE) interacts with telomeres! Congratulations Pengfei Liu, Susana Coelho, Chang Liu and all team @MPI_Bio rdcu.be/dZAqH

Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying to our wonderful team in Dundee! dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportuni…

🚨New paper, now published in nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Delighted to share that a project 'Green PROTACs – Enabling Small Molecule (Re)programming and Manipulation of Plant Biology' by Dr Piers Hemsley Hemsley Lab, Professor Alessio Ciulli and Dr Hajk-Georg Drost has been funded through this scheme.