Moving to and fro between Arabidopsis and its crop relatives confirms the role of chromosome remodelling on meiotic recombination | Eric Jenczewski | pubmed.gov/33822174

HIGH CROSSOVER RATE1 encodes PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE X1 and restricts meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis nature.com/articles/s4147… new study from Kyuha Choi lab and us - we used an EMS forward screen to map a new regulator of recombination as PPX1 Nature Plants

That odd bivalent #plantmeiosis #meiosis #brassica

25 years after the legendary light microscopic atlas of Arabidopsis #meiosis by Ross, Fransz and Jones, we are happy to present our #STED-updated version by Jason Sims and @Emm_Teeh_Kay. Poster version available bit.ly/2SUigQt

The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres biorxiv.org/content/10.110… new work from us where we use Oxford Nanopore to assemble the Arabidopsis CEN180 centromeric satellite arrays and reveal their sequence content and epigenetic states.

Congratulations to Eugenio Sanchez Moran for his promotion to Reader in Molecular Plant Cytogenetics! Eugenio studies the organisation and behaviour of chromosomes in plant meiosis. He enthuses our students with his gene expression and plant biology teaching.

Hey #SEBconference 👋 Interested in mitochondria? Why they move? Just how social they might be? Come and listen our social network story, next Tuesday at 14:35 BST 🌱 #plantsci

Hey #SEBconference attendees. If you're interested in #meiosis and chromosome structure, don't miss my talk next Tuesday at 15:30 BST. #plantsci #meiosis4eva

Evolution and Plasticity of Genome-Wide Meiotic Recombination Rates annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an… from Kirsten Bomblies and myself on evolution of recombination rates - this was a lot of fun to write!

Out now! A fantastic collaboration with super-modellers Martin Howard and John Fozard combining cytogenetics with maths to shed light on the mysterious mechanism of crossover interference! Thanks also Kirsten Bomblies Ian Henderson Read here 👉tinyurl.com/e7hhf6eh

A nice post-work drink with a few plant folk now the Uni of Birmingham campus bar is open and the weather is shockingly nice for once ☀️🤣 Sjon Hartman Max Schwarze Rory Osborne Miguel Pachón Peñalba Ross Etherington Xulyu Cao 曹徐绿 🌱 🧬 🧫 🧪

Crossover-active regions of the wheat genome are distinguished by DMC1, the chromosome axis, H3K27me3, and signatures of adaptation genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo… our first foray into the frankly gigantic wheat genome Genome Research funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research sLola

Delighted to announce a new publication! A total group effort pulling on all our strengths 💪 Only thing left is to arrange the celebrations 🍻🍻🍻

Thesis submitted!!! Now it's time to prepare for the defence. Thanks to my colleagues form the Sanchez-Moran lab, Plantsci Brum, and the MEICOM network for their support and advice.

Very excited about our review by Laura Lascarez Lagunas @Colaiacovo_Lab about late prophase I chromosome remodeling! Thanks to Tegan Horan @cohen_lab Stacie Hughes, Scott Hawley & Mónica Pradillo for sharing their beautiful bivalents with us! Genes MDPI Harvard Medical School #meiosis

FISHing on Sunday #meiosis

Absolutely amazed with this present from my supervisor Dr Eugenio Sánchez-Moran to celebrate my PhD. Old but gold. #meiosis4eva