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🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺 Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!! Ivana Jerković Michael Florian Szalay 🧬 Blanka Majchrzycka Giacomo Cavalli MPI for Molecular Genetics @berlinnovation InstituteHumGenetics nature.com/articles/s4159…

Heading to the Academic Senate of Masaryk University Masarykova univerzita - our final meeting of the year! ✍️🎓 Grateful to be part of shaping the future of our university. #AcademicSenate

We have published a new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The manuscript is part of the PhD work on Unnikannan, showing the effect of prolonged high temperatures on seed coat integrity in oilseed rape.

🎄 St. Nicholas Day CEITEC 🎄 A perfect day for the kids - my daughter had the best time! It was so nice to meet colleagues as fellow parents, all balancing work and family life.

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

🎄We had such a fun time celebrating Christmas CEITEC before everyone heads off for the holidays! Everyone came in creative plant-inspired costumes, and my favorite was the poppy doll by my PhD student Petr Janas!

Closing out 2024 in the stunning Javorníky Mts. Soaking up the snow, the calm, and all the good vibes. Ready for new adventures and an amazing 2025. Let’s make it unforgettable!

Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis nature from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres nature.com/articles/s4158…

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch! Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…  🧵(1/8)

Californian beauty in full bloom! Triploid apomict #Boechera sierraensis showing off in the greenhouse.

A new review, published on Valentine's Day! We explore the future study of contemporary polyploid speciation such as Cardamine insueta in Switzerland, building on discussions from the Polyploidy 2023 conference led by Soltis Lab @UF and Patrick P. Edger. doi.org/10.1111/nph.20…

Winter hiking in the Beskydy Mts.

Adonis vernalis, a sign of spring, blooming in the Větrníky Nature Reserve (CZ) — a golden treasure in the early days of the season.

Paper "Triploid bridges enable gene flow in mixed-ploidy populations of Cardamine amara" published in Molecular Ecology! doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… The study reveals how rare triploids help overcome ploidy barriers and mediate gene flow between diploid and tetraploid populations.

Excited to be attending the Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction conference and grateful for the opportunity to present my talk on the structure and origin of apomixis-associated loci in Boechera.

⁦Dirk Inze⁩ was awarded honorary doctorate ⁦Masarykova univerzita⁩ Congratulations and thanks for you long-term support!

Great Boechera project meeting with Duarte Figueiredo from MPIMP Potsdam Golm 🌱🧪 at the Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction conference in Berlin!

New Nature paper highlights the global human impact on biodiversity: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) in bloom at Strabišov-Oulehla Nature Reserve, CZ.

Proud of my PhD student Petr Janas, who did great and successfully passed the state doctoral exam in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Well done, Petr! 👏🧬 PřF muni CEITEC