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To celebrate 300 years of Botany at Cambridge this year, we are publishing a story each month by one of our researchers. This month Professor Ian Henderson writes about exploring the genetic & epigenetic structure of plant genomes. Read the article 👉 tinyurl.com/2xkrmayd

So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in Nature Publishing. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by Peng Liu. nature.com/articles/s4158…. 🧵

Two postdoctoral positions available in my group to investigate centromere structure, function and evolution - please get in touch if you are interested! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47525/ jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47569/

🚨 Job Opening! 🚨 The Natural History Museum is hiring a Head of Molecular Labs to lead and advance our labs and sequencing facility, aligning with the Museum’s evolving and dynamic research needs. Learn more and apply: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

We present a manuscript in which we describe the genetics of natural variation in the ploidy of A. lyrata from the White Sea to the Bering Strait, resequencing whole genomes of > 400 A. lyrata from herbarium and seed collections. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Excited to share this #preprint from my postdoc in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz & many others! Using pan-genomics & pan-genetics across the Solanum genus 🍅🥔🍆 we reveal gene duplications 🧬 as contingencies in crop engineering. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

A very nice PhD project in my lab in collaborations with ⁦Prof Zoë Waller⁩ and ⁦Antony Dodd⁩! Please share it🙏! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inves…

The word "paleohexadecaploid" in one picture

I think the picture got lost the first time, let 's try that again. Here are all 25 talks together!

so, I have now also moved to Bluesky, Alexandros Bousios.bsky.social. The thing I miss the most is the constant flow of information on papers, interesting findings, discussions etc., which has nearly disappeared on Twitter. I will live a double life for now, and see how it goes!

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…

Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.110… new work from us on centromere inheritance and organisation Nicola Gorringe Matt Naish Fernando Rabanal

Beautiful collaboration led by Tetsuji Kakutani and Sayuri Tsukahara on unravelling the fine changes that can make a centrophobic TE become centrophilic and vice versa! The devil is in the details for these TEs. nature.com/articles/s4158…

We have a research laboratory technician post available in my group - the role will support plant work, and molecular biology, associated with our research on centromeres. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47342/

Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes annualreviews.org/content/journa… new Annual Reviews from Alexandros Bousios Tetsuji Kakutani and myself on my favourite class of mobile genetic element

Another piece to add in the emerging golden era of centromere research. Our review of centrophilic transposons in plants Annual Reviews with Ian Henderson and Tetsuji Kakutani annualreviews.org/content/journa…

🚨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…