🚨Game changer alert🚨 for scientists in Germany who publish and maintain #opensource software and #opendata. Our GitHub and Zenodo etc repositories will be considered as publications when applying for funding DFG public | @[email protected] 🤩🚀🤯

Let the transposition begin! After three years of waiting for this in-person meeting to happen, Irina Arkhipova now talks in her keynote about the wonderful world of rotifer transposons. #UppTransposon2022 #transposon

⏳Forever young⌛️? 🌱Learn from RTE LINE #TransposableElements in plants: 🧬Cycle through your 5' sequences to keep your promoters refreshed, while retaining your evolutionarily successful LINE body. doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… 1/7

Finally a role for @sophielanciano 's PopRice eccDNA!!! 👏to Cho's lab academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

So proud to be invited by Macas lab (from ELIXIR Czech Republic) to present at RepeatExplorer workshop how #REPET (from UR Genomics-Info part of IFB_Bioinformatique the French node of ELIXIR Europe) and RepeatExplorer are complementary tools in #transposons annotation. Can't wait !

LMann present the quest for consensus RepeatExplorer workshop

🌱🧬🔍Do you enjoy looking at plant chromosomes, but do not know how? 📚Do not worry! Sònia Garcia and me worked for two years to bring together exactly 100 authors for a Plant Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics protocol collection! doi.org/10.1007/978-1-…

Combining pangenomes and cytogenetics, we look deeply into beets and wild beets that harbor salt and frost tolerances. Especially relevant is the tetraploid wild beet Beta corolliflora, and you can now read how this species originated. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #polyploidy

🌱Nerd alert: By now, you know that plants = strange #transposons. 🧬So imagine catching the 5S rDNA promoter and then doing your own thing. ❓But what happens, if the 5S gene itself is all over the place? Promoter mutations, weird organization...? 📚doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

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And of course, now, our 17-beet-panel -- Story III💚: Look what you can learn from genome sizes, chromosomes and repeatomes, such as the basis of chromosomal structure across gene pools! doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… 14/14

Exciting surprise in my home letterbox today: The Biospektrum with our #eccDNA article was in it💚! It is an 🧬explanatory intro 🧬in German 🧬written with LMann

🧬💚New preprint out, led by Ludwig (LMann) and our fresh MSc graduate Kristin: 🧬📈Reliable #repetitiveDNA consensus sequences from short reads -- do they exist and how can you do them? Can newer genome assembly tools help? find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

🌱🧬We are grateful that Nii-Ayi Ankrah (Nii-Ayi) was able to join the lab to provide insight into the chromosomal variability of kenaf breeding lines. Now, you can read about this work in our preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… Bayer Foundation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology @TUD_Science

🌱All beets have the same base chromosome number. But despite the chromosomal stability, crossing between gene pools is difficult. 🧬We find that repetitive DNAs evolved differently in the gene pools, marking speciation and crossing boundaries. doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16… 1/14

Sanam talking about the saffron genome project wiith Tony Heitkam 🌱🔍💚 (left this site for 🟦🦋) and Frank Blattner Leibniz IPK at the PAG 2024 Unfortunately I am at the airport already so I missed it (but have reliable Internet)

🧬#TransposableElement superpowers! 🌻In the sunflower family, 5S #rRNA genes diverge. 🔍We follow Cassandra, a transposon with a 5S rRNA promoter. Will it mimic the variability of the 5S? ➡️It will! Read about Cassandra's promoter mimicry! 📚doi.org/10.1093/molbev… 1/7

🧬🌱New article on repeat assembly methods, led by Ludwig (LMann) and our MSc graduate Kristin: 🧬📈Reliable #repetitiveDNA consensus sequences from short reads -- are these even possible? Can newer genome assembly tools help? doi.org/10.1186/s12864… 1/9

New paper at Molecular Biology and Evolution coming from the fruitful & fun collaboration with the group of @TonyHeitkam at Uni Graz/University of Graz and TU Dresden, Ales Kovarik at Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Acad. Sci. and our group at Institut Botànic de Barcelona! #Genomics #Cytogenenomics #DNArepeats academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

🔥Our paper about the new families of active 🍅 LTR retrotransposons (called Salsa and Ketchup 😁) introgressed from S. peruvianum has been published in BMC Genomics 🥳 Kudos to Pavel Merkulov 👏: link.springer.com/article/10.118…