@usadellab

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EPSO@EPSOEuropeOct 15
EPSO response to the EC’s consultation on Single Basic Act for Joint Undertakings and thematic priorities for the #EuropeanPartnerships portfolio Horizon Europe 28-24 bit.ly/4sfkO8r. #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope #FP10 #PlantScience #Bioeconomy #Biotech #SDG
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EPSO@EPSOEuropeOct 1
Contributions from plant #research and #innovation to implementing the Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy - EPSO statement bit.ly/4AzNk8u #PlantScience #Bioeconomy #HorizonEU
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Xiao Dong@justdx0713Sep 23
Very happy to see our work on the mutational dynamics of Arabidopsis centromeres officially out in @Nature! 🎉🌱 Huge thanks to everyone in @LabSchneeberger , our collaborators, and everyone who helped along the way! 📄 nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 📰 hhu.de/en/news-article/ancie…

The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres

Nature - Centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana evolve through frequent insertions and deletions of repeat units and increased rates of point mutations driven by homology-directed repair, a mutation...

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EPSO@EPSOEuropeSep 8
EPSO statement ‘Towards a Virtual Institute for AI in Plant Science’ - Members are invited to join the new ‘AI in Plant Science’ Working Group and confirm joining its meeting on 9Oct’2026. bit.ly/4AgjNRg #AI #PlantScience #HorizonEU #EULifeScienceStrategy #FP10
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Jonathan Kagan@jkagan1Sep 2
Change the textbooks. Trans-splicing as a means to diversify the proteome. Many congrats to Ruaidhri Jackson and Olivia Venezia on this remarkable discovery. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity

Nature - Inflammation induces interchromosomal DNA interactions that bring parent genes into close proximity, facilitating the formation of chimeric mRNAs that encode physiologically relevant,...

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“I come from a farmer's house, in the area named the 'sea of plastic' as the greenhouses cover thousands of square kilometers.” academic.oup.com/plphys/arti… #WeAreASPB
Félix Martínez Rivas is the First Author of Malate Matters: Disrupting Bacterial-type Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase (BTPC) Rewires Tomato Fruit Development published 28 January 2026. Rivas is a Postdoctoral Researcher AND Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM/INIA-CSIC). Education background includes: 2021 PhD in Plant Biotechnology at Universidad de Córdoba / 2015 MSc in Agrifood Biotecnology at the University of Almería / 2014 BSc in Biochemistry at Universidad de Córdoba. Research interests include Plant metabolism, natural diversity, domestication, abiotic stress. Personal interests include Music, Tennis, Reading.

ALT Félix Martínez Rivas is the First Author of Malate Matters: Disrupting Bacterial-type Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase (BTPC) Rewires Tomato Fruit Development published 28 January 2026. Rivas is a Postdoctoral Researcher AND Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM/INIA-CSIC). Education background includes: 2021 PhD in Plant Biotechnology at Universidad de Córdoba / 2015 MSc in Agrifood Biotecnology at the University of Almería / 2014 BSc in Biochemistry at Universidad de Córdoba. Research interests include Plant metabolism, natural diversity, domestication, abiotic stress. Personal interests include Music, Tennis, Reading.

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Our study on giant transposons Starship 🚀🧬 in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria is now out in @PNASNews! What did we find out about Starships in #lichen fungi? 👇Updated thread below
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Ran Blekhman@blekhmanAug 9
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9…
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Apply for a job at University of Wisconsin, Madison: Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty in Food and Nutritional Sciences (RDN Required) dlvr.it/TTx3rf

Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty in Food and Nutritional Sciences (RDN Required) - Madison, Wisconsin

The Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences is hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor). Closes August 30, 2026.

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How do beneficial fungi remodel host cell walls without triggering immunity? We identify SiROCX as a basidiomycete-specific regulator activating CAZyme targets, including GH11/GH10/GH43/CE4 and AA9 enzymes, for xylan/cellulose remodeling during symbiosis. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Join my group at @fz_juelich within the @ceplas_1 plant excellence cluster. #PlantJobs I am looking for a postdoc/senior scientist in plant single-cell and spatial transcriptomics recruiting.fz-juelich.de/job…
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going beyond methylation but finding associated methyltransferases
Alexander Dilthey@AlexDiltheyJul 16
We are very happy to present MPore (academic.oup.com/bioinformat…), by Azlan Nisar et al., a novel method for the investigation of methylation in bacterial genomes from Nanopore data. MPore identifies active methyltransferases and their associated methylation motifs.
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It is excellent to see Europe with a great and open AI LLM model.
Dr. Michael Fromm
@effi288Jul 15
Replying to @NXT4EU
Thanks for the coverage! 🙏 Two quick corrections from the team: (1) this is an outdated version of the figure, the Qwen3 32B point was an error we've since fixed, current version below (2) To be precise: Soofi S is the strongest fully open model (weights, data accounting, code all released), Qwen3.5 is ahead on raw capability; our edge is capability + throughput + full openness
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Deyang Xu@DeyangXu_CNJul 13
Discovery and heterologous reconstitution of a plant noncanonical quasi-circadian gene regulatory network @CellCellPress cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092…
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Der große Forschungsföderalismus-Wurf Nach der Sonder-Wiss-MK zieht die GWK nach. Bund und Länder sichern ihre gemeinsame Wissenschaftsfinanzierung gegen Blockaden, Austritte und ausfallende Landesanteile ab. Ein erster Überblick. Im Wiarda-Blog: jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/07/10/…
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Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence for Horticultural Crop Systems at Texas A&M Horticultural Sciences buff.ly/EOYpSj5 #PlantSciJobs
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Application deadline this Friday! Hurry up if you want to be my successor. W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005…
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1/ What makes genome assemblies tougher? Enter the stress resilient tomato Solanum pennellii. In 2014, we had a genome with many new transposable elements. In a 2026 complete genome we found surprising Tekay element dynamics nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @RengsWillem @charliesousbois
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5/ In S. pennellii, these IPT genes are particularly enriched in regions containing Tekay elements, including complex clusters on chromosomes 8 and 11. A burst of transposable element activity may have helped reshape these genomic regions …. and may influence recombination
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6/ Looking back, the 2014 S. pennellii genome was only the beginning. It showed us that TEs mattered. The new assemblies show how those elements shaped genome structure, gene neighborhoods, and recombination landscapes and a decade later, we can still learn new things
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