Kirsten Bomblies
@KBomblies
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Scientist - interested in #evolution, #meiosis, #recombination, #temperature,#polyploidy...
ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland
Joined June 2015
So proud of Thanvi @ThSrikant and Adrian @AdriGonzalo for a huge effort and a really nice set of results! We are slowly returning for a bit to the genome world - Thanvi has more to report soon - stay tuned! ;-)
What are the immediate consequences of genome doubling on chromatin accessibility & transcription, and how do these change over evolution? Read our latest paper in @MolBioEvol to find out! Big shoutout to co-authors @KBomblies and @AdriGonzalo ✨ [1/6]
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SO so proud of my student Vera @shamvera who defended her PhD successfully today!! She did so well and we will miss her - a LOT! It's a lucky part of our jobs as professors that we get to work with such bright young scientists! The lab made her a really cool hat :-)
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Please RT - I want to hire a talented postdoc with experience in microscopy/cytology, to study adaptation to temperature of #meiosis in plants. Interested? Contact me directly (email, not here). Image is of a temperature stressed meiocyte, by Chris Morgan @ChrisMorgan555
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FIRST PLANT MEIOTIC MEETING! You simply can’t miss it!!! Fantastic Keynote speakers: Kirsten Bomblies @KBomblies, Mathilde Grelon, Raphael Mercier @Raph_Mercier, Wojtek Pawlowski, Holger Puchta and Arp Schnittger @LabSchnittger See you in Poznań! Visit
‼️15th of June is the last day to register for the PLANT MEIOSIS MEETING‼️ Hurry up if you want to take part in this special event. We guarantee excellent science🔬 good food and great atmosphere😎 https://t.co/kc8eNQsqlk
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My first ETH PhD student, Amrita Möhl-Raj, graduated & did a great job! At the Apero, a reunion of some ex-Weigel folk (@PlantEvolution) - former technician (me), former postdoc Francois Parcy (@Francois_Parcy) and former PhD student, now Postdoc here, Thanvi Srikant (@ThSrikant)
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Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes have advantages over their relatives with a double set. But they often start out infertile. Why? Biologists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a new reason. https://t.co/KcgGwUUW3r
@ETH_DBIOL @KBomblies #polyploids
ethz.ch
Plants with multiple sets of chromosomes have advantages over their relatives with a double set. But why they often start out infertile was only partially understood. Biologists at ETH Zurich have...
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Thrilled to announce - our latest on polyploid arenosa just got published in Science :-) Thanks to the amazing team that made it happen including @Thsrikant and @AdriGonzalo!! And thanks reviewers for enthusiasm, especially reviewer 1, whoever you are! https://t.co/YgT0c7CL3C
science.org
Mechanistic follow-up to a genome scan shows selection targeted pollen tube tip growth to rectify neopolyploid fertility defects.
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Mark your calendars, dear meiosis community! We have our location: #EMBOmeiosis 2025 will be in Engelberg, Switzerland, June 22-26. Organizers: Joao Matos, Mathilde Grelon, Takashi Akera @TakashiAkeraLab, John Weir @weir_science, Marinela Dukic and me (Image from Wikipedia).
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We have a new paper out from @AdriGonzalo showing that we can partially diploidize polyploid meiosis by crossover reduction! It doesn't rescue neo-4X fertility (yet), but what does, is following soon... :-) https://t.co/QOL5E3nEcd
pnas.org
Polyploids, which arise from whole-genome duplication events, have contributed to genome evolution throughout eukaryotes. Among plants, novel featu...
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To celebrate 10 (actually 11, but who's counting?) years of studying adaptation to polyploidy. I celebrated by making an illustration of my favourite model Arabidopsis arenosa.
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This came up as a memory today - 12 years ago one of my star PhD students, Brian Arnold, passed his quals at Harvard, and this is the cake my lab got him. Very pragmatic people. 😂
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I newly have a book contract with OUP (on molecular basis of plant development/plasticity)! Today I made my 1st figure, for the leaf chapter. I drew this on my iPad, using a software called ProCreate - so fun! And this also serves as a pre-pre-advertisement for the book ;-)
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Art tweet! The wonderful plant biologist / poet Anne Osbourne @AnneOsbourn1 wrote some really cool poems for my alliterative animal alphabet drawings. Just published online at Ekphrastic - Here is the link (scroll down to see them).
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This makes me extremely happy - What a wonderful compliment to get from the students!! Thank you @vseth and thank you Biology students @VeBiS_Ethz! This was a truly wonderful honor🙂
On occasion of the #ETHDay2022, the Association of Students at ETH Zurich awards the Golden Owl for particularly dedicated and excellent #teaching. Congratulations to all awarded lecturers! @vseth
@vsethpresident
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My latest review, on the molecular basis of adaptation to polyploid meiosis. This will be my last review for a while. I swear :-) Thank you @Raph_Mercier for the invite - it was fun to write and I learned a lot. https://t.co/4B5th5PVmR
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Excited to become a new member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Council. It is an exciting and demanding role and I am looking forward to it :-) @snf_ch
https://t.co/aknYhofo0T
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The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds excellent research at universities and other institutions.
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The fantastic @Francois_Parcy who taught me what it means to have a high bar in science! Many happy memories from 20 years ago #WeigelFest in 1996 He was a postdoc, I was Detlef’s new technician….
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This was such an amazing event - so great to celebrate an awesome scientist and mentor and see so many old friends!
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The Bomblies lab went on a fun and informative annual retreat. We had a writing and "science story" workshop, and lots of good discussion and recreation too! I can very much recommend retreats 😁
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