Diversity of brassica oleracea (plus a sneaky brassica rappa) for undergrad discussion section on crop breeding and domestication. I’ll also be eating very healthy this week

🧵 🥬 Lettuce begin! Super excited to share our new manuscript on contrasting patterns of evolution in sensor and helper NLRs in the NRC network! Tune in for some plant immunology and molecular evolution… 🌱🧬💻 (1/14) https://t.co/54sR517kEP

Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana https://t.co/27yUQwIuw8 new work from us on centromere inheritance and organisation @njgorringe @MpNaish @malacopa_genome

I am pleased to announce new research from the Shih Lab (@LabShih) published today in Nature Biotechnology on improving Agrobacterium-mediated transformation via binary vector copy number engineering ( https://t.co/nCUVQ2ym2p). 🧵A summary thread below🌿

🦍Postdoc in Somatic Evolutionary Genomics🦍 Join my team @GeneticsCam on a pioneering project mapping somatic mutations across primates! 🌍Collaborate with experts @UCBerkeley & @sangerinstitute. 🔍Experience in genomics? Apply by Nov 16! Details: https://t.co/1pDO1tzzcP

I had so much fun on this UK Extravaganza!! Thank you to all our hosts and to everyone who shared their exciting science, see you soon🤩

We had the pleasure to host @kseniakrasileva and @chandler_suth at @uclbiosciences at the beggining of their tour!

Published version @NatureEcoEvo of our collaborative work led by Patricia Lang @plantricia with @MExpositoAlonso and @stanfordstomata Labs https://t.co/7gIXzH3qdy @MPI_Bio @CloeFor @uclbiosciences @UCLLifeSciences #herbariumgenomics to understand plant responses to #climatechange

A new preprint from @kseniakrasileva lab: Engineering pathogen-inducible promoters for conferring disease resistance in tomato

PMB is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Developmental Biology! Apply by Oct 15, with expected start date of July 2025. For more information about the position, including required qualifications and application materials, visit https://t.co/g3W6J1mT9h.

Congratulations Ksenia!! 🥳🥳🥳

We are excited to share our updated manuscript for our NLRseek program! This is a unique partnership between @2Blades, @TheSainsburyLab, and the Kaneka Corporation. Thank you to our co-authors for this success @MatthewMoscou @PeterVanesse @kamiljwitek @UMNPlantPath Results: 🧵

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: https://t.co/KRKvzCIewb /1

Excited to share our recent work on annelid comparative genomics, led by @Tom_Lewin. Using @darwintreelife data, we assembled a dataset of 23 genomes and discovered lineage-specific chromosome scrambling. 1/3 https://t.co/WHxq4a3ZCZ

We have opened sign ups for our annual "Genomes and Plant Health" workshop that includes lectures and hands on activities. It is free, in person, Berkeley campus, June 10-11 undergraduates, June 12-13 high School students. Help us spread the word:

Why do some genome regions mutate more than others? Excited to share our latest work published in @ThePlantCell. H3K4me1 recruitment of DNA repair proteins in plants! 🌱🧬#PlantScience #Mutation 📜 https://t.co/bYqNTe6iqO 1/

Please RT - we are seeking a new postdoc! The Williams lab at UC Berkeley ( https://t.co/JmC7IPexrb) has a post-doc position available to study the impact of epigenetics on organ regeneration in plants.

I was honored to give a talk at #bog24 This project is co-advised by @ras_nielsen and @lohmueller

Majority of the highly variable NLRs in maize share genomic location and contain additional target-binding domains

Big thank you to everyone who provided feedback and guidance on this work, and to my co-authors @daniilprigozhin @kseniakrasileva @Grey_Monroe. Excited to start measuring mutation directly and hopefully get to some mechanistic answers soon🧬

Highly variable NLRs have distinct genomic features, selective pressures, and mutational likelihood contributing to their super high amino acid diversity. But what's the mechanism??? How are these features established, and how do they change local mutation probability??