Franz Boideau
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Post-doc working on meiotic recombination in maize & Arabidopsis 🇨🇵🇵🇱 Genetics & genomics Botany & cytology as a hobby 🌱🔬 Tweets are my own, he/him
Poznan, Poland
Joined May 2020
🚀 We’re hiring a #Postdoc! Join our group in Poznan, Poland to study meiotic crossover recombination in plants🌱 Highly motivated & enthusiastic candidates are welcome! 📅 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 🔗 https://t.co/R8TIEnGatE
#PlantScience #Meiosis #PostdocJobs
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Excellent work from @Piotraz1 demonstrating juxtaposition of heterozygous & homozygous regions in maize attracts meiotic crossover to het regions https://t.co/YWB2XaYsy5
@NaturePlants builds from work we did in Cambridge on Arabidopsis way back in 2015. Great stuff Piotr!!
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Thrilled to see our paper featured on the cover!!! 🎉🌽
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Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details:
nature.com
Nature Plants - This study discovered that locally confined DNA differences boost crossover rates in both Arabidopsis and maize, revealing a conserved mechanism that can accelerate plant breeding...
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Nice double mutant phenotype. Knotted1 puts sheath tissue into the auricle. Hairy Sheath Frayed makes it furry.
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Happy to share our new work on the exciting genomes of carnivorous sundews! Exciting findings, incl. different centromere organisations and all kinds of weird polyploids giving rise to these mysterious plants! Great word led by my postdoc @1192Laura in collab with @plantgenomes
Our #Drosera (carnivorous #sundew) #genome work published on bioRxiv https://t.co/WA0WOramQg All coauthors listed in bioRxiv PDF. #Venusflytrap and #Nepenthes in there too, plus first genomes of African carnivore #Triphyophyllum and secondarily noncarnivorous #Ancistrocladus.
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🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres published at @CurrentBiology 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to my lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link https://t.co/yvs1a3e20s
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Interspecific hybrids of purple cone flowers that produce colors we’d never see in nature. Like photoshop but in real life. Really cool.
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‼️Can we tune crossover hotspot activity by targeting chromatin modifiers? Absolutely!💥 Our screen shows dCas9-JMJ14 represses crossovers at targeted sites, while VP64 boosts them! 🧬 Check our new preprint: https://t.co/St6QtzbEmS
#meiosis4ever #CRISPR #Arabidopsis
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The impact of specific chromatin modifications on meiotic crossover frequency is usually inferred from correlative studies, leaving open the question of causality. To address this, we used a dCas9-...
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📢We are #hiring! 📢Please RT! @mpipz_cologne has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity. Apply now! 👉 https://t.co/AQOFMv1xIJ
#plantscience
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1/7 I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN NATURE!🌹 Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we shed light on Rosa canina’s bizarre reproduction! https://t.co/1OddHB3w0p
#Meiosis4eva #Centromere
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Nature - Insights into the dogrose genome and centromeres explain their ability to achieve stable sexual reproduction.
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Join us this Friday morning for seminar: Franz Boideau @franz_boideau from @UAM_IBMiB #Geneome Biology Lab @Piotraz1 will give a talk on the mechanisms controlling meiotic crossovers! #meiosis
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I'm psyched to see our latest collaborative paper come out in @ThePlantCell in which we show that Aurora 1 kinase is an APC/C substrate that mediates spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in #Meiosis: https://t.co/PiVu7Rc3PO
academic.oup.com
The ANAPHASE-PROMOTING COMPLEX/CYCLOSOME coactivators CDC20.1 and CCS52s play distinct roles in maintaining AURORA 1 kinase homeostasis during meiotic chro
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📢📢Paper Alert! New publication out in @Nature by @LabSchneeberger @mpipz_cologne and @LMU_Muenchen on the genome reconstruction of ten historic potato cultivars. 🥔🌱Congratulations! 👏👏Learn more 👉 https://t.co/aq4SgPVME8
https://t.co/ANBpoH1YE9
mpipz.mpg.de
A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.
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Thrilled to announce our study on the histone variant H2A.W & pericentromeric crossovers is now out in PNAS! We show that loss/knockdown of https://t.co/ZIMlOKkXLG boosts meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis pericentromeric regions: https://t.co/hbNSjb89j1
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Paper "Triploid bridges enable gene flow in mixed-ploidy populations of Cardamine amara" published in Molecular Ecology! https://t.co/B6bOZIRVz6 The study reveals how rare triploids help overcome ploidy barriers and mediate gene flow between diploid and tetraploid populations.
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#TAIR is uptaking an abusive business model where you have to pay for every use and rising the licenses to up to 10k/year. TAIR is based on resources built by scientists and it ahould be a nonprofit service.
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🚀 Our collaborative work with @MonicaPradillo , "Genetic dissection of MutL complexes in Arabidopsis meiosis," is now published in NAR! 🌱 https://t.co/hPeTTNZqJE 🔬 We show that MutLγ is crucial for ZMM-dependent crossovers, with MUS81 unable to fully compensate for its loss.
academic.oup.com
Abstract. During meiosis, homologous chromosomes exchange genetic material through crossing over. The main crossover pathway relies on ZMM proteins, includ
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𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 📚 Engineering Agrobacterium for improved plant transformation🦠🌱 https://t.co/stxp4TxFWu 📝Goralogia, Willig & Strauss 🗺️ @OregonState This review covers Agrobacterium genomics, gene delivery tools, and T-DNA genes for improved plant transformation
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Genetic transformation is a crucial tool in plant genetics research as well as a foundation for applying new plant breeding techniques. One of the bottlenecks to current plant transformation methods...
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