Julie Law
@jlaw_lab
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Salk researchers are using a little flowering plant to answer the question: How do cells generate new epigenetic change? The answer marks a major paradigm shift in plant biology and may inform future epigenetic engineering strategies with medical and agricultural applications.
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Please join us at this Keystone Symposium on Plant Epigenetics and Epigenome Engineering.
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Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Plant Epigenetics and Epigenome Engineering, October 2025, in Fort Collins, with field leaders!
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🚨 Applications Open! 🚨 The Salk Institute presents DISCOVER: a unique 3-day, all-expenses-paid symposium (July 23–25, 2025) designed to discover diverse talent and foster an inclusive scientific community in academic research. 🌟 What’s in it for you? - Present your research -
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The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT!
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Our lab at @cnrs_ibmp is delighted to announce the @NatureComms publication from a PhD student and postdoc-driven collaboration with @jlaw_lab and @FlorentWaltz revealing how CLSY proteins dock with Pol IV to produce siRNAs and silence transposons:
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Nature Communications - Transposons are DNA sequences that can mobilize, causing deleterious mutations. This work uncovers a novel structure in RNA polymerase IV allowing it to dock with four CLSY...
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Joanne Chory dedicated her life to tackling climate change by enhancing plants’ ability to store carbon. Through the Harnessing Plants Initiative at Salk, she worked to use crops to protect our planet. Her visionary work lives on. 🌱🌎 Thank you, @WSJ, for sharing her story.
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Deadlines are approaching for @KeystoneSymp #NonCodingRNA Biology: New Roles and Diversity, this January in Keystone! See scholarship, abstract and discount reg dates: https://t.co/nSQjFRWXkv
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Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Non-Coding RNA Biology: New Roles and Diversity, January 2025, in Keystone, with field leaders!
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Finally published! Cool ressource for forward and reverse genetic screens. A fully sequenced collection of homozygous EMS mutants for forward and reverse genetic screens in Arabidopsis thaliana - Carrère - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library
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Genetic screenings in plants have been constrained by sample size and phenotyping capacity including in model organisms. Here, we report a fully-sequenced collection of 871 Arabidopsis homozygous...
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Two postdoctoral positions available in my group to investigate centromere structure, function and evolution - please get in touch if you are interested! https://t.co/8quBMun2NY
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So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in @Naturepub. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by @mcliupeng. https://t.co/wSvr1uuEbF. 🧵
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Nature - Fusion of rice Pong transposase to the Cas9 or Cas12a programmable nucleases provides sequence-specific targeted insertion of enhancer elements, an open reading frame and gene expression...
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The @Slotkin_lab @DanforthCenter is hiring a new laboratory technician. Lots of cool work to be done on transposable elements! Please retweet to spread the word!
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Dr. Bartlett (@madelainebart) is a Professor at @UmassAmherst. The Bartlett lab focuses on understanding the molecular underpinnings of the diversity of shape and form in flowering plants. #3rdPCASymposium Register: https://t.co/cB2UdUQKrF
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👀 Registrations are open for the Cold Spring Harbor Course on Plant Science. 👉Join a 3-week program led by top plant scientists in a stunning location. Don't miss this incredible opportunity! 🌱🔬 #PlantScience @CSHL @NikoGeldner @bradylabsCold
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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📢📢📢Fan of plant DNA repair, chromosomes or epigenetics? Do not miss the EMBO Workshop Plant Genome Stability and Change 2024 (#EMBOplantGenome24) in Olomouc, CZ 🇨🇿. Amazing speakers, talks selected from abstracts & travel grants. Time to register! @EMBO @UEBavcr @tair_news
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Please RT 🙏 I’m thrilled to announce the 2024 Gordon Conf on Plant Molecular Biology (Jun 9-14) & associated GRS (Jun 8-9). Our amazing speakers will present the latest in Plant Mol Bio with theme of Plant Communication https://t.co/yQlLSINqic
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Wonderful review by Guanghui Xu and @jlaw_lab that really zooms out to show the whole system of epigenetics in plants. Highly recommend reading if you want to learn the nuances of the field! https://t.co/XgvQkOLz0G
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🧬🌱🔬Don't miss out on the upcoming EMBO workshop on PLANT GENOME STABILITY AND CHANGE in Olomouc, Czech Republic June 16-19, 2024. Registration is now open ( https://t.co/xhmQile8Fi)
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We are happy to finally announce that 2024 Plant Genome Stability and Change meeting @EMBO will be organized in the beautiful city of Olomouc, CZE. Check out the fantastic lineup of keynote and invited speakers and don't forget to register soon. https://t.co/xNxuqdJqHv
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The aim of this EMBO Workshop is to bring together the scientific community working with plants on subjects around genome stability and modification, including DNA recombination and repair, chromosom…
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Plant scientist Blake Meyers named as new director of UC Davis Genome Center @genomecenter @ucdavisbiology
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Blake Meyers, a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and a professor of plant sciences from the University of Missouri - Columbia, has been named the new director and...
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