Jonathan Cahn
@jon_cahn
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postdoctoral fellow @martienssenlab @cshl
New York, USA
Joined September 2016
The MaizeCODE paper is on BioRXiv! New insights on enhancers in plants and a lot of data for every maize (epi)geneticist to play with, including on teosinte, the ancestor of maize. A big team effort, very grateful to everyone involved! .
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Modern maize was domesticated from Teosinte parviglumis , with subsequent introgressions from Teosinte mexicana , yielding increased kernel row number, loss of the hard fruit case and dissociation...
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RT @hendersi: Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis @Nature from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - be….
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Nature - An Arabidopsis long terminal repeat retrotransposon integrates de novo into regions occupied by centromere-specific histone variant, showing the impact of centromeric chromatin on...
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RT @LucasFarnung: Ever wondered how transcription choreographs histone modifications? Our work reveals the basis of co-transcriptional H3K3….
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RT @JaviGallego80: Interested in chromatin and transcription in plants?🌱🧬 looking for a lab to do a postdoc? 🤓 our lab invites applicants f….
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RT @Slotkin_Lab: The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformati….
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RT @AdamSBJalal: My co-first author paper now out in @Nature. SWR1 specifically exchanges H2A/H2B dimers for Htz1/H2B dimers in nucleosomes….
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Nature - Nucleosome flipping mediates a proofreading and processive mechanism of histone exchange driven by the chromatin remodeller SWR1.
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RT @WilliamsSci: It is my absolute pleasure to share my incredible postdoc Dawei's @amaizeingcorn manuscript on epigenetics and aging in Ar….
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How organisms age is a question with broad implications for human health. In mammals, DNA methylation is a biomarker for biological age, which may predict age more accurately than date of birth....
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RT @JoachimSchork: Looking to add statistical insights directly to your ggplot2 visualizations? The ggstatsplot package simplifies this by….
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RT @diep_ganguly: Have we been over-estimating the impact of m6A? Possibly! We present our evidence here @NewPhyt ..
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Among many mRNA modifications, adenine methylation at the N6 position (N6-methyladenosine, m6A) is known to affect mRNA biology extensively. The influence of m6A has yet to be assessed under drough...
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RT @biorxiv_genetic: The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity….
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Shelling season is like a box of chocolate. and this is a particularly beautiful and genetically complex one!
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RT @AtDeleris: Very proud to share our second pre-print of the year, this time on the positive crosstalk between DNA methylation and Polyco….
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Transposable elements are primarily silenced by DNA methylation and the associated histone modification H3K9me2 in many multicellular eukaryotes, including plants. However, in the absence of DNA...
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RT @omalley_ronan: New preprint! An atlas of conserved TF binding sites across flowering plants generated with multiplexed DAP-seq. When i….
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RT @NaturePlants: New Article: "An RdDM-independent function of Pol V transcripts in gene regulation and plant defence" .
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RT @jefowlerjr: Now out in Nature Communications! With additional data documenting reduced DNA methylation associated with DNG targets in p….
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RT @Matt_Ben_: 🚨 Excited to share this #preprint from my postdoc in the Lippman lab @CSHL, in collab. with @mike_schatz & many others! Usin….
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RT @jrossibarra: Fun outreach from our highland adaptation grant. A video game for primary school kids to learn about maize, evolution, and….
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Learn the science and history of corn
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RT @pierrebaduel: Happy to announce that the PEpiTE lab is officially open since 2 weeks now at the Institute of Biology of @ENS_ULM in Par….
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RT @SigmaFacto: How TEs gain and lose between tropical and temperate maize inbreds? We found that tropical corns have 35Mb more TEs than te….
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