André Marques
@marques_et_al
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A lover of chromosome biology 🧬🔬🔎 Studying (not only) meiosis & genome evolution in holocentric plants! PI @mpipz_cologne
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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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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has
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During my visit to Latin America, I saw how science helps us adapt to a changing climate. At the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) in Brazil, researchers study how the rainforest and atmosphere interact — reminding us, ahead of COP, that policy relies on solid evidence.
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Happy to share my invited mini-review in Current Opinion in Plant Biology: “Meiotic recombination and advances in quantitative trait mapping.” It highlights key regulators of meiotic crossovers and how increasing COs can enhance QTL mapping resolution. 🔗 https://t.co/WYsjmr0ZBg
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Meeting our Max Planck group leaders and young researchers in São Paulo was a highlight of my Latin America trip. Their talent and commitment show how collaboration across borders strengthens science — and the global community that depends on it. 📸 Ricson Onodera
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The @UNC_Biology Biology Department is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: https://t.co/whqt9UyO04
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Friday Papers Club! 🍿In light of Pubmed going down, the collapse of social media, and my recent success at getting recommendations for interesting papers from those still around, I am starting a new tradition! - Recommend a good scientific manuscript! 👇
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We are looking for a new colleague to work as a postdoctoral researcher on crop genomics and machine learning! The position is within our GenomeDesigner project ( https://t.co/Tuc4kRJqAe). Feel free to be in touch or directly apply here: https://t.co/O4J5gGgo0y Please share!!!
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🧬Our paper about the epigenetic control and inheritance of ribosomal DNA arrays is now online in Cell Genomics (link in first comment👇). rDNA collectively refers to genes that encode ribosomal RNA, the most abundant cellular RNA. We explored variations in rRNA gene copy number
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Excited to share that my PhD thesis work is out in @ScienceMagazine today. We demonstrate robust rearrangement of the human genome using bridge recombinases, performing programmable insertions, excisions, and inversions at megabase-scale.
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Happy to have contributed to this awesome article from the science journalist @Carolynyjohnson for the @WashPost Great study! https://t.co/iYBogMl0Xv
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By examining “junk DNA,” scientists are finding clues to understanding human biology.
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Delighted to see our new study on CENP-A dynamics in bovine spermatogenesis published in Chromosome Research. It looks like many of the unusual centromere dynamics first observed in the Drosophila male germline are conserved in bulls:
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Chromosome Research - During spermatogenesis, chromatin structure is remodelled by the incorporation of distinct histone variants and associated posttranslational modifications, followed by the...
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Rubisco is (arguably) the most abundant protein on Earth. (LPP surely comes close, right?) It’s an enzyme that fixes CO₂ into sugars during photosynthesis. Unfortunately, as most people learn in school, Rubisco is inefficient. Sometimes it confuses O₂ for CO₂ and wastes
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New OA Article: "Enhancing local meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis and maize through juxtaposition of heterozygous and homozygous regions" https://t.co/kpKVtZDTUG With News & Views: "Diversity favoured: heterozygosity attracts crossovers" https://t.co/p1atACooUy
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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:
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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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We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout: https://t.co/WrbZvDY09k Apply here: https://t.co/kT0XRhzpbX
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