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Congratulations, Dr. Maximilian Collenberg!

Max successfully defended his thesis today.

Out in NAR: Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies (OA)

In-depth comparison of PacBio CLR and HiFi assemblies

Congratulations, Dr. Alejandra Duque!

Alejandra successfully defended her thesis

Now in Quant. Plant Biol.: New tool for DNA methlyation analysis

Methylscore to ID differentially methylated regions

Former postdoc Jiawei Wang wins Xplorer Prize

..which comes with a personal cash award of 3M RMB (~430,000€)

Detlef spoke at Kinderuni

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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
1/11 🔥 New preprint alert 🔥We wanted to know what plants in the wild really care about. So we asked them 🎤. Here is what we learned: “Biotic-response networks are an important organizer of the transcriptome in wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations”https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711176v1
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An example of Africa taking the initiative: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.667917v1.full[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Africa features heavily here, yet African researchers are not in the lead, and instead relegated to a couple of middle-authorship. Thoughts?[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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@zbao.bsky.social points out that this apparent #TE remnant is shared deeply in the Brassicaceae. So likely an example of ancient TE exaptation (or TE mimicry, which would be daily cool).[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
🔥Fantastic paper!🔥 TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻#epigenetics #plantsciencehttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2511608123
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