Impressive A. thaliana long-read genome assemblies
High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell
Both PacBio and Oxford Nanopore produce impressive assemblies
Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, S. Timothy Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Christa Lanz, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel &
Dynamics of A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathosystem (bioRxiv)
Arabidopsis thaliana populations support long-term maintenance and parallel expansions of related Pseudomonas pathogens
With Kemen and Neher labs, we describe the natural dynamics of the A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathsystem over several years and locations
Talia L Karasov, Juliana Almario, Claudia Friedemann, … Read the rest
IOMAP collaboration: Comparative genomics of rice and its relatives
Now out in Nature Genetics
Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza
The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of
Detlef seminar on adaptation to the environment
Learn more about some of our recent work:
Seminar at UC San Diego at the Minisymposium of the “Food & Fuel for the 21st Century” group.
Detlef discussed collaborative work with Pepe Gutierrez-Marcos, led by Anjar Wibowo and Claude Becker, … Read the rest
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, we found that central European populations of A. thaliana are most … Read the rest
Role for F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT in miRNA function
A role for the F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT in plant microRNA function
Lang PLM, Christie MD, Dogan ES, Schwab R, Hagmann J, Van de Weyer AL, Scacchi E, Weigel D.
Plant Physiol. 2017 Nov 7. doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01313
As regulators of gene … Read the rest
Maus Türöffner Tag
How we sequence DNA – teaching lab for kids
As big fans of Die Maus, we participated in this year’s open house event and showed how DNA can be extracted, read and sequenced.
Big thanks to all kids for … Read the rest
6th bioRxiv of 2017: Massive field data from rain manipulation
A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
Exposito-Alonso et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/186767
The gold standard for studying natural selection is to quantify lifetime fitness in individuals from natural populations that have been grown together under different field conditions. This has
Congratulations, Dr. Giovanna Capovilla!
Giovanna successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Exploring the role of temperature regulated alternative splicing in flowering time and morphogenesis’
Congratulations, Giovanna!
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In Nature Plants: Prominent TADs in rice
Prominent topologically associated domains differentiate global chromatin packing in rice from Arabidopsis
Chang Liu, Ying-Juan Cheng, Jia-Wei Wang & Detlef Weigel
Nature Plants (2017) doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0005-9
The non-random three-dimensional organization of genomes is critical for many cellular processes. Recently, analyses of
In Genome Biology: 3D genome of interspecific hybrids
Altered chromatin compaction & histone methylation in an interspecific Arabidopsis hybrid
Wangsheng Zhu et al., Genome Biology 2017 18:157, doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1281-4
Background: The merging of two diverged genomes can result in hybrid offspring that phenotypically differ greatly from both parents. In … Read the rest
2017 Campus Soccer Tournament
Two awesome WeigelWorld soccer teams participated in this year’s campus tournament.
Denisovans
The Elephants
In Science: Ancient maize adaptation to temperate climate
Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptation to temperate North America
Swarts, K., Gutaker, R. M., Benz, B., Blake, M., Bukowski, R., Holland, J., Kruse-Peeples, M., Lepak, N., Prim, L., Romay, M. C., Ross-Ibarra, J., Sanchez-Gonzalez, J. d. … Read the rest
Collaboration with Huq lab: Splicing and phytochrome signaling
Out in PNAS: SPF45-related splicing factor, phytochrome signaling & pre-mRNA splicing
Xin et al. (2017) SPF45-related splicing factor for phytochrome signaling promotes photomorphogenesis by regulating pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706379114
Pre-mRNA processing not only … Read the rest
Congratulations, Dr. Diep Tran!
Diep successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Biochemical Basis of Autoactivity of a Pair of Plant NLR Immune Receptors’.
Congratulations, Diep!
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Congrats Danelle: Dissertation Award of Teufel Foundation
Danelle received today the dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung.
Danelle Seymour defended her PhD thesis on “Exploring the genetics and genomics of Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives” last year. The dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung, which includes a personal purse … Read the rest
On bioRxiv: Segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana
The genetic architecture of recurrent segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Danelle K. Seymour, Eunyoung Chae, Burak I. Ariöz, Daniel Koenig, Detlef Weigel
The equal probability of transmission of alleles from either parent during sexual reproduction is a central tenet … Read the rest
On bioRxiv: Arabidopsis genome assembled with one Nanopore flowcell
High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell
Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single Oxford Nanopore flow cell
Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, Stanley T. Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel, … Read the rest
Detlef’s latest talk
Curious about his keynote at the VIB Conference “At the Forefront of Plant Research”?
Check out his presentation on figshare!… Read the rest
