The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!
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We're hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA! #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #FacultyJobs #UGA
ALT Faculty job ad for a position in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia.
Thank you André for hosting me. It was great to visit Max Planck and meet all the great scientists and see the wonderful facilities. Also nice to see the sights of Cologne.
I am very grateful and glad for the visit of Kelly Dawe @corncolors to @mpipz_cologne as our special seminar speaker! Thanks a lot for the inspiring discussions 🙌
And here is my perspective on the new human artificial chromosome work. The methods deployed by Gambogi et al should be directly applicable to plants.
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Ben Black's lab describes a superior method for preparing human artificial chromosomes. The chromosomes are small enough to be engineered in yeast, but large enough to carry multiple genes and segregate like normal human chromosomes in cultured cells
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Very pleased to see our cenh3 haploid inducer being used to improve commercial maize lines!
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Kelly Dawe retweeted
New! Methylation-controlled gene regulation in maize pollen, led by Jonathan Gent (@corncolors group). Tldr: Two maize DNA glycosylases (DNGs, which demethylate DNA) redundantly enable high transcript levels of a small set (~50) of pollen-specific genes, biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Kelly Dawe retweeted
We’re hiring! We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology to start Aug 1, 2024. The position will be a joint appointment b/t UGA Plant Biology and @uga_iob. For full consideration, apply by Nov 10, 2023. Please spread the word!
ALT Job ad for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Synthetic Biology at the University of Georgia. This is an interdisciplinary position with a joint appointment between the Department of Plant Biology and the Institute of Bioinformatics. Applications due Nov 10, 2023 with a start date of Aug 1, 2024.
Kelly Dawe retweeted
Out now @plantjournal 717 genome-not one but two T2T assemblies for P. tremula & P. alba @phytozome! Creative work by @RanRichard uncovered aspen-specific megabase satellite repeats that form chromosome knobs! @corncolors @Schmitz_Lab @jgi @hudsonalpha doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16454
ALT 38 chromosomes of the two 717 subgenomes. Putative centromeres are in orange, and PtaM147 repeats in blue.
ALT FISH image showing knob-like signals of PtaM147 satellite DNA
ALT heatmap clustering of 21-mer PtaM147 satellite DNA abundance showing aspen-specific occurrence
Kelly Dawe retweeted
Teosinte Pollen Drive guides maize domestication and evolution by RNAi biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… very beautiful work from Martienssen lab and colleagues
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Great coverage of apomixis research in this headline news article this week @ScienceMagazine
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Including two of my favorite colleagues and scientists, Luca Comai (@lucacomai) and Sundar. Richly deserved!
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 23 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. bit.ly/3HyRx2u
Congratulations to our new #NASmembers! #NAS160
Much of the maize pan-genome is ancient. We show that about a third of the pan-genome diverged earlier than ~100 kya and another third diverged ~10-30 kya, with centromere haplotypes appearing as evolutionary strata genome.cshlp.org/content/33/…
And congrats to Jianing Liu @ljn017 for following through on this difficult paper, years after graduation.
A nice summary of our work on maize synthetic centromeres by @hendersi
New Article: "Synthetic maize centromeres transmit chromosomes across generations" rdcu.be/c72OV
N&V: "Plant genetics: Creating synthetic maize centromeres" rdcu.be/c72OX
Based on a LexA–CENH3 fusion; stably inherited and self-sustaining neochromosomes.
Our successful effort to create synthetic maize centromeres is now published! We hope to use this method to alter karyotypes in maize and other plants. And one day engineer entire chromosomes. nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
Meghan Brady
It’s corn! I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing. Check out our latest article here: athensscienceobserver.com/20…
Kelly Dawe retweeted
After more than 20 years of effort perennial rice (PR) has become a reality. PR produced yields in each of four consecutive years comparable to yields from the current leading annual cultivars. PR cropping resulted in increased #soil organic #carbon. #ag
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