Ben Williams
benpwilliams.bsky.social
Ben Williams
@benpwilliams.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley & Innovative Genomics Institute. Epigenetics, Genomics and Plant Biology. williamsplantlab.com.
This website is extensive, and you can download the original tracks pretty easily: systemsbiology.cau.edu.cn/chromstates/

For ATAC-seq Jacobsen lab has a nice paper with all the methyltransferase mutants as well
Chromatin state
systemsbiology.cau.edu.cn
April 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Ben Williams
Vegetables, 1952
February 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Reposted by Ben Williams
Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab.
Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.
February 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Ben Williams
Update: This ***NSF-funded*** study is now published in MBE. Today more than ever, I'm appreciative of what all the people at NSF do to support our science. Let's fight to support them.

doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Did you know that orchids have a big chunk of fungal mtDNA stuck in their own mitochondrial genomes?? In this new preprint, we found that fungal-derived tRNAs are functional in the orchid mitochondria.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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February 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM