Gerardo del Toro
@gerardodeltoro.bsky.social
Plant biology #epigenetics & #reproduction 📸 🌵🔬🎨
https://www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/person/114122/2168
https://www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/person/114122/2168
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Here it comes, first preprint from my postdoc time at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in the lab of @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
Here it comes, first preprint from my postdoc time at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in the lab of @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
Samplify: A versatile tool for image-based segmentation and annotation of seed abortion phenotypes
Automated seed phenotyping has wide applications in research and agriculture and relies on easy-to-use platforms and pipelines. Seed phenotyping in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana poses a signi...
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September 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Here it comes, first preprint from my postdoc time at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in the lab of @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
Here it comes, first preprint from my postdoc time at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in the lab of @claudiakohler11.bsky.social
Reposted by Gerardo del Toro
🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!
Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
September 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!
Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Gerardo del Toro
🌿 Women in Science Day :: organized by the Collaborative Research Center CRC1644 on Phenotypic Plant Plasticity 🌿
📅 21 November 2025
📍 University of Potsdam, Campus Golm
Welcoming participants of all gender identities.
📌 Register now 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/news-...
📅 21 November 2025
📍 University of Potsdam, Campus Golm
Welcoming participants of all gender identities.
📌 Register now 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/news-...
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🌿 Women in Science Day :: organized by the Collaborative Research Center CRC1644 on Phenotypic Plant Plasticity 🌿
📅 21 November 2025
📍 University of Potsdam, Campus Golm
Welcoming participants of all gender identities.
📌 Register now 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/news-...
📅 21 November 2025
📍 University of Potsdam, Campus Golm
Welcoming participants of all gender identities.
📌 Register now 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/news-...
I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction
Rapid origin and turnover of genomic imprinting by transposable elements
Genomic imprinting, the preferential expression of alleles based on their parent-of-origin, is an epigenetic mechanism that plays a key role in endosp…
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July 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I am thrilled to share our review with @claudiakohler11.bsky.social in which we discuss on the latest research on the classical and emerging roles of transposable elements in shaping genomic imprinting in plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction
#imprinting #epigenetics #plantReproduction
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Very happy to see this new preprint out from our lab, led by @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social. Congrats Gerardo and everyone involved! Check it out! 👇
🚨 Preprint alert!!
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development
As in mammals, the plant embryo is surrounded by maternal tissues that provide protection from the external environment. In angiosperms, a double fertilization process results in the formation of a di...
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June 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Very happy to see this new preprint out from our lab, led by @gerardodeltoro.bsky.social. Congrats Gerardo and everyone involved! Check it out! 👇
🚨 Preprint alert!!
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development
As in mammals, the plant embryo is surrounded by maternal tissues that provide protection from the external environment. In angiosperms, a double fertilization process results in the formation of a di...
www.biorxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚨 Preprint alert!!
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Gerardo del Toro
The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature
Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...
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April 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Twitter
#Phd #PhDposition ▶️ We are hiring! *Please RT* and/or **Apply*
Interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromatin dynamics for plant development?
Apply to our Doctoral School for a 3-year PhD position at the @IRIG, @LPCV in a beautiful university @UGA & city.
#Phd #PhDposition ▶️ We are hiring! *Please RT* and/or **Apply*
Interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromatin dynamics for plant development?
Apply to our Doctoral School for a 3-year PhD position at the @IRIG, @LPCV in a beautiful university @UGA & city.
April 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Twitter
#Phd #PhDposition ▶️ We are hiring! *Please RT* and/or **Apply*
Interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromatin dynamics for plant development?
Apply to our Doctoral School for a 3-year PhD position at the @IRIG, @LPCV in a beautiful university @UGA & city.
#Phd #PhDposition ▶️ We are hiring! *Please RT* and/or **Apply*
Interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromatin dynamics for plant development?
Apply to our Doctoral School for a 3-year PhD position at the @IRIG, @LPCV in a beautiful university @UGA & city.
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We have an open 4-year PhD position in the Slotte lab at Stockholm University, to investigate genomic signatures of selection associated with pollination mode shifts.
Full ad: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Apply by April 22, 2025 via the University application portal (link). Please repost! 🧪
Full ad: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Apply by April 22, 2025 via the University application portal (link). Please repost! 🧪
PhD student in Ecology and Evolution
The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) is located in the Arrhenius Laboratories, situated at the University Campus at Frescati. Presently around 100 people, including 35 PhD
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April 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We have an open 4-year PhD position in the Slotte lab at Stockholm University, to investigate genomic signatures of selection associated with pollination mode shifts.
Full ad: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Apply by April 22, 2025 via the University application portal (link). Please repost! 🧪
Full ad: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Apply by April 22, 2025 via the University application portal (link). Please repost! 🧪
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#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:
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📢📢The International ICIPS symposium "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by @icips.bsky.social will take place near the botanical garden of Berlin (Germany) from March 25-28, 2025.
🟠To register: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
🟠Deadline registration: 14.02.2025
🟠To register: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
🟠Deadline registration: 14.02.2025
February 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📢📢The International ICIPS symposium "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by @icips.bsky.social will take place near the botanical garden of Berlin (Germany) from March 25-28, 2025.
🟠To register: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
🟠Deadline registration: 14.02.2025
🟠To register: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
🟠Deadline registration: 14.02.2025
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If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
royalsociety.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
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Deadline extension for abstract submission (now until Jan 31) to the international meeting "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by dfg-icips.org in Berlin (March 25-28, 2025) with a great line-up of speakers: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/ and hurry up to register!
#PlantScience
#PlantEvodevo
#PlantScience
#PlantEvodevo
January 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Deadline extension for abstract submission (now until Jan 31) to the international meeting "Evolution of Plant Reproduction" organized by dfg-icips.org in Berlin (March 25-28, 2025) with a great line-up of speakers: dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/ and hurry up to register!
#PlantScience
#PlantEvodevo
#PlantScience
#PlantEvodevo