Marie Monniaux
@mariemonniaux.bsky.social
Plant evo-devo scientist, CNRS researcher in the Evo-Eco-Paleo lab in Lille.
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I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
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Hi Folks !
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hi Folks !
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).
Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !
www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations...
--> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
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(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy.
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy.
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context.
Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation
Polyploidy is widespread in plants, yet the establishment of neo-polyploids is limited by minority cytotype exclusion (MCE). As polyploidy has been associated with higher selfing rates in empirical st...
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context.
Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.'
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
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In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.'
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
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Last week @science.org mRNA initiation and termination are spatially coordinated | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... from @anafiszbein.bsky.social @athmapai.bsky.social et al.
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Last week @science.org mRNA initiation and termination are spatially coordinated | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... from @anafiszbein.bsky.social @athmapai.bsky.social et al.
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Friday Flower 007: Petunia 💮✨
Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps.
Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.
Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps.
Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Friday Flower 007: Petunia 💮✨
Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps.
Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.
Petunias carry the active transposon dTph1, which powers mutant screens and paints stripey patterns as it jumps.
Their five petals are fused, with diverse color designs tracing the corolla’s fusion seam.
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Does population size shape protein coevolution?
I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology.
Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations.
#evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology.
Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations.
#evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Does population size shape protein coevolution?
I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology.
Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations.
#evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
I explored this in my talk today at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology.
Our work in mammals suggests the answer is yes - genetic drift is a major determinant of compensatory mutations.
#evolution #genomics #proteinevolution @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
Wow this is quite amazing - I know almost nothing on recombination, but always assumed that the more similar the sequences were, the more likely they would recombine, turns out it's the opposite!
🚨 First pre-print from my team !!
TL;DR: presence of polymorphism (sequence differences between the homologous chromosomes) can *increase* the local rate of recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana, turning cold regions of the genome hot (purple v. grey) !
TL;DR: presence of polymorphism (sequence differences between the homologous chromosomes) can *increase* the local rate of recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana, turning cold regions of the genome hot (purple v. grey) !
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wow this is quite amazing - I know almost nothing on recombination, but always assumed that the more similar the sequences were, the more likely they would recombine, turns out it's the opposite!
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Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
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Very nice video of self pollination in a tiny Veronica flower. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
Jay McClellan - Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)
www.nikonsmallworld.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Very nice video of self pollination in a tiny Veronica flower. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
Bah voilà, vous saurez tout sur moi ici 👇
Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !
Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !
#PortraitdeScience 👩🔬
Découvrez le Portrait de @mariemonniaux.bsky.social, chargée de recherche #EvoEcoPaleo !
Marie Monniaux consacre ses recherches à un phénomène fascinant : l’auto-incompatibilité chez les fleurs🌷
➡️ www.hauts-de-france.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
👋 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Découvrez le Portrait de @mariemonniaux.bsky.social, chargée de recherche #EvoEcoPaleo !
Marie Monniaux consacre ses recherches à un phénomène fascinant : l’auto-incompatibilité chez les fleurs🌷
➡️ www.hauts-de-france.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
👋 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bah voilà, vous saurez tout sur moi ici 👇
Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !
Merci à Florent Brun de la délégation régionale du CNRS pour l'entretien !
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Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
Check out this cool work from @crouxevo.bsky.social and others, congrats!!! 🥳
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals
Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...
www.science.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Check out this cool work from @crouxevo.bsky.social and others, congrats!!! 🥳
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space".
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share!
🧪 #mevosky
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share!
🧪 #mevosky
September 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The ProSE seminars are back after a summer break. The next speaker is Nir Ben-Tal on "Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space".
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share!
🧪 #mevosky
Date: September 9
Time: 5pm CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2
Please share!
🧪 #mevosky
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The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).
Please share!
Please share!
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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out today: my labmate Shubham developed a super clever new technique to profile TF-DNA interactions with unprecedented resolution of low-affinity binding sites, revealing patterns in how these sites are organized in the genome to modulate TF occupancy:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy - Nature
A new method enables comprehensive screening and identification of low-affinity DNA binding sites for transcription factors, and reveals that nucleotides flanking high-affinity binding sites create ov...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
out today: my labmate Shubham developed a super clever new technique to profile TF-DNA interactions with unprecedented resolution of low-affinity binding sites, revealing patterns in how these sites are organized in the genome to modulate TF occupancy:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
September 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5
su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab!
"De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA"
This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)
"De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA"
This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)
De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA
Promoters are DNA sequences that help to initiate transcription. Point mutations can create de-novo promoters, which can consequently transcribe inactive genes or create novel transcripts. We know lit...
www.biorxiv.org
August 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab!
"De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA"
This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)
"De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA"
This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)
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Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM