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Prof. @unibonn.bsky.social‬. Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (@puckerlab.bsky.social). #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Evolution #SpecializedMetabolism #MolecularBiology #Pigmentation #Flavonoids. Website: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de. Views are my own.
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · Sep 16
🚀 Exciting update: "Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences" now includes an updated overview figure! 🌱🔬
Check out how to run a plant genome sequencing project:
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
#Genomics #LongReads #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social
Overview figure of our plant genome sequencing workflow. Details and reference: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202508.1176/v2
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bpucker.bsky.social
Curious about plant genomics? 🌿

Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated.

Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience
@denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social
Genomics course announcement. Please find details here: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#denbi2025
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
bpucker.bsky.social
Curious about plant genomics? 🌿

Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated.

Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience
@denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social
Genomics course announcement. Please find details here: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#denbi2025
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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bpucker.bsky.social
New semester, new insights 🌿

Our Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics seminar starts this winter at Uni Bonn!

Details 👉 github.com/bpucker/teac...

#PlantScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics #UniBonn #DataLiteracy @puckerlab.bsky.social
Slide "Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics". More details: https://github.com/bpucker/teaching
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
🌿 Check out Carla Varleria Klinge’s book on cannabis — a nice example of how students can do impactful #SciComm and raise awareness about the fascinating world of plants!
👉 www.cannabis-diemysterioesepflanzeder1001molekuele-aktuelles.com
Cannabis - die mysteriöse Pflanze der 1001 Moleküle - Aktuelles und uraltes Wissen
www.cannabis-diemysterioesepflanzeder1001molekuele-aktuelles.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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puckerlab.bsky.social
Yesterday, Nancy shared her Cucurbitaceae anthocyanin loss story with colleagues at our institute. Comprehensive talk highlighting the most striking discoveries. Please find the full story here:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#PlantSci #Evolution
Nancy presenting "The World of Cucurbits: No Blues, Just Hues". Details: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.06.680802
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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official-smbe.bsky.social
Registration is now open for SMBE 2026!

Head over to the registration page to find all the details and secure your spot 🏃‍♀️

📝 smbe2026.org/registration
🐦 Early-bird deadline: March 31, 2026

If you are an active member of the SMBE you can register for the meeting with discounts.

#SMBE2026
SMBE 2026 | Registration is open
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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bpucker.bsky.social
Interested in long-read plant genomics? 🌱

We are sharing our ONT P2 Solo sequencing outputs per flowcell — explore our real data and experience here:

👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSci @puckerlab.bsky.social
ONT P2 sequencing output per flow cell. Will be updated over time. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#P2OS
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
Interested in long-read plant genomics? 🌱

We are sharing our ONT P2 Solo sequencing outputs per flowcell — explore our real data and experience here:

👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSci @puckerlab.bsky.social
ONT P2 sequencing output per flow cell. Will be updated over time. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#P2OS
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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unibonn.bsky.social
🎃 Why are (Halloween) pumpkins orange – and not pink or blue? This secret is explored by @bpucker.bsky.social, @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social and Marie Hagedorn. Their research examines how carotenoids took over, making Jack O’Lanterns forever orange: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/colo.... Happy Halloween!
Researchers Prof. Boas Pucker, Nancy Choudhary, and Marie Hagedorn in the lab. They hold colorful pumpkins (blue, pink, purple) in their hands and look frightened. Around them are spiders and spider webs. A “spooky” photo montage withthe researchers, made for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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ucdflowerpower.bsky.social
I think this is one of the most powerful displays of what genetic engineering can do. Flower size and organ identity changed. And flower colour changes in a temporal order.
It shows we really understand flower development to a remarkable extent.
Awesome @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social!
nickdesnoyer.bsky.social Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 17d
Genetically engineered color-changing Arabidopsis 🧬📷- attempt #3

I think I finally nailed it with this one.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer!

If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬

Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
Graphical overview of PuckerLab’s 2026 DAAD-RISE research projects: exploring gene duplications, harnessing aquatic plants for biotechnology, producing dark plant pigments, and studying the evolution of plant coloration. More details at https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer!

If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬

Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
Graphical overview of PuckerLab’s 2026 DAAD-RISE research projects: exploring gene duplications, harnessing aquatic plants for biotechnology, producing dark plant pigments, and studying the evolution of plant coloration. More details at https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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bpucker.bsky.social
Our review article got published in 'Biotechnology Advances':

"Decoding bioprocesses with transcriptomics: current status and future potential"
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#Biotech #ScaleUp #ScaleDown #Transcriptomics
@puckerlab.bsky.social
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October 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Plant bioengineering is so cool.
October 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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barkerms.bsky.social
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona. Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument. A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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jandevries.bsky.social
Only two days left to apply for the open tenure track professorship in Computational Biology here in @uni-goettingen.de
uni-goettingen.de/en/700631.html
W2-TT-W3 Computational Biology - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
uni-goettingen.de
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
Our review article got published in 'Biotechnology Advances':

"Decoding bioprocesses with transcriptomics: current status and future potential"
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

#Biotech #ScaleUp #ScaleDown #Transcriptomics
@puckerlab.bsky.social
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October 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
New semester, new insights 🌿

Our Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics seminar starts this winter at Uni Bonn!

Details 👉 github.com/bpucker/teac...

#PlantScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics #UniBonn #DataLiteracy @puckerlab.bsky.social
Slide "Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics". More details: https://github.com/bpucker/teaching
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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spicybotrytis.bsky.social
I'm thinking I should make this a weekly post -

Does anyone have good literature on a anthocyanin biosynthetic mutant having a stress sensitivity phenotype in the wild beyond UV-B?
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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barkerms.bsky.social
The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
Polyploidy Webinar Speaker Signup 25-26
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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usadellab.bsky.social
Now we just need more target journal support (esp. plant journals) but this is really something needed....
mbeisen.bsky.social Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · Oct 15
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social for this stunning design! 🌸

Do not miss his incredible flower sculpting and painting project — a beautiful blend of art and science:
www.nickdesnoyer.com/plant-engine...

#SciArt #Design #Innovation
T-Shirt with beautiful flower pictures. Source: https://www.nickdesnoyer.com/plant-engineering
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
bpucker.bsky.social
What is your favourite gene duplication example? We would love to include some additional cases for benchmarking. Please comment below!
#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
bpucker.bsky.social
Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications:

"DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications"

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
@puckerlab.bsky.social
DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications
Paralogs, copies of a gene, form an important basis for novelty during evolution. Analysis of such gene duplications is important to understand the emergence of novel traits during evolution. DupyliCa...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM