PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
@plantevolution.bsky.social
Weigel Lab aka WeigelWorld Repost≠endorsement
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
The quest (by Lana Sushko)
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The quest (by Lana Sushko)
Shout out for former postdoc @plant-trx.bsky.social, who just started his own lab at the Weizmann institute! Yoav is working on several awesome studies!
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Shout out for former postdoc @plant-trx.bsky.social, who just started his own lab at the Weizmann institute! Yoav is working on several awesome studies!
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
2/2 Our lab pioneered the use of genome graphs already 16 years ago! Read this oldie-but-goldie from @labschneeberger.bsky.social and Jörg Hagmann: Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
2/2 Our lab pioneered the use of genome graphs already 16 years ago! Read this oldie-but-goldie from @labschneeberger.bsky.social and Jörg Hagmann: Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The “Art of Longevity” — is it by any chance left-handed DNA?
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The “Art of Longevity” — is it by any chance left-handed DNA?
So a we’ll-known scientist founds a company that has RNA-seq as its core tech. Publishes a paper on a new RNA-seq data set with this conflict of interest statement. What gives?
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So a we’ll-known scientist founds a company that has RNA-seq as its core tech. Publishes a paper on a new RNA-seq data set with this conflict of interest statement. What gives?
Paris is beautiful — clean, few unhoused, limited car traffic. Is that because that’s what they are reading?
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Paris is beautiful — clean, few unhoused, limited car traffic. Is that because that’s what they are reading?
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Not mentioned in our 1990 letter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but I noticed the similarity between Drosophila fkh and rat HNF3A while reading the paper from the Darnell lab in G&D and looking closely at fig. 5! No computer involved…
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not mentioned in our 1990 letter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but I noticed the similarity between Drosophila fkh and rat HNF3A while reading the paper from the Darnell lab in G&D and looking closely at fig. 5! No computer involved…
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.
September 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.
Things really became worse in the last 6 years. An increase by 50,000% (assuming the 300M was for global deaths).
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Things really became worse in the last 6 years. An increase by 50,000% (assuming the 300M was for global deaths).
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to weigel@tue.mpg.de. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
September 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to weigel@tue.mpg.de. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
2/2 @hotvegetables.bsky.social now solved this mystery, showing that this locus is responsible for natural variation in root architecture in response to commensal Pseudomonas — likely due to local adaptation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
2/2 @hotvegetables.bsky.social now solved this mystery, showing that this locus is responsible for natural variation in root architecture in response to commensal Pseudomonas — likely due to local adaptation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/2 Many years ago, @plantylisasmith.bsky.social identified an Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibility due to interaction between different alleles at the OAK receptor-like kinase (RLK) locus, but it was unknown why there is so much sequence diversity at this locus
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
1/2 Many years ago, @plantylisasmith.bsky.social identified an Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibility due to interaction between different alleles at the OAK receptor-like kinase (RLK) locus, but it was unknown why there is so much sequence diversity at this locus
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
It quite the world‘s fastest train (TGV)
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It quite the world‘s fastest train (TGV)
New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory:
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory:
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pro tip: if you ask ChatGPT or a similar model to draft an email for a PhD and postdoc position: You are supposed to not only insert your name and contact info, but you would want to also remove the square brackets.
Just saying…
Just saying…
August 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Pro tip: if you ask ChatGPT or a similar model to draft an email for a PhD and postdoc position: You are supposed to not only insert your name and contact info, but you would want to also remove the square brackets.
Just saying…
Just saying…
Love this background on how the work started!
Everyone take note: if things don’t work as expected, don’t be disappointed: you might have hit gold!
Everyone take note: if things don’t work as expected, don’t be disappointed: you might have hit gold!
August 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Love this background on how the work started!
Everyone take note: if things don’t work as expected, don’t be disappointed: you might have hit gold!
Everyone take note: if things don’t work as expected, don’t be disappointed: you might have hit gold!
Anna Igolkina, Sebastian Vorbrugg, Fernando Rabanal, Hai-Jun Liu, Haim Ashkenazy, Aleksandra Kornienko lead authors. Thanks to the team!
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Anna Igolkina, Sebastian Vorbrugg, Fernando Rabanal, Hai-Jun Liu, Haim Ashkenazy, Aleksandra Kornienko lead authors. Thanks to the team!
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beautiful late summer evening in Tübingen
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Beautiful late summer evening in Tübingen