Todd Blevins
@rnaplant.bsky.social
CNRS group leader & directeur de recherche
Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP)
Strasbourg, France
http://www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/teams/mechanisms-of-small-rna-biogenesis-and-action/?lang=en
Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP)
Strasbourg, France
http://www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/teams/mechanisms-of-small-rna-biogenesis-and-action/?lang=en
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FastGA -> ALNview; step into the centromeric matrix! github.com/thegenemyers Probably the best dot plot software on the planet...
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
FastGA -> ALNview; step into the centromeric matrix! github.com/thegenemyers Probably the best dot plot software on the planet...
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Promising epigenome editing paper by the @c-jake-harris.bsky.social lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Binenbaum et al. demonstrate that precise CRISPR-based targeting of a key chromatin mark (H3K4me3) can switch on genes, boost disease resistance, and unlock meiotic recombination in plants, opening ne...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Promising epigenome editing paper by the @c-jake-harris.bsky.social lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Todd Blevins
Congratulation 🍾 to Luisa Felgines on her successful PhD defense about Pol IV-CLSY-SHH1 Docking in Small RNA Biogenesis and Transposon Silencing !
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Congratulation 🍾 to Luisa Felgines on her successful PhD defense about Pol IV-CLSY-SHH1 Docking in Small RNA Biogenesis and Transposon Silencing !
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Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
www.science.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
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📰 New paper alert!
In a collaborative project with the lab of Clemens Plaschka at the IMP, the lab of Julius Brennecke has revealed how PIWI proteins kickstart transposon silencing in reproductive cells.
The findings are published in Molecular Cell: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a collaborative project with the lab of Clemens Plaschka at the IMP, the lab of Julius Brennecke has revealed how PIWI proteins kickstart transposon silencing in reproductive cells.
The findings are published in Molecular Cell: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How cells lock down “jumping genes”:
Researchers from IMBA and IMP identify the first protein interactions that trigger PIWI–piRNA–mediated transposon silencing, using AlphaFold predictions, genetics, biochemistry and cell biology.
Read more: www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/t...
Researchers from IMBA and IMP identify the first protein interactions that trigger PIWI–piRNA–mediated transposon silencing, using AlphaFold predictions, genetics, biochemistry and cell biology.
Read more: www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/t...
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📰 New paper alert!
In a collaborative project with the lab of Clemens Plaschka at the IMP, the lab of Julius Brennecke has revealed how PIWI proteins kickstart transposon silencing in reproductive cells.
The findings are published in Molecular Cell: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a collaborative project with the lab of Clemens Plaschka at the IMP, the lab of Julius Brennecke has revealed how PIWI proteins kickstart transposon silencing in reproductive cells.
The findings are published in Molecular Cell: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣👇
🌱 come join our lab 😀
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
August 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
📣👇
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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…
www.sciencedirect.com
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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Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?
Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology
Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...
link.springer.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?
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Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants
Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years - Nature
By combining structural biology and evolutionary genomics analyses, the evolution of enzymes over 400 million years is shown to be governed by catalytic function, metabolic network architecture, cost ...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
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🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
July 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🦟 Bioinformatics Research Scientist position open in my lab in Nice (FR) to study Aedes mosquito retrotransposons & their interactions with arboviruses collab w/ @salehlabparis.bsky.social & @lambrechtslab.bsky.social
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359830
Please boost! #ArboRetro #Bioinformatics
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Pls. share widely
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Pls. share widely
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Reposted by Todd Blevins
📣📣📣
Pls. share widely
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation
MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025
→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)
submit abstract by July 29
⏰ Abstract deadline for 'The mobile genome' is 29 July!
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
👉 https://s.embl.org/mge25-01-bl
Join us 4–7 Nov 2025 at EMBL Heidelberg (or online) to explore the impact of TEs across biology. 🧬🔍
⭐🧑🏼🔬 24 talks + 15 flash talks from posters – don't miss out!
#EMBOMobileGenome
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📣📣📣
Reposted by Todd Blevins
I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭
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Comment les plantes protègent l’ADN de leurs mitochondries ? 🌱 🧬
🤝 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
👉 L'article dans @theplantcell.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/qzkd4lc
🤝 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
👉 L'article dans @theplantcell.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/qzkd4lc
Comment les plantes protègent l’ADN de leurs mitochondries
Une étude parue dans The Plant Cell identifie une enzyme clé, OEX1, indispensable à la stabilité de l’ADN mitochondri
buff.ly
June 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Comment les plantes protègent l’ADN de leurs mitochondries ? 🌱 🧬
🤝 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
👉 L'article dans @theplantcell.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/qzkd4lc
🤝 @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
👉 L'article dans @theplantcell.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/qzkd4lc
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The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely stunning new preprint on centromere mutation from @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @jurriaanton.bsky.social @lisasmith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social & colleagues
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely stunning new preprint on centromere mutation from @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @jurriaanton.bsky.social @lisasmith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social & colleagues
The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres
Centromeres are specialized chromosome regions essential for sister chromatid cohesion and spindle attachment during mitosis. Many centromeres comprise highly variable, megabase-scale satellite DNA ar...
www.biorxiv.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely stunning new preprint on centromere mutation from @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @jurriaanton.bsky.social @lisasmith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social & colleagues
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely stunning new preprint on centromere mutation from @labschneeberger.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @jurriaanton.bsky.social @lisasmith @plantylisasmith.bsky.social & colleagues
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Nous cherchons un nouveau collègue #IngénieurdeRecherche (IR) pour renforcer notre plateforme #métabolomique ! 🌿
N'hésitez pas à diffuser ou à prendre contact avec nous ! Pour plus de détails, c'est par ici 👇
N'hésitez pas à diffuser ou à prendre contact avec nous ! Pour plus de détails, c'est par ici 👇
April 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nous cherchons un nouveau collègue #IngénieurdeRecherche (IR) pour renforcer notre plateforme #métabolomique ! 🌿
N'hésitez pas à diffuser ou à prendre contact avec nous ! Pour plus de détails, c'est par ici 👇
N'hésitez pas à diffuser ou à prendre contact avec nous ! Pour plus de détails, c'est par ici 👇
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Excited about the future of plant epigenetics?
Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF...
Registration is open!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF...
Registration is open!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia
🌿 Join Us for Plant Epigenetics in Fort Collins! 🌿
http://keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/🌿-join-us-for-plant-epigenetics-in-fort-collins-🌿-1
April 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Excited about the future of plant epigenetics?
Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF...
Registration is open!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposium Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering in Fort Collins, October 13-16, 2025! keystonesymposia-19559593.hs-sites.com/%F0%9F%8C%BF...
Registration is open!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #KeystoneSymposia
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🚀 New publication from the team led by Kamel Hammani in Nucleic Acid Research ! They engineered synthetic RNA editors to precisely rewrite organellar RNAs in plants.
🔗 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
#PlantBiotech #RNAediting #Chloroplast
🔗 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
#PlantBiotech #RNAediting #Chloroplast
De novo RNA base editing in plant organelles with engineered synthetic P-type PPR editing factors
Abstract. In plant mitochondria and chloroplasts, cytidine-to-uridine RNA editing is necessary for the production of functional proteins. While natural PLS
academic.oup.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚀 New publication from the team led by Kamel Hammani in Nucleic Acid Research ! They engineered synthetic RNA editors to precisely rewrite organellar RNAs in plants.
🔗 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
#PlantBiotech #RNAediting #Chloroplast
🔗 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
#PlantBiotech #RNAediting #Chloroplast
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The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩🎨
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩🎨
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
March 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩🎨
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩🎨
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📢Job alert
We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity
Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity
Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
January 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢Job alert
We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity
Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity
Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...
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🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!
Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering - Nature
Gene duplication and subsequent paralogue diversification are major obstacles to genotype-to-phenotype predictability.
nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!