Congratulations to the poster prize winners at #EMBOMobileGenome! With so many excellent contributions, it was a tough competition – your research and engaging posters really stood out. Inspiring work all around!
🏅 Caterina Francesconi
🏅 Alba Marino
🏅 Adam Vobruba
s.embl.org/mge25-01-posters
🏅 Caterina Francesconi
🏅 Alba Marino
🏅 Adam Vobruba
s.embl.org/mge25-01-posters
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to the poster prize winners at #EMBOMobileGenome! With so many excellent contributions, it was a tough competition – your research and engaging posters really stood out. Inspiring work all around!
🏅 Caterina Francesconi
🏅 Alba Marino
🏅 Adam Vobruba
s.embl.org/mge25-01-posters
🏅 Caterina Francesconi
🏅 Alba Marino
🏅 Adam Vobruba
s.embl.org/mge25-01-posters
What an incredible time at #EMBOMobileGenome last week! 🧬
A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a success – our speakers for their inspiring talks and thought-provoking discussions, our participants for their enthusiasm and engagement, and our team for their hard work behind the scenes 🙏🏼
A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a success – our speakers for their inspiring talks and thought-provoking discussions, our participants for their enthusiasm and engagement, and our team for their hard work behind the scenes 🙏🏼
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What an incredible time at #EMBOMobileGenome last week! 🧬
A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a success – our speakers for their inspiring talks and thought-provoking discussions, our participants for their enthusiasm and engagement, and our team for their hard work behind the scenes 🙏🏼
A huge thank you to everyone who made it such a success – our speakers for their inspiring talks and thought-provoking discussions, our participants for their enthusiasm and engagement, and our team for their hard work behind the scenes 🙏🏼
This paper coming out today is a beautiful way for me to close up the #EMBOmobilegenome in Heidelberg. Great crowd, great talks, great things ahead! Shoutout to the organizers for putting this together 👏
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This paper coming out today is a beautiful way for me to close up the #EMBOmobilegenome in Heidelberg. Great crowd, great talks, great things ahead! Shoutout to the organizers for putting this together 👏
That’s a wrap on an inspiring #EMBOMobileGenome conference! 🧬
A huge thank you to all speakers, participants, and organisers for making it such a success!
🎉 Congratulations to our poster prize winners – your outstanding work truly stood out! 👏
Until next time!
A huge thank you to all speakers, participants, and organisers for making it such a success!
🎉 Congratulations to our poster prize winners – your outstanding work truly stood out! 👏
Until next time!
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That’s a wrap on an inspiring #EMBOMobileGenome conference! 🧬
A huge thank you to all speakers, participants, and organisers for making it such a success!
🎉 Congratulations to our poster prize winners – your outstanding work truly stood out! 👏
Until next time!
A huge thank you to all speakers, participants, and organisers for making it such a success!
🎉 Congratulations to our poster prize winners – your outstanding work truly stood out! 👏
Until next time!
Enjoyed three days at #EMBOMobileGenome —fantastic talks and inspiring discussions on TE regulation across diverse model systems, great community! Excited to share our recent work on solo LTR silencing in S. pombe via talk and poster by @vishnuss.bsky.social. @pombase.bsky.social @embo.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Enjoyed three days at #EMBOMobileGenome —fantastic talks and inspiring discussions on TE regulation across diverse model systems, great community! Excited to share our recent work on solo LTR silencing in S. pombe via talk and poster by @vishnuss.bsky.social. @pombase.bsky.social @embo.org
Always a joy to join #EMBOMobileGenome -A week full of cool nature’s quirks and science along the friendliest crowd 🧬 Happy to have shared our work on ERVs in human brain evolution (talk by @jakobssonlab.bsky.social) and Parkinson’s disease (poster by yours truly) 🧠
#ASAP @jakobssonasap.bsky.social
#ASAP @jakobssonasap.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Always a joy to join #EMBOMobileGenome -A week full of cool nature’s quirks and science along the friendliest crowd 🧬 Happy to have shared our work on ERVs in human brain evolution (talk by @jakobssonlab.bsky.social) and Parkinson’s disease (poster by yours truly) 🧠
#ASAP @jakobssonasap.bsky.social
#ASAP @jakobssonasap.bsky.social
Some impressions from the rather fabulous #EMBOmobilegenome Mobile Genome meeting in Heidelberg
Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, …
@events.embl.org
The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!
Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, …
@events.embl.org
The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Some impressions from the rather fabulous #EMBOmobilegenome Mobile Genome meeting in Heidelberg
Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, …
@events.embl.org
The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!
Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, …
@events.embl.org
The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!
Impressive study and great talk at #EMBOMobileGenome! Enjoyed it a lot!
Having a lot of fun at #EMBOMobileGenome 😃
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Young KRAB-zinc finger gene clusters are highly dynamic incubators of ERV-driven genetic heterogeneity in mice - Nature Communications
KRAB-zinc finger proteins repress retrotransposons and rapidly evolve in mammals. Here, the authors show that ERV insertions drive the emergence and diversification of new KZFP genes in mice, revealin...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Impressive study and great talk at #EMBOMobileGenome! Enjoyed it a lot!
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
We set the @embl.org dance floor on fire tonight with this crazy crew 🔥🎧 #EMBOMobileGenome
Italians (and not only them) do it better!
@matteo-ciciani.bsky.social @donya-zojaji.bsky.social
Italians (and not only them) do it better!
@matteo-ciciani.bsky.social @donya-zojaji.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We set the @embl.org dance floor on fire tonight with this crazy crew 🔥🎧 #EMBOMobileGenome
Italians (and not only them) do it better!
@matteo-ciciani.bsky.social @donya-zojaji.bsky.social
Italians (and not only them) do it better!
@matteo-ciciani.bsky.social @donya-zojaji.bsky.social
📜📊 Last poster session of 'The mobile genome' conference! Great energy up on the ATC helix – fantastic chats, engagement, and ideas all around. Time to cast our votes soon! 🗳️ #EMBOMobileGenome
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📜📊 Last poster session of 'The mobile genome' conference! Great energy up on the ATC helix – fantastic chats, engagement, and ideas all around. Time to cast our votes soon! 🗳️ #EMBOMobileGenome
#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦
presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
Are you an Alu or a LINE-1?
I had some extra space on my poster… so I filled it with a mini-quiz instead 😂
If you’re at #EMBOMobileGenome, swing by poster #54 and find out who you really are!
If you’re too lazy, or hate socialising, just click the link.
#TEsky #TEworldwide
I had some extra space on my poster… so I filled it with a mini-quiz instead 😂
If you’re at #EMBOMobileGenome, swing by poster #54 and find out who you really are!
If you’re too lazy, or hate socialising, just click the link.
#TEsky #TEworldwide
Are you an Alu or a L1?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Are you an Alu or a LINE-1?
I had some extra space on my poster… so I filled it with a mini-quiz instead 😂
If you’re at #EMBOMobileGenome, swing by poster #54 and find out who you really are!
If you’re too lazy, or hate socialising, just click the link.
#TEsky #TEworldwide
I had some extra space on my poster… so I filled it with a mini-quiz instead 😂
If you’re at #EMBOMobileGenome, swing by poster #54 and find out who you really are!
If you’re too lazy, or hate socialising, just click the link.
#TEsky #TEworldwide
Welcome to Day 3 of #EMBOMobileGenome 🙌🏼
While this morning's session is already underway, here's a few snaps from yesterday's 🔸last minute breakthrough talk 🔸
➡️ 'Transposable element co-option drives transcription factor neofunctionalization' presented by Olga Rosspopoff (EPFL, Switzerland)
While this morning's session is already underway, here's a few snaps from yesterday's 🔸last minute breakthrough talk 🔸
➡️ 'Transposable element co-option drives transcription factor neofunctionalization' presented by Olga Rosspopoff (EPFL, Switzerland)
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Welcome to Day 3 of #EMBOMobileGenome 🙌🏼
While this morning's session is already underway, here's a few snaps from yesterday's 🔸last minute breakthrough talk 🔸
➡️ 'Transposable element co-option drives transcription factor neofunctionalization' presented by Olga Rosspopoff (EPFL, Switzerland)
While this morning's session is already underway, here's a few snaps from yesterday's 🔸last minute breakthrough talk 🔸
➡️ 'Transposable element co-option drives transcription factor neofunctionalization' presented by Olga Rosspopoff (EPFL, Switzerland)
Having a lot of fun at #EMBOMobileGenome 😃
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Young KRAB-zinc finger gene clusters are highly dynamic incubators of ERV-driven genetic heterogeneity in mice - Nature Communications
KRAB-zinc finger proteins repress retrotransposons and rapidly evolve in mammals. Here, the authors show that ERV insertions drive the emergence and diversification of new KZFP genes in mice, revealin...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Having a lot of fun at #EMBOMobileGenome 😃
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perfect timing for our paper from the lab of @toddmacfarlan.bsky.social to be out @natcomms.nature.com!!
…and I’m currently on the job market looking for a new scientific home!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌍Yesterday, our PhD student @tmontsay.bsky.social from the Functional Genomics Team presented his poster at #EMBOMobileGenome on 'A Comprehensive Annotation of Conserved Protein Domains in Human Endogenous Retroviruses'
🙌 Excellent work and insightful discussions!
@annaesteveco.bsky.social #CNAG
🙌 Excellent work and insightful discussions!
@annaesteveco.bsky.social #CNAG
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🌍Yesterday, our PhD student @tmontsay.bsky.social from the Functional Genomics Team presented his poster at #EMBOMobileGenome on 'A Comprehensive Annotation of Conserved Protein Domains in Human Endogenous Retroviruses'
🙌 Excellent work and insightful discussions!
@annaesteveco.bsky.social #CNAG
🙌 Excellent work and insightful discussions!
@annaesteveco.bsky.social #CNAG
Had an absolute blast presenting my “Last Minute Breakthrough talk” at #EMBOmobilegenome today! 🔥 What an incredible crowd, the energy in the room was unreal. Huge thanks to the organizers for selecting me and to everyone who came, asked questions, and made it such a fun session! 🙌
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Had an absolute blast presenting my “Last Minute Breakthrough talk” at #EMBOmobilegenome today! 🔥 What an incredible crowd, the energy in the room was unreal. Huge thanks to the organizers for selecting me and to everyone who came, asked questions, and made it such a fun session! 🙌
Thrilled to be at @embl.org in Heidelberg for #EMBOMobileGenome workshop — an inspiring gathering of the transposable element community!
Find me at poster #54, exploring DNA methylation of L1 and Alu in individuals with varying benzene exposure.
#TEworldwide #TEsky
Find me at poster #54, exploring DNA methylation of L1 and Alu in individuals with varying benzene exposure.
#TEworldwide #TEsky
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thrilled to be at @embl.org in Heidelberg for #EMBOMobileGenome workshop — an inspiring gathering of the transposable element community!
Find me at poster #54, exploring DNA methylation of L1 and Alu in individuals with varying benzene exposure.
#TEworldwide #TEsky
Find me at poster #54, exploring DNA methylation of L1 and Alu in individuals with varying benzene exposure.
#TEworldwide #TEsky
Another glimpse into Session 2 on transposon regulation at #EMBOMobileGenome earlier today.🧬
➡️'Germline adenine methylation protects the zygotic genome from DNA loss' presented by Mariusz Nowacki (University of Bern, Switzerland)
➡️'Germline adenine methylation protects the zygotic genome from DNA loss' presented by Mariusz Nowacki (University of Bern, Switzerland)
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Another glimpse into Session 2 on transposon regulation at #EMBOMobileGenome earlier today.🧬
➡️'Germline adenine methylation protects the zygotic genome from DNA loss' presented by Mariusz Nowacki (University of Bern, Switzerland)
➡️'Germline adenine methylation protects the zygotic genome from DNA loss' presented by Mariusz Nowacki (University of Bern, Switzerland)
'The mobile genome' poster session in full swing! Fantastic science, inspiring conversations, and lots of curiosity in the air 🧬💬 #EMBOMobileGenome
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
'The mobile genome' poster session in full swing! Fantastic science, inspiring conversations, and lots of curiosity in the air 🧬💬 #EMBOMobileGenome
Today Alejandro Fuentes-Iglesias, postdoc of the @epiageing-lab.bsky.social is presenting his work on TE regulation and epitranscriptomics at the #EMBOMobileGenome! Come and check out his exciting results! @cimususc.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today Alejandro Fuentes-Iglesias, postdoc of the @epiageing-lab.bsky.social is presenting his work on TE regulation and epitranscriptomics at the #EMBOMobileGenome! Come and check out his exciting results! @cimususc.bsky.social
#EMBOMobileGenome Session 2 on transposon regulation 🧬
➡️'Epigenetic control of transcribed retroelements by the HUSH complex and associated factors' presented by Christopher Douse (Lund University, Sweden)
We love a good Q&A session as well! 🙋🏼
@chdouse.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social @embl.org
➡️'Epigenetic control of transcribed retroelements by the HUSH complex and associated factors' presented by Christopher Douse (Lund University, Sweden)
We love a good Q&A session as well! 🙋🏼
@chdouse.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social @embl.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#EMBOMobileGenome Session 2 on transposon regulation 🧬
➡️'Epigenetic control of transcribed retroelements by the HUSH complex and associated factors' presented by Christopher Douse (Lund University, Sweden)
We love a good Q&A session as well! 🙋🏼
@chdouse.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social @embl.org
➡️'Epigenetic control of transcribed retroelements by the HUSH complex and associated factors' presented by Christopher Douse (Lund University, Sweden)
We love a good Q&A session as well! 🙋🏼
@chdouse.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social @embl.org
Day 2 of 'The mobile genome' – science, sunshine, coffee, and a packed programme ahead! ☀️☕ Loving this beautiful autumn day 🍂 #EMBOMobileGenome
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Day 2 of 'The mobile genome' – science, sunshine, coffee, and a packed programme ahead! ☀️☕ Loving this beautiful autumn day 🍂 #EMBOMobileGenome
At @embo.org #EMBOMobileGenome and want to connect with other TE researchers and follow the latest goings on?
Use #TEworldwide and #TEsky in your posts to be featured in the TEworldwide feed, which you can also find here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Use #TEworldwide and #TEsky in your posts to be featured in the TEworldwide feed, which you can also find here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
At @embo.org #EMBOMobileGenome and want to connect with other TE researchers and follow the latest goings on?
Use #TEworldwide and #TEsky in your posts to be featured in the TEworldwide feed, which you can also find here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Use #TEworldwide and #TEsky in your posts to be featured in the TEworldwide feed, which you can also find here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
great to be at the #EMBOMobileGenome meeting in Heidelberg with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, speakers and attendees.
this meeting is a good reflection of the excitement and collegiality in the transposon field.
kindly sponsored by @embo.org
this meeting is a good reflection of the excitement and collegiality in the transposon field.
kindly sponsored by @embo.org
Welcome to Day 1 of 'The mobile genome: genetic and physiological impacts of transposable elements'! 🧬
The opening remarks by Julius Brennecke accompanied by his fellow scientific organisers:
🔹Déborah Bourc'his
🔹Josefa González
🔹Joseph Peters
#EMBOMobileGenome
The opening remarks by Julius Brennecke accompanied by his fellow scientific organisers:
🔹Déborah Bourc'his
🔹Josefa González
🔹Joseph Peters
#EMBOMobileGenome
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
great to be at the #EMBOMobileGenome meeting in Heidelberg with a wonderful bunch of colleagues, speakers and attendees.
this meeting is a good reflection of the excitement and collegiality in the transposon field.
kindly sponsored by @embo.org
this meeting is a good reflection of the excitement and collegiality in the transposon field.
kindly sponsored by @embo.org