A new study in #GENETICS from @hendersi.bsky.social’s group explores how natural variation in #Arabidopsis influences centromere-proximal crossover frequency and segregation distortion when #centromeres are heterozygous. buff.ly/Ev5Xrro
Genetics Society of America
Exciting News!
🚀 Registration Open! | Loke CTR Annual Meeting 2026 🎉
đź“… 16-17 July 2026
📍 St John’s College, Cambridge | 💻 Hybrid conference (in-person & online)
🔬 Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation
đź“Ś To find out more and to register
www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...
We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share!
Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!
Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going.
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Testing Weismann’s germ plasm theory in Arabidopsis www.cell.com/current-biol... super nice lineage tracing work - do plants have a germline? @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brett Baker
Ben Williams
The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research
Ian Henderson
Ian Henderson
Thank you to my co-authors: @marcelauliano.bsky.social, @charlottewright.bsky.social, @hendersi.bsky.social, Sam Ebdon, @kamilsjaron.bsky.social & Mark Blaxter.
Finally, this would not have been possible without the Darwin Tree of Life sequencing & assembly teams @sangerinstitute.bsky.social! 🧵12/12
Why do the chromosomes of cyperids (sedges & rushes) split and fuse so regularly on evolutionary timescales?
Is it because they have so many centromeres?
Our new preprint, the first major paper of my PhD, addresses this question. 🧵⬇️ 1/12
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.cell.com
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
