Transposons, Transcription, piRNA, Drosophila
PhD Student in the Brennecke lab at IMBA
Baptiste Rafanel
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I'm super happy to finally see the paper published ! Check out the full story here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧬 New research from the Burga lab! We took a closer look at a rogue selfish protein and caught evolution in the act of turning something old into something radically new 💡 (a.k.a. neofunctionalization) @imbavienna.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Curious? Here’s a breakdown:
Our latest work is now online in NSMB: maternal yolk carries microRNAs from the intestine to embryos, shaping gene regulation and stress resilience in the next generation.
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#Epigenetics #microRNA #Inheritance @pasteur.fr @devstempasteur.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Five years after a short rotation in the Peters lab, I’m happy to see this cool story spearheaded by Gordana Wutz finally published.
Our new work with Eric Lai's lab shows that endogenous RNAi represses only a few genes in D.melanogaster, but hundreds of mRNAs in D. simulans testis. Our data suggest that gene regulation by RNAi is essential for D.simulans spermatogenesis.
@lucksmith.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How does the piRNA pathway solve the self vs. non-self problem? 🧬
Since piRNAs come from single-stranded RNA, how does the cell choose the right ones? For years, "piRNA clusters" were seen as THE privileged source. But are they really special and earmarked for biogenesis? (1/19)
Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them.
We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢
Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded.
Aarhus University 🇩🇰
Deadline May 1 👇
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
A Naïve RNA Sampling Core Enables Adaptive piRNA Specificity Against Transposable Elements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.07.704324v1
