đź“Ł POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu.
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www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com
Exciting new work from the lab led by @lagiven.bsky.social & co-advised by @tododge.bsky.social mapping pigmentation variation in the swordtail X. nezahualcoyotl! Spotting variation is linked to xmrk but embedded in complex genomic regions that Tris & Lyle tackled with UL nanopore: shorturl.at/Ljw1z
Sex-linked traits are widespread, but their genetic architecture has been challenging to characterize, due in part to the repetitive and structurally complex nature of sex chromosomes. In swordtails a...
👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky
Abstract deadline: July 10
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
The EMBO Journal
Cedric Feschotte
#SMBE2026
S24: Molecular mechanisms of selfish elements and strategies
🗓️ Mon Jun 29, 10:20am
đź”— smbe2026.org/programme
Talks by:
@levine-lab.bsky.social
Yu Hua
@cecilecourret.bsky.social
@eleanoreritter.bsky.social
Elli Cryan
@alexand-kwak.bsky.social
Steve Perlman
@antisense.bsky.social
đź‘€"These results establish that naturally occurring copy-number variation within repetitive pericentromeric DNA is not merely noise, but a functional source of variation in chromosome segregation and gene regulation."
🧬 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...
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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social).
We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT)
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Did you know that many organisms delete parts of their genome during development? To know more please join us at the Roscoff meeting on "Mechanistic and Evolutionary Basis of Programmed DNA Elimination" Sep21- 25, 2026. Please share!
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Pericentromeric repeat copy number tunes heterochromatin dosage to control chromosome segregation and gene expression in fission yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723760v1
