Please see our latest paper on the role of EXO1 in meiosis: "EXO1 promotes the meiotic MLH1-MLH3 endonuclease through conserved interactions with MLH1, MSH4 and DNA". Congratulations to both first authors, Megha Roy and Aurore Sanchez and thanks to all our collaborators!
We have a complete program !
meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...
The #Mayosis25 seminar series will open with a tribute to Scott Hawley by @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social.
Congrats to all the selected speakers and we look forward to hearing about your fantastic science !
#Meiosis4ever
New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇
It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.
An early Christmas present from our team for all of the tomato 🍅 & recombination fans:
Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
Our study on COmapper using nanopore long-read sequencing is now published online! (see New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) Congratulations to lead author Dohwan Byun, soon-to-be Dr. Namil Son, and the co-authors!