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.
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!
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…
Paper alert! #Meiosis4Ever
Maximizing meiotic crossover rates reveals the map of Crossover Potential
Juli Jing, Qiachao Lian and Stephanie Durand
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We pushed meiotic crossover as much has we could, and had some surprises
A thread 👇
"Haploid induction in sweet potato by activating the
AP2/ERF family transcription factor IbBBM"
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Since sweet potato is hexaploid, the corresponding haploid is actually triploid then?
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!
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 🧵👇
Excited to share that our COmapper preprint on bioRxiv has been updated following two rounds of major revision—thanks to insightful peer reviews! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
COmapper is now even better—check it out on GitHub: github.com/KyuhaChoi-La...
Journal version coming soon!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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
