We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences.
This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them!
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
A new RepeatModeler release is available. It adds compatibility with RepeatMasker 4.2.4 and the Dfam 4.0 FamDB format. TETools containers have also been updated with the latest RepeatMasker, RepeatModeler, and FamDB releases. See repeatmasker.org for details
🔔 Our synthesis on what’s going on in the field of TE control and RIP in the fungal world!
Out now in Trends in Genetics!
New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵
Gigabase-scale deletion scanning of the human genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728882v1
Now published: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Want more breakthroughs like this? Fight like mad to keep the changes to OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule from being enacted!
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Leading Edge Fellows Program
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RepeatMasker Project
We just published our new paper about an active Helitron transposon in wheat 🌾🧬
We found that it can be mobilised by heat stress when DNA methylation is reduced.
We document its full lifecycle: RNA -> circular DNA -> integration
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEsky
What sets the strikingly similar #mutation rates seen for certain animal cell types? In this Essay, @marcdemanuel.bsky.social , @mollyprz.bsky.social , @natanaels.bsky.social and Anastasia Stolyarova discuss how #selection may shape cellular mutation rate patterns🧪#AcademicSky
plos.io/4oDvrQR
