HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow & Postdoc with Andy Clark and Cedric Feschotte at Cornell | selfish genetic element, transposon, small RNA, evolution
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Peiwei Chen
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had a blast visiting the Molecular Biosciences department at UT Austin and meeting fellow postdocs across the US - so much cool science and so many discoveries! 🙌
Tetramerization and RNA-guided filament assembly control Schlafen-Argonaute antiphage defense https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728809v1
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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...
Check out our paper on the neo-sex chromosomes in mountain pine beetle! We assembled THREE neo-Ys that are quite distinct and their corresponding neo-Xs .
First time to see the swarming flight of a subterranean termite in Ithaca (Reticulitermes flavipes)! It is exciting for me, but I know it's not for most people...
"The fungal RIP hypermutator mechanism has deep eukaryotic roots"
by Thomas Badet & colleagues
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
