Clément Goubert

clementgoubert.bsky.social

18 October 2026 05:14

The new GraffiTE v1.1 is out 🎉 github.com/cgroza/Graff... Find, annotate and genotype polymorphic TE insertions, now with epigenetic mapping, thanks to @cgroza.bsky.social's magic 🪄 Enjoy!

Max Reuter

maxreuter.bsky.social

16 October 2026 05:39

Our paper on detecting (or not) balancing selection is now out, in all its typeset beauty, in the October issue of @molbioevol.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦

centromellone.bsky.social

12 October 2026 06:23

🚨🚨Preprint alert!🚨🚨 We removed the main centromere 3 domain of Drosophila‼️ We designed an inducible dCas9-Fok1 system to cut 🧬 at unique sequences flanking the ~50-kb island where most of CENP-A sits. To our knowledge, this has never been attempted in a living animal!

Maya Voichek

mayavoichek.bsky.social

29 September 2026 16:54

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

STRIVE

strivestn.bsky.social

28 September 2026 06:15

The STRiVE online seminar series continues! 🧬🦍 🗓️ Wed, Sept 30 | 6 PM CEST (9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT) 🗣️ Evan Eichler (HHMI, Univ. of Washington) 🔬 "Segmental duplication and the evolution of novel ape genes"