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Shujun Ou @sigmafacto.bsky.social Spartan, Assistant Professor @OhioState. Trying to understand how plants co-evolve with TEs. Author of LTR_retriever, LAI, EDTA, panEDTA, TESS...
Matt Hufford @mbhufford.bsky.social Evolutionary Genomicist, EEOB Dept., Iowa State University, evolution of maize and its wild relatives
Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social Computational evolutionary biologist. Professor & Chair of Biology @sandiegostate.bsky.social, athlete, insomniac, writer, singer, polyglot, polymath, @out.com ‘25 Out100 honoree. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇮🇳🇺🇸🐞🌱🐢🧬🏋🏾♂️🎤✍🏾 www.sethuramanlab.com Views are mine alone.
Alan Yocca @aeyocca.bsky.social Genomics Data Scientists @ Bayer Crop Science
All things bioinformatics and plant genome evolution
Pierre Bourguet @p-bourguet.bsky.social Biologist studying transposons, gene regulation and chromatin in the Jullien group.
Postdoc @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social (Strasbourg, France).
Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Plant evolutionary genetics, plant-microbe interactions, evolutionary ecology. https://grillolab.weebly.com
Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social Fascinated by plant evolution and genomics. Moving gradually from transposable elements to plant resilience and climate change. Happy researcher at Agroscope, Switzerland.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6668-3321
Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Duplication, Epigenomics, Comparative Single-cell Omics.
https://kenchanmanelab.com/
Heidi Yang @heidiyang.bsky.social PhD candidate at UCLA. Studying evolutionary and conservation genomics of California oaks 🌳
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social 🌱🪴🌿🔬🏳️🌈
Lover of plants and microscopy.
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Univerisity of Minnesota.
Lab: radinlab.org/
Instagram: radinbio
Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist studying functional, comparative and populations diversity processes
Samuel Lampa @smllmp.bsky.social Fascinated by Living Systems | Clin Micro Bioinfo @ Karolinska | PhD http://pharmb.io | Reproducibility, #SciWorkflows | Curious: Genomic Algos, TEs
R&D: livingsystems.cc
Thinking: livingsystems.substack.com
Married. Dad. Sinner saved by grace.
Akanksha Thawani, PhD @akankshathawani.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Columbia University | Mobile elements, Structural biology and Genome engineering | http://thawanilab.org
Dr. Sarah Signor @signor-molevol.bsky.social Assistant professor at NDSU. I love all things Drosophila & TEs & Gene regulation. Mostly bioinformatics but you'll find me with a pipette.
Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social The Genetics Society of America is a professional scientific society representing genetics researchers and educators globally.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Erika R Moore-Pollard @erikarmoore11.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut studying functional trait tradeoffs in bromeliads 🍍 Also involved in genomics and systematics of the sunflower family 🌻🥬🌼
ermoore-pollard.com
Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org Biological theory | “Cell learning” | Function spaces | Projection operators | Manifolds | Dynamics | Behavior | Evolution
livingphysics.org
Cambridge, UK
David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at Michigan State University. 
Aimee Schulz @aimeejschulz.bsky.social NSF PRFB Fellow at UMN | Miniature Horse and Australian Shepherd enthusiast | Cornell Plant Breeding PhD; Iowa State Genetics & Agronomy Alum
Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social Research Scientist in Genetics | Atlanta Botanical Garden
polyploidy, adaptation, conservation
Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social Prof. @unibonn.bsky.social. Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (@puckerlab.bsky.social). #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Evolution #SpecializedMetabolism #MolecularBiology #Pigmentation #Flavonoids. Website: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de. Views are my own.
Rory Mulloy @rorymulloy.bsky.social PhDing in the @CorcoranLab, dabbles with RNA granules, viruses, and the outdoors
@dnarnaresearch.bsky.social @dnarnaresearch.bsky.social 
Emiliano Martí 🇦🇷 @emilianomarti.bsky.social https://non-mendelian.com
Geneticist. Interested in genetic conflicts and the origin of hybrid incompatibilities. PhD student in the Presgraves and Larracuente labs @ University of Rochester
Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology at the University of Georgia | bioinformatics & genomics | she/her | opinions are my own & may not reflect the views of my employer or funding agencies | annehatmaker.com
Fungi >>>
Mark Anderson @emer.net Known as @markemer on pretty much everything
Lalitha Veleti @lveleti.bsky.social PhD student in PAN lab (@germline.bsky.social) at Aarhus university, Denmark
Interested in gene regulation, small RNAs, and germline biology
Previously at IMP, Vienna; VU Amsterdam
Shashank Pritam @shashankpritam.bsky.social shuh-SHAHNK
Computational Biologist
shashankpritam.com
Flora Gaudillière-Jami @fgaudilliere.bsky.social Biologist. Transposable elements and bacterial evolution.
Matteo Ciciani @matteo-ciciani.bsky.social PhD student @cibiocm.bsky.social and @g-eu-diting.bsky.social | Working on #CRISPR, MGEs and metagenomics.
Zhikai Liang @shanwai1234.bsky.social Assistant professor @NDSU; Computational biologist 🌽🫛🫘🍻❄️🔥☀️🪴🌾 https://sites.google.com/ndsu.edu/lianglabndsu/home
Andy Read 🌱🦠 @hashtag-read.bsky.social 
Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social Plant evolutionary genetics. She/her. East Lansing, Michigan.
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social Associate Professor, Joe & Essie Smith Endowed Chair at UC Davis, and dog lover. Integrates virology and engineering to study virus-host interactions in shahlab.ucdavis.edu
Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.eurosky.social Ribozymes, transposable elements, circRNA, viruses, plant biology
💖💜💙♀️🌱
Every fraction of a degree counts
Trans rights are human rights⎥ Black lives matter
Posts in ENG/ESP
🧭 València, Spain
Banner by @jaythechou.bsky.social
Yohey Ogawa @yohey-ogawa.bsky.social A vision and genome scientist. Evodevo. Transcriptional regulation. Transposable elements. Cis-Regulatory Elements. Color vision. NIG, Japan homepage, https://compcell.net/
Javier E. Fernandez @javif86.bsky.social 🧬🦠 Postdoc AMR/Microbial Genomics/Bioinformatics. Tracking AMR bacteria and its MGEs from a One-Health perspective. Passionate ➡️ phylogenomics, GDL, TDL, deep learning, graphs, plasmids, phages,... 🇦🇷 in 🇨🇭
Shuya Zhang @sciencecookie.bsky.social ancient MAIZE 🌽 • bioinformatics postdoc
Mathieu Lepas @mlepas.bsky.social 🔭🔬⚗️ Science Lover 📦🐈🧪⁉️
🍄Mycology and Infectious Diseases🦠
Research Engineer, PhD candidate 🧑🔬🧫🥼
https://linktr.ee/mathieuLepas
ICVS, braga, Portugal 🇵🇹
Pasteur, Paris, France 🇫🇷
Sorbonne University, Paris, France 🇫🇷
Univ. François-Rabelais,Tours,France 🇫🇷
Ian Godwin @thegodwinexx.bsky.social Professor in crop biotechnology at UQ; love all types of football especially AFL. Perpetual searcher for the world’s finest beer.
Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social Medical mycologist, science, nature and the great outdoors. Fine malts and hill lochs. Editor of: The Cell Surface, and sectional editor of Molecular Microbiology.
Linda Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social Assistant professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph
How can we harness the diversity of metabolism and other characteristics of yeasts for food applications?
https://yeastlab.mystrikingly.com/
Taylor Scroggs @taylorscroggs.bsky.social PhD candidate at the university of georgia - big fan of maize genetics, running, yoga, and sunshine ✨
PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies. 
Marjorie Hanneman @marjih.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Plant Breeding & Genetics at Cornell University | BS Agronomy and Genetics at Iowa State University
Michelle Stitzer @mcstitzer.bsky.social postdoc at cornell | evolution of transposable elements in corn and other grasses 
Alexandros Bousios @abousios.bsky.social Plants, genome biology, TEs, epigenetics, @ University of Sussex https://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/bousioslab/
Alice Godden @alicegodden.bsky.social Post-doc in Immler lab at University of East Anglia.
Pop Gen and Evo-Devo
Likes small RNAs, TEs and ⚽️
She/Her
🐠🧬👩💻🐍📊🔬
Joel Atallah @jatallah.bsky.social Developmental Biology & Genomics Associate Professor - LSU New Orleans. Dad×3. I post about science, parenting, culture and world events.
Lily Peck @lilypeck.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist in climate change and natural populations of 🌱 🌳 🍄 | Postdoc at UCLA 🌞 | formerly Imperial College London Grantham Institute & Life Sciences ☔️ | she/ her
genomes | transcriptomes | methylomes are my cuppa ☕️
Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social Hiring PhDs/Postdocs CGRLab.github.io | Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI division, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg| SciLifeLab | Formerly at JHU-Langmead, UNIL-Dessimoz, WUR
Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social Prof at Cornell, #firstgen, immigrant 🇫🇷🇺🇸. Transposons, viruses, and all the cool stuff genomes are made of. https://www.feschottelab.com
Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social I'm a scientist 👨⚕️, author 📕and chair for genome stability in aging and disease at the University of Cologne. https://igsad.de
Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social Epigenetic Inheritance, Neuroscience & anything biology-related
https://www.odedrechavilab.com/
q.e.d: https://www.qedscience.com
Organizer of “The Woodstock of Biology”
TED: https://shorturl.at/myFTY
Huberman Lab Podcast: https://youtu.be/CDUetQMKM6g
bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Rezwan Siddiquee @rezwansiddiquee.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Synthetic Biology #seekRNA #proteins
@Sydney_Uni. Other half of @taylorszyszka
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nZ8TDHcAAAAJ
ASAP Team Jakobsson @jakobssonasap.bsky.social ASAP Team Jakobsson is interested in studying the role of transposable elements in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis | Core leadership: Johan Jakobsson (LU), Agnete Kirkeby (UCPH), Molly Gale Hammell (NYU) & Roger Barker (Cambridge University)
Andrew Mason @asmasonomics.bsky.social Cancer bioinformatics group leader | Elixir UK Data Stewardship Training Fellow | Husband and Daddy | Charity Preschool Chair
Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social Senior editor @science.org. Molecular biology, #DNA, #RNA, #gene regulation, #epigenetics, nuclear biology, #chromatin biology, 3D #genome, #synbio, #CRISPR and gene editing, other bacterial immune systems, and #AI in all these
Rebecca Berrens @rberrens.bsky.social Group leader of transposon group in Oxford at IDRM. #new_pi https://sites.google.com/view/berrenslab
Joe Peters Lab @joepeterslab.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Dept Microbiology Cornell Ithaca. Interested in genome evolution and mobile DNA, especially Tn7 and CRISPR-Cas transposition systems 
Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social Head of preclinical pediatric cancer research @ChariteBerlin ECRC @MDC_Berlin. Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer. Cancer Grand Challenges Team eDyNAmiC
Sara MaciasRNA @saramaciasrna.bsky.social Molecular biologist | Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow | antiviral defence | RNA processing | interferons | transposable elements | small RNAs | embryonic development
Free Palestine 🍉
J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Steven Dodsworth @drsdodsworth.bsky.social Lecturer in Plant Science at Birkbeck College, University of London. 🌿Botanist. 🎹Pianist. 🏳️🌈He/him.
Editor-in-Chief of Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
@botjlinnsoc.bsky.social
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/9458567/steven-dodsworth
@earth2olive.bsky.social @earth2olive.bsky.social Grad student CU Boulder (Chuong Lab)
Diversify your genome✨️
Transposons & beyond 🧬➿️🧬
TE Hub @tehub.bsky.social TE Hub is an open and collaborative platform, providing an entry point and reference site for researchers interested in Transposable Element (TE) diversity, identification, and annotation.
#transposons #mobileDNA #TransposableElements
www.tehub.org
Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch Head of the Crop Genome Dynamics Group at Agroscope, Switzerland.
Studying plant epigenetics and transposable elements and their use for crop breeding.
Views are my own.
#epigenetics #TransposableElements #breeding #crops #GMO #ClimateEmergency
Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social Studying the twilight zone between transposons and endogenous retroviruses // Scientist, mom, bioart enthusiast
Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social Genomics & Bioinformatics #Omics #NGS #LongReads 🧪🧬 🖥️
Opinions my own. He/Him
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiersantoyolopez/
Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social Dogs, Horses and Gardening, with a side of research on complexity and metabolic warfare in plants
Dave Carlson @davecarlson.bsky.social PhD in EcoEvo. Bioinformatics & High Performance Computing. Transposon enthusiast.
Thus spake Zaratiegui @mikelz.bsky.social I’m the Hattori Hanzo of tortilla de patata (potato omelette). Transposons, heterochromatin and, more recently, mitochondria.
John Mariani @johnmariani.bsky.social Asst Prof at University of Rochester
Glial-biased Neuroscientist
Bioinformaticist (All the 'omics)
Pianist
Meme enthusiast
henriqueswill.bsky.social @henriqueswill.bsky.social Genetic conflict | Structural biology
Lisa Baumgartner @balisa.bsky.social Fascinated by how specificity is achieved at chromatin!
PhD @IMBA_Vienna #smallRNAs 🪰🦏🔬
Postdoc @FMIscience #TFs 🐁🧫🧬
Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/
Amanda Ivanoff @anivanoff.bsky.social PhD candidate interested in the evolution of cooperation: how systems knit together and how they fall apart (e.g., microbiome, transposons, multicellularity, pregnancy, +)
Eco🤝Evo🤝Devo
Sarada Achyutuni @saradaachyutuni.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate - @Jian Xu | St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
PhD - @Robert Kralovics | CeMM |
Cancer Metabolism | Targeted Therapies | Translational Research
Leah Houri-Zeevi @leahhouri.bsky.social Postdoc in the Leslie Vosshall lab, Rockefeller University.
A molecular biologist mixing neuroscience, evolution, and immunology.
Random thoughts & interesting papers
Noora Kotaja @nkotaja.bsky.social Researcher interested in male germ cells, fertility, epigenetics and RNA
Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social Applied mathematician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Interested in evolutionary game theory, differential equations, and modeling biological and social systems.
Wes Stansberry @wesstans.bsky.social Clinical Laboratorian | Ph.D. Medical Neuroscience @IUMedSchool 🧠 | Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow (ABMGG) @CUAnschutz 🧬
Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social CSIC Associate Professor, Botanical Institute of Barcelona. Plant evolutionary biology, genomics, cytogenetics, cytogenomics, repetitive DNA, ribosomal DNA, (sex) chromosome lover... And now adding biological invasions!
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
Chris Toseland @christoseland.bsky.social Prof. Cancer Biophysics at University of Sheffield.
Investigating Nuclear Myosin, Nuclear Organisation and Mechanobiology in Cancer with single molecule Biophysics
Web: Toseland-lab.com
Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Editor at Microbial Genomics & mBio, Scouse, interested in Streptomyces, Evolution, Antibiotics, AMR, microbiology, Phage, herpetology, Cricket, EvertonFC
@alex0arbitino.bsky.social @alex0arbitino.bsky.social 
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz 🦠 Postdoc in the Microbiome Manipulation Lab @ University of Toronto
🥝 Previously studying plant pathogen evolution with everyone's favourite P. syringae pathovar - Psa! ✨
🌿 hemara.nz
Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social Transposon obsessed biologist #TEsky. Research Associate in Linquist Lab and Adamowicz Lab @ the U of Guelph
Check out the wealth of TE resources on @tehub.bsky.social https://tehub.org
https://www.tyleraelliott.com/research
Lena H. 🏳️🌈 @gremlena.bsky.social Research scientist - statistics/genomics.
PhD.
She/her
Tony Heitkam🌱🔍💚 @toheitka.bsky.social Prof at RWTH Aachen University | Looks closely at #transposons in plant genomes | Loves #plant #genomics #chromosomes #polyploidy #dataviz.
https://www.genomes-in-time.org
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social Or just “Li” |
Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio, Michigan State U. |
Also post data visualization |
Lab: https://cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ |
GitHub: https://github.com/cxli233