Since the seasonal dunking-on-lncRNAs is back, and I do 💕 lncRNAs, a 🧵 on what I think have been the sources of the main problems in the 15 years of the field so far:

Hi all - the Nelson lab is looking for a post-doc to work on a collaborative project with the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems at Cornell. See the link for details and please forward! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

Minimap2-2.27 released with new presets for accurate Nanopore reads and Illumina Complete Long Reads (both recommended by vendors), along with a few minor features and bug fixes. Output alignment identical to v2.26 except the value at a custom tag. github.com/lh3/minimap2/r…

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What if plants could dry out but remain viable, then spring back to life when water is once again available? By studying how mosses cope w/ water scarcity, BTI researchers hope to harness these mechanisms to help make crops more resilient. news.btiscience.org/235225-drying-…

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Happy New Year! There are still 2 weeks to apply to TT Seed Biology and Technology position in Cornell's School of Integrative Plant Science: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26391

New Preprint from our lab! 🎉 If you have #directRNA Oxford Nanopore sequencing runs, you might be interested in re-basecalling your #RNA002 data with our trained basecalling models and get 97% (!) accuracy! Tweetorial available below by Gregor Diensthuber, who beautifully led this work👇

Proud to announce our Arabidopsis ORFeome paper has been published in The Plant Cell! We systematically uncovered > 7K novel translation events and found many important genes are regulated by uORFs. Larry Wu Justin Walley
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In the land down under, at the very first #PAGAustralia , my post-doc, Xiaodan Zhang is about to give a talk on lessons resurrection moss genomes can teach about seed germination and drought responses in flowering plants! Boyce Thompson Inst #stresstolerance #transcriptionalregulation

What can a 'simple' moss tell us about desiccation tolerance in angiosperms we don't already know? Quite a bit actually! Great collaboration and awesome work by my post-doc Xiaodan Zhang!
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Wow. By optimizing the reference transcriptome for scRNA-seq, they were able to identify over 4,500 additional genes and more than 20% extra sequencing reads in human PBMCs. Anyone wants to try this in Arabidopsis?? nature.com/articles/s4159…

Absolutely thrilled to see our co-expression network story on #MyMesotaenium online Nature Plants — Big thanks to everyone involved, funding European Research Council (ERC) , DFG public | @[email protected] & the great MadLand community. See also the detailed thread by Janine Fürst-Jansen rdcu.be/dkBaj

Check it out! @bti_skirycz Our News & Views in Nature Plants on discovered link between phenolic acids and regulation of translation through Stress Granules 🥳👍 Big Congrats to the authors 👍🍹 KAUST Research KAUST Center for Desert Agriculture 👍nature.com/articles/s4147…

Hi all! The Nelson lab Boyce Thompson Inst is looking for a lab tech to help out on some very interesting (IMO) functional genomic projects. Please apply below! Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research - Lab Technician I recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

This is a great summary of a recent controversy. Includes my favorite genomics error: downloading a species’ genome and assuming it is /the/ genome (complete, perfect, and with nothing added)

#PlantBio2023 is coming soon! I will give a plenary talk about Stress - induced condensates (SGs) in Plants! Catch up with me if you will be around 🤸‍♀️👍 Stress Granules KAUST Research KAUST Center for Desert Agriculture

A great writeup by JGI about the efforts of Bridgestone, Agricultural Research Service, and my lab to take advantage of a Joint Genome Institute CSP to make Guayule a better source of domestic rubber: jgi.doe.gov/genome-insider…