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mattbnt.bsky.social
Plant Biologist @LIPME Toulouse & Chargé de Recherche @INRAE | Genome plasticity, chromatin biology & epigenetics in plant-microbe symbioses | He/Him
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Vous êtes étudiant.e.s en Licence 3ème année de Biologie et fortement interessé.e.s par la Bioinformatique ? Et vous adorez Toulouse ? Vous pouvez candidater au #masterbioinformatique de l'Université de Toulouse (plateforme monmaster.gouv.fr, du 25/02 au 24/03)

Thrilled to share our latest preprint, an interdisciplinary look at epistasis between variants in the coding and noncoding genome! #plantscienceresearch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a great night out with the team @yaranoureddine.bsky.social @melissa-simonnet.bsky.social @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social @andreasniebel.bsky.social enjoying food, drinks, and great music! 🕺🏻💃

TULIP International Summer School 2025 "Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems" 🗓️ From June 21 to 27 🏔️at Germ, French Pyrénées Registration OPEN ✅ www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul... Open to PhD students, masters students and postdocs.

Dear all, registrations are open for the Mobile Genome @EMBO workshop. Many slots for posters, short talks but also long talks for last minute groundbreaking results! Let’s meet again on Nov 4-7, 2025 in Heidelberg. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Check out this impressive potato genome (graph) study, with @zbao.bsky.social as co-first author! I especially liked the authors' idea of a 'broken window' effect of deleterious SVs, which seem to attract more deleterious mutations (SVs and SNPs) nearby. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Haricot et Science citoyenne @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @spsplantsciences.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @pulsesincrease.bsky.social @ideevl.bsky.social theconversation.com/le-haricot-c...

Pauline Jullien, researcher at @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social and member of EPIPLANT, has received an @ercresearch.bsky.social Consolidator Grant for her project EPIPAT. Her work focuses on the #epigenetic mechanisms that regulate plant reproduction and plant-pathogen interactions. 📖 tinyurl.com/847583d9

The website of the France-Japan "Frontiers in Plant Biology" symposium held in Strasbourg is now live! 🌱🇫🇷🇯🇵 You'll find more information there: irn-fjfpb-2025.sciencesconf.org #plantscience

This is a truly awesome story by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social et al. #CryoSEM imaging of elements!!! They just opened the floodgates for many many cool discoveries!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So long San Diego! Here’s my opinionated meeting report from #PAG2025 | #PAG32. What else did I miss???

Really proud of @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social presenting his PhD work on symbiotic long non-coding RNAs 🧬🌱 at #RPB25 👏 👏 Ibrahim is funded by @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social and @occitanie.bsky.social #plantscience

We started a Starter Pack at the #RPB2025 meeting on Plant-Bacteria Interaction Research in Aussois, France 🗻. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/MgodMB4

🌱🦠 The 17th Plant-Bacteria Interactions Meeting starts today, with an exciting program on plant #immunity, #symbioses, and more! @ibrahimkeita.bsky.social from our team @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social will share his work on non-coding #RNAs in plant-bacteria symbioses. More here 👉 tinyurl.com/hskfd54w

Good morning San Diego! Looking forward to all the great talks at #PAG2025 this week. Here are a few that I can recommend: Amazing plants, long reads, genome editing, microbiomes, bioifx education, DNA/RNA-mods, and assembly, annotation, & more! Make sure to stop by to say hi! 👋

The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring? Apply before Feb 15th 📌

Everybody stay caaaaalm but we’ve started posting @natrevmcb.bsky.social!!!! It’s a good time to give us a follow 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.1... new work from us on centromere inheritance and organisation @matt-naish.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @genomeevolution.bsky.social

Such an elegant use of base editing to resolve a deleterious variant accumulated during tomato domestication 🍅 Well done Sebastian and all! 👏

We are still waiting for applications to join us as a group leader in the department of Chromosome Biology! Apply until the first of Feb.

A spatially resolved multi-omic single-cell atlas of soybean development www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Last good news from 2024! Our latest paper on TE-derived small RNAs is finally out! It reveals a beautiful buffering mechanism involving epigenetics, chromatin organization, and pathogen resistance. A great collaboration with @plantevolution.bsky.social, don’t miss it! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.

Excited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) and @asanchezlab.bsky.social! Stay tuned!

In the most recent episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with @maxvcg.bsky.social from the @ijmonod.bsky.social about his work on epigenetic consequences of DNA methylation in development. #podcast #chromatin #epigenetics Listen here: https://buff.ly/3ZXWGuy

Very happy to see this work out on bioRxiv: We applied a synthetic GRF-GIF chimera for tomato plant transformation and found that it reliably enhances regeneration, increases the number of transgenics and shortens the time for genome editing experiments in tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@mattbnt.bsky.social 2025, une grosse mise à jour pour cet outil

A postdoctoral position is available in the team of Gwyneth Ingram @rdplab.bsky.social as part of a collaborative project with our group @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social #plantscience

🌱 early-career scientists: don't miss Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science at CSHL, June 26–July 17, 2025. 🗓 Apply by March 15, 2025 This immersive course covers cutting-edge topics & methods in plant biology. 🌾 Hands-on labs + expert talks await! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew! Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

A knock-in of a 10bp heat shock promoter element in front of cell-wall-invertase genes improved heat stress response in rice and tomato!!! Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

After a year of extra work and edits with @joncahn.bsky.social, I am overjoyed to share the final version of our work: Characterization of DNA methylation reader proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana Published in Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

We're looking for a predoc in molecular evolution. Basic computational skills desired. Minimum 1 year. Send me DM. Wanna know what a predoc is? Check👇 medium.com/age-of-aware...

The GDR EPIPLANT is now on Bluesky! You can connect with us here @epiplant.bsky.social to stay in touch with the latest news from the plant epigenetics community 🌱🌿🧬 You can also check out the new EPIPLANT website: gdr-epiplant.cnrs.fr

Check out our new protocol avaliable in Methods in Molecular Biology! We describe a straightforward mass-spec protocol for the analysis of histone PTMs and variants link.springer.com/protocol/10....

"Joanne Chory, Who Enlisted Plants to Fight Climate Change, Dies at 69" In the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/science/envi... #PlantScience #Obituary

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The ECOGEN team @lipme-inrae.bsky.social is searching for 3! PostDocs to join us in the PATHOCOM ERCSyg project in Toulouse, investigating the impact of host and microbial genetics on plant pathogen-pathogen interactions. The links to apply are below. Deadline 29th of Nov!!

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study

@jeanmichelane.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky. If you're looking for some Plant Science connections to get started, have a look at this starter pack: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

Happy to see this out, work by our visiting PhD student Yufeng: The effect of nitrosative stress on histone H3 and H4 acetylation in Phytophthora infestans life cycle doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Excited to share our recent publications on the role of maternal siRNAs in determining hybridization success in plants: rdcu.be/dZOKw. Big congrats to Katarzyna Dziasek and everyone who contributed. Our key findings in short (1/5):