Eva Dvorak Tomastikova

🔊A long time ago in a microscopic galaxy far, far away....

🎬Episode IV - A NEW MICROSCOPE 🔬
"It is period of cellular rebellion. Arabidopsis root cells have won first victory against the dark forces of DNA damage"

Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social and new i3 spinning disk @the.3i.social

🌱 EPIPLANT is live!

Registration is now open for the EPIPLANT 2026 conference (June 22–24).

We look forward to welcoming you to Nantes, France for an exciting conference on the epigenetics of photosynthetic organisms!

👉 Details & registration: epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

15 PhD positions

Nuclear architecture and chromatin and advanced imaging analysis

In Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’

positions in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden + Czech Republic
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Combining information from these structures with functional information from #uniprot and co-evolutionary information via #alphafold we found new FANCD2 interactors that utilize the same site

#IQFPaper Guiding AlphaFold predictions with experimental knowledge to inform dynamics and interactions with VAIRO. In Protein Sci
@ibmb-csic.bsky.social #universitatdebarcelona @uni-graz.at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @pablodeolavide.upo.es #universitaetKonstanz #BioTechMedGraz #ICREA
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EPIPLANT conference

🌱 You like plants and epigenetics?
Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
22-24 June 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026.
epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org

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(1/3) My undergraduate student, Joh, is working on chromatin (magenta dots in the movie) dynamics during the altered nuclear (green) shape.

Here is a beautiful movie of chromatin dynamics.

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

When Neanderthals and ancient modern humans interbred, the pairings were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans, according to a new Science study.

This finding helps explain why Neanderthal ancestry present in most humans is unevenly distributed. https://scim.ag/4cQYpIL

Degrons and degradation signals beyond short linear motifs - Nature Chemical Biology Degrons are degradation signals in target proteins to direct recognition and degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome system. Wang et al. introduce degrons of different types, with an emphasis on high-...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@iebcas.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Today was my last day at @agroscope.bsky.social Nyon. Although my experiment didn't work as expected, I am extremely grateful for the time I spent with Etienne @plantepigenetics.ch and the team! Luckily I also had a chance to enjoy sports. Goodbye, Mont Blanc. @pecinka-grp.bsky.social

These hybrid sessions are primarily aimed at doctoral students but all postgraduate researchers external to the University are welcome to attend. All sessions can be attended either in Oxford or online. Sessions for March/April 2026: Academic Reading: Approach and Critique Writing an Abstract Improving Your Presentations Writing Your Methodology Research Interviews: Styles and Techniques

Want to
🧪 improve research skills and boost your confidence?
🎓 get a taste of the Oxford experience?

The Graduate School in @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is offering research skills sessions for external postgraduate students in March-April (hybrid format). Apply (link below)!
#Academicsky

‼️Webinar 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🌱
Ideal for researchers and authors in plant science looking for expert guidance on getting published
🗓️March 2nd 2026
🕙 10:00 GMT
Register👉 events.zoom.us/ev/Av42X5Kkj...
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Our postdoc Martin Kovačik received a Fulbright fellowship and is heading to the USA for 5 months at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge) with Prof Mary Gehring.
Barley seeds&parental conflict mech
@pecinka-grp.bsky.social @kovacik.bsky.social @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social

Post-replicative chromatin accessibility predicts cell fate change Knudsen and colleagues use repli-ATAC-seq to compare replicated and unreplicated chromatin in two models of cell identity change. They find that lineage-specific elements are accessible earlier in rep...

DNA replication globally disrupts the epigenome. But does this create a chromatin-access opportunity for TF binding to facilitate cell identity change? Now 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢-𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂-𝐬𝐞𝐪 shows 𝘥𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘰 chromatin opening & TF binding occurs specifically post-replication, in cellular differentiation & reprogramming!

Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis A forward-directed screen revealed that Condensin II prevents formation of mitotic anaphase bridges and maintains genome stability under genotoxic stress i

#new_paper: Condensin II mediates resistance to genotoxic stress and prevents mitotic defects in Arabidopsis
@academic.oup.com
doi.org/10.1093/plph...

“Two scoops, please!”: Twin cryo-EM structures of an Arabidopsis thaliana DNA methyltransferase If transcriptional enzymes such as RNA polymerases are vehicles on DNA roads, cytosine methylation is like placing cones on certain lanes: it slows or rero

IN BRIEF: “Two scoops, please!”: Twin cryo-EM structures of an Arabidopsis thaliana DNA methyltransferase (Jan Wilhelm Hübbers) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

!!!! PhD position!!!!
#SUMO modification in plant DNA damage repair. Join our team @pecinka-grp.bsky.social and work on this cool & still understudied topic. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Interested in a brief and concise overview of the Genebank at the @leibnizipk.bsky.social? Then you've come to the right place: the new Genebank film is also available in a short version! It's worth taking a look!

➡️To the film:
www.youtube.com/watch

Screenshots of slides of the Plant Bioinformatics lecture. More details & course materials: https://github.com/bpucker/PlantBioinformatics

🌿 Plant Bioinformatics! 💻🧬
How do we turn massive plant data into biological insight?

We cover genomics, transcriptomics, sequence analysis, phylogenetics, statistics, and reproducible research practices. Plant science is data science. 🌱
Materials:
github.com/bpucker/Plan...
@puckerlab.bsky.social

We posted a biorxiv preprint on structural bioinformatics, AlphaFold modeling & machine learning on predicting specificity of E3 ligase ring domains for different E2 enzymes. 1/4

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Models/data (UbiqCore website): dunbrack.fccc.edu/ubiqcore

Explore SMC mechanism and regulation at EMBO Workshop "Threads of life: SMC complexes in #chromosome structure and dynamics" in #Bengaluru, IN, 13–18 Dec 2026.

Registration/Abstract submission by 1 Apr/1 May

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-smc-complexes
#EMBOThreadsOfLife #genesky #EMBOevents 🧪

Causes and Consequences of Cytonuclear Incompatibility in Hybrids of Flowering Plants Abstract. Hybridization and polyploidization combine divergent nuclear genomes with maternally inherited organelles, often disrupting cytonuclear coadaptat

Latest work from our group together with
@jsharbro.bsky.social

This review synthesizes insights into cytonuclear incompatibility in plant hybrids and allopolyploids, highlighting maternal bias, evolutionary consequences, and applications such as cytoplasmic male sterility in seed production.

New review from P Genschik’s team in
@jxbotany.bsky.social 🧬 A fresh look at the huge diversity and functions of plant F-box proteins.
👉 Open questions & new perspectives for 🌱 biology.
▶️https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jxb/erag074/8475508?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Plant genome sequencing workflow. Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:

"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job

One week left to apply!

More info about the topic - contact me on email tomastikova@ueb.cas.cz

!!!! PhD position!!!!
#SUMO modification in plant DNA damage repair. Join our team @pecinka-grp.bsky.social and work on this cool & still understudied topic. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️