Claudia Martinho

Claudia Martinho

@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Crop Biotechnology and Epigenetics Climate Stress Memory in Crops 🌱🍅🍓@dundee.ac.uk @James Hutton Institute Former Senior PostDoc at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and PostDoc at @cam.ac.uk ‬ #newPI

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Hajk-Georg Drost
@hajkdrost.bsky.social

This is incredibly exciting 🤩 @anthropic.com just reported, Claude helped discover a novel CRISPR-like enzyme system. Enabled by our DIAMOND/DeepClust software 🚀: 🧬 15.8 BILLION proteins → 1.94 BILLION clusters → searched by AI agents www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

anthropic.comClaude discovers a novel enzyme systemIn early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
Hajk-Georg Drost@hajkdrost.bsky.social

How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...

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Dr Radu Zabet
@raduzabet.bsky.social

🎉Excited to share the latest paper from my lab, where we developed a new framework to investigate DNA methylation at single-molecule resolution using @oxfordnanopore.bsky.social (ONT) long read sequencing. Work spearheaded by a very talented student Young Jun Kim. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

biorxiv.orgA Framework for Quantifying DNA Methylation Heterogeneity and Detecting Co-methylated loci from Native Nanopore SequencingDNA methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism involved in gene regulation. Most methods focus on analysing DNA methylation averaged from multiple reads, yet these average methylation profiles o...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
@plantevolution.bsky.social

Please consider submitting comments on the implementation for genome edited plants in the EU. Reminder: this is not the place for general statements regarding your personal vie of #NGT. Instead, the Commission is asking for input for the development of workable rules.

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Still one week to apply! :)

Claudia Martinho@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

dundee.ac.ukPostdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
@plantteaching.bsky.social

We're still working on the website, but please save the date if you are interested in Plant Education. Following on from the successful 2025 event (See nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...), we are planning "Plant Education 2" next April in Cambridge, UK. www.aab.org.uk/event/plant-...

aab.org.ukPlant Biology Education 2: Partnerships, Learning, Audiences and Networks for Teaching (PLANT). - Association of Applied BiologistsAAB are delighted to be organising a follow-up meeting to the very successful Plant Science Education meeting held in Lancaster in January 2025. We were delighted to publish a ‘Manifesto […]
Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Amazing news!

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social

NEWS - ‘Sunshine’ tomato one step closer to market The first marketing notice for a precision bred tomato in England has now been approved, moving the biofortified ‘Sunshine’ tomato closer to commercialisation: https://okt.to/v2Amjc

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Delfi Dorussen
@delfidorussen.bsky.social

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

doi.orgPartial redundancy buffers deleterious effects of mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1) in polyploid wheatVarying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the le

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Jake Harris
@c-jake-harris.bsky.social

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

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Science Magazine
@science.org

"… some of the most creative, climate-resilient innovations are emerging … from the regions experiencing the greatest challenges of climate volatility, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity," writes Ismahane Elouafi in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/4vN7skk

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Congratulations to @caroleduchene.bsky.social and all the authors on this beautiful work exploring the inheritance of endogenous viral insertions in algae. It was a pleasure to contribute to this study and I am sure this is only the beginning of many exciting discoveries! 🌿 @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com

Out Now! Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host #MicroSky

go.nature.comLatent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal hostNature Microbiology, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02361-zGiant endogenous viral elements integrated into the multicellular alga Ectocarpus are reactivated by specific temperature cues, driving productive latent viral infections.

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Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Still time to register — deadline extended to 17 April! Join us this summer in Scotland to discuss how we can translate epigenetic insights from model systems into crop plants. Looking forward to great discussions and new connections! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
@plantteaching.bsky.social

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...

theguardian.comCambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncoveredUniversity’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

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EpiSeedLink
@episeedlink.bsky.social

📌Have a look at this meeting¡ It sounds too good to miss✨ Aline Probst, @alineprobst.bsky.social, one of our @episeedlink.bsky.social supervisors, is one of the keynote speakers 👏

Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

Sara Lopez-Gomollon@gomollonsara.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

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Dr Radu Zabet
@raduzabet.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest publication on interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood, spearheaded by the amazing Olivia Grant and co-led with @leo-schalkwyk.bsky.social and Meena Kumari. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comSystematic investigation of interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood - Genome BiologyBackground Interindividual genetic variability is well characterised, but we still lack a complete catalogue of loci displaying variable and stable epigenetic patterns. Results Here, we report a catal...

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tomate 🍅
@jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

It turns out… a lot. In Ectocarpus, this single ARGONAUTE integrates small-RNA pathways with germline fate determination, showing how deeply RNA silencing can be wired into developmental decisions.

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Back in 2021, a simple question started this project for me: Why do land plants have many ARGONAUTE genes (Arabidopsis has ~10), while brown algae have just one? What does that single ARGONAUTE actually do?

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Rebecca Mosher
@rm0sher.bsky.social

I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

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Rory Osborne
@drosborneplantsci.bsky.social

Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬

SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social

Abstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉 Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence. More information www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html

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Jill Moore
@moorejille.bsky.social

Our paper on the newest version of the Registry of candidate cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) is out 🧬 Huge thanks to the many collaborators, experimentalists, analysts and software developers who made this work possible — truly a team effort! A "meme-torial" of the science is coming soon 👀

nature.comAn expanded registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements - NatureThe existing ENCODE registry of candidate human and mouse cis-regulatory elements is expanded with the addition of new ENCODE data, integrating new functional data as well as new cell and tissue types...

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

New paper on genome editing in brown algae by Dr. Claudia Martinho, former member of Susana Coelho's Algal Development and Evolution Department, in collaboration with Masakazu Hoshino, Morgane Raphalen, Viktoriia Bukhanets, Anagha Kerur, @kbogaert.bsky.social, Rémy Luthringer, and Susana Coelho

Claudia Martinho@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Do plants and animals evolve organs under different molecular evolutionary constraints? 🌱🐾 A really nice paper just out in Cell.

Hajk-Georg Drost@hajkdrost.bsky.social

🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social

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Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

Building on previous great efforts, this work focuses on accessibility and scalability: • transgene-free (Cas–RNPs) • PEG-mediated delivery • reproducible across loci (we recommend using multiple crRNAs!) • no cloning or specialized equipment

Claudia Martinho
@cssmartinho.bsky.social

As a proof of concept in Ectocarpus, we precisely edited the IMM locus and recapitulated the classic imm mutant phenotype with the early formation of upright filaments, providing a clear and reproducible developmental readout.