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
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
Pinned
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS
ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that
play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...
www.pnas.org
One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate.
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
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
"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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
"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
One single protein, one big decision: how brown algae know when to reproduce. New press release on how researchers in the Department of Algae Development and Evolution have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae.
Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
One single protein, one big decision: how brown algae know when to reproduce. New press release on how researchers in the Department of Algae Development and Evolution have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae.
Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate.
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus | PNAS
ARGONAUTE (AGO) proteins are a highly conserved family of RNA-binding proteins that
play central roles in gene regulation and developmental process...
www.pnas.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:14 AM
One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate.
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS:
Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
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. :-)
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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. :-)
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
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 ☀️ 🧬
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
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
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
January 14, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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 ☀️ 🧬
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
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 👀
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 👀
An expanded registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements - Nature
The 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...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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 👀
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 👀
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
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
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
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
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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
Do plants and animals evolve organs under different molecular evolutionary constraints? 🌱🐾
A really nice paper just out in Cell.
A really nice paper just out in Cell.
🧵 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
🎓 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
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Do plants and animals evolve organs under different molecular evolutionary constraints? 🌱🐾
A really nice paper just out in Cell.
A really nice paper just out in Cell.
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
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
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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
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
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the @aspbofficial.bsky.social SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship)
aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a
Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now!
#PlantSci
aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a
Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now!
#PlantSci
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the @aspbofficial.bsky.social SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship)
aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a
Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now!
#PlantSci
aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a
Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now!
#PlantSci
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation?
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now
A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚
Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀
We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀
We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes
The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...
www.biorxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Have you ever wondered how it is possible that systemically infected plants produce (a certain percentage of) healthy progeny? 💚
Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀
We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
Check out the first preprint of the @incavirus.bsky.social lab and first preprint of my postdoc! 🍀
We'd be very happy about feedback and discussions!
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to share my work @kent.ac.uk! Great atmosphere and amazing discussions with @gomollonsara.bsky.social and all colleagues about plants, genomics and heredity.
A real privilege to have Claudia Martinho (University of Dundee ) at our university @kent.ac.uk sharing the research of her group on paramutation in crops! @cssmartinho.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to share my work @kent.ac.uk! Great atmosphere and amazing discussions with @gomollonsara.bsky.social and all colleagues about plants, genomics and heredity.
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis
Nature Communications - Binenbaum et al. demonstrate that precise CRISPR-based targeting of a key chromatin mark (H3K4me3) can switch on genes, boost disease resistance, and unlock meiotic...
rdcu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3…
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
rdcu.be/eNEf4
A short thread:
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
A beautiful life ❤️
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A beautiful life ❤️
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome | Genome Biology
rdcu.be
October 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species!
Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years.
We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#CRISPR #Algae
Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years.
We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#CRISPR #Algae
July 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species!
Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years.
We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#CRISPR #Algae
Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years.
We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#CRISPR #Algae
Tremendous bias.
Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone
A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Tremendous bias.
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
📣 The Plant Cell welcomes Sara Lopez-Gomollon to the Editorial Board for the 2024-2025 year!🌱
#plantscience #WeAreASPB
#plantscience #WeAreASPB
April 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
📣 The Plant Cell welcomes Sara Lopez-Gomollon to the Editorial Board for the 2024-2025 year!🌱
#plantscience #WeAreASPB
#plantscience #WeAreASPB
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier takes a look at the history of women in the Royal Society library and finds they undoubtedly worked and studied there long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/04...
Women in the library | Royal Society
Women undoubtedly read and worked in the Royal Society library long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945, as Louisiane Ferlier explains.
royalsociety.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier takes a look at the history of women in the Royal Society library and finds they undoubtedly worked and studied there long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/04...
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
And a 3 year tech position is also now live. Synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply / RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51027/
@camplantsci.bsky.social
@camplantsci.bsky.social
Research Laboratory Technician (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Laboratory Technician (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
And a 3 year tech position is also now live. Synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply / RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51027/
@camplantsci.bsky.social
@camplantsci.bsky.social
Reposted by Claudia Martinho
It’s 30 years since The Beijing Declaration when world leaders agreed how to achieve equal rights, opportunities, power & safety for women & girls.
A @natureportfolio.nature.com collection gives a snapshot of progress & where we could/should do better
#womeninSTEM
www.nature.com/collections/...
A @natureportfolio.nature.com collection gives a snapshot of progress & where we could/should do better
#womeninSTEM
www.nature.com/collections/...
The Beijing Declaration: 30 years of progress
Journals from the Nature Portfolio wish to celebrate the achievements that have been made since the Beijing declaration for women's rights, emphasize areas ...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s 30 years since The Beijing Declaration when world leaders agreed how to achieve equal rights, opportunities, power & safety for women & girls.
A @natureportfolio.nature.com collection gives a snapshot of progress & where we could/should do better
#womeninSTEM
www.nature.com/collections/...
A @natureportfolio.nature.com collection gives a snapshot of progress & where we could/should do better
#womeninSTEM
www.nature.com/collections/...