Andy Read 🌱🦠
@hashtag-read.bsky.social
USDA-ARS wheat and oat geneticist interested in dynamic DNA methylation, plant immunity, transposons, small grains.
Love to talk about: movies, food, TAL effectors, Nanopore sequencing
This is my jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9wlPr3Lac
Love to talk about: movies, food, TAL effectors, Nanopore sequencing
This is my jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9wlPr3Lac
Follow the schematics and instructions Dave! Build the invention.
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Follow the schematics and instructions Dave! Build the invention.
Led by talented international postdoc, @harsimargill.bsky.social, we sourced seeds for most entries tested in the USDA coordinated spring #wheat nursery over the last HUNDRED years! We genotyped them and quantified diversity and gene presence 🌾🧬
Me, Sarah and Harsimar with the UMN Borlaug statue
Me, Sarah and Harsimar with the UMN Borlaug statue
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Led by talented international postdoc, @harsimargill.bsky.social, we sourced seeds for most entries tested in the USDA coordinated spring #wheat nursery over the last HUNDRED years! We genotyped them and quantified diversity and gene presence 🌾🧬
Me, Sarah and Harsimar with the UMN Borlaug statue
Me, Sarah and Harsimar with the UMN Borlaug statue
another seed, appropriately, came from plants!
Here's a figure from shorturl.at/0S5l5 showing what we now know is silencing of the gene for purple pigment in petunias. And an important one from Baulcombe digging into mechanisms: shorturl.at/eP2qX
Hooray for basic research in all its forms! 🌸🪱🦠
Here's a figure from shorturl.at/0S5l5 showing what we now know is silencing of the gene for purple pigment in petunias. And an important one from Baulcombe digging into mechanisms: shorturl.at/eP2qX
Hooray for basic research in all its forms! 🌸🪱🦠
September 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
another seed, appropriately, came from plants!
Here's a figure from shorturl.at/0S5l5 showing what we now know is silencing of the gene for purple pigment in petunias. And an important one from Baulcombe digging into mechanisms: shorturl.at/eP2qX
Hooray for basic research in all its forms! 🌸🪱🦠
Here's a figure from shorturl.at/0S5l5 showing what we now know is silencing of the gene for purple pigment in petunias. And an important one from Baulcombe digging into mechanisms: shorturl.at/eP2qX
Hooray for basic research in all its forms! 🌸🪱🦠
It's beautiful 😍😍
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's beautiful 😍😍
'now with even more transposable elements' -- they always seem to find ways to expand their footprint in genomes (and in manuscripts)
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
'now with even more transposable elements' -- they always seem to find ways to expand their footprint in genomes (and in manuscripts)
This is great. Is the decision to deposit fastq and not pod5 because of data size, repository requirements, something else?
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is great. Is the decision to deposit fastq and not pod5 because of data size, repository requirements, something else?
nice! Download the Merlin App :)
July 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
nice! Download the Merlin App :)
Any bird highlights so far? Keep me updated!
July 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Any bird highlights so far? Keep me updated!
I have a 'life goal' of giving a talk with walk up music -- do you have a song picked?
July 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a 'life goal' of giving a talk with walk up music -- do you have a song picked?
Wish I was there! Thanks for posting so many updates and tell everyone I say 'hi' :)
July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wish I was there! Thanks for posting so many updates and tell everyone I say 'hi' :)
