Ulrich Lutz
@ulrich-lutz.bsky.social
Plant scientist and entrepreneur • Building Biogenda (http://biogenda.de/en) and The Custom-Lab Institute (https://custom-lab.de / @custom-lab.bsky.social)
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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
quinlanlab.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @levine-lab.bsky.social very cool work
Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity
Intragenomic conflict with selfish genetic elements spurs adaptive changes in subunits of essential multiprotein complexes. Whether and how these adaptive changes disrupt interactions within such comp...
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @levine-lab.bsky.social very cool work
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Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation!
We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
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We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Europe cannot afford to fall behind on innovation!
We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...
We join 25 EU agri-food organizations urging policymakers to conclude #NGTs trilogue talks now.
Science-based rules = resilient crops & global competitiveness. Act today! 🌱
euroseeds.eu/app/uploads/...
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***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)
PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation.
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
See
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...
PhD candidate in biology — theoretical and statistical modeling (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)
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🇪🇺 Warum sich eine moderne, sachgerechte Regulierung von NGT lohnt 🌱🧬
Die Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGT) bieten ein echtes Potenzial für eine nachhaltige, klimaresiliente & effiziente Landwirtschaft. Wissenschaftliche Studien liefern keine belastbaren Hinweise auf Gefahren, während gleichzeitig/
Die Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGT) bieten ein echtes Potenzial für eine nachhaltige, klimaresiliente & effiziente Landwirtschaft. Wissenschaftliche Studien liefern keine belastbaren Hinweise auf Gefahren, während gleichzeitig/
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🇪🇺 Warum sich eine moderne, sachgerechte Regulierung von NGT lohnt 🌱🧬
Die Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGT) bieten ein echtes Potenzial für eine nachhaltige, klimaresiliente & effiziente Landwirtschaft. Wissenschaftliche Studien liefern keine belastbaren Hinweise auf Gefahren, während gleichzeitig/
Die Neuen Genomischen Techniken (NGT) bieten ein echtes Potenzial für eine nachhaltige, klimaresiliente & effiziente Landwirtschaft. Wissenschaftliche Studien liefern keine belastbaren Hinweise auf Gefahren, während gleichzeitig/
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Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein:
Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.
Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein:
Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.
Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.
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We are editing a #Special_Issue “ #Panomics🧬 for #climate-smart crop improvement 🌾 under combined #abiotic stresses❄️🌊🫧🔥” in #PlantStress 🆒 🤩
🖇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
@marianasartur.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social #omics
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@marianasartur.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social #omics
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are editing a #Special_Issue “ #Panomics🧬 for #climate-smart crop improvement 🌾 under combined #abiotic stresses❄️🌊🫧🔥” in #PlantStress 🆒 🤩
🖇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
@marianasartur.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social #omics
🖇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
@marianasartur.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social #omics
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We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next generation of 1001 Genomes Plus browser and data download
Please indicate all features you would like to see in a browser that displays features of completely sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana genomes
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes.
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Cracking the oat code: a comprehensive pangenome and pantranscriptome resource (Nature) @howarthoats.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/tJW1bEw
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Cracking the oat code: A comprehensive pangenome and pantranscriptome resource | Plantae
Oat (Avena sativa) is a globally cultivated cereal for its rich dietary fiber and health-promoting benefits. Yet, despite its nutritional importance, oat genomics has long lagged behind other cereals…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Cracking the oat code: a comprehensive pangenome and pantranscriptome resource (Nature) @howarthoats.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/tJW1bEw
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction
Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Finally published!
Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species.
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...
Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species.
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Finally published!
Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species.
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...
Our new study in Curr Biol @currentbiology.bsky.social analyzes how CYP707A1 promoter variation drives an evolutionary trade-off between stomatal defense and gas exchange across Brassicaceae species.
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H93QW8S...
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Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications:
"DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
@puckerlab.bsky.social
"DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
@puckerlab.bsky.social
DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications
Paralogs, copies of a gene, form an important basis for novelty during evolution. Analysis of such gene duplications is important to understand the emergence of novel traits during evolution. DupyliCa...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications:
"DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
@puckerlab.bsky.social
"DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution
@puckerlab.bsky.social
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A team led by @kit.edu and with significant participation from @leibnizipk.bsky.social has succeeded for the first time in specifically altering the chromosome number of Arabidopsis using CRISPR Cas - without adversely affecting plant growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis
The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A team led by @kit.edu and with significant participation from @leibnizipk.bsky.social has succeeded for the first time in specifically altering the chromosome number of Arabidopsis using CRISPR Cas - without adversely affecting plant growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
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Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Need a DNA fluorometer to QC DNA for eDNA analysis pipelines?
Here's a great opportunity to get a #DIYNAFLUOR through a Microgrant from the eDNA Collaborative! @ednacollab.bsky.social
Application form: tinyurl.com/5bpc3ksx
DIYNAFLUOR info: tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
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Here's a great opportunity to get a #DIYNAFLUOR through a Microgrant from the eDNA Collaborative! @ednacollab.bsky.social
Application form: tinyurl.com/5bpc3ksx
DIYNAFLUOR info: tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
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October 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Need a DNA fluorometer to QC DNA for eDNA analysis pipelines?
Here's a great opportunity to get a #DIYNAFLUOR through a Microgrant from the eDNA Collaborative! @ednacollab.bsky.social
Application form: tinyurl.com/5bpc3ksx
DIYNAFLUOR info: tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
🦕🧬🧪
Here's a great opportunity to get a #DIYNAFLUOR through a Microgrant from the eDNA Collaborative! @ednacollab.bsky.social
Application form: tinyurl.com/5bpc3ksx
DIYNAFLUOR info: tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
🦕🧬🧪
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Stomatal responses in diverse maize! Bummed I missed this @mfacette.bsky.social talk while traveling but it’s now up on YouTube! #zeavolution going strong this semester thanks to hosts @jghodge.bsky.social and Sanzhen Liu. youtu.be/kveULXfq7fs
Stomatal responses across NAM founders
YouTube video by Zeavolution
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Stomatal responses in diverse maize! Bummed I missed this @mfacette.bsky.social talk while traveling but it’s now up on YouTube! #zeavolution going strong this semester thanks to hosts @jghodge.bsky.social and Sanzhen Liu. youtu.be/kveULXfq7fs
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Join us for a special webinar following this year's Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life symposium.
With talks by Itumeleng Moroenyane and poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.
Register for free:
With talks by Itumeleng Moroenyane and poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.
Register for free:
Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life
Post-symposium webinar with Itumeleng Moroenyane and Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Maarja Öpik
www.newphytologist.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Join us for a special webinar following this year's Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life symposium.
With talks by Itumeleng Moroenyane and poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.
Register for free:
With talks by Itumeleng Moroenyane and poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.
Register for free:
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The #MBioSys25 keynote lectures by Prof Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and Prof @elowitzlab.bsky.social (Caltech) are now online!
Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel
www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...
Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel
www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...
Molecular Biosystems Conference
Youtube Home Page for the Molecular Biosystems Conference (molbiosystems.com), the premier Latin American meeting on gene regulation.
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The #MBioSys25 keynote lectures by Prof Caroline Dean (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) and Prof @elowitzlab.bsky.social (Caltech) are now online!
Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel
www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...
Watch (or revisit!) these two inspiring talks on gene regulation & functional genomics, available for free on our channel
www.youtube.com/@MolecularBi...
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1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
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Join us on 4 November for a #NewPhytologistNow #webinar featuring talks from Itumeleng Moroenyane and 'Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life' poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Maarja Öpik!
Register now for #free:
www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Register now for #free:
www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life
Post-symposium webinar with Itumeleng Moroenyane and Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Maarja Öpik
www.newphytologist.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Join us on 4 November for a #NewPhytologistNow #webinar featuring talks from Itumeleng Moroenyane and 'Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life' poster prize winner Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz, hosted by Maarja Öpik!
Register now for #free:
www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience
Register now for #free:
www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...
#PlantScience