Nathan Springer

@DamonLisch Just think of all the cool genetics this cart will shuttle around campus

Rocking a badass new lab cart.

Special issue for Epigenetics and gene regulation 2023 in Current Opinion in Plant Biology, co-edited with @SpringerNathan ! #epigenome #transposon #plant sciencedirect.com/journal/curren… authors.elsevier.com/a/1iDJg4tPF3tz…

@yanivbrandvain Umm - weather.gov/arx/halloween1…).

@DamonLisch I know what you suspect in this alfalfa plant I plucked while walking today

Cool opportunity to work on developing applications of single-cell technologies for crop improvement on a fantastic team led by @rebeccalowdon jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterfie…

@crop_animal Wait - there are rules? This is the first I am hearing about it.

@alex_marand Did a wonderful job of pulling this together with co-authors. I definitely learned way more than I contributed here. Great job Alex, Kerstin and Andrea annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

🚨 We've got a new preprint out 🚨 - We developed a series of logical frameworks for analyzing how transposable element content contributes to structural variation (SV) within maize 🌽🧬🌽. How'd we do this + what did we find?? - 1/11

After ~20 years at the UMN today was my last day . I have been so lucky to work with wonderful people in my group and to have a fantastic set of collaborators. A huge thank you to all of my colleagues, collaborators and friends. Excited for a new journey @Bayer4Crops

@jrossibarra @DavidBLowry The only real news here is that somehow Jeff thinks some maize is unimportant. Hmmm

@DavidBLowry Good news is none of the maize in there was important (and might even survive!). Bad news is chamber is brand new and there was a grad student germination experiment in there too.

Cold morning in Davis. Anyone who wants to escape the chill can come hang out in my new growth chamber which just hit 50C. Unrelated, but anyone want some cooked corn leaves?

Why do the same gene in different varieties respond differentially under the environmental stimuli? We seek to answer the question using both population transcriptomics and chromatin signatures.

Mapping Responsive Genomic Elements to Heat Stress in a Maize Diversity Panel biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

@SpicyBotrytis yup

So in transcriptomic GWA studies, what if there is a huge false negative bias in the ability to detect trans SNPs, in comp to cis. And most cis are polyallelic loci where it is possible to find a single SNP capturing that polyallelic structure in a biallelic architecture?

@addie_maize @szintri Not sure this is entirely accurate. Plenty of my flannel has holes.

@szintri I told my students not to wear anything with holes or bad words, but flannel is okay (ahem @SpringerNathan), and that very few people ever wear suits (other than Tony Studer), so as long as they stay between those parts of the spectrum, likely no one will notice/care 😂

Can you spot the National Academy member and the McArther genius grant fellow in this photo? ...was trying to find pictures to answer trainee's questions about how they should dress for the maize meeting, turns out I don't notice/remember clothes.

@flagelbagel You didn't grab the Miracle Whip that was also offered for free? Quite the meal options with the two...

Plant Cell author Peng Zhou bit.ly/3l6zQfs first author of Prediction of conserved and variable heat and cold stress response in maize using cis-regulatory information @orionzhou @taraenders @AuthenticZAM @erikalanemag @pete_crisp @noshjac @shanwai1234 @SpringerNathan

@jrossibarra @Hashtag_Read @kseniakrasileva Yeah but isn't that the stuff we love? We were thinking about this as a way to sequence from a gene to a distal regulator but if we kick out reads due to a TE in the middle it might defeat the purpose

@Hashtag_Read @kseniakrasileva Seems like you could use it to filter out highly repetitive stuff right?

@scott_stelpflug Hey - don't knock Stanton. It is a thriving metropolis with it's own airport....

Additionally, don’t fret if Stanton, MN isn’t your jam. I’ll be posting two additional Discovery breeder roles: another corn GPS role in the East (Malta, IL) and a soy discovery breeding GPS role in Slater, IA. 🌽🌱

When you see an exciting new role open @Syngenta and you’re wondering who the hiring manager is... 😏 Check out this awesome Discovery Breeding role on my team: Corn Germplasm Process Scientist linkedin.com/jobs/view/2475…

Excited to share @noshjac's last thesis chapter research. Monitoring accessible chromatin and DNA methylation in four maize genomes. Reveals that a large amount of variable methylation is due to shifting boundaries at the edge of methylated domains