Matt Naish

Thrilled to see our gapless Arabidopsis assembly (Col-CEN) published in @ScienceMagazine today! Built using @nanopore and @PacBio and used to profile the chromatin and recombination landscapes within centromeres. Read more here: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

A new study in #GENETICS from @hendersi’s group explores how natural variation in #Arabidopsis influences centromere-proximal crossover frequency and segregation distortion when #centromeres are heterozygous. buff.ly/Ev5Xrro

Exciting PhD opportunities in my lab at the University of Warwick! Please share with any students interested in chromosomes/centromeres, genomics, or plant biology. Take a look at the projects here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… @WarwickLifeSci @MIBTP_BBSRC

🚨New paper, now published in @Nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, in collab. with @mike_schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

🌱 Egg cell-specific degradation of CENH3 using engineered E3-ligases successfully induce haploids ⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab @LeibnizIPK 👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants 📖doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Centrophilic retrotransposon integration via CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis @Nature from Tetsuji Kakutani & colleagues - beautiful insights into control of transposon insertion into the centromeres nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bridging the gap: Unravelling #plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era #TansleyInsight by @MpNaish, winner of the 2024 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue @wileyplantsci

Exciting news! I'm honoured to have been awarded the 2024 New Phytologist Tansley Medal! Grateful to the community, mentors, and collaborators who have supported me throughout my career #TansleyMedal #PlantScience

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that our work on human centromere variation and evolution has been published in @Nature! We completely sequenced all centromeres from a second human genome & compared them to those from the first complete human genome, uncovering new sequences, structures, & epigenetic landscapes

Happy to share our review on The structure, function, and evolution of plant centromeres genome.cshlp.org/content/early/… @genomeresearch

Structural variation and DNA methylation shape the centromere-proximal meiotic crossover landscape in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1186/s13059… New paper from us @GenomeBiology

🌱Are you interested in climate change and how plants can adapt to stress?☀️ Fully funded @socobiodtp #PhD in my lab @biokent @UniKent in beautiful Canterbury (UK) Feel free to contact me to know more! southcoastbiosciencesdtp.ac.uk/project/hybrid… Deadline: 8th January 2024 RT🙏 1/n #scijob

Interested in @plant @development? I have a #PhDposition to join my group @WarwickLifeSci in early 2024. Aim of the project- dissect a new molecular pathway that controls axillary #meristem formation. Funded by @uniofwarwick and @Limagrain. Open to UK/International students.

I have an advert for a postdoc @MRC_LMB out. The project will be to develop a universal biomolecular force field for molecular simulation. Feel free to email me to discuss informally. findapostdoc.com/search/job-det…

📢New job alert !!📢 We've an exciting opportunity for a Postdoc Research Associate to develop translational synthetic strategies to control recombination - in the Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants Group with @hendersi ! Read more and apply👇 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42002/

Structural variation and DNA methylation shape the centromere-proximal meiotic crossover landscape in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110… new preprint from us on genetic & epigenetic features that control crossovers close to the Arabidopsis centromeres

We have a 4-year @BBSRC funded @NRPBIODTP PhD position on RNA modifications and gene expression. If you are excited about genetics, embryonic development and @nanopore sequencing, do apply. Funding is for UK students only. #RNA #phd @biouea @EarlhamInst biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/regul…

Understanding centromere diversity in Arabidopsis - Privileged to contribute to such a remarkable collaborative effort, and excited to explore these emerging unknowns! Thread below on what we found.

TRASH: Tandem Repeat Annotation and Structural Hierarchy doi.org/10.1093/bioinf… New methods paper from us reporting an algorithm to de novo map tandem repeats and their higher order structures - we benchmark against Arabidopsis and human T2T genomes github.com/vlothec/TRASH

Epigenetics, chromosome biology, and haploid induction: excited to celebrate the memory of Simon Chan with a great set of talks at the Simon Chan Celebration Symposium, Jan 19 2023, UC Davis. In person or by zoom webinar.

Viruses...assemble! Check out our new 3D printed model to demonstrate virus symmetry and self assembly. #lovevirology #3Dprinting