Xiao Dong

🚨Our latest work on selfish centromeres published at @CurrentBiology 🐭🧬We found that the spindle checkpoint contributes to non-Mendelian segregation! Huge congrats to my lab manager, Zaak Walton, who led the project🎉 Free link authors.elsevier.com/a/1lQzN3QW8SA3…

Did you know that DNA must form overlapping loops to give rise to the well-known X-shape of chromosomes? New research from EMBL's Ellenberg group provides new insights into the process of chromosome formation. embl.org/news/science-t…

🚨 Hot off the press!!! Wanted to share this to celebrate the momentous achievement from the @GiuntaLab and for the human centromere / genomics communities as a whole... more posts to come next week but for now, happy Fourth & happy reading ❤️🧬💻 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus. But like viruses, it seemingly has one purpose: to make more of itself. Learn more: scim.ag/4eGtttN @NewsfromScience

I am super happy to see our dog rose's paper featuring the cover of the July 3rd issue of @Nature read more here: tinyurl.com/dog-rose

Genetic evidence to prove the functional importance of RNA structure and m6A. I am very happy to be part of the team! @JohnInnesCentre @Ilexpurpurea😃

New online! Structural variants in the 3D genome as drivers of disease bit.ly/44FiIo5

🎉Paper Alert!!!🌹 I am thrilled to share our new paper on dog rose meiosis just published in Nature! 📄 nature.com/articles/s4158… A big thank you to my PhD supervisor @marques_et_al and all co-authors — couldn't have done it without you!🙏

1/7 I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN NATURE!🌹 Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we shed light on Rosa canina’s bizarre reproduction! nature.com/articles/s4158… #Meiosis4eva #Centromere

I want to share our latest work on a forward simulation framework on transposable element evolution. The TE Evolution Simulation Suite, or TESS, contains three components that can simulate many scenarios of genome evolution under the impact of TEs.

Pangenome-aware DeepVariant biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Interested in hearing more about the story behind our latest paper? Check out our blog post and the latest @NaturePodcast episode! 📝 go.nature.com/3G73vT7 🎙️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢 Excited to share our work out now in @Nature! 📢 We present the phased pan-genome of the European tetraploid potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity. Learn more below! 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/7

DNA damage can go unrepaired for years, which can create multiple chances to generate harmful mutations that could lead to cancer 🧬 Read more about this research, and how it changes the way we think about mutations ⤵️ sanger.ac.uk/news_item/dna-…

New insights into Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) asymmetrical microsporogenesis from our lab and collaboration with @AndreVanzela frontiersin.org/journals/plant…