Riccardo Pianezza
Postdoctoral researcher at Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna. Transposable elements, bioinformatics, genome evolution
- First day at #EMBOMobileGenome So many great talks! Toby’s on fungal genome evolution was a highlight: exciting results and inspiring questions ahead
- We discovered an endogenous retrovirus that's still spreading in natural D. melanogaster populations! It was horizontally transferred from D. erecta in Central Africa, so we named it "Kuruka", which means "jump" in Swahili. Read its cool story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Thanks to all of my co-authors for their invaluable help @rokofler.bsky.social @mbeaum.bsky.social @signor-molevol.bsky.social
- Reposted by Riccardo PianezzaGermline defence from TEs largely relies on piRNAs. Yet, @divyaselvaraju.bsky.social and I monitored a P-element invasion in Drosophila that was stopped by an internally deleted copy, no host intervention required! doi.org/10.1371/jour... Many thanks to @rpianezza.bsky.social & @rokofler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Riccardo PianezzaThe work on TE invasions in D. melanogaster continues! We found three more recent invasions, one of which occurred in ~3 years worldwide. Another great collaboration with @rpianezza.bsky.social @rokofler.bsky.social and others
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