Claudia Martinho
Assistant Professor in Crop Biotechnology and Epigenetics
Climate Stress Memory in Crops
🌱🍅🍓@dundee.ac.uk @James Hutton Institute
Former Senior PostDoc at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and PostDoc at
@cam.ac.uk
#newPI
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoOne single protein, one big decision: how brown algae know when to reproduce. New press release on how researchers in the Department of Algae Development and Evolution have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental control in brown algae. Read on here: tinyurl.com/3taptpba
- One protein. One pathway. A whole germline fate. New paper from my postdoc @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social out in PNAS: Germline fate determination by a single ARGONAUTE protein in Ectocarpus www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Thank you to all the authors who made this work possible, and to Dr Susana Coelho for her role as co-corresponding author and for her contributions to the project.
- Back in 2021, a simple question started this project for me: Why do land plants have many ARGONAUTE genes (Arabidopsis has ~10), while brown algae have just one? What does that single ARGONAUTE actually do?
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View full threadThis paper is also a reminder of why I love comparative biology: sometimes, the most “minimal” systems reveal the clearest logic of how complex regulatory networks really work.
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoI am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoExcited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
- Abstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉 Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence. More information www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoOur paper on the newest version of the Registry of candidate cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) is out 🧬 Huge thanks to the many collaborators, experimentalists, analysts and software developers who made this work possible — truly a team effort! A "meme-torial" of the science is coming soon 👀
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoNew paper on genome editing in brown algae by Dr. Claudia Martinho, former member of Susana Coelho's Algal Development and Evolution Department, in collaboration with Masakazu Hoshino, Morgane Raphalen, Viktoriia Bukhanets, Anagha Kerur, @kbogaert.bsky.social, Rémy Luthringer, and Susana Coelho
- Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
- Do plants and animals evolve organs under different molecular evolutionary constraints? 🌱🐾 A really nice paper just out in Cell.
- 🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social
- Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
- A truly wonderful collaborative effort — huge thanks to all co-authors and collaborators for their ideas, experiments, and persistence 💙 Masakazu Hoshino, Morgane Raphalen, Viktoriia Bukhanets, Anagha Kerur, @kbogaert.bsky.social, Rémy Luthringer, and Susana Coelho.
- Building on previous great efforts, this work focuses on accessibility and scalability: • transgene-free (Cas–RNPs) • PEG-mediated delivery • reproducible across loci (we recommend using multiple crRNAs!) • no cloning or specialized equipment
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View full threadWe’re very happy to share this method with the community and hope it will be useful 🌿 If you try it out and your algae have opinions about it, we’re always happy to chat!
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- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoCan we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to share my work @kent.ac.uk! Great atmosphere and amazing discussions with @gomollonsara.bsky.social and all colleagues about plants, genomics and heredity.
- A real privilege to have Claudia Martinho (University of Dundee ) at our university @kent.ac.uk sharing the research of her group on paramutation in crops! @cssmartinho.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia Martinho📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoVery excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3… rdcu.be/eNEf4 A short thread:
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoThrilled to share what we learned from re-annotating the mobilome of the brown algae model [Ectocarpus] 🌊🌿🏖️ genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A wonderful collaboration with @ericadinatale.bsky.social, @cssmartinho.bsky.social, @rorycraig.bsky.social, and Susana Coelho! 🎉
- A beautiful life ❤️
- Reposted by Claudia MartinhoSo happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈 A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately: rdcu.be/eITQH
- We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species! Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years. We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #CRISPR #Algae
- Tremendous bias.
- Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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