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Spartan, Assistant Professor @OhioState. Trying to understand how eukaryotes co-evolve with TEs using genomics. Author of LTR_retriever, LAI, EDTA, panEDTA...

 Columbus, OH
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Joined November 2011
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position available in my department at Ohio State. People using imaging, quantitative biology, computational biology, multi-omics or systems biology in any area of Eukaryotic Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, or Genomics are welcome to apply!
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My department has a tenure-track position at the Associate Professor level. Investigators addressing fundamentally important biological questions in *any area* of Molecular Genetics are encouraged to apply. Application period closes October 15, 2025. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OS…
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Glass germ corns of the year!
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Summer Grill Heave Of Ou Lab (SGHOOL) and families!
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Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpv…
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We’ll be hosting the Bioinformatics Summer Workshop from August 11–15. The workshop is completely free and held 100% online. If you are interested, please go ahead and register: sites.google.com/view/bioinf…
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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.
bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv_bioinfo6 Jun 2025
TESS: A Forward Simulation Framework for Studying the Role of Transposable Elements in Genome Expansion and Contraction biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_bioinfo

TESS: A Forward Simulation Framework for Studying the Role of Transposable Elements in Genome...

Genome size varies by several magnitudes among eukaryotes. Expansion and contraction are primarily driven by transposable element activity, but the underlying processes remain enigmatic due to a lack...

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Using TESS and parameter sweep, we were able to approximate the TE dynamics of these three rust fungus genomes, revealing the two-stage evolution of myrtle rust (A. psidii), with a long-lasting genome expansion transitioned to aggressive contraction ~1.2 million generations ago.
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TESS is an open-source package developed by Dr. Chris Benson (@OhioState ), Dr. Ting-Hsuan Chen (@plantandfood) & Mr. Tianyu Lu (@OhioState Senior UG). The study is conceived with Drs. Susan Thomson and Cecilia Deng (@plantandfood). Please try it out! github.com/cwb14/TESS/tree/m… /n
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A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @plantsci jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/
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I start to screen for interview candidates. If you are interested, please hurry up!
Shujun Ou@SigmaFacto10 Apr 2025
Hello world! I have a postdoc position immediately available in my lab. It will focus on identifying high-quality transposons in many genomes and finding their impacts in evolution and traits. Most works, including EDTA2 development and annotation of 400+ genomes, are done! 1/n
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This single PDF has been on my desktop for over a decade and through multiple laptops. I just realize that I don't rely on it anymore. Thank you LLM.
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