Abdellah Barakate
@abdellahbarakate.bsky.social
Plant Molecular Biologist | Gene Editing, Silencing & Expression | Tissue Culture | 🚫DM
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Elon Musk wants to end the EU because X has to pay a fine that corresponds to 0.03% of his wealth.
Ban X in the EU now!
Ban X in the EU now!
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Elon Musk wants to end the EU because X has to pay a fine that corresponds to 0.03% of his wealth.
Ban X in the EU now!
Ban X in the EU now!
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📣Plant Meiosis Meeting is back for its second edition‼️
Save the date: 9–11 September 2026, Poznań, Poland🌱
More details coming soon🤩
Save the date: 9–11 September 2026, Poznań, Poland🌱
More details coming soon🤩
December 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
📣Plant Meiosis Meeting is back for its second edition‼️
Save the date: 9–11 September 2026, Poznań, Poland🌱
More details coming soon🤩
Save the date: 9–11 September 2026, Poznań, Poland🌱
More details coming soon🤩
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This afternoon, I will give a public lecture about #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics, at the University of Bern, CH, where I will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science tomorrow.
Thank you for your support ❤️
Thank you for your support ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This afternoon, I will give a public lecture about #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics, at the University of Bern, CH, where I will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science tomorrow.
Thank you for your support ❤️
Thank you for your support ❤️
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Fascinating, take a look at the thread
Thrilled to share that my postdoc research is published today in @science.org! We found that DNA repair uses cohesin complexes to build new chromatin loops that guide the homology search and boost accurate repair! 1/n
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search
Cohesin folds genomes into chromatin loops, the roles of which are under debate. We found that double-strand breaks (DSBs) induce de novo formation of chromatin loops in human cells, with the loop bas...
www.science.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Fascinating, take a look at the thread
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How Do Regulations Shape the Future of Gene-Edited Crops?
The next BEST CROP talk brings leaders from science, policy, breeding & industry together to explore how innovation + regulation are steering gene-edited crops under the evolving EU NGT framework.
🔗
www.eventbrite.it/e/best-crop-...
The next BEST CROP talk brings leaders from science, policy, breeding & industry together to explore how innovation + regulation are steering gene-edited crops under the evolving EU NGT framework.
🔗
www.eventbrite.it/e/best-crop-...
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How Do Regulations Shape the Future of Gene-Edited Crops?
The next BEST CROP talk brings leaders from science, policy, breeding & industry together to explore how innovation + regulation are steering gene-edited crops under the evolving EU NGT framework.
🔗
www.eventbrite.it/e/best-crop-...
The next BEST CROP talk brings leaders from science, policy, breeding & industry together to explore how innovation + regulation are steering gene-edited crops under the evolving EU NGT framework.
🔗
www.eventbrite.it/e/best-crop-...
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As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Europe advances its Re-Arm Europe agenda, what’s the real endgame? Join me and Ukrainian sociologist V. Ishchenko this evening (17.00CET) for a chat on the fast moving developments
🔗 youtube.com/live/g4tCzTJ...
🔗 youtube.com/live/g4tCzTJ...
Is Europe Betraying Ukraine? Yanis Varoufakis & Volodymyr Ishchenko React LIVE
In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to re-arm Europe.
If EU leaders won’t send tro...
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Europe advances its Re-Arm Europe agenda, what’s the real endgame? Join me and Ukrainian sociologist V. Ishchenko this evening (17.00CET) for a chat on the fast moving developments
🔗 youtube.com/live/g4tCzTJ...
🔗 youtube.com/live/g4tCzTJ...
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Dr Sarah McKim, Deputy Director of the International Barley Hub (IBH) and Head Developmental Biologist at the James Hutton Institute, shares an overview of IBH’s mission and her role within it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz_...
How the International Barley Hub Is Shaping the Future of Barley | Sarah McKim
YouTube video by James Hutton Institute
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Dr Sarah McKim, Deputy Director of the International Barley Hub (IBH) and Head Developmental Biologist at the James Hutton Institute, shares an overview of IBH’s mission and her role within it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz_...
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New work form our lab shows that loss of function of HvST1 — a grass-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase — increases chromosome recombination up to ~2.5-fold by boosting distal synapsis and crossover formation.
#meiosis #betterbarley
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#meiosis #betterbarley
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Loss of E3 ligase HvST1 function substantially increases distal crossover frequency
This study characterizes the function of a grass-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase, HvST1, in regulating synapsis and crossover (CO) formation during meiosis in barley (Hordeum vulgare). In large-genome ...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New work form our lab shows that loss of function of HvST1 — a grass-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase — increases chromosome recombination up to ~2.5-fold by boosting distal synapsis and crossover formation.
#meiosis #betterbarley
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#meiosis #betterbarley
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Terrible!
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Terrible!
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The International Barley Hub is an initiative seeking to create a platform for the translation of barley research into economic, social, environmental and commercial impacts for the breeding, farming, malting, brewing, feed, food, health and related industries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j1...
International Barley Hub (IBH)
YouTube video by James Hutton Institute
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The International Barley Hub is an initiative seeking to create a platform for the translation of barley research into economic, social, environmental and commercial impacts for the breeding, farming, malting, brewing, feed, food, health and related industries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j1...
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
AI model Helixer predicts eukaryotic genes ab initio, directly from a plain text FASTA file.
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No RNA-seq.
No protein homology.
No repeats, hints, or curated evidence.
Raw genome → accurate gene models.
Deep learning + HMM, published in @natmethods.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The reductionist days of "good" and "bad" cholesterol are over.
We've learned so much more about Lp(a), APOB, HDL and more
economist.com/science-and-...
as I reviewed in Super Agers tinyurl.com/3w76us9a
We've learned so much more about Lp(a), APOB, HDL and more
economist.com/science-and-...
as I reviewed in Super Agers tinyurl.com/3w76us9a
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The reductionist days of "good" and "bad" cholesterol are over.
We've learned so much more about Lp(a), APOB, HDL and more
economist.com/science-and-...
as I reviewed in Super Agers tinyurl.com/3w76us9a
We've learned so much more about Lp(a), APOB, HDL and more
economist.com/science-and-...
as I reviewed in Super Agers tinyurl.com/3w76us9a
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🚀 A long-requested feature just landed in #OpenCloning
🔬🧬 You can now manually annotate sequences and create primers right from the editor
✨ Hope it makes your workflow a bit smoother!
📨 If you want to stay updated with upcoming features, subscribe to the mailing list (link in the comments)
🔬🧬 You can now manually annotate sequences and create primers right from the editor
✨ Hope it makes your workflow a bit smoother!
📨 If you want to stay updated with upcoming features, subscribe to the mailing list (link in the comments)
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚀 A long-requested feature just landed in #OpenCloning
🔬🧬 You can now manually annotate sequences and create primers right from the editor
✨ Hope it makes your workflow a bit smoother!
📨 If you want to stay updated with upcoming features, subscribe to the mailing list (link in the comments)
🔬🧬 You can now manually annotate sequences and create primers right from the editor
✨ Hope it makes your workflow a bit smoother!
📨 If you want to stay updated with upcoming features, subscribe to the mailing list (link in the comments)
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I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
FIRST PUBLISHED: 14.11.25 BY LAURA TURCHI AND MIA CERFONTEYN | THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
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The bulk of Gaza's agricultural land, water processing sites and natural resources are in the Israeli occupied area.
The 2 million Palestinian population is contained within the rubble of the urban areas
The 2 million Palestinian population is contained within the rubble of the urban areas
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The bulk of Gaza's agricultural land, water processing sites and natural resources are in the Israeli occupied area.
The 2 million Palestinian population is contained within the rubble of the urban areas
The 2 million Palestinian population is contained within the rubble of the urban areas
Beyond criminal …
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Rebuilding ‘human-made abyss’ in Gaza will cost at least $70bn, UN says
Report says Israel’s operations ‘significantly undermined every pillar of survival’ and reduced the economy by 87%
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Beyond criminal …
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software
✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!
👉 Check it out at opencloning.org
✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!
👉 Check it out at opencloning.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software
✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!
👉 Check it out at opencloning.org
✅ Free
🔓 Open Source
🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene
🤖 Can be automated with python
👨🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers!
👉 Check it out at opencloning.org
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See opportunities to join us as a PhD student:
@hutton.ac.uk 🌾
@hutton.ac.uk 🌾
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
See opportunities to join us as a PhD student:
@hutton.ac.uk 🌾
@hutton.ac.uk 🌾
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A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction
Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
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Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
/
When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.
/
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How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research, by Vince Bielski
'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.'
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...
'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.'
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...
How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research
This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here.
For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about
www.realclearinvestigations.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research, by Vince Bielski
'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.'
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...
'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.'
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...