To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Barbara McClintock´s Nobel Prize, we have put together a Collection of recent articles on plant “jumping genes” published across Springer Nature journals, highlighting her contribution to current Plant Biology. Find this collection here.
Plant jumping genes: celebrating the legacy of Barbara McClintock
Call for papers - Transposable Elements as Epigenetic Agents of Development, Immunity, Phenotypic Variation and Disease
Mobile DNA is calling for submissions to our new Collection on Transposable Elements (TEs). This Collection will focus on the epigenetic mechanisms targeting TE sequences and the functional consequences of this targeting.
Upcoming meetings
The French Transposition Community (GDR-CNRS) is happy to announce the 5th International Congress on Transposable Elements (ICTE 2024). The congress will be held from April 20th to 23th 2024 in Saint Malo (France) at the “Palais du Grand Large”. The congress will include an optional TE-HUB satellite workshop on April 24th.
The Congress sessions will present the latest findings and encourage stimulating discussions on the following general topics:
- Transposable elements, genome evolution and adaptation
- Transposable elements in health and disease
- Transposable element control & epigenetics
- Transposition mechanisms and applications
- TE hub workshop (if you have chosen to participate of course!)
- Education and outreach (a poster only session)
! Early bird registration until January 15th, 2024 !
Deadline for abstract registration: February 15th!
CLIK HERE TO REGISTER NOW: https://icte2024.sciencesconf.org/ Please help spread the word by forwarding to your colleagues or trainees who might also be interested in attending.
Featured series: Transposable Elements in Model Organisms
We are proud to present a new series of review papers focused on transposable elements (TE) in model organisms. This series will deliver a comprehensive and even coverage of the diversity of TEs populating the model species; outstanding questions and future directions with the study of TEs in species; and much more!
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Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog
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RepEnTools: an automated repeat enrichment analysis package for ChIP-seq data reveals hUHRF1 Tandem-Tudor domain enrichment in young repeats
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Orthoptera-TElib: a library of Orthoptera transposable elements for TE annotation
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The role of Smarcad1 in retroviral repression in mouse embryonic stem cells
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Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons: mechanisms, recent developments, and unanswered questions
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Sex and the TEs: transposable elements in sexual development and function in animals
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The expanding universe of transposon technologies for gene and cell engineering
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Mobile DNA and evolution in the 21st century
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Mobilizing diversity: transposable element insertions in genetic variation and disease
Editors' Picks
PNMA2 forms immunogenic non-enveloped virus-like capsids associated with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome.
[Cell. 2024] PubMed
Mage transposon: a novel gene delivery system for mammalian cells.
[Nucleic Acids Res. 2024] PubMed
Towards targeting transposable elements for cancer therapy.
[Nat Rev Cancer. 2024] PubMed
Wildlife endogenous retroviruses: colonization, consequences, and cooption.
[Trends Genet. 2024] PubMed
Pharmacological inhibition of neddylation impairs long interspersed element 1 retrotransposition.
[Cell Rep. 2024] PubMed
Aims and scope
Mobile DNA is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles providing novel insights into the function, biological impact, and evolution of transposable elements in any organism. Topics related to transposable elements may include genetic or epigenetic variation, genome rearrangements, mechanisms, patterns and processes of transposition, and the role of mobile elements in host genome evolution.
Mobile DNA aims to understand:- mechanisms of intra- and intergenomic mobility via genetic, comparative genomic, biochemical and structural approaches
- regulation of DNA rearrangements by the environment and during development
- how DNA restructuring reshapes cellular function and organism evolution
- the role of transposable elements in disease in a variety of organisms
- host—element interaction and genetic/epigenetic regulatory networks
Mobile DNA reflects the need for a journal that spans all aspects of specialized recombination, from structure and mechanism to evolutionary impact. In addition, the journal will consider articles on the utility of mobile genetic elements in biotechnological methods and protocols, and related biocomputational tools.
Editors-in-Chief
Irina Arkhipova, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
Kathleen Burns, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, USA
Pascale Lesage, INSERM, France
Our Associate Editors:
Orsolya Barabas, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
Gael Cristofari, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Adam Ewing, Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, Australia
Clément Gilbert, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France
Molly G Hammell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Damon R Lisch, Purdue University, USA
Joe Peters, Cornell University, USA
Phoebe Rice, The University of Chicago, USA
Vincent Colot, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), France
Links to Useful TE Community Resources
Transposable elements labs directory
Women in TEs (maintained by Cedric Feschotte)
Transposons Worldwide SLACK Page (Managed by Rebecca Berrens)
TE digest (Managed by Alexander Suh)
ISfinder (Insertion Sequence database)
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