Ben Williams
@WilliamsSci
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Assistant Professor @PMB_Berkeley. Fascinated by epigenetics, evolution, genomes, and all aspects of plant biology.
Berkeley, California
Joined February 2013
RT @jmhibber: Very pleased to see this work out that identifies a code in C3 rice co-opted to allow C4 photosynthesis.
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@I_Rubio_Somoza I know some people who have sorted nuclei with different DNA contents (2,4,8,16C etc) and sequenced methylation. Papers never came so I always assumed it was a negative result. That said we are thinking about re-testing this ourselves
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@I_Rubio_Somoza However worth adding that Xin-Jian He's lab reported tcx5/6 mutants (the ones with no age effect) have reduced ploidy!
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RT @metalichen: Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen s…
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We are grateful for the positive reception this has received :) Also realized we should fully credit a paper that inspired us & identified the TCX5/6 repressors. Our breakthrough wouldn't have been possible without this important work (Xin-Jian He's lab)
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RT @zhonglab: Our work on evolution and functional divergence of DNA methyltransferases is out @ScienceAdvances. Kudos to @jiang_jianjun…
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@AlexJColville @RuxandraTeslo So we think what we're studying is analogous (possibly conserved) to heterochromatin aging dynamics that have been well studied in mammals, but distinct from the CpG island methylation changes that occur during mammalian aging
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@AlexJColville @amaizeingcorn @biorxivpreprint Thanks so much for the kind words!! We are really excited to reach people who think about aging and epigenetics in humans/mammals for feedback :)
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