Kirsten Bomblies

The paper investigates aneuploidy and chromosome rearrangements in Arabidopsis thaliana neo-polyploids, finding that breakpoints cluster at fragile sites linked to ancient genome rearrangements.

This study develops a mathematical framework to analyze how protein stability adapts to complex thermal environments, showing that mean temperature and thermal fluctuations have distinct effects on thermodynamic parameters.

This study examines synapsis dynamics in Arabidopsis arenosa tetraploids, finding that improved synapsis efficiency correlates with meiotic stability and reduced crossover-related chromosome mispairing.

This study shows that the plant-specific cohesin subunit SYN4 affects 3D genome organization and gene expression in Arabidopsis, influencing stress responses and bioactive compound biosynthesis.

The paper shows that TE over-accumulation in autopolyploids is due to relaxed purifying selection and that some TE variants near stress response genes may aid local adaptation.