Caterina Giannini
@cate-giannini.bsky.social
Post doc @slcuplants.bsky.social |PhD @istareasearch| Alumna @SantAnnaPisa Powered by plants 🌱 and dancing 💃🏻
The SynBio team’s plasmid collection is one of the coolest aspects of @thesainsburylab.bsky.social What’s even cooler is their vision of sharing it with everyone and the partners who are helping make it happen 💪 🧬
Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust published: Community Spirit: Plasmids for All How a decade of plasmid-wrangling at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social grew into a movement — and the unexpected friends now helping us open the doors wider. medium.com/p/community-...
Auxin and the control of plant growth and development”, a concise @currentbiology.bsky.social primer by ISTA researchers Valentin Leitner and Eva Benková is out now: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00517-8 #Auxin #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantHormones #Botany
#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
Our latest review on Single Cell Proteomics is out. Honored that it is a Feature Review in the @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social special series: TIBS at 50 - Foundations and Frontiers. #Proteomics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mass spectrometry-based single-cell proteomics technologies, trends, and biological insights
Single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a transformative approach for characterizing cellular heterogeneity at the protein level. Recent advances …
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Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇
Cell-type-specific autophagy in root-hair-forming cells is essential for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Plants
This study reveals that enhanced autophagy in root-hair-forming cells helps Arabidopsis store excess sodium, control oxidative stress and tolerate salt stress.
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Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Craig Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes. go.nature.com/48wRba4
Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science
Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes.
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Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered www.theguardian.com/environment/... Check out the four-week residential program being offered - application deadline 7 April. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/learning/cer...
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
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Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!
Five years ago, researchers at Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold2 go.nature.com/3LUDauu
AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science
Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.
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Check out this recent preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Nuclear auxin signalling induces autophagy for developmental reprogramming
The phytohormone auxin is a central regulator of plant growth and development, traditionally known for mediating transcriptional reprogramming through the canonical TIR1/AFB-Aux/IAA signalling pathway...
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🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1 Connecting auxin-autophagy-development
Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 10mo agoCool #preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social at @frimllab.bsky.social addressing how #auxin induces #autophagy. Glad we can contribute... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It is with great sadness that we heard of John Gurdon’s passing this week. Not just one of our 100 extraordinary biologists, but truly one of a kind, he was a pioneer, whose vision and personality inspired biologists worldwide.
It is out! A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (PIN2, Friml lab) and www.cell.com/developmenta... (PIN1, Xu lab)
ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism
In gravistimulated roots, gravity perception in the columella redirects the flow of the plant hormone auxin toward the lower root side, where it inhibits cell elongation for downward root bending. Thi...
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Such a nice and inspiring experience! 🌱 Thanks @NewPhyt for the opportunity! P.s. spot me in the photo, if you can 😉
New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last yr.Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
“As researchers we are explorers, and part of our mission involves finding our way without always knowing where we are going” www.science.org/content/arti...
How I finally found my confidence as a scientist
After three postdoc positions, this researcher now sees her skills and knowledge as valuable
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Founded in 2009 with a bold vision to become a top international research institution, ISTA already ranked 3rd in 2019’s Nature Index Normalized. Today, its campus is “home” to 1,100+ people from 78 countries. By 2036, it will double in size to appr. 150 research groups + more than 2,000 employees.
I will be recruiting one PhD student and one postdoc in 2025. If interested please contact me already. @psb-vib.bsky.social 🌱🌱🌱We are interested in steroid hormones. See our published work PMID: 40068682 PMID: 38513023 PMID: 37639582 PMID: 37365405
These historical threads by @somssich.bsky.social about various fundamental aspects of plant biology, and the long process of discovery, linking papers from a century ago to very recent publications, are such a joy to read, every single time.
Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · last yr.#PlantScienceClassics #19: Root gravitropism: 120 years ago the starch-statolith theory was described, ~100 years ago the Cholodny-Went theory proposed, and 25 years ago the directional auxin flow was mapped as reverse fountain in the root tip. #Phytohormones #Gravitropism #Auxin #PlantScience
Back-to-back on bioRxiv by @plantophagy.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social Cell-type specific upregulation of autophagy in Arabidopsis root hair cells promotes 1) root hair lifespan by suppressing cell death 2) plant salt stress resilience by ion sequestration See links to 2 papers below!
The next frontier in #autophagy is understanding how it functions across cell types to maintain organismal homeostasis. w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we present TWO #preprint on cell type spec. autophagy in root hairs‼️ #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are excited to update you on two distinct auxin oscillations (local & systemic), revealing how root architecture adapts to fluctuating conditions! @cibss.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Two distinct oscillatory auxin signals define the plasticity of lateral rooting in Arabidopsis thaliana
The phytohormone auxin defines lateral root pre-branch sites (PBS) in the growing primary root tip. How PBS contribute to the plasticity of the root system architecture remains incompletely understood...
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