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Plant & microbial biosciences PhD candidate 👩🏻🔬 @WUSTLdbbs @DanforthCenter @MeyersLabUCDavis Plant bio 🌱 🌽, RNA bio 🧬,and developmental bio 🥚 🐣 🐓
Check out the BAR's Single Cell Data Portal at bar.utoronto.ca/single_cell_..., in beta. There's a curated list of scRNA-seq datasets with viewer links, our own CellxGene instance for exploring 14 datasets from 6 papers, and a new tool, SUPeR Viewer! Thanks to PCA and C-SPIRIT for input.
We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher in plant genome engineering with expertise in synthetic biology, gene editing, and omics, with an interest in developing next-generation technologies for plants.🪴🧬 Available immediately. If interested, send your CV! Feel free to share with your networks.
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We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026. buff.ly/pemelQu
This semester, for our Plant & Micro Biosci Grad program, I'm developing a new course on ✨Peer Review✨ & critical thinking. Final project is a full review of a preprint! I'd love to have a journal editor zoom with the class to share their perspective and do a Q&A. Anyone interested? Pls share!
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Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe. Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.
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Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹 I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes. Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)
A truly enabling new approach by @taralowensohn.bsky.social Will Cody and @sattelylab.bsky.social to probe plant genetics at scale. Single-gene-per-cell delivery coupled to an effective transcriptional selection system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Breaking: the American Society of Plant Taxonomists now on BlueSky @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social! #botany2025 #iamabotanist
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I am SO excited to talk about my dissertation work on the circadian regulation of triacylglycerol biosynthesis at #PlantBio2025!!
American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · last yr.📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Biochemistry 1: Specialized Metabolites Concurrent Session!🌱 buff.ly/thKyu2R Learn more and register now!👉https://buff.ly/k7oIzj8 #plantscience
@cornellasap.bsky.social my McClintock letter in the Petersburg Observer! Research helps everyone, including farmers 👩🌾🚜🌽
📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
I'm excited to share this NAASC early career professional development seminar aimed at plant biology scientists considering faculty jobs! 🌱Lab Launchpad: The New PIs Guide to Starting Your Own Lab🌱 Register www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/register-car...
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems
This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.
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𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70049 📝@K_Bioguy_Cox @sarah_pardy et al 🗺️@DanforthCenter @hhmi.org @WashUforSTL
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This Friday at 12 eastern @aaas.org is holding a zoom meeting on how to respond to federal research grant terminations. Register here aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Responding to Federal Research Grant Terminations. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice and AAAS SEA Change for a roundtable discussion on the laws and regulations that govern federal grant terminations, including procedures ...
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12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!
Seed and tuber collections are really, really, REALLY important. A short thread 🧵 1/5 🧪 #plantscience
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social
Flora Graham@floragraham.bsky.social · 2y agoScientists in France are choosing to #StandUpForScience alongside their US colleagues. Signatories to a supporting column in @lemonde.fr include two Nobel laureates, economist Esther Duflo and virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Back-to-back manuscripts from the Jacobsen and Law labs revealing TFs that direct RdDM! Genetics controlling epigenetics. Reminiscent of KRAB ZFs... shorturl.at/TE4PH shorturl.at/QEHDU
Transcription factors instruct DNA methylation patterns in plant reproductive tissues
DNA methylation is maintained by forming self-reinforcing connections with other repressive chromatin modifications, resulting in stably silenced genes and transposons. However, these mechanisms fail ...
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2nd time in a many weeks I've introduced someone to Anscombe's quartet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscomb...
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We are HIRING! Join us as a Data Scientist or Postdoc working on geospatial (UAV/satellite) analysis and PlantCV development. See details in the job ads. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p... www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Data Scientist I - Phenotyping/Data Science
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Excited to share my News & Views article in Nature Plants! I talk about Pseudouridine and its broader impact on plant gene translation. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #NaturePlants #ScienceCommunication @natureplants.bsky.social
Pseudouridine is the hidden language of plant RNA translation - Nature Plants
A groundbreaking study reveals how pseudouridine modifications across plant RNA species orchestrate translation dynamics, and provides a comprehensive atlas of these modifications in four major crop s...
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Just a week left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab in Oxford.
Rebecca Mosher@rm0sher.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.
