Laura Moody
@moodytomato.bsky.social
Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Biology in Oxford. Unravelling 3D growth in plants 🌱 #plantscience
We're hiring... again! Lecturer in Bioinformatics, £51,753 - £58,225 per year Awesome city, awesome colleagues, awesome students. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bristoluni #wearebristoluni #biologicalsciences Please share widely!
🧵 New paper alert! We've discovered RAK1—a moss protein that does something no other known protein does: it fuses MAP kinase signaling with acetyltransferase activity to control a critical developmental transition. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An N‐acetyltransferase‐MAPK fusion protein modulates developmental reprogramming in Physcomitrium patens
We discovered a previously uncharacterized moss-specific protein, Rosetta NATD-MAPK 1 (RAK1) in Physcomitrium patens, which uniquely integrates MAP kinase (MAPK)-dependent signaling with N-acetyltra.....
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1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯
Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · 2y ago🌵Preprint alert 🌵 5y in the works & extremely proud of this one. Xin Cheng & @heikelindner.bsky.social established the eudicot leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model. Like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... BSKY-tutorial 👇
🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob
Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants
In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...
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Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #plantscience
Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell
Cammarata et al. explore how cell division orientation generates phyllotaxis in moss with a unicellular meristem. They show that successive rotational divisions in the apical cell are precisely placed...
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Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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It’s been amazing to receive so much interest in the Prototaxites paper! An absolute highlight was talking about the work last night to Jane Hill on BBC R4, The World Tonight The Prototaxites segment starts at 33 mins 👇👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The World Tonight - President Zelensky slams Europeans for being in ‘Greenland mode’ - BBC Sounds
At Davos, the Ukrainian president attacked his European allies for their passivity.
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We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…
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Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Efficient CRISPR-Cas genome editing in brown algae
Brown algae, a key yet understudied lineage of multicellular eukaryotes, have long lacked tools for functional genomics. Martinho et al. introduce a high-efficiency, transgene-free CRISPR platform ena...
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Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Phylogeny, chromosomal mapping and expression analyses of wheat CLAVATA pathway components suggest differential selection on receptor‐like kinases, CLEs and T3 WOXes
The Arabidopsis CLAVATA pathway regulates shoot apex and fruit size, and disrupting CLAVATA function has led to yield improvement in crops. Despite its central position in agriculture, the potential ...
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@philcarella.bsky.social opens up the 4th #nonseedUK25 meeting. An exciting day of science lies ahead…
Comparative genomics to understand the evolution of water conducting tissues. A great overview by @alexmcbowles.bsky.social 🌱 #nonseedUK25
@sramundo.bsky.social looks through the lens of Chlamydomonas to understand the origins of plastid-encoded RNA polymerase complexity #nonseedUK25 👍
@jimfouracre.bsky.social discusses vegetative phase change and the ancestral role of miR156 #nonseedUK25
@davidjhoey.bsky.social discusses the acquisition of vasculature as an evolutionary innovation - lovely comparative approaches across multiple land plant lineages #nonseedUK25 🌱 😊
Hugh Mulvey explains why M. polymorpha is such a great system for studying morphogenesis from a single cell #nonseedUK25 👍
Miriam Charpentier discusses the evolution of endosymbiosis-mediated nuclear calcium signaling in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍
@dariuskos.bsky.social highlights the multitalented MpGRAS7 gene, which is involved in both stress response and reproductive development #nonseedUK25 😀
@justingoodrich.bsky.social investigates the ancestral roles of ZHOUPI genes in land plants #nonseedUK25 🌱 👍
Fantastic closing keynote by @rensingstefan.bsky.social. Thanks for joining us and telling us about all of the great @watertoland.bsky.social outputs 👍
Non-seed science is accelerating forwards at a truly impressive rate. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for an awesome #nonseedUK25 meeting, and to @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for agreeing to organise #nonseedUK26 in Edinburgh - looking forward to it 👍
Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG@gensocuknonseed.bsky.social · 9mo agoThanks to everyone who came along to the #nonseedUK25 meeting. Another fantastic day of non-seed science. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for looking after us all so well 👍
We’re delighted to announce that the #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held in Edinburgh. Watch this space for further details 🌱 🏴 😃
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Always a high octane event - super science highlighted, and very impressive talks 👍
Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG@gensocuknonseed.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe 4th annual non-seed plant flash talk showcase extravaganza didn’t disappoint #nonseedUK25 🌱
