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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

@janelangdale.bsky.social

Plant developmental biologist; Airedale terrier owner; most relaxed by the ocean. langdalelab.com All views expressed are my own and do not represent any of the institutions I am associated with.

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾@janelangdale.bsky.social · last wk.

My science and my career would have been very different (if existent) without Mike’s input - and I only worked as a collaborator, never in his lab. Huge loss

MaizeGDB@maizegdb.bsky.social · last wk.

We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.

We are very sorry to share the sad news that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year long battle with esophageal cancer. Mike was a long-time faculty member in the Plant and Microbiology Department at University of California-Berkeley, a groundbreaking plant geneticist, and an inspiring teacher and mentor to over two dozen Ph.D. students, four dozen postdocs, and countless undergraduates. He was best known for pioneering work on maize anaerobic metabolism and gene regulation, transposon biology, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole-genome duplications in plants. Mike was hired by UC-Berkeley as an assistant professor straight out of graduate school in 1973, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to full professor in 1984. He was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies in 2017. Mike taught genetics, comparative genomics and scientific reasoning to our graduate students, and he also taught a popular genetics course for non-majors that had various titles over the years but was affectionately known as “Genetics for Poets.” Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and many colleagues.
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our Executive Editor, @amjeve.uk, and Community Manager for @the-node.bsky.social, @andreamurillo.bsky.social, are in Las Vegas now for #2026SDB. Drop by @biologists.bsky.social booth #20 to speak to them and pick up your freebies. Sign up for news for one of our coasters or a charging adapter.

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Robin Burns@robinburns.bsky.social · 2w ago

Delighted to share our paper on neo-chromosomes! We induced centromere fission using CRISPR in Arabidopsis and increased the chromosome count from n=5 to n=6. The broken chromosomes ends quickly “healed” by adding telomeres de novo and the new karyotype is stable through mitosis and meiosis! 1/3

Ian Henderson@hendersi.bsky.social · 2w ago

CRISPR-mediated centromere fission generates neochromosomes with distorted meiotic inheritance in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.6... new preprint from us - includes changing the Arabidopsis karyotype from 5 -> 6 chromosomes using Cas9 & outcomes of 5/6 chromosome hybrid meiosis

Michelle Facette@mfacette.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

Maria Stager@mstager.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Nick Talbot@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · last mo.

PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social BBSRC competition. Please RT👇 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership

What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

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Jake Harris@c-jake-harris.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · last mo.

Have a favorite European colleague who should be recognized for their work in non-medical biotechnology? Pls nominate them for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology. (Prior awardees at novonordiskfoundationprize.com/awardees). Thank you! novonordiskfoundationprize.com/nominate-bio...

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Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · last mo.

And thanks to all the great @biologists.bsky.social Directors, who give their time and expertise so generously to make The Company of Biologists the great #NotForProfit #Publisher that it is

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last mo.

At Heathrow hopefully heading home. Great @biologists.bsky.social Board meeting. Fun to be a small part of the team that makes @jcellsci.bsky.social , @jexpbiol.bsky.social , @dev-journal.bsky.social, @dmmjournal.bsky.social & @biologyopen.bsky.social happen. Choose society &non-profit journals!

Plantae.org@plantaeofficial.bsky.social · last mo.

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Evidence for C4 photosynthetic fluxes in transgenic rice plants (bioRxiv) @janelangdale.bsky.social (Summary by Fatai Ayomide Akande) buff.ly/qNh82Hn #PlantaePSRW

Evidence for C4 photosynthetic fluxes in transgenic rice plants | Plantae

Improving photosynthetic efficiency is an important strategy to boost yields in staple crops such as rice, which relies on the relatively inefficient C3 pathway. In contrast…

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Deborah Marsh@djmarsh24.bsky.social · last mo.

Grant rejoinders: Avoid using comments from a +ve Assessor to rebut another Assessor who is more critical of aspects of your proposal. For assessors, it’s easier to say something is great than spend time detailing issues. Responses need to come from your deep knowledge of your proposal. #grants 🧪

George R. L. Greiff@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

A wild-type shoot with a single apical sporophyte (left) beside a Ppwox13lc mutant with three sporophytes on the same shoot (right).
Benjamin Swedlund@benswedlund.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beautiful piece on how field-specific journals with high ethical standards, such as Development, don’t try to « Game » the impact factor system - and practical steps to move away from this inherently flawed metric as a researcher (see Box 2)

James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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