After four years of hard work and late nights, I’m incredibly happy to share that yesterday I successfully defended my DPhil in Biology at the University of Oxford - with only minor corrections! 🎉 Feeling excited and ready for the next chapter!

New work from the Synoxys lab!

Francesco Licausi@syno2xis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our study led by the extraordinary multitasking Daai Zhang shows here (tinyurl.com/3uhbkh54) that an additional O2 sensing mechanism based on histone methylation helps roots to prepare for potentially lethal hypoxic stress (such as in waterlogging)

Glad to be back in Vienna and have some nice chats about evolution! 🌱

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology@gmivienna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Daniel Gibbs Lab

Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

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Thrilled to make my first post here 🌱 Right after presenting at #ISPLORE2025JP, where I shared our work on how anatomy & habitat shaped the oxygen-sensing machinery of angiosperms. Please check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anatomy and habitat shape the oxygen sensing machinery of angiosperms

Hypoxia sensing via the Cys/Arg branch of the N-degron pathway (Cys-NDP) is central for flooding responses in plants, yet how evolutionary and ecological factors have shaped the core oxygen sensing me...

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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research@isplore.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Another exciting #ISPLORE2025JP session with talks Fu-Chiun Hsu, Nico Dissmeyer and @ximenachirinos.bsky.social. Check out her preprint! @syno2xis.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We continue the last part of the #ISPLORE2025JP hypoxia signalling section with talks by @beagiuntoli.bsky.social, Alexey Shapiguzov, @monicaperri1.bsky.social and Yuming He 🌱🌊 Check out Monica's preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

Engineered mutations in the AtPCO4 active site reduce its activity and improve plant submergence resilience! Our new preprint: tinyurl.com/2ydj7qx5, 1 of 2 preprints out this week from the @emilyflashman.bsky.social and @syno2xis.bsky.social labs to link PCO function in plants with flood tolerance!

Engineering reduced activity in the oxygen-sensing Arabidopsis thaliana plant cysteine oxidase 4 enzyme results in improved flood resilience

Plant cysteine oxidases (PCOs) are oxygen-sensing enzymes that play an important role in plant responses to low oxygen (hypoxia). PCO-catalysed dioxygenation of the N-terminal Cys of substrates, inclu...

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Can we modulate plant oxygen sensing to enhance flood resilience?🌿🔧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is one of two preprints out this week from the @syno2xis.bsky.social and @emilyflashman.bsky.social labs, two angles on how PCOs shape plant flood resilience. Don’t miss the full story!

Manipulating plant oxygen sensing through NCO substitution reveals trade-offs between growth and flooding tolerance

The oxygen-dependent degradation of Ethylene Response Factors VII (ERFVIIs) through the N-degron pathway is central to regulating the transcriptional responses to hypoxia in vascular plants. Plant Cys...

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