🚨 PhD project alert: Engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health. 🦠 🪴 🥼 🧑‍💻 🌍 Fully funded PhD studenship in my group, open for international students. @earlhaminst.bsky.social Please share widely! Deadline: 14th of May www.earlham.ac.uk/studentship/...

Sentinel bacteria: engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health

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This is so cool! Thank you for making this @kiranrajrki.bsky.social

Kiran Raj 🌱@kiranrajrki.bsky.social · 4w ago

KRSU-003: The Courier Who Knew the Address Inspired by a recent study @natbiotech.nature.com Based on the work from @kimuchenje03.bsky.social @prof-gozde.bsky.social @caltech.edu The science is real. The story is fiction 🌱 :-)

Optimized R2 retroelement complexes for DNA insertion into plant genomes - @prof-gozde.bsky.social @caltech.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Optimized R2 retroelement complexes for DNA insertion into plant genomes - Nature Biotechnology

R2 retrotransposons are used to integrate DNA into plant and crop 25S ribosomal DNA sites.

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Targeted DNA insertion remains a major bottleneck in plant engineering. We developed an avian R2 retrotransposon as an efficient plant genome editor to precisely insert large DNA payloads at targeted sites: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to @kimuchenje03.bsky.social and the team! 🧵👇

Caltech Chemical Engineering is recruiting a long-term lecturer! Reach out if you’re interested and have any questions. applications.caltech.edu/job/chemeng

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc

Excited to see the major chapter of my PhD in print! We present a massively-parallel approach for screening CRISPR edits in plants to speed up agricultural test cycles + benchmark genomic LMs. Thanks to my fantastic co-authors and advisors. Link below!

Savage Lab@savagecatsonly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can CRISPR edits enable precise tuning of plant gene expression? We think: yes. In our newest manuscript, we measured the effects of >30,000 CRISPR-like promoter mutations in sorghum protoplasts.

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.

ECRs in plant–microbe interactions: Join us in Norwich for an intensive, interactive 1.5-week Summer Conference at TSL (20–31 July). Lots of opportunities for networking and deep discussions. (We also plan to offer hands-on practical sessions using our technologies 🔬🧬)

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

Our new review in Science @science.org is out with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social and @nvukas.bsky.social. We discuss how precise modulation of brassinosteroid signaling can enable more targeted, predictable improvements in plant growth and resilience. science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9798

It was great to talk science and show @billgates.bsky.social around our lab at @caltech.edu . Nolan and Meyerowitz lab postdoc Donovan Phua's regenerating callus is featured 🌱 www.instagram.com/reel/DQo2pen...

Our cover indicates that while we celebrate the past we're looking ahead to the future - with the help of a Viewpoint! 13 researchers offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050 🔮 👉 go.nature.com/4neNdYU

Visions of the future of molecular cell biology - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

To celebrate the journal’s 25th anniversary, we asked 13 researchers to offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050. They consider how technological breakthroughs — for example, artificial intelligence-powered virtual cells — could transform our understanding of how molecules, organelles and cells behave in different contexts, revolutionize therapies and enable the design of resilient crops.

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology@natrevmcb.nature.com · 11mo ago

Hello Bluesky! We're celebrating ✨25th years of NRMCB✨ with our October Issue - out now! It offers a glimpse into our journal's scope - cell death, enhancers, cell cycle, migration, transposable elements, membrane contact sites & AI! go.nature.com/4nJUz6w

Big news from the Demirer lab: first 4 research papers are preprinted! Check them out, feedback welcomed: eCIS for plant protein delivery: tinyurl.com/mrx4d878 R2 for targeted insertion: tinyurl.com/5n73za6h Transient expression: tinyurl.com/38p2ud6w Chemotaxis assay: tinyurl.com/3nw9haes More ⬇️

Excited to be at #PlantBiology2025 🌱 this week and deeply honored to receive the Jane Silverthorne Early Career Award this year! aspb.org/awards-fundi... Let me know if you’re around and want to catch up at the conference! #ASPB #PlantBiology2025

Excited to be speaking at Synthetic Biology Australasia 2025 in Wellington, New Zealand, 19–21 November! I'll be sharing my group's recent advances on plant synthetic biology and genome engineering 🌱🧬 Join us: 🔗 synbioaustralasia.org/upcoming-conference #SBA2025 #SyntheticBiology #ScienceInAction

Excited that our paper with @bradylabs.bsky.social on conservation and divergence in nitrogen regulatory networks is finally published. This was a fun & rewarding collaboration that will continue in new projects to engineer 🍅 N responses academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Conservation and divergence of regulatory architecture in nitrate-responsive plant gene circuits

Gene circuits that control transcriptional regulation of nitrate-responses have similarities and differences, despite the equivalent effects of nitrogen on

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Our latest article on biological nitrogen fixation on the aerial roots of sorghum has been published in @plosbiology.org. We thank the @energygov.bsky.social for supporting this exciting project. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Join us at the 2025 International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering (ICBE) for cutting-edge discussions and an incredible speaker lineup! 🌟 Last day to register (with hotel room) is this Friday, Dec 13! #ICBE2025 🔗Register here: www.aiche.org/sbe/conferen...

🌱 Demirer Lab 🌱 @caltech.edu is looking for passionate graduate students to join us! Explore our exciting research for a sustainable future: demirerlab.com 🌏 🌱 🦠 📢 Apply here to CCE or BBE: t.co/cIv8Hbfy0Z and mention your interest in our lab in your statement. 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec 1

We’re looking for talented, driven graduate students to join our growing Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program at @caltech.edu! ⏰ Applications are due December 1, 2024. ➡️ Apply Here: t.co/cIv8Hbfy0Z

Hello new Plant Scientists, 2 Things: 👉 To connect to 150 Plant Science Accounts and 3 relevent feeds, here's a #StarterPack for you: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 👉 To get your #PlantScience posts into the Plant Science Research Feed (here: bsky.app/profile/did:...), always use the Hashtag #PlantScience

We made it to Orlando for the #AIChE2023! This is Mark’s @mlegendr.bsky.social debut to the AIChE community!! Check out his poster (#111) on Monday 3:30 pm discussing our recent work on genetically encoded delivery vehicles for plants 🌱