New preprint examining circadian control of the diel plant proteome. Collaboration between @mehta-lab.com @ezer-lab, @bar-plantbio.bsky.social and @uhriglab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... -> WT + 6 clock mutants -> 2h sampling -> Paired RNAseq analysis -> ePlant data visualization

The plant circadian clock exerts stronger control over the diel proteome than the transcriptome

The plant circadian clock is a genetic circuit composed of multiple mutually-regulating transcription factors that together synchronize internal biological rhythms to the ~24-hour period of planetary ...

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Thanks to the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) and the Approximately Correct team for the fun discussion! m.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5w...

Can AI Optimize Plants? Plant Science Meets ML | Approximately Correct

YouTube video by Amii

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Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production! Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan. The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Was a pleasure to participate in the @ualberta.bsky.social Faculty of Science AI day as part of the AI in Science panel. Such incredible innovation and ingenuity.

Check out our new @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Insight article describing how understanding the effects of twilight is refining our understanding plant photoperiodism. Excellent collaboration between @uhriglab.bsky.social and @mehta-lab.com doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Super excited to announce that the awards and CNPN board member nomination deadline is on Friday, Sep 5, 2025! 🤩🙌 Check out more info: cnpn.ca

A wonderful opportunity to learn about how you can success in different conferences 😍🙌 It's a great collaboration between CNPN, US HUPO ECR and HUPO ECR. Link to register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Participants can presubmit questions on the registration form.

A new publication from @mehta-lab.com and @aishagerhardt.bsky.social with some really cool ideas about the future of agriculture!

Devang Mehta🌱🧬@mehta-lab.com · last yr.

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you University of Zürich for the opportunity to share our research and for the nice meetings! Looking forward to conversing further!

Really nice time and conversations at Agroscope - Reckenholz CH! Thanks for the invite Jöelle Schläpfer!

Some new tools for monocots, and the plasmids are available at Addgene! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Remote sensing of endogenous pigmentation by inducible synthetic circuits in grasses

Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built, and tested in plants to demonstrate proof of concept. However, de...

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Final Plenary of #ICAR2025 with @diorkelley.bsky.social presenting.

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Nice between meetings meet up with old Gruissem Lab ETHZ colleagues! Loads of great science done with this crew!

Plant Chronobiology 2025 was an absolutely fabulous meeting. What a group of incredible scientists. The future is bright. Many thanks to the organizing committee!

Excited to be here a Plant Chronobiology 2025 at KU Leuven BE! Great job @mehta-lab.com et al!

Very cool stuff! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III - Nature

An approach that combines single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed perturbation identifies genes that enable the biosynthesis of direct precursors of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, whose curren...

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#TansleyInsight: Recent advances in proteomic workflows to interrogate the SUMOylome in #plants Kishor Ingole, Elizaveta Alekseeva, Kathryn Lilley & Ari Sadanandom 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

I am also actively recruiting graduate student for my new Assistant Professor role starting in July at the University of Alberta. If you will be at #Evol2025 and are looking for opportunities to study at the intersection of AI/ML and biology (especially evolution), let's talk in Athens!

!! Check out our new pre-print on using BONCAT Click Chemistry in plants !! Optimization of Bio-Orthogonal Non-Canonical Amino acid Tagging (BONCAT) for effective low-disruption labelling of Arabidopsis proteins in vivo. So many exciting possibilities! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Exploring the untapped potential of single‐cell and spatial omics in plant biology

Advances in single-cell and spatial omics technologies have revolutionised biology by revealing the diverse molecular states of individual cells and their spatial organization within tissues. The fie...

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Cool article! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma

Plants rely on water and light for photosynthesis, but water droplets on leaves can focus light into high-intensity spots, risking photodamage. Excess…

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Thanks #amii for the invite to speak about our work with AI and plants at #Upperbound 2025. What an awesome event!

And #inppo2025 has ended. What a wonderful meeting! Thanks to all who joined to share their wonderful plant proteomic research and to our sponsors for continuing to support Plant Proteomics! Stay tuned for more details on INPPO 2027 in Lisbon, Portugal!

Last keynote speaker of #inppo2025 Dr. Pengcheng Wang. Outstanding body of work resolving new phospho-mediate mechanisms in plants.

Outstanding talk by @ivedesmet1978.bsky.social at #inppo2025. Huge amount of excellent work!

Harvey Millar from UWA starting us off talking about Proteomics for Climate Resiliency in Crops.

View from #inppo2025 looks good!

Looking forward to hearing about the exciting plant proteomics research being done around the world this week at #inppo2025 today in Banff!

The opportunities of AI in the plant sciences is vast. See how the future is bright with how AI can impact plant proteomics in a Trends in Plant Science Opinion with @uhriglab.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister www.cell.com/trends/plant...

The plant proteome delivers from discovery to innovation

The field of mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is rapidly advancing with technological and computational improvements, including leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive inn...

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