The postdoc position is open until filled, but I will start reviewing applicants this coming Monday. If you know someone who is looking, please share. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity. But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing? PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time. read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint! We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠 Highlights below! 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m missing out on the amazing science at #Botany2025, but super happy that my student Megan Adler is giving her first talk! July 29, TUE, 9 AM (PDT): “Dynamic DNA (de)methylation underpins parasitic #Cuscuta-host plant communication” If you are attending, don’t miss Megan’s talk!

This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better! Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social

⏱️ T - 7 days to go ⏱️ Only 1 week left to submit an abstract and apply for a travel grant to attend #JXB75 in Edinburgh in September 🌱 Don’t miss your chance - apply today! 🌱 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

#Argonautes2025 - argonautes.img.cas.cz Join us in Prague 27-30/8/2025 for the next edition of the Argonaute meeting #miRNA #siRNA #piRNA & #PIWI Abstract submission for talk selection deadline is 30/6! Please, spread the word @rnasociety.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

Congratulations @emiliebrasset.bsky.social and colleagues! Great work.

Interesting - bik1 T-DNA mutants are smaller, have high levels of SA (autoimmune phenotype), but CRISPR mutants do not have more severe compromised defense. #plantimmunity #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#NoCass2025 registration now open! If you're a student or post-doc at Norwich or Cambridge, join us at the Norwich-Cambridge Science Symposium on 4-5 September - a great chance to share research & form collaborations. Find out more & register: lnkd.in/eH3We78t @nocassofficial.bsky.social

#ICAR2025 attendees! Stop by @theplantcell.bsky.social booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... 6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!

I rarely have the energy to paint or draw now, but I still had fun making these figures for a paper using biorender. Although icons are made by biorender, it’s was quite a lot of work by @benebachelot.bsky.social and myself to come up with the final version- I am pleased with the look!

#TEsky DNA gains and losses in gigantic genomes do not track differences in transposable element-host silencing interactions doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Scientists have found a way to trick parasitic weeds into germinating when no host is present, causing them to die. Using engineered microbes, they’re producing key plant hormones to potentially turn this natural system into a powerful defense. buff.ly/4SvbjZP v @ucriverside.bsky.social #Science

I remember seeing this in the preprint version

Nature’s viny vampire..🧛 Discover what drives #parasiticplant Cuscuta campestris to insert its organs into host plants: Read EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Read the original article here: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Excited to share that I'll soon be recruiting a 3 year postdoc to join the lab @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social to work with me on Rubisco biochemistry and engineering. Official advertising details to be released very soon, watch this space! Please spread the word. 😀🌱🧪🥼

Re-upping this. If you need to do local synteny visualization, please give my workflow a try. github.com/cxli233/Tidy...

A wonderful scientist and a wonderful person. We should all strive to be remembered that way

📜 Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era 🧑‍🔬 @lauracleventhal.bsky.social, Megan Ruffley, ‪ @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social 📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics

Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference. Consider joining us for what will be an excellent, exciting meeting and will be held in Europe for the first time: 10-15 Aug25 Barcelona, Spain. Please repost and apply early - this meeting is popular! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

After an extensive search, the Danforth Center has named Giles Oldroyd, PhD, its next President. @gilesoldroyd.bsky.social is a renowned plant geneticist & one of only a few hundred scientists elected to both the UK @royalsociety.org & the US @nasonline.org. www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...

Fully Funded PhD opportunity in my group! 125th Anniversary PhD Scholarship at @unibirmingham @UoBbiosciences studying (epi)genome plasticity in oaks at the @BIFoRUoB FACE facilities. Black & Black mixed heritage students (UK/Home-fee eligible) 30 April 2025 – RT🙏 More info👇

In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's not a bug, it's a feature 😉 Here's a really nice review from the Slotkin group: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Or one from my group about a heat stress responsive TE and how it modifies gene expression and stress responsiveness. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to share this new preprint from the lab (shorturl.at/l7lNq)! @hendersi.bsky.social si.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social

Class-agnostic annotation of small RNAs balances sensitivity and specificity in diverse organisms doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We're excited to have Saima Shahid (UK) and Jiacheng Ji (China) as our next speakers at the IPPS seminar: www.parasiticplants.org/2025/01/ipps...

New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

**SPECIAL ISSUE OPEN** 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 Guest editors: Zsuzsanna Kolbert & Christophe Bailly Deadline: 28th February 2025 Email us if you'd like to submit a paper - there's still time! #JXBspecialissue #seeds #plantscience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.

SEB is looking for passionate scientists to become convenors for the Plant Transport and Plant Development SIGs. 🌱 ➡️ Apply by 15 February 2025: www.sebiology.org/resource/joi... 📌 Expand your network, develop leadership skills, and shape the future of science in your field.

🎂Life Science Editors just turned 🔟 🧬New clients get a 20% discount in January! Use the code "Happy Anniversary" when you submit your request online www.lifescienceeditors.com 🧪Don’t miss this chance to give your research the edge it deserves. #ScientificWriting #BioSky #MedSky #Publishing

🔬Decoding Silencing: How Heterochromatin Transcribes to Silence Itself! 🧬 Discover how a pioneer transcription factor-like complex infiltrates repressive heterochromatin, producing transcripts with hidden introns that kickstart RNAi-mediated heterochromatin formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to start the new year with publication of our new work on leaf surface RNA. Plant leaves secrete diverse RNAs that are surprisingly stable on their surfaces. Next question to answer: What do they do? www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

In the most recent episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with @maxvcg.bsky.social from the @ijmonod.bsky.social about his work on epigenetic consequences of DNA methylation in development. #podcast #chromatin #epigenetics Listen here: https://buff.ly/3ZXWGuy

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

Here's more info on my available PhD position. Please do message me to get more info! (Though, it's Christmas - so, no stress! I'll get back to you after the break). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We often speak about chromatin as being accessible or inaccessible, but what does it mean? We wrote a short review on this, 🔬 focused: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A big thank you to Tom Fillot for his efforts on this and to @hansen_lab @marcelonollmann for their help as editors.

Experimental warming alters microbial community and N-fixing plant growth rate in a tropical forest - happy to be part of this collaborative work led by talented OSU grad student Parker Bartz in @benebachelot.bsky.social lab doi.org/10.1101/2024...

**𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚** JXB is looking for an assistant editor to join our friendly team based in Lancaster, UK. Come and work for a society-owned journal and support the #plantscience community. 🧪 More info: bit.ly/JXBAE24 @sebiology.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @giffordlab.bsky.social

One service we offer for our journal clients (and individual authors!) is looking for inappropriate figure manipulation––we find a lot using tools, but our eagle-eyed editors do find things that the tools don't! planteditors.com/figures-in-f...

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

I am excited to see #miRScore, a new tool for rapid and precise validation of plant/animal #miRNAs -led by the talented Allison Vanek & @MikeAxtell Lab. This tool is super useful for robust validation of novel miRNAs in non-model species like #Striga: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...