Phil Carella
@philcarella.bsky.social
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Exploring the evolutionary diversity of plant-pathogen interactions
pinned post!
Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns!
@hynmn-jeong.bsky.social
@michaelwebster.bsky.social
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
@yusugihara.bsky.social
. Check out the preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sebastian Schornack
about 8 hours ago
LIN oppositely affects Phytophthora infection in Medicago.
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Hiro Nakagami
1 day ago
Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha
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Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha
Click on the article title to read more.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70980
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Sebastian Schornack
2 days ago
Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome
oomycetes.com
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Mike Blazanin
2 days ago
Postdoc position on phage-bacteria coevolution available in the
@aburmeister.bsky.social
lab at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
#phage
#evosky
#MicroSky
#VirEvol
🦠 🔬
#microbiology
arburmeister.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
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The Sainsbury Laboratory
2 days ago
Just over two weeks left to apply for this open Laboratory Technician opportunity in the 2Blades group! Join the team to work on developing resistance traits in soybean 🌱 Apply online, deadline 15 March 2026
tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantScience
#STEMJobs
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Laboratory Technician - 2Blades Group
A Laboratory Technician position is available to join the 2Blades Group at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich
https://www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-tsl/current-opportunities/163970
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Hugues Renault
3 days ago
Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell: Current Biology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#plantscience
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Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell
Cammarata et al. explore how cell division orientation generates phyllotaxis in moss with a unicellular meristem. They show that successive rotational divisions in the apical cell are precisely placed...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2826%2900133-8
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John Innes Centre
3 days ago
VACANCY - We’re looking for a Laboratory Technician to join the
@yiliangding.bsky.social
group, investigating the role of
#RNA
structure in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/la...
Closing date - 17 March Contract - 36 months, Full-time
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Laboratory Technician (Ding Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Laboratory Technician to join the Cell & Developmental Biology Department, to support the cutting-edge science of the John Innes Centre.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/laboratory-technician-ding-group-2/
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Tonni Andersen
3 days ago
Check out our new preprint by
@octaviarmn.bsky.social
and
@liobarueger.bsky.social
in collaboration with
@meikeburow.bsky.social
- we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina!
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
lots of cool stuff!
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https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.02.23.707459v1
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Roeland Berendsen
4 days ago
How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱 “Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊 The formatted PDF of our paper is now online!
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Earlham Institute
4 days ago
📣 Applications are currently open for a
@blackinplantsci.bsky.social
Summer Studentship working with
@cgrandel.bsky.social
and the Earlham
#Biofoundry
team. 🌱 This is a great opportunity for Black undergraduate students to gain experience in
#automation
and
#syntheticbiology
in plants. 🧬
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Black in Plant Science Summer Studentship 2026
For the second time we will be offering Black undergraduate students from universities across the UK the opportunity to undertake a research experience placement at a UK university or research…
https://buff.ly/jhJAfyc
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Yasin Dagdas
4 days ago
Really happy to see this one out:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends
@gekaragoz.bsky.social
& E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved
#Marchantia
and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
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Christian Fankhauser
4 days ago
I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Jo Hepworth
7 days ago
ONE WEEK to the deadline!
#PlantSciJobs
#phd
#plantsciphd
email me
[email protected]
for more information (I'm friendly and keen to meet you!) and tips on application documents.
www.needl.org.uk
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Facundo Romani
11 days ago
Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product.
#PlantScience
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Hassan Salem
12 days ago
How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by
@inespons.bsky.social
& in our collaboration w/
@microbiome.bsky.social
🦠🪲 Out today in
@natcomms.nature.com
! 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Team Thomma
14 days ago
📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
13 days ago
#transgenerational
transmission of a core
#microbiome
that protects against downy mildew from soil to
#phyllosphere
Fantastic and important study by
@jellespooren.bsky.social
@rlberendsen.bsky.social
@cornepieterse.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Darius Kosmützky
about 1 month ago
Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of
#Marchantia
chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)
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My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA: 🔹 Bioinformatics / AI 🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics 🔹 Proteomics Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 📅 Closing date: 27 February Apply via JIC website:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/
Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-charpentier-group-6/
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PM Delaux
23 days ago
1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out
@pnas.org
! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students
@karimaelm.bsky.social
and
@chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social
! and the old gard
@jacquet-chris.bsky.social
@maximebonhomme.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123
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Baptiste Castel
17 days ago
CPK28 was already present in the first land plant, and presents a paradox: the Marchantia version can perfectly replace the Arabidopsis version for immunity, but does not seem to participate to immunity in Marchantia ... A lot more molecular data here =>
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yasin Dagdas
21 days ago
This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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RETRACTED: Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree
Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9456#elettersSection
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Roman Ulm
25 days ago
New preprint out! Zhoubo Hu et al "A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis". We identify CAIR1, a UVR8-interacting protein, as a redox-responsive regulator of catalase localization and activity, maintaining cellular ROS balance. 🌱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tatsuya Nobori
24 days ago
Delighted to welcome Nanne Taks (
@nwtaks.bsky.social
) as a new postdoc in our lab! Nanne completed his PhD in Amsterdam with
@havandenburg.bsky.social
and
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social
, working on plant-pathogen interactions at hydathode water pores. Welcome!
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Jill Harrison
25 days ago
It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?
From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901687-2
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion
28 days ago
Please share! My group at
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion
28 days ago
Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Cell Host & Microbe
28 days ago
Chemical inhibition of a bacterial immune system Small molecules inhibit type II Thoeris anti-phage systems from diverse bacteria. One compound, IP6C, improves phage-therapy against P. aeruginosa & is effective against Thoeris in polymicrobial communities
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Chemical inhibition of a bacterial immune system
Bacteriophages are promising alternatives to antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. However, bacteria possess immune systems that neutralize bacteriophages. Zang et al. discover small molecule...
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(26)00003-X
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Rebecca Mosher
about 1 month ago
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction.
shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
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Jiorgos Kourelis
about 1 month ago
📢 2 PhD Positions Available in Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at Imperial College London 🌱 Start: Oct 2026 📅 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 🇬🇧 UK/settled status only 💰 Fully funded (48 months) ℹ️ Info:
shorturl.at/po61I
#PlantImmunity
#PlantPathology
#SyntheticBiology
🙏 Share with interested candidates!
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PhD Opportunities | Faculty of Natural Sciences | Imperial College London
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/life-sciences/postgraduate/research/phd-opportunities/
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Matt Hutchings
about 1 month ago
Want some editorial experience? The
@microbiologysociety.org
flagship journal Microbiology has opened a call for new editors, more details here:
microbiologysociety.org/news/society...
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<i>Microbiology</i> Editors: Call for expressions of interest
https://microbiologysociety.org/news/society-news/i-microbiology-i-editors-call-for-expressions-of-interest-jan-2026.html?_gl=1*i4o749*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc4NzgwMzQxNS4xNzY5MTAwNzAy*_ga_KJR7LS80P1*czE3NjkxMDA3MDEkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjkxMDA3MDEkajYwJGwwJGgw
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Facundo Romani
about 1 month ago
This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in
@plos.org
Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia.
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Chromatin state architecture governs transcription factor accessibility across plant genomes
Author summary In eukaryotes, DNA is tightly associated with histone proteins. Histone covalent modifications and histones isoforms, also called histone variants provide most of the complexity of chro...
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1012015
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Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (SBS) - U. of Edinburgh
about 1 month ago
A new blog is out on our website. Go check it out! Selen Dinge from
@vanooijenlab.bsky.social
discusses the intersection between art & science with Irene Aldazabal, fellow PhD student and artist. Irene has explored visual & spatial representations of biological time.
biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...
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Blog - Art and Science: sister fields, intertwined | Molecular Plant Sciences | Biology
This month, we spoke with Irene Aldazabal, an Argentinian artist and PhD researcher collaborating with Professor Gerben van Ooijen’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences.
https://biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-sciences/outreach/blogs/blog-art-and-science-sister-fields-intertwined
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John Innes Centre
about 1 month ago
VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the
@philcarella.bsky.social
Group, working in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions).
okt.to/yIlgTU
Closing date - 10 February 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - Full-time, 3 years
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It was an excellent thesis and viva! Congrats again Steph!! 🥳 🥂
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Claudia Martinho
about 2 months ago
Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
#CRISPR
#BrownAlgae
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social
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Dan Kliebenstein
about 1 month ago
One benefit/complication of co-transcriptomics is it takes a whole paper to describe one facet of the data. This complements a previous paper studying the Botrytis transcriptome across the same plant species.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies enable host generalism in the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea
How generalist pathogens infect phylogenetically diverse hosts remains a central question in plant-pathogen biology. In particular, the extent to which broad host range is enabled by genetic variation...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666639v1
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Sophien Kamoun
about 1 month ago
Kamounia striata -- a 300 million year-old oomycete fossil! Thank you Christine Strullu-Derrien ☺️
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We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-carella-group-3/
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PM Delaux
about 2 months ago
Latest preprint from the lab!
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John Innes Centre
about 2 months ago
Congratulations to
@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social
on this fantastic appointment! 👏
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
about 2 months ago
Launch your own independent research group! 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at
@slcuplants.bsky.social
📆 Apply by 30 Jan 2026 More info: 👉
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/careers/grou...
Job details: 👉
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Please share this post
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantSciJob
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
about 2 months ago
Out after peer review, led by
@shanshanwang3.bsky.social
. Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Hajk-Georg Drost
about 2 months ago
🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation?
@cellpress.bsky.social
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
about 2 months ago
Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of
#NLR
#evolution
research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
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Sorek Lab
about 2 months ago
NLR-like immunity in bacteria A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome
Recognition of foreign molecules inside cells is critical for immunity in all domains of life. Proteins of the STAND NTPase superfamily, including eukaryotic nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.04.697583v1
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New opportunity to join our
#EvoMPMI
group
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
2 months ago
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Christine Faulkner
2 months ago
We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch!
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
#PlantSciJobs
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-faulkner-group-6/
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Josep Mercadal
2 months ago
Happy to see this out! We describe a patterning mechanism underlying rhizoid specification in Marchantia. Contrary to classic patterning mechanisms (e.g., Turing), rhizoid specification depends on both randomness and lateral inhibition, involves subcritical bifurcations, and occurs at criticality!
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Cell-type specification at criticality underlies rhizoid patterning in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
Rhizoid specification in Marchantia polymorpha gemmae involves lateral inhibition mediated by the microRNA FRH1, which represses the rhizoid-specific …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124725015001#:~:text=Summary,organized%20into%20small%20linear%20clusters
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