Our new Review is out now! @carolinedean.bsky.social @miguelmontez.bsky.social We discuss how plants monitor seasonal temperature exposure, highlighting interconnected mechanisms of short-term transcriptional regulation & long-term epigenetic memory rdcu.be/fnLmG 🌱❄️

So happy and proud to share our lab’s first #plantscience research article, revealing that angiosperms have the capacity to encode memory of flooding stress. A heroic effort by @aidamaric.bsky.social in collaboration with @djgibbs.bsky.social and others. A brief 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am happy to organise this RECROP workshop on June 30 and July 1st in Brno, Czech Republic. Registrations are now open. Early researchers who are RECROP members may apply for a travel grant. Beware of the deadlines! bit.ly/47gUQbA www.recrop-cost.com @ceitec.eu

“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.” John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

Excited to see this review out, by Caroline Dean and Martin Howard @johninnescentre.bsky.social. I really enjoyed being part of the discussions shaping it over the past few months - worth a read 👇

I attended this course during my PhD and highly recommend it!

The unique environment provided by #CristaleraUAM made the experience even more unforgettable

Last week was very special. We hosted in Madrid the second edition of "Chromatin and Transcription: FLC and beyond", gathering Caroline Dean alumni and fellow researchers working on chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Call for papers! To celebrate the upcoming edition of the Chromatin and Transcription: FLC and beyond II meeting in Madrid, I am co-editing with the great @jiquesta.bsky.social and Prof Zhe Wu from @sustech.bsky.social a Research topic for @frontiersin.bsky.social Plant Science (1/n)...

📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...

1/ 🚀 AEBP2 isn’t what we thought. You were told that AEBP2 promotes PRC2 activity on chromatin. We found the opposite: the most prevalent AEBP2 isoform inhibits PRC2 activity. 👉 surl.li/cgwqcq A thread 🧵

Our paper on VEL-dependent polymerization is featured on the cover of this month's issue of @cp-molcell.bsky.social 🎉 The cover art was created by my talented friend Awesta - the result of hours of brainstorming together over video. Great fun teaming up for this!

NEWS - Professor Yiliang Ding awarded prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏 👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Excited to share the paper from my work in the Dean lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social out now in @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Huge thanks to all the co-authors - it was a great collaborative effort! Watch out for the associated cover artwork coming out next week 🎉 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: www.cell.com/developmenta...

The new issue of @newphyt.bsky.social features a profile of Caroline Dean: 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantEpigenetics #PlantLuminaries

Big congratulations to @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social 👍👍👍Super beautiful structure👍👍👍Very happy to contribute some RNA structure work to this great collaboration😊 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @mrclmb.bsky.social

Just dropping this here in case anyone is interested in joining 🙃

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

Our paper has been published! We used in vivo single-particle tracking to demonstrate that the assembly of core FCA oligomers into functional macromolecular condensates. Thanks to all the authors and colleagues!

In vivo single-particle tracking by Geng-Jen Jang, Caroline Dean et al reveals the modular assembly of #Arabidopsis gene expression regulator FLOWERING CONTROL LOCUS A from oligomers into molecular condensates competent for RNA 3’-processing www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

We are happy to share our work on local #nucleosome dynamics integrating #temperature inputs into an #epigenetic switching mechanism. ⚠️ Preprint alert!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've written a commentary for Cell Systems arguing that biology needs to find a way to communicate its complexity from the outset, rather than starting with simple but misleading narratives. It's free to view and download here (until 1 April). authors.elsevier.com/a/1karS8YyDf...