I’m happy to share that I have passed my PhD viva at the University of Galway. I would like to sincerely thank my supervisor Dr. Sara Farrona, external (Professor Daniel Schubert), and internal examiners and all members of @farronalab.bsky.social alongside collaborators for their support.

A splendid and beautifully illustrated review of plant circadian biology ⏰🌱 by Stacey L. Harmer ⭐ So many fascinating players! EARLY BIRD (EBI) 🐤 is one of them — and one we’re keen to learn more about. rdcu.be/fgB5T

PWO proteins are associated with PRC2 since their emergence in vascular plants 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Khan et al. @farronalab.bsky.social @saqlainh.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Can we tune a plant’s epigenetic toolkit to disrupt plant homeostasis in ways that enable phenotypic innovation? 🌱Check out our new Opinion Paper with @thanvisrikant.bsky.social discussing this topic in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#TansleyInsight: Could photoperiodic responses have evolved before the emergence of #CircadianClocks? @jabbur.bsky.social & Carl Hirschie Johnson 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

The Arabidopsis histone methylation reader MRG2 interacts with eIF4A3 to regulate alternative splicing and circadian rhythms (Yaxue Huang , Jiabing Wu , Xiang Li , Jiachen Wang , Mengmeng Ma , Wen Jiang , Wen-Hui Shen , Yu Yu , Aiwu Dong) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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Arabidopsis INHIBITOR OF GROWTH 2 (ING2) promotes flowering by regulating NuA4-dependent histone H4 acetylation levels at FT and SOC1 chromatin loci https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642062v1

New Preprint Alert This work explores the origin of PWO proteins in plants and their association with PRC2 components throughout evolution. (1/n)

To me, this is incredibly beautiful and wonderous. Such clean, small liquids are holding a plethora of molecules I leveraged nature to create exactly as I want them. Picturing it in my mind then making them in these invisible liquids is just incredible to me. This is why I'm a molecular biologist.

PWO proteins are associated with PRC2 since their emergence in vascular plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.15.643013v1