Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬

So happy to see this work finally online! In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠 Check out their great story here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Incredible location ✅ Excellent science ✅ Amazing community ✅ Perfectly organised ✅ What more could we ask for!? Safe travels to everyone! #ISPLORE2025JP

Look out Japan, here we come! So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿 Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social

Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁

Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿

Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬 Great work and congrats to all involved 👏

Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱 Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬 Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏 tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2

Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D 🧬