Alexander Ciattoni
@aciattoni.bsky.social
π€ 48
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Plant Scientist
@ipbhalle.bsky.social
. Currently doing a PhD with
@marischuster.bsky.social
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Alexander Ciattoni
The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)
3 days ago
Using ampicillin as a selectable marker? You can skip the post-transformation outgrowth! Why? Because Amp targets cell wall synthesis, not protein synthesis, so the bacteria isnβt impeded from making the protein it needs to combat it!
youtu.be/XZn8QG6dzgc
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Using ampicillin as a selectable marker? You can skip the post-transformation outgrowth!
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
https://youtu.be/XZn8QG6dzgc
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The Plant Journal
4 days ago
π£οΈ πΌπ ππππ£πππ ππ‘πππ π€ππ‘β ππ«. ππ²π«π’π₯ ππ’π©πππ₯ Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and whatβs next for the field π±π§¬ interviewed by
@luisdeluna.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688
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Tim Behrens
16 days ago
At
@elife.bsky.social
you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of
@mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social
explaining it for you!
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Marco Trujillo
16 days ago
Thrilled to congratulate the newly minted Dr. Allahham on an outstanding viva! Many thanks to collaborators and the examiners for their invaluable support throughout the process.
@ottlab.bsky.social
@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social
@hartman-plantlab.com
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Alexander Ciattoni
The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)
30 days ago
Proteoforms versus isoforms and the challenges of measuring them
youtu.be/nRi4-3zl6IE
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Proteoforms versus isoforms and the challenges of measuring them
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
https://youtu.be/nRi4-3zl6IE
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Alexander Ciattoni
The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)
about 1 month ago
Happy New Year! P.S. May this motivate you to perhaps make learning your amino acids one of your resolutions?...
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Manuel Lera-Ramirez
3 months ago
#OpenCloning
is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software β Free π Open Source 𧬠More cloning methods than SnapGene π€ Can be automated with python π¨βπ¬ Built by a researcher β for researchers! π Check it out at
opencloning.org
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Boas Pucker
about 2 months ago
Just wrapped up my last lecture of 2025. Interested in plant biochemistry and molecular biology? Slides are on GitHub:
github.com/bpucker/teac...
#OpenEducation
#PlantSci
@puckerlab.bsky.social
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PlantEvolution π±πΎ
about 2 months ago
"Pseudomonas can make or break a happy phyllosphere microbiota" Daniela RamΓrez-SΓ‘nchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pH
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Will Ratcliff
2 months ago
Tony Burnetti and I recorded this super fun podcast in which we rank evolution's craziest adaptations. I think it turned out great! I might make this an exercise for one of my final evolution lectures next time I teach (dynamically rank / debate in class!).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSum...
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Ranking Evolutionβs Most Outrageous Survival Strategies! Tier List
YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSumFzTFqyM
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Adrian Barnett
2 months ago
Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited? Version of record at
@elife.bsky.social
. Thorough and useful peer review - who needs and impact factor?! Links to paper and code/data β¬οΈ πhttps://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/108748 π»https://github.com/agbarnett/cited_reviewers
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https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/108748
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Mariana Schuster
3 months ago
Undergrads in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the US! One week left to apply for a funded internship in my lab! π Details below π Please repost to spread the word!
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Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE
#plantscience
funded internship at
@ipbhalle.bsky.social
with
@snp2prot.bsky.social
. Apply by Nov 30th:
daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship
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3 months ago
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Alexander Ciattoni
Mariana Schuster
3 months ago
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! π± Huge congratulations to
@adithya1972.bsky.social
and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
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Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1013648&?utm_id=plos111&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author
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Alexander Ciattoni
The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)
3 months ago
Periodic PSA: "western" should be lowercase in western blot β unlike the "Southern" blot, which was named for a person, the western blot was named for a laugh
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
4 months ago
A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist". In my slide, 10/10 are white men. Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again. Here below you have 24 images. 20 are men, 4 are women (progress!). 23 are white, 1 is blue π€
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Alexander Ciattoni
Nature Biotechnology
4 months ago
Rewriting the code of plant immunity
go.nature.com/475WgV7
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Alexander Ciattoni
Alex McClelland
4 months ago
1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen
Plants secrete a variety of proteases as a defense response during infection by microbial pathogens. However, the relationship between their catalytic activities and antimicrobial functions remains la...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680679v1
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Nancy Choudhary
4 months ago
Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? ππ While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family π π π₯have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments. π
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
4 months ago
π‘ SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT π‘ Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering π οΈ to boost disease resistance in plants πΎ - Schuster et al. π
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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@marischuster.bsky.social
@aciattoni.bsky.social
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My flatmate asked if Iβve ever made a GMO. This sparked a discussion making me realize how challenging science communication is and how scientists often lack training in it. Iβm catching up with a podcast by
@orlandodl.bsky.social
that explains GMOs to a broader audience... while working with GMOsπ
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5 months ago
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Alexander Ciattoni
The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel)
5 months ago
Iβm so proud to be a part of this OER that aims to lower the barrier for professors to incorporate molecular modeling & visualization into their courses (i.e. teaching students to interact w/3D models of proteins & other macromolecular structures &/or making custom figures)!
doi.org/10.15781/m4z...
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Seeing the Invisible: Learning to Teach with Biomolecular Visualization β Simple Book Publishing
Seeing the Invisible: Learning to Teach with Biomolecular Visualization β Simple Book Publishing
https://doi.org/10.15781/m4zd-7691
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Courtney Herms
7 months ago
Stop citing journal names in your presentations - but PMIDs are too long (I will never get all of those numbers in the correct order!) Check out this awesome tool that takes your DOI from 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002882 to pw75. Much more accessible and easy for the audience!
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Alexander Ciattoni
SNP2Prot
7 months ago
Students at
@leibnizipk.bsky.social
have organised a well-crafted conference
#PSSC-2025
in the previous few days. SNP2Prot members were able to join in this event and meet the Leibniz plant communityπ
@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
@unihalle.bsky.social
@ipbhalle.bsky.social
@unileipzig.bsky.social
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Mariana Schuster
7 months ago
@aciattoni.bsky.social
representing the
#ReceptorBiochemistry
group
@ipbhalle.bsky.social
at
#PSSC2025
. Enjoy!
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Really happy to be at the 20th Plant Science Student Conference
#PSSC2025
@leibnizipk.bsky.social
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
7 months ago
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Mariana Schuster
9 months ago
I am happy to share our viewpoint on immune protease engineering!
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Hacking the immune system: plant immune protease engineering for crop protection
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering to boost disease resistance in plants.
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jxb/eraf137/8102201
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eLife
9 months ago
Our authors can freely speculate the meaning and implications of their data in our new section: π‘ Ideas and Speculation π‘
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