#IS-MPMI Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time.
www.youtube.com/@is-mpmi3587
How is gene editing in agriculture actually regulated across the world, and how are those rules changing?
Join us for a guest seminar by Dr. Matthew Heaton (University of East Anglia/JIC).
Please comment/email me for the Zoom link.
I'll focus on
What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia
How to navigate the current job market
What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective
Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations
Do you know how to get your data AI-ready? Just upload to Zenodo.org with as good a description as you can muster and call it a day. Simply sharing has always been the most important part of open science. #GenesisMission #OpenScience
This is biologically likely true and the underlying cause for phenotypic plasticity. But in terms of what it means for research, it’s an argument in favor of ‘me-too’ science that may have low novelty but validates findings in multiple systems.
But I understand that your fear is that we are collectively building a pyramid of knowledge where the base is unfounded. So we would never get to the peak of truly understanding biology.
Agreed that it’s a pretty generalized assumption & gwas does contradict it. Because if it were truly 100% conserved phenotypes would all be the same which we know is not true. However, some fundamentals are the same & highly conserved, proven experimentally across species. Eg basic auxin responses
Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paging senior graduate students! Apply to present your research during the Salk Discover symposium and network with potential collaborators or faculty advisors. Application deadline extended to March 16.
More info: www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
Thank you @sonaliroy.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk in the Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering at Tennessee State University
Even though it was 9pm for me, I enjoyed my time, the interesting questions and the fact that I was up on so many screens at once 😊🌾
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Impact of Medicago truncatula GOLVEN10 peptide on root tortuosity and angular parameters relative to the primary root and gravity vector. (A) Change in root waving or tortuosity in Jemalong A17 plants upon GOLVEN10 application compared with untreated plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. (B) Change in lateral root angle of emergence relative to the primary root upon GLV10 peptide application in untreated M. truncatula R108 plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. (C) Change in lateral root angle of emergence relative to the gravity vector upon GLV10 peptide application in untreated M. truncatula Jemalong A17 plants 10 d post-transfer to plates. Scale bar=1 cm.
🌱📊 RESEARCH 📊🌱
GOLVEN10 increases Medicago lateral root branch angle and reduces the gravity setpoint angle. A GWAS identified causal SNPs and that GOLVEN10 signaling interacts with ethylene to control root waving – Parmar et al.
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#PlantScience 🧪
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A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Peptide-based biostimulants in sustainable agriculture: opportunities and innovations (Journal of Integrative Plant Biology) (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social) buff.ly/qyOLKYm
#PlantaePSRW
Graphic recording of the workshop session. Key words, messages and topics covered are grouped by speaker(s). This visual summary is intended to capture the essence of the session, it obviously cannot resolve or explore in detail all the complex issues listed. The illustration was commissioned to the illustrator Zsofi Lang. "Building a diverse and inclusive community through effective teaching and mentoring"
Super excited to have this online at @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
"Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community," a call-to-action. Thanks to @apaterlini.bsky.social
@mehta-lab.com @yoselin.bsky.social
@goormachtig.bsky.social & Agnes Uhereczky + funders!💚
And publish in society owned journals like @theplantcell.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social Plant Biotechnology Journal, @jxbotany.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social and many others!
Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum nymphaeae
What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV
Registration open for 87th Annual Southern ASPB conference March 13-15th in Lafayette LA.
Travel awards available. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @aspb-pui.bsky.social @ecps.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social
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🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱
👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!
#PlantScience
An AI-driven pipeline for the discovery of hidden peptides in plant proteomes: the CLE family as a case study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
BSPP MSc/MRes Bursary, up to £4,000 to support postgraduate study in plant pathology.
www.bspp.org.uk/funds/mscmres/
#PlantPathology #PostgradFunding #BSPP
Join us in Toulouse !!
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New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year!
I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper.
Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru
Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
Cool SEO trick! Although it looks like Google scholar ranks articles based on citations not views alone. That exercise may work for URLs to lab websites though.
Unequal web presence?
Exactly what these legumes (and students) need! 👏🏽👏🏽
🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
A slide from the Teaching Tool. What are botanical collections? Types of collections. Herbaria, Living Collections, Seed, pollen, and spore banks; DNA and tissue banks; Palnological collections, Digital Collections, Ethnobotanical collections.
New Teaching Tool!
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Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
2 postdoc openings in my lab:
anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html
One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist
Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!