I have a thousand positive memories of Greg. At the bar, playing music, talking science. RIP and thank you for everything

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But unironically YES

Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell Cammarata et al. explore how cell division orientation generates phyllotaxis in moss with a unicellular meristem. They show that successive rotational divisions in the apical cell are precisely placed...

How moss makes a spiral of leaves through a rotating asymmetric division of the apical cell meristem--our paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social today! @soestrauss.bsky.social Richard Smith, Joe Cammarata
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Yes! “There’s no phenotype” isn’t even grammatically correct 😅

Agree. And each narrative naturally suggests different questions and next directions. It’s a big responsibility!

This was a fun project for which Mattie @mschwall95.bsky.social visited our lab to try root live imaging. Of course the roots wouldn't grow during the week she was here until the last day, but she got it to work when she got back. Cool results.

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Thanks for the invitation, Sunil! Very nice to be back. Also, it was 79 degrees in Riverside and Philly was like 0 degrees, so….yeah😂

Agree!!

Ah, I didn’t think about the patent side of things… A different set of constraints

Act2 and Ubi10 are my go-to strong promoters

We’re playing the game now…. Two clues solved

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Thanks Carolyn! Very nice to be back in my old stomping grounds 😄

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….. I was told I was the best PI…….

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What’s funny is, when I first saw this movie I was like “a media baron as a villain?? Laaaame”. Now… prophecy 🥴

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

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Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki
#plantscience #plantdev

Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem? From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems. What makes a meristem? T...

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

I’ve always thought corporate fines should be a percentage of gross profits. If the crime is particularly bad, tack on a percentage fine on CEO and board stock profits

“triggers tension”… media speak reaching new lows😒

💀with a diddy jump scare for good measure

Does the noncoding genome actually carry more genetic information than coding seqs? Motivated by this question we mutated every bp in the 10kb MYC locus. Results are even more exciting: Decoding the MYC locus reveals a druggable ultraconserved RNA element www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Awesome!

Effects of exogenous brassinosteroid manipulation on bean stem morphology and anatomy.

XTH genes impact growth habit determination of twining common bean vine revealed by brassinosteroid treatment

Hunt et al.

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