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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...

I think moving over to a two stage proposal system would be better. Open short form proposals/EOI for round one, then full long form proposals for those invited to continue in the process. It saves the committee's time and saves all the applicants' time.

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🧵1/X 🚨New Preprint🚨 Root pathogens are hard to manage, and we know little about plant genes enabling infection (susceptibility genes). Here, we show that SCARs are susceptibility factors in barley roots - and their loss affects pathogens/symbionts in distinct ways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

AlphaFold as a prior: experimental structure determination conditioned on a pretrained neural network Nature Methods - ROCKET improves experimental structure elucidation by integrating implicit structural knowledge from OpenFold, a trainable reimplementation of AlphaFold2, with X-ray...

ROCKET 🚀 inference-time optimization of AlphaFold to fit structural data is published! rdcu.be/fa9YH
Since our preprint, we’ve pushed it to regimes where other methods break: low resolution, weak signal, real experimental edge cases. Here’s what we learned: 1/15

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Associate Professor of Plant Science Associate Professor of Plant Science Salary: Grade 9 (£61,759 - £73,708 p.a, depending on experience)This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for elements of the job to be undertak...

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Targeting redundant gene families: A multiplexed, tissue-specific CRISPR toolbox for Arabidopsis genetic screens Anfang et al. present a tissue-specific, multiplexed CRISPR toolbox for plants that uses paired sgRNAs and barcoded libraries to target redundant gene families. Applied to Arabidopsis nutrient transporters, it boosts editing efficiency and gene coverage, enabling spatially precise screens that uncover phenotypes hidden by functional redundancy.

Targeting redundant gene families: A multiplexed, tissue-specific CRISPR toolbox for Arabidopsis genetic screens

Great thread on Dewar though!

I really don't think we should be giving 'short answers' on this or showing videos like this the the naïve as though it's acceptable practice. It's one step away from, 'I can quickly reach into the L N2 to get the tube'. That's how someone in our department lost half their hand.

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Associate Professor of Plant Science Associate Professor of Plant Science Salary: Grade 9 (£61,759 - £73,708 p.a, depending on experience)This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for elements of the job to be undertak...

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

Development of a photostable pH biosensor based on mStayGold www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

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Congrats Moritz! Do you have the full link? it's been shortened in the copy/paste.

Very happy about this nice piece of work by @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social on developmentally controlled cell death in plants @dev-journal.bsky.social‬ !
Special thanks also to @ingridtsang.bsky.social for a terrific editorial job bringing out the best of this manuscript!!
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We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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The OpenPlant kit is finally available from Addgene as... a kit :)
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So sorry to hear that Fenwick Lawson has died. His art & sculptures will endure.

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A tour de force! Well done Dongwei, Rali, Eva, Yka and team! So glad to see it finally out.

Excellent editor's summary from @maddyseale.bsky.social on research showing how ribosome methylation affects vascular cell fate in xylem tissue - whether cells become water conducting vessels or parenchyma cells for storage.
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The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
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Congratulations Luis, Thorsten and team!

Wonderful symposium, well worth it.

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