Undaria pinnatifida gametophyte

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).

A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Integrative proteomics approaches for data-driven reconstruction of kinase signaling.

Masters of perception: phosphorylation-dependent signaling in plants

#TansleyInsight by Roosjen et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience

Destigmatize getting things wrong sometimes! Science can gracefully self-correct if we allow it. Well done all around. The cteno vs. sponge saga continues...

AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...

Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow!! And I naively thought that the 2023 synteny paper supporting ctenophores already settled the dust...

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

TMK-PIN1 drives a short self-organizing circuit for auxin export and signaling in Arabidopsis Huang et al. report that auxin drives the assembly of its cell-surface receptors, TMKs, with efflux carrier PIN1 at the plasma membrane, creating a self-organizing module. This receptor-transporter ne...

While our manuscript deals with the PIN2 transporter, check out also this exciting independent work from the Xu lab investigating PIN1: www.cell.com/developmenta...

ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism In gravistimulated roots, gravity perception in the columella redirects the flow of the plant hormone auxin toward the lower root side, where it inhibits cell elongation for downward root bending. Thi...

Previously on BioRxiv, and now a final version of our paper is out! What a great lesson in plant self-organization: Auxin targets its own transporter through a cell-surface kinase complex in a positive feedback loop www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Alex, this is shocking, what a cool finding😍 And oh no, I am going to be thinking about Rhizophagus DNA replication for the rest of the week!!

Thanks for sharing!

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Shame we didn't know about this shared passion last week, would've made a great chat over a beer, thank you both for the tips! Here is mine: Carnivàle (2003), worth checking out plus also stars some of Lynch's classic cast

I am heartbroken about the loss of many labs at the Weizmann Institute yesterday in the missile attack. Dear scientists there: please know that you are not alone. Like many many others, I support you and am standing by to help you in any way I can.

Well-deserved ice-cream after canoeing from #TCTeAC!

science is magic #TCTeAC

#TCTeAC right now!

Go flower design go!!! #TCTeAC @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social

If you want to improvise the dance moves to just about any song, pretend you are doing laundry, it's very easy