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Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Dundee; interested in #PlantSignaling, #PlantStress & #PlantDevelopment 🌱🌾☀️🌡️🧬; He/him https://sites.dundee.ac.uk/balcerowicz-lab
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The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The first paper from my lab is now online in @ThePlantCell 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... This work is dedicated to the late Prof. Joanne Chory, who profoundly shaped my journey in science and beyond. Thank you to everyone involved: Srinivas Kunta, Yardena Dahan, Shai Torgeman, @Volacninstitute.

Our new publication demonstrating role of GIGANTEA in wheat circadian clock. Provide evidence that effects of GI on flowering are likely dependent on floral regulator PPD1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience (no idea why Wiley have that picture associated with the paper!) 🧪

Please RT: 🌱 We’re hiring a Postdoc and a PhD student! ⏳ Application deadline: 17. March 2025 Join our lab and explore the role of alternative mRNA isoforms in drought stress and environmental adaptation in crops and Arabidopsis. Learn more and apply: www.lablaubinger.eu/Opportunities

🌟𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭🌟 by Martin Balcerowicz @transcription.bsky.social Phosphorylation in two acts: Marchantia phototropin undergoes sequential cis- and trans-autophosphorylation 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70072 📖 Original research by Noguchi et al: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.17183

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, UV-B Perception and Signalling, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline approaching: 24.02.2025

Here a bomb for those who were not expecting to find proteasomes in the apoplast! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A curious, modest man with an encyclopaedic knowledge. No ego but a quiet self-confidence that inspired many. No doubt many publications in the coming years will report innovative ideas that he thought of decades ago….

Ute Höcker is giving the Farewell lecture at #MBP2025 with past and recent findings of dark/light signaling.

Daniel Maag @qw3rtzu1op.bsky.social is giving the second #thermomorphogenesis talk of the day at #MBP2025 and adds a thermosensing kinase to temperature signaling

🌿🏆 Congratulations to Marc Somssich! 🏆🌿 @somssich.bsky.social He receives the 2025 SciComm Award for outstanding social media contributions bringing scientific discoveries and plant scientists to life through engaging storytelling and historical context. Well deserved! 👏 #SciComm #PlantSci #MBP2025

@katherinedenby.bsky.social strongly suggesting to publish in at least partly society-owned journals. Non-seed plant researchers take note that @theplantjournal.bsky.social also considers and publishes your work. :) #MBP2025

Interesting talk by @katherinedenby.bsky.social as EiC of @theplantjournal.bsky.social on publishing in plant sciences #mbp2025

EDITOR'S CHOICE Hand-picked for issue 2 by our Editor-in-Chief John Lunn, the standout article is "Light and temperature signals are integrated through a phytochrome B-dependent gene regulatory network in rice" - Bruno Catarino et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #plantscience 🧪

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Robbie Waugh welcomes delegates to Barley Genome Net European Research meeting. Today we’ll focus on Omics & Resources and Development. #BGN2025

My new editor interview for @theplantjournal.bsky.social I share thoughts on cell surface receptors, finding exciting research topics, setting priorities in the early career, and the dreaded "work-life balance" topic :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazing stuff from @marvintanenbaum.bsky.social! Long-term imaging of individual ribosomes reveals ribosome cooperativity in mRNA translation: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #RNAsky #RNABiology

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Transcriptional Dynamics and Chromatin Accessibility in the Regulation of Shade-Responsive Genes in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.23.634457v1

Don't miss your opportunity to attend New Phytologist next generation scientists, the FREE meeting for early career researchers in plant science. #npnextgen 4–7 July 2025 Birmingham, UK Apply to attend by 27 January! www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

Gutted I have to miss the first day, but very much looking forward to the rest of #MBP2025 - programme looks great!

Light induces Phytochrome B SUMOylation to recruit the immune regulator NPR1 in nuclear condensates to control immunity in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.19.633791v1

Pollen fertility requires ALBA3 stabilization of mRNAs under heat stress onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This story was only possible through true team effort. Team Kalanchoë with Xin at the forefront. @jameshartwell.bsky.social, the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I do not have the technical expertise to assess this manuscript but the conclusions could be important

Highly recommend this for anyone considering a PhD in #PlantScience. Jim is a brilliant mentor and all-around great person. The research is cutting-edge (and generates very pretty images, too). #PlantSciJobs #PlantSciPhD

Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development! Join the ERC Synergy project RESYDE exploring symmetry breaking in flowers to uncover the evolution of floral architectures. We're seeking talented postdocs to reshape plant development! Please get in touch if interested.

I'm very happy to were able to contribute our barley biotechnologies, especially #CRISPR genome editing to this great, international team effort!

Something is happening. Right now, we get more reposting and liking of the same posts on BlueSky than on Twitter.

The Arabidopsis blue-light photoreceptor CRY2 is active in darkness to inhibit root growth www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience

Just taught on scientific misconduct and data manipulation. Undergrad students suggested journals randomly select two papers per issue for in-depth data review & promote this to discourage misconduct. When I explained how publishing works, they looked at me like I had two heads. #ScienceEducation

We lost an amazing scientist yesterday. #plantscience #academicsky 🧪

📜 Phenotypically wild barley shows evidence of introgression from cultivated barley 🧑‍🔬 Chaochih Liu, Peter L. Morrell, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Agronomy #PlantBreeding #PlantGMOs #Barley #PlantGenetics #PlantGenomics

Very happy to see our lab's first review by PhD student Emma Hardy published in @jxbotany.bsky.social. We discuss the importance of UTRs in the post-transcriptional control of gene expression and how these sequences help plants acclimate to changing environments. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A few weeks ago, the German press agency DPA interviewed me to gain some insights on the TR4-resistant transgenic bananas that recently received approval in Australia. www.mt.de/weltnews/wis...

Our update paper is out in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... #arabidopsis #plantbiology #plantscience #database

Reminder that we are still looking for a postdoc to join our group at the University of Dundee to study temperature-controlled gene expression. Deadline 25 March #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFQ484/p...

Our image made it to the cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social 🙂 Striga attacking a rice root Read our review here 👉https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad284

Lab Christmas Lunch 2023 - and we said goodbye to our excellent Honours students Jennie & Jenny!

Keiner der Unterzeichner scheint einen Hintergrund in Genetik oder Molekularbiologie zu haben. Kein einziger scheint also qualifiziert zu sein, die Auswirkungen genetischer Veränderungen auf Organismen zu beurteilen. Mit anderen Worten, es wäre so, als würde ich mich zur Quantenphysik äußern.

An exciting technique for everyone interested in translation: Super-Resolution ribosome profiling in Arabidopsis: academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... from the Hsu lab #PlantScience

📜 Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism 🧑‍🔬 Ganesh M. Nawkar, Martina Legris, Christian Fankhauser, et al. 📔 Science 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Photobiology #Phototropism

📜 Gibberellin Perception Sensors 1 and 2 reveal cellular GA dynamics articulated by COP1 and GA20ox1 that are necessary but not sufficient to pattern hypocotyl cell elongation 🧑‍🔬 Jayne Griffiths, Alexander M. Jones, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 see below #️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones

Are you excited about molecular biology of plant-light interactions? We have good news! We have extended the deadline for application to our tenure track position @WUR to 27 November. #plantscijobs