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🚨🪲🧬🦠 We have a new preprint out! Link: doi.org/10.64898/202... Insects and microbes are more connected than we realize. Some insects owe part of their ability to feed on plants to genes acquired from bacteria millions of years ago 🤯 See what we found about glycoside hydrolases in leafhoppers.

Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached

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RNA-directed DNA methylation controls seed development and heat stress memory in barley https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741739v1

Photosynthetic assimilate determines branch size and biomass more than branch number in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741629v1

Plant regulator of flower bud differentiation in in vitro plants of Cymbidium tortisepalum var. longibracteatum with TDZ as the key initiator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741633v1

I’ve been working on Kalanchoe for two years now. They are largely diseases and pest free. It’s either they are indoor house plants that never face much disease or pest pressure or they are somehow really resistant to everything. Thoughts?

So many emotions right now. I had almost given up hope that this one would get funded. Feeling relief, excitement to do the science, gratitude to everyone on the inside trying to hold NIH together, survivor's guilt. All the things.

Thanks Jing-Ke Weng and @natchembio.nature.com for a great News and Views on our nicotine work from @lichmanlab.bsky.social and @geufloreslab.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Would like to see this on every social media website, and I’m glad we’re calling it what it is now

Brain being fried from writing. Gonna take a short break and get a bag of M&M.

Hypochlorite decomposes over time. For plant tissue culture folks, do you buy a new bottle every 6 months?

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We're recruiting a Predoctoral Intern in data-driven plant #syntheticbiology to join our community of PhD students and interns at the Earlham Institute. This role is suited to undergrad/masters students who expect to complete a degree in biology, #bioengineering, or #plantscience.

A collection of perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology is now published in @ThePlantCell . academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... Happy to have contributed the chapter, “Spatial transcriptomics in plants: where next?”

Happy to share our combined views on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology; collaborative work now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social : track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Open position in our lab for a research engineer. The applicant must hold a PhD in life sciences and have demonstrable experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. For more info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

A deep-sea rare bacterium exhibits extraordinary metabolic versatility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maybe it’s just me not paying attention this year, but I only saw like maybe 1 or 2 plant R01 jobs this cycle. Is the market really that bad nowadays.

Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!