Excited to share our new preprint, a project initiated during my postdoc in the @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, on how plants encode environmental responsiveness in development 🌱
We use tomato to dissect how stomatal production is tuned by climate inputs via cis-regulatory variation in SPCH
🌱 “To twine or not to twine?”
Preprint 🪩 Plants use inherent circular movements (circumnuations) for active sensing of support mechanical stability (eg whisking 🐭), twining occurs at a torque threshold. Heroic experiments by Amir Ohad, fancy simulations @amirporat.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/2syh4ny3
Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences!
I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies.
#PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc
When organisms look similar, you can use a tag to tell them apart. We wanted to tag our collection of diverse Sphingomonas bacteria with DNA barcodes to distinguish them. We planned to use Tn7, until we saw new reports about CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs).
A great opportunity to work with the fantastic @natanellae.bsky.social !!!
How do pathogens disarm plant immunity?
We discovered a widespread strategy used by plant bacterial pathogens: they directly cleave a conserved immune signaling molecule produced by plant immune receptors.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Just published: Breaking the Pattern with AlphaFold: Introducing the Structural Novelty Index
AlphaFold has transformed how we predict protein structures. But sometimes most interesting discoveries come from asking a different question: which proteins break the pattern?
medium.com/p/breaking-t...