I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me.
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
It's finally out! With this new paper, Salma and Monica show that hypoxia-regulated ERFVIIs are not immediately destabilised during reoxygenation: they instead persist in the nucleus to control oxidative stress genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synthetic hypoxia sensing in Arabidopsis from @syno2xis.bsky.social & @vinayshukla.bsky.social
Prolyl hydroxylase-dependent proteolysis enables the orthogonal hypoxia responses in plants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper out from the Synoxys lab!
We asked an important question: what if plants sensed oxygen like animals do? what if we swapped the O2 sensing across? We built the system to find out. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#plantscience
@syno2xis.bsky.social @beagiuntoli.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
Just as low-oxygen levels stress plants that are exposed to flooding, so does post-flooding reoxygenation and the associated burst of reactive oxygen species. Work @nature, shows that in both cases, the same molecular players mediate plants’ stress response.
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ICYMI, our ECPro group member Dr Charlene Kunaka-Dambire shared this fantastic blog post last month for #IDWGS about the importance of community support, mentorship & visibility in her scientific journey 🧪
Check it out 👉️ aab.org.uk/idwgs2026/
@charlene-kunaka.bsky.social #IWD2026 #WomeninScience
James Lloyd 🧬
Francesco Licausi
Great synergy with @emilyflashman.bsky.social, @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social and @beagiuntoli.bsky.social and their teams!
ALT: a poster for indiana jones and the last crusade with a man in a hat
Here’s the press release by @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for our newest publication 🧬✨
“Bacteria use P-body condensates to attenuate host translation during infection”
How pathogens rewire host translation via condensates 🔄🌱
#plantscience #proteostasis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
Experiments in Arabidopsis demonstrate that group VII ethylene response factors show differential responses to different stimuli, enabling plants in flood-prone environments to adapt to both submergence-induced hypoxia and reoxygenation upon desubmergence.
Bacteria deactivate the protein synthesis of host cells to hamper immune reactions. This insight could aid in the development of more resistant plants.
