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🔬🍀 My undergrad Joh's chromatin dynamics manuscript is published at JoVE now! Congratulations, Joh 🎉👏🔬🍀😊 Quantitative Live Cell Imaging of Nuclear Shape and Chromatin Dynamics During Development and Environmental Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana Root www.jove.com/t/71307/quan...

🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST. For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️

Great start to the Cornell Mechanobiology Hub Symposium hosted by the @weillinstitute.bsky.social, with keynote speaker Amy Shyer and over 180 participants from more than 15 institutions. #Mechanobiology thrives in Ithaca and the region, including Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Binghamton.

I will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social in Fall 2026! My lab will study how genetics and tissue mechanics influence one another over space and time to drive the leaf morphogenesis.

Biological processes are complex. Their behavior cannot be understood from the sum of their parts. Modeling, which allows for articulating hypotheses as equations and rules, has become indispensable for studying biological complexities. When written as computer code, mathematical models can be evaluated to test multiple potential outcomes. Modeling is useful for identifying essential system components and revealing new interactions. However, implementing models in biological research requires a solid understanding of computational and mathematical vocabulary, which typically requires formal training. Furthermore, communication barriers often hinder collaborations with computational modelers. To address this, we present an annotated glossary of terms associated with modeling gene regulatory networks. Aimed at biologists, we explain common computational modeling terms and frameworks using examples from published studies.

Climate warming poses increasing thermal challenges to plants, yet how plasma membrane biophysics contributes to heat adaptation remains poorly understood. In this work, we showed that the malectin-li...