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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/member/thea-kongsted) keywords - cell differentiation, pigmentation, evolution, bryophytes

I had the utter pleasure of working with the excellent @fromani.bsky.social, Chiara Airoldi, @jimhaseloff.bsky.social and @beverleycubg.bsky.social on this project during my PhD. Vielen Dank!

🌊🔬The unique way of kelp embryogenesis: Cell lineage and single-cell transcriptomics reveal the radical switch turning cells into rhizoids in Saccharina embryos: ▶️ New preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... #evolution #embryo #scRNAseq #marinebiology #kelp #algae #celldivision #transcriptomics

And a curious finding - in both liverworts and flowering plants independently, repurposing of this regulatory complex for lineage-specific traits is associated with duplication of the same component (the MYB transcription factor).

Although the red pigments made by flowering plants and liverworts are produced by distinct chemical pathways, here we found that they are induced by homologous complexes of transcription factors. @currentbiology.bsky.social