Bed of Chara hosting a frogspawn in an Oxford pond
Registration is now open! The 4th edition of the Mendel Early Career Symposium will take place on 21-22 May at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. This two-day event brings together researchers across career stages to discuss the latest research in all areas of plant science.
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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šš¬The unique way of kelp embryogenesis: Cell lineage and single-cell transcriptomics reveal the radical switch turning cells into rhizoids in Saccharina embryos: ā¶ļø New preprint
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#evolution #embryo #scRNAseq #marinebiology #kelp #algae #celldivision #transcriptomics
Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! š We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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!
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
Great summaries of our paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... in Science: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... and New Scientist: www.newscientist.com/article/2515... and in the Science museum blog: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/in-the-begin...