Benjamin Cole

New Article: "Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation" rdcu.be/ew9ig

With N&V: "Gene regulation: A binding agreement" rdcu.be/ew9jn

Large-scale study of transcr. factor binding across multiple flowering plant species.

21.07.2025 11:48 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like a really cool resource!

16.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

19.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 96    🔁 109    💬 1    📌 2

Flyer with seminar speaker photos and text: Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series December 10th, 2024 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT By Zoom only Speakers: Rachel Shahan, PhD University of California Los Angeles “Investigating cell fates and states over time with the Arabidopsis root” Geoffrey Schiebinger, PhD University of British Columbia “Towards a mathematical theory of development” Moderator: Kaisa Kajala Register for the series today! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

List of upcoming seminars, pdf available here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.plantcellatlas.org/uploads/1/2/5/4/125418701/pci_webinar_series_roster.pdf

The second Plant Cell Identity webinar by PCA is coming next Tuesday (10th December)! It will be my pleasure the moderate the exciting talks from @rachelmshahan.bsky.social and Geoff Schiebinger.

If you haven't signed up for the series yet, you can do so here:
bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

06.12.2024 08:24 — 👍 21    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...

Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!

20.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 83    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 1

Joanne Chory, Salk Institute professor and pioneering plant biologist, dies at age 69 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies LA JOLLA—Salk Professor Joanne Chory, one of the world’s preeminent plant biologists who led the charge to mitigate climate change with plant-based solutions, died on November 12, 2024, at the age of ...

I’m so very sad to learn that my mentor, Joanne Chory has passed away. She was a brilliant scientist, kind and insightful mentor, and an inspiration to so many.

www.salk.edu/news-release...

14.11.2024 02:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Coexpression enhances cross-species integration of scRNA-seq across diverse plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.569145v1 Single-cell RNA sequencing is increasingly used to investigate cross-species differences driven by g

Coexpression enhances cross-species integration of scRNA-seq across diverse plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.569145v1

30.11.2023 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Does earthquake bluesky work the same as earthquake Twitter?

28.10.2023 01:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Plant scientist Blake Meyers named as new director of UC Davis Genome Center

www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...

29.08.2023 21:11 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshot of the paper title: "Genome-Wide Identification of Tomato Xylem Sap Fitness Factors for Three Plant-Pathogenic Ralstonia Species"

[Reposting our 🧪paper threads to preserve them]

Our labs' first PDF-formatted paper is out!

With Adam Deustchbauer, we adapted #RBTnSeq to representatives of the #Ralstonia solanacearum species complex.
Goal: identify shared and strain-specific traits that pathogens use across their life cycles.

30.08.2023 13:41 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0