Keiko Sugimoto

Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...

It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!

First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

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“From my first visit, I was struck by the energy and excitement...It feels like being a graduate student again, chasing curiosity wherever it leads."

@hhmi.org Investigator David Stern will join the Stowers Institute in Feb. 2026 from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

(Part 1) Hear from @hhmi_news Investigator David Stern about his research program and what he's uncovering in the lab.

Stern will join the Institute in February 2026, bringing his lab and HHMI appointment to Kansas City. @hhmi.org

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

How do plants regenerate after wounding? Our new work shows that HSFA1 transcription factors are among the earliest wound-activated regulators of cellular reprogramming in plants!

It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social

We are open to every topic within this field, from research on plant viruses to herbivory! Exclusively apply through the link provided, but feel free to contact me with any questions about the position.

Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature Communications Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com:
Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Read thread below 👇

Auxin and tryptophan trigger common responses in the streptophyte alga Penium margaritaceum Auxin is a signaling molecule that regulates multiple processes in the growth and development of land plants. Research gathered from model species, pa…

Previously on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social now online @currentbiology.bsky.social : auxin responses in the streptophyte alga Penium turn out to be highly similar to tryptophan response…PhD work from the amazing @poletc.bsky.social and with @jorgehg.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!!

We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!

The best part of conferences: Meeting old friends and making new ones 😊 @davefaveplants.bsky.social @keikosugimoto.bsky.social
@ipgsa2025.bsky.social

#IPGSA #plantscience

The biology of grafting and its applications in studying information exchange between plants - Nature Plants This Review discusses the uses of grafting in basic and applied research and summarizes our current understanding of the mechanisms involved in the exchange of genes, genomes, RNA molecules and protei...

fascinated by grafting plants have a look at new review about grafting and exchange of of information between plants written with Ralph Bock
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators Accurate scRNA-sequencing cluster annotation in less-studied plant species remains a major challenge due to the lack of validated marker genes. Ke et al. provide an orthology-based annotation pipeline...

A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Proposed model of two antagonic GRN1 and GRN2 acting at early times on RH growth at low temperature.

Happy to share my first Preprint here in the Bluesky sciencephere world! Updated manuscript version currently in revision. Please send good vibes and comments! Here, we discover and charaterize two gene regulatory networks that control root hair growth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...