Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬

Reminds me of probably one of the first #plantscience reviews I ever read, during my BSc Thesis in 2013 ;) An @isplore.bsky.social classic:

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Great pic with Old Joe in the back !

This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight

CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants - Nature Plants This study reports that the CK2 kinase–H3K27 methyltransferase (PRC2) signalling promotes genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and the formation of epigenetic cold memory at a potent floral repressor in A...

Epigenetics Update - CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants go.nature.com/40QLm3w

#Epigenetics #H3K27me3 #Plants
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PRC2-mediated repression of PIF4 targets beyond the on/off switch of gene expression In this issue of Developmental Cell, Osborne et al. report that the angiosperm-specific polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) subunit VERNALIZATION 2 (VRN2) regulates leaf growth by stable deposition o...

The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: www.cell.com/developmenta...

Fantastic to be hosting the @newphyt.bsky.social Next Generation Scientist
Meeting here at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social this week! Looking forward to hearing about all the exciting plant science research being carried out by early career delegates from all over the world 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻‍🔬 👩🏽‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬👨🏿‍🔬 🌍

Lovely to catch up with @ekaiserli.bsky.social and @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social here in Milwaukee - the first time we have seen each other since our joint paper was published earlier this year! 🌱🧬

Arrived in a very hot Chicago ahead of the Plant Biology 2025 meeting in Milwaukee this Saturday ☀️ @aspbofficial.bsky.social 🌱 🧬

Horizon Europe 2028 - 2034: twice bigger, simpler, faster and more impactful Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175 billi...

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC.

We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail.

@Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU

research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

📣 Online now - the Review "The ribosome ubiquitination code: fine-tuning translation under stress" from
Haleigh Wooters, Neil Nimmagadda, Alicia Darnell, and @thesilvalab.bsky.social .

#Ubiquitination #TranslationalReprogramming #StressResponse

Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPPS3S6Gf...

Congratulations and happy graduation day to Dr Max Schwarze! A paper from his main PhD project looking at co-translational protein quality control in plants is coming very soon! 🌱

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...

Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs

Congratulations on your @sebiology.bsky.social Cell section Young Scientist Award, Manu! Very well deserved 🙌🏼 🥳

Next in the condensation session is our own from @theustunlab.bsky.social @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social who talks how bacteria exploit p-body condensation to suppress protein translation #proteostasis #immunity - see also our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic talk by @djgibbs.bsky.social at #SEBconference on how the N-Degron pathway regulates histone methylation to coordinate plant development #proteostasis @sebiology.bsky.social - see also @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social latest publication www.cell.com/developmenta...

Fascinating new study showing that diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through periderm wound sites in plants acts as a signal for initiating barrier repair! More evidence for the importance of oxygen (and associated signalling) in regulating development. Congrats to all on this great work! 🌱 🫧

Co-inoculation of Zymoseptoria tritici strains IPO323 and IPO88004. Co-inoculation experiments were performed with the avirulent strain IPO323 and the virulent strain IPO88004. Disease severity was evaluated across a series of virulent-to-avirulent ratios ranging from 1:10 to 1:1,000. Disease symptoms were recorded 21 days postinfection (dpi).

Haider Ali, Megan C. McDonald, and Graeme J. Kettles developed a rapid forward genetics methodology to identify genes that enable Zymoseptoria tritici to gain virulence on previously resistant wheat varieties. Learn more: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

Thank you for a very nice visit with great discussions! Lots of ideas in my head now… 🧬 🌱

Just landed in Düsseldorf and looking forward to some productive plant proteostasis discussions and project planning with @suaybuestuen.bsky.social et al! 🌱 🧬 🦠

Congratulations to all for this great work on the evolution of the low-oxygen transducing transcription factors in land plants 👏🏻

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Bioreductive hypoxia-responsive chemical probes show fluorescence in hypoxic tissue of Arabidopsis.

#Hypoxia-activated fluorescent probes as markers of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues

#PlantScience by Monica Perri, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@emilyflashman.bsky.social @daanweits.bsky.social @conway-group.bsky.social @hammond-lab.bsky.social

DPP8/9 processing of human AK2 unmasks an IAP binding motif | EMBO reports imageimageA novel regulatory mechanism controls AK2 stability in the cytosol, linking mitochondrial protein processing to proteasomal degradation. Cytosolic degradation of adenylate kinase 2 (AK2) and potentially 129 additional proteins is ...

Protein degradation mediated by DPP8/DPP9 peptidases by unmasking N-degrons recognized by Inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs) E3 ligases. By Bange and Riemer labs. @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

National Science Foundation Halts Funding Indefinitely

National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...

Huge congratulations to @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for being awarded this prestigious 3-year BBSRC fellowship to investigate novel molecular mechanisms controlling plant defence memory 🦠 🌱 🧬

ISPLORE 2025, Nagoya, JAPAN ISPLORE 2025 International Society for Plant Low O2 Research Conference What is ISPLORE?

Registration for our #plantscience ISPLORE conference held from September 22-26 in Nagoya, Japan is now open! We look forward to seeing you there 🌾🌊

sites.google.com/view/isplore...

Very nice work that also shows the power of AI for identifying anti-proteolysis peptides that can enhance disease resilience

That’s amazing! Well done 🥳

Thanks Mike!

Thanks Daan!