Bailing Ren

Really enjoyed catching up with Alison over lunch today — such a fun and inspiring chat! 🌿 Also loved her talk on synthetic plastomes in Chlamydomonas — super cool work!

Weekend brain finally caught up 🫠✨Had such a great time at the Plant and People! Huge thanks to the amazing organizers for making it happen 🌵
Super happy to take home a poster prize 🎉 A lovely little boost for my tiny research journey — exactly what I needed to keep going

We are delighted to announce another PhD success at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social‬! 🎉 Dr. Jinghan Liu has passed her PhD viva in the group of Reimo Zoschke. 🌱🔬

Huge congratulations on this achievement—wishing you all the best for what’s next! 🎓✨

🧪 After my third failed experiment, I told my PI:
"Maybe this is nature’s way of telling us it doesn’t want to be edited."
PI: 🥶

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Registration is now OPEN for the 7th Plants & People Conference (P&P’25)! Join us Sept 9–10 at MPI-MP for talks on plant science, AI, space research & more. Poster submissions are welcome!
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Huge congrats to @dunkelmann.bsky.social‬‬ who secured £9.1 million funding for project SyncSol to develop a universal chloroplast genome for plants of the nightshade family. If successful, SyncSol could revolutionize plant breeding.‬ 🌱🧬

More: www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2796756/news_publication_24809749

Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair - Nature Plants Inactivation of double-strand break repair pathways greatly increases the integration of plastid DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco plants, highlighting the mutagenic potential of organellar DNA a...

New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w

Me in GPT's eyes.

Initiation of Translation in Bacteria and Chloroplasts Relative rates of protein synthesis in bacteria generally depend on the number of copies of a messenger RNA (mRNA) and the efficiency of their loading…

Initiation of Translation in Bacteria and Chloroplasts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genome editing in the green alga Chlamydomonas: past, present practice and future prospects This review discusses genome engineering in Chlamydomonas against the background of the history of genetic engineering, gives an overview of the tools, and methods available to a genetic engineer tod....

Genome editing in the green alga Chlamydomonas: past, present practice and future prospects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @theplantjournal.bsky.social

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