@emilieknight.bsky.social
Research assistant in the Borrill lab. I work on wheat genetics and am involved in projects on senescence, micronutrient contents in the grain and developing a method aimed at identifying direct targets of transcription factors in wheat.
The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
#plantsciences #plantscijobs
Happy birthday, Rex!! 🥳🎂
Yesterday, Rex the JIC #Science Cat celebrated his 10th birthday. Rex has been an iconic figure at the JIC for the last five years, greeting visitors at reception and proudly prowling around the NRP 🐾
#ThrowbackThursday to #NorwichPride 🌈
This year was a very joyful celebration of our NRP #LGBTQ+ community. Our #ProudScientists and colourful lab coats hopefully inspired the next generation to believe that anyone can become a scientist, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵
Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method:
dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro...
A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com
Really pleased we at the Norwich Research Park celebrated #IDAHoBiT Thursday & showed our support for these members of our community & show the inclusive environment we are a part of here
@johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
🌾 Our PhD student Ismael Gutiérrez has completed a research stay at the @johninnescentre.bsky.social exploring wheat responses to drought under climate change via omics data analysis. 📊 Thank you to Dr. @philippaborrill.bsky.social and her team for the warm welcome and training!
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I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬
It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
