Natanella Illouz-Eliaz

This is transformative!!

Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation Desiccated cells lose over 85% of their water content and experience widespread biomolecular dysfunction. Romero-Pérez et al. show that the yeast proteome contains a subset of proteins that are desicc...

Fascinating study sheds light on dehydration tolerant proteins, which proteins tends to be more stable during dehydration-rehydration and more (*not in plants).

Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...

In this case well deserved is an understatement. Congrats @joeecker.bsky.social you are a giant not in one field of science but two! And yet you are so modest. So impressive, so proud to be a part of the lab!

Not just reversal: The hidden power of drought recovery | Plantae When drought strikes, plants struggle to survive. Growth slows, flowers appear too early, fruits drop prematurely, and harvests shrink. Scientists have long tried to engineer drought tolerance plants…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Not just reversal: the hidden power of drought recovery (Science) @natanellae.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/TNffcja

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A must- and an enjoyable read- congrats on these amazing discoveries.

Niko this is an amazing story! Amazing job by all the team and huge congrats to Huei-Hsuan!!

Good one!

YouTube video by The Franklin Institute Joanne Chory | 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science

I never saw this beautiful video about Joanne Chory, published in 2024 in honor of her receiving the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP1...

In case somebody else missed it too...

#PlantScience #FranklinMedal

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on!

#TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾
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🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨

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A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication - Nature The evolutionary history of barley is analysed using ancient and modern DNA.

A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Night Science Institute Is Changing How Science Teaches Creativity In this interview with Professors Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, explore how night science brings creativity, ideation and collaboration back into the heart of modern science.

The reality in science is that creativity is not treated as a core skill while hypothesis testing is, and that is the imbalance that we want correct through the Night Science Institute!
www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/art... www.night-science.org

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia KSQA: Dr. Daniel Kelly (Cardiometabolism in Health and Disease)

🚨 Last Call – Sept 24, 11:59 PM MDT!

Submit your scholarship applications and abstracts for the Keystone Symposia on Cardiometabolism in Health & Disease.

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#KSCardioMetab26 #cardiometabolism #cardiac #heartdisease

Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal Arabidopsis remains one of the best studied models today and has a number of remarkable chemical defense systems which actively engage, interact and preven

Fun review of Arabidopsis anti-pathogen metabolism with @somssich.bsky.social and @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social.

Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...

📢🌱 Job alert: Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics (Tenure-track)
Join our interdisciplinary research environment, in Montréal Botanical Garden!
📅 Deadline: October 13, 2025
📍 Université de Montréal, Canada

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RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
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YouTube video by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz Spatial transcriptomics in drought and recovered leaf cross sections

Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends! Fun science during the day (see below) and a Le'Chaim during the night! 👩‍🔬🍷Shana Tova!
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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

Sad news. Plant science has lost a global champion with the passing of Steve Long. His recent work on engineering enhanced photosynthesis portends future breakthroughs in crop yield and food security. Here is a tribute from the Uni Essex where started 🧪 #plantscience www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250919_UCB.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

Training petunia plants to chronic drought over 25 clonal generations does not enhance adaptive responses to drought but rather leads to plant mortality.

Transgenerational decline through insidious effects of #drought memory

A #Letter by Pantin et al.👇

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Plants Boost Their Immune System to Recover from Drought Plant biologist Natanella Illouz-Eliaz studies how the Arabidopsis plant responds to stress such as moderate drought. During drought recovery, the plant boosts its immune system and undergoes genetic ...

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics

www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

I want to work with you! Super impressed by your talk at GRC single cell!

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852 A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
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Drought Recovery in Plants Triggers a Cell-State Specific Immune Activation Illouz-Eliaz, N., Yu, J., Swift, J., Lande, K., Jow, B., Tuang, Z.K., Lee, T., Yaaran, A., Castanon, R.G., Nery, J.R. and Nobori, T., 2025. Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific im...

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A database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676187v1

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.

Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊
Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx:

Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs

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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Li lab in the Department of Plant Biology is recruiting a postdoctoral research associate to work on project(s) in plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and/or genomics. The idea...

MSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology.

Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Please email me if you have any questions.

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