Noel Blanco-Touriñán

Daniel Gibbs Lab Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!

Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Anajú! It is a beautiful work 🥳

Deep tissue profiling of Populus stem at single nucleus level reveals uncharacterized cell types and cell-specific gene regulatory networks - Genome Biology Background Single-cell genomics is revolutionizing plant developmental biology, enabling the transcriptome profiling of individual cells and their lineage relationships. However, plant cell walls poly...

#PaperCBGP 🆕📜‼️

🌱CBGP researcher Daniel Conde joined an international study published in Genome Biology revealing new regulators of xylem development and a novel mechanism shaping vessel formation and stress adaptation

📎Full article here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Page 11 of the Sunday Post. With story 'Fossil find is modern-day Jurassic spark'. The title image is of dinosaurs and below is an image of fossil wood, and a photograph of Anajú Sagasti and Sandy Hetherington

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post!
Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Congratulations Laura, well deserved!

More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity | Plantae When plants face tough times, like an invading pathogen or a sudden drought, they often make a difficult choice: pause growth to focus on survival. This phenomenon, called the growth–defense…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- More than a trade-off: how growth inhibition protects plant genome integrity (Nature Comms.) @dalabadi.bsky.social @jorgehg.bsky.social @noelponte.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/261Dl25

#PlantaePSRW

Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Molecular Coding of Specificity in plant Processes". The issue will be edited by Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter and Laura Ragni. The image depicts the logo of CRC 1101 “Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes“ - carried by groups of 3 German Universities and funded by the DFG, deals with the challenge of understanding specificity in plant processes by application of methods reaching from structure determination, high-end spectromicroscopy and biochemistry over forward and reverse genetics to big data science and computational modelling. This special issue will summarize some recent advances made by CRC 1101 members but also welcomes contributions from colleagues working in this research area.

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱

🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes

Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
@lauraragni.bsky.social

Closing 30th Sept '25

Manuscripts welcome, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...)

#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

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Hormonal regulation of cell fate plasticity of xylem-pole-pericycle lineage in Arabidopsis roots In Arabidopsis roots, xylem-pole-pericycle (XPP) cells exhibit dual cell fates by contributing to both lateral root (LR) and cambium formation. Despit…

🌱 What happens when lateral root primordia (LRPs) fail to emerge?
Using our new lineage tracing tool LRTracker, Xin discovered that arrested LRPs don’t just disappear—they gradually switch fate and become part of the cambium, contributing to secondary growth.1/x
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways to promote meristem arrest. B...

It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow, congrats! Roots 😍

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

Elucidating tissue and subcellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote A spatial map of an entire protein modification system reveals tissue and subcellular diversification of SUMO components.

So happy to share the outcome of an incredible team effort! In this paper we present an Atlas describing how SUMO-PTM components coordinate stress responses in Arabidopsis root cells. Huge congratulations to everyone involved! Amazing work all around! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning Non-cell autonomous signalling is a mechanism by which stem cells are maintained across the tree of life. In plants, many stem cell populations are regulated by peptide ligands related to CLAVATA3, w...

Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congrats Raul! Looking forward to reading it!

When AI meets hormones: opportunities and challenges of AI for advancements in plant hormone research and agriculture <p>Advancements in plant hormone research have significantly deepened our understanding of their roles in plant physiology. However, there are still knowledge gaps in the complex regulatory networks t...

🌱 Our Perspective just published in Plant Hormones!
We explore the opportunities & challenges of applying AI to plant hormone research, highlighting its potential for agriculture and the next phase of the Green Revolution.
#AI #MachineLearning #PlantHormones 1/2

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Hey all!
We have been awarded a Spanish national grant to keep researching. Best of all is we have a full PhD contract assigned. We are looking for candidates interested in molecular biology and evolution of (plant) transcription factors, please spread the word!!
Check our web for more information.

Congrats! Beautiful work!

Lo mataron hace cuatro años al grito de maricon. Se llamaba Samuel Luiz y su nombre resonará para siempre en nuestros corazones mientras seguimos luchando contra el odio que quiere aniquilarnos. Hoy el orgullo es más necesario que nunca. Por él y por el futuro que le robaron. 💪🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Impressive work by @apmahonen.bsky.social and colleagues @nature.com!

Are you around, @tamara-hverdeja.bsky.social? See you tomorrow then!!

Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications This study demonstrates that growth arrest under stress in Arabidopsis protects meristem cells from DNA damage, challenging the idea that it is merely due to energy trade-offs and highlighting its rol...

Feeling incredibly proud of Antonio Serrano @ibmcp.bsky.social — thank you for bringing me on board! Growth arrest is a DNA damage protection strategy in Arabidopsis @jorgehg.bsky.social @dalabadi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks Peter!

Gracias Jennifer! 😊

Thanks Elia 😊

Happy to be part of this beautiful work by @eleazarrodriguez.bsky.social and colleagues, highlighting a novel role of BZR1 in pluripotency acquisition and callus development. @emboreports.org Congrats Thomas & Elise!