Prof. Keiko Torii

Somos las biólogas vegetales! Santiago, Chile 🌱🇨🇱🥰　#WomenInScience

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳
Just published @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research Technician - Torii Lab Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Technician to s...

🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
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Research Specialist - Torii Lab Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Specialist to s...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words
HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills.
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Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
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Thank you! Enjoy reading🥰

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...

This commentary is about the recent publication by Tang et al. “Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration” appeared in Cell, placing it into historical and broader contexts.
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Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬!
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My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
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"Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Plant Interkingdom Environment Interaction and or Plant Immunity at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Torii_10-16-25.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

Assistant Professor - Austin, Texas job with Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin | 675377 MBS UT Austin invites applications for tenure-track faculty position at the Assist Prof level. Early-stage Assoc Prof level are also considered.

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity-
Now ads out in Science Careers! Please retweet and APPLY🤠🤘
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Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
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博士が愛した論文　研究者19人が語る‟偏愛論文”アンソロジー この論文が、わたしを変えた、世界を変えた。論文のすごさ、面白さを、日本を代表する研究者が熱量高く語る。

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説.
I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱
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Thank you!!!

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001

Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain to...

Exciting🌱! Reprogramming stomatal precursor cells to totipotency -- Cooperation of LEC2 with SPEECHLESS induces auxin biosynthesis genes, inciting a bifurcation of stomatal differentiation trajectory into a new, somatic embryo founder cell state.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So wonderful to catch up w/ long-term friends & colleagues and discuss about exciting topics of plant science in beautiful Denver ⛰️🥰!

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

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博士が愛した論文　研究者19人が語る‟偏愛論文”アンソロジー この論文が、わたしを変えた、世界を変えた。論文のすごさ、面白さを、日本を代表する研究者が熱量高く語る。

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説.
I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱
natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Had fantastic time visiting my colleagues/friends at Univ. Edinburgh Molecular Plant Science Dept. Steven, Karen, Andrew, Justin and more, thanks for your hospitality and sharing exciting science! Great extra day for science after #PPRM2025 and to enjoy beautiful Scotland 🌱🏰🥰

Big thanks to Frank and the TSL receptor crews for
organizing such a FANTASTIC meeting in beautiful Edinburgh! Nice to get to know the people and learn about their exciting science. So honored to share history of plant peptides & receptors in development, and some future directions🌱🥰 #PPRM2025

Looking back at some of the inspiring lectures from #PPRM2025 in Edinburgh—such a privilege to learn from so many outstanding researchers. Grateful for this community and the ideas it sparks.

@keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social
@marischuster.bsky.social

Thank you, Frank, and all the organizers for this amazing meeting!!!

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

Frank @frankmenke.bsky.social opens the PPRM2025. Exciting program ahead!

Hyemin unraveled the mechanisms of heterodimeric partner selectivity among the stomatal master regulatory TFs, their biological significance, and manipulation by small molecules. She is an award-winning confocal microscopist🔬🌱-Congrats, again!

Congratulations, our one-and-only grad student, Dr. Hyemin Seo @texasscience.bsky.social for the successful thesis defense with flying colors 🎉🍾🌱🧬🧪! We are so proud of you🥰