Arif Ashraf

A time projection of the microtubules in the katanin mutant by Stephanie Martinez 🥳

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Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!

Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732

(3/3) Shimon Sakaguchi published his foundational work in 1995 in the Journal of Immunology, a society's journal with ~3.4 impact factor (current year).

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7636184/

(2/3) The core of Shimon Sakaguchi's experiment was simple, elegant, and driven by a fundamental biology question.

nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

(1/3) Congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi! 🎉🎉🎉

nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Two important facts about Shimon Sakaguchi's discovery highlighted in this thread.

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Thanks, Milos. Credit goes to @juliazheku.bsky.social

Lab is expanding to a new horizon of imaging!

I am extremely proud of my grad student @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia to take a lead on our new Vibratome and create this GORGEOUS 3D image of the radial section of wheat root.

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Actin filaments drive spindle positioning in Arabidopsis meiosis II @newphyt.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks a lot @planteditors.bsky.social
This is amazing!

Membrane trafficking meets root barriers, resilience, and carbon storage 🌱🌍
New discovery: Blocking clathrin-mediated endocytosis in Arabidopsis roots sparks ROS bursts → ectopic suberization. This might unlock ways to increase suberization in roots and C in soils
#PlantScience #RootBiology #Suberin

YouTube video by Zeavolution CLAVATA receptor networks shape maize development

Penelope Lindsay on ear development in maize. From last week's #Zeavolution seminar: youtu.be/KEZ8LdkD1to

Can’t believe it’s been a year already! Time really does fly when you’re having fun.
🎉Celebrating the 1st anniversary of our lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
Grateful to my brilliant team for the energy and fun you bring every day and to my mentors for their continued guidance 🙏

The mid‐SUN‐POD1 complex ensures the structural integrity of ER bodies required for herbivore defense in Arabidopsis Specialized endoplasmic reticulum (ER) bodies in Brassicaceae plants facilitate defense against herbivores by storing β-glucosidases that activate toxic compounds upon tissue damage. The mechanisms .....

Interesting new work on #herbivore defenses in #Arabidopsis published in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

🌱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

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!

The cover image highlights the work by Wallace et al.,who provide an overview of recent progress in the field of maize microbiome research.

⬇️Links below

YouTube video by Plant Cell Atlas Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images

In case you missed it, our workshop on Fiji Basics for Visualization and Quantification of Plant Images is now available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMJ...
We give a lot of practical tips on how to get started with Fiji.
Keep an eye out for announcements on follow-up workshops.

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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

this year's applicants - now limited to 1st YEAR GRAD STUDENTS- “will have just over 6 weeks—& that’s only after earlier this week the agency extended the posted deadlines by about 2 weeks, from late October to early November, with no announcement or explanation.”
www.science.org/content/arti...

Really excited to share the pre-print of my first paper! It details the computational method we used to identify uncharacterized metabolites along the developmental gradient of maize roots, I hope you find it interesting! 🌱🌽

11 years of the lab chalkboard (it's even older than that, just have to dig up those photos)

I attended a really inspiring talk by Jose Dinneny today as the Thornton-Massa speaker at Colorado State University. His vision for the future of agriculture with synthetic biology was really thought-provoking. It’s great to learn AND get inspired! @josedinneny.bsky.social @csuagbio.bsky.social

(5/5) Joh is super busy in screening, collecting new seeds, and gearing up to make their first poster for their very conference to attend this November!

(4/5) This was @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia's RNA isolation week. Crushing those plants every day!

(3/5) Here are some outcomes of @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia's sectioning. Most importantly, she is having fun!

(2/5) We received the Vibratome this week! Yay!

Julia @juliazheku.bsky.social immediately took control of the new toy in the lab.

(1/5) What's happening in the lab?

This week, I spent some time to explain the concept of "Kaizen no michi" in the lab. Focus on daily improvement towards the bigger and long term goal.

Dr. Rajnandani Kashyap is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Saint Louis University, USA. She specializes in anaerobic structural biology, with expertise in cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, and spectroscopy to investigate the mechanisms of long-range electron transfer enzymes. Her research focuses on Fe-S cluster carrying enzymes including nitrogenase, nitrogenase-like enzyme and mammalian enzymes, with broader implications for photosynthesis and genome stability. She has received multiple awards, including invited talks, travel and poster awards at national and international conferences, and has published in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications.

Dr. Rajnandani Kashyap is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Saint Louis University who specializes in anaerobic structural biology to investigate the mechanisms of long-range electron transfer enzymes. @rajnandani.bsky.social