Arif Ashraf

Excellent work. Congratulations to you and your team.

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...

Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.

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

#PlantScience
#PlantSci

🍀🔬 Unpublished data from the lab!

The power of doing hardcore genetics, development, and cell biology using plant as model system!

In the movie, you will see the primary root tip (magenta arrow) and lateral root (yellow arrow) coiling constantly in the same way over 3 days.

Thanks. Olivia aims to master several microscopic systems.

New Current Biology study from @minyaaa.bsky.social and colleagues shows how early CYC expression patterns establish dorsal identity in Mimulus parishii meristems. A clear step forward in understanding floral symmetry and developmental evolution. 🧪 🧪

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Fun to get to highlight Minya's @minyaaa.bsky.social new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mCCK3QW8S...

My grad student, @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia, started her Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) exploration recently.

Image: Arabidopsis root at 41x (left) and same root at 146x (right).

This is the first of many SEM images shared by us. More to share in coming days... 🔬🔬🔬

#Plant #CYTOSKELETON fans, we have a great #openaccess #research #article for you! Arabidopsis AUGMIN8 Contains Two Independent #Microtubule Association Domains. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A photograph of Drs. Yuan Xu and Tom Sharkey measuring the rate of photosynthesis and isoprene being released by a soybean plant in the lab with the MSU PRI logo in the top left corner and the Giving Tuesday logo in the bottom left corner.

Today is #GivingTuesday, and it's a chance to support the Plant Resilience Institute scientists working to solve grand challenges in the face of climate change.

Join us in giving to PRI's Plant Innovation Fund to fuel innovations in plant resilience: plantresilience.msu.edu/Contribute/index.aspx 🌱

YouTube video by Nora Jane Long No Two Plants

A little over a year ago, I co-directed a short film as part of the Symbiosis Film competition, called "No Two Plants". I was paired with a filmmaker and we had a week to make a short film. I also made the score for the film.

I'm sharing it here, please enjoy!

This is the danger of shortcut pretty images. After 5-10 years, when we will look back, we will find everything looks like same.

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

First episode of Season 4 of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast is online! 🎙️🍀

In this episode, @natanellae.bsky.social Natanella told us about her recent @natcomms.nature.com paper on drought stress recovery.

Podcast: tinyurl.com/mudf23je
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2/2 Inspire curiosity, learning, and a love of science in the children you care about. 🪴🎁🌱

Purchase here: a.co/d/htj2hcJ

1/2 Give the gift of knowledge this Christmas or Chanukah!
Arbi the Model Plant tells the story of Lona, a young girl who receives a tiny plant as a gift, and discovers the amazing world of plant biology along the way. 👇

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Plants need champions! People who can tell engaging stories about plants. People who understand plants and explain how plants function People who can explain that plants are critical for human survival. Books shown from David Attenborough, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jonathan Drori, Richard Powers, Danny Chamovitz, Ferris Jabr, Malcolm Wilkins, Charlotte McConaghy, Andy Weir, Beronda Montgomery, and Amanda Rasmussen.

It's gift-giving season!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!

Half of my folks in the lab are Americans. So, we get the chance to celebrate American Thanksgiving in Canada.

We had enough pie, we call it pie-per-person 🥧

Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda

Congratulations @minyaaa.bsky.social 🎉💮🌸

Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower Bilateral floral symmetry is a repeated evolutionary innovation governed by the CYCLOIDEA-dependent program, yet how the dorsal-specific CYC expression is initiated and maintained remains elusive. Min...

Spatiotemporal dynamics of CYCLOIDEA expression during early floral development in monkeyflower www.cell.com/current-biol...

It's good to be back with a new season of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast! 🍀

This podcast, which I started as a postdoc, is growing with me. Thanks for your support over the years.

We have great a line up of awesome plant scientists appearing in Season 4! 🎙️

open.spotify.com/episode/4xHh...

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Joh & Jessica shared some pictures with me from EMBL Heidelberg

My department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

NAASC is happy to share the newly elected:
1- faculty: Anna Dobritsa, Ohio State University, Tomo Kawashima, University of Kentucky, USA
2- early career scholars: Maria Gómez Méndez, UC Riverside, USA Daniela DeLa Mora, CINVESTAV Mexico, Julia Zheku, UBC, Canada!
Thanks to all on the ballot! 💚

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few...

Are you aware of others? 🧪

#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience

100% agreed with you, John.