Steffi

What an excellent read ✅👏🏽

Highly recommend! I loved how the author (Evelyn Fox Keller) really dived deep into the concept of “understanding” or a feeling for the organism and on the role of “intuition” in making discoveries.

A lot to think about too: few permanent positions, science in war …!

24.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com:
Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Read thread below 👇

31.08.2025 02:17 — 👍 85    🔁 43    💬 8    📌 3

NEWS & VIEWS: Clathrin to the rescue: Clathrin-mediated trafficking fine-tunes Arabidopsis copper tolerance (Alicja B Kunkowska) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

21.08.2025 20:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

New OA Article: "Assembly-dependent translational feedback regulation of photosynthetic proteins in land plants" rdcu.be/eBbQ6

Algae fine-tune protein synthesis to assembly demands of photosynthetic complexes. In land plants, this feedback control varies or is absent.

18.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

News & Views: "Beyond the identification of Mendel’s genes" rdcu.be/ew9sb

Recent ID of the molecular basis of Mendel’s remaining three traits and demonstration that the genes concerned are major contributors to phenotypic variation in pea.

See rdcu.be/ew9tb

21.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes - Genome Biology Plant organelle genomes, particularly large mitochondrial genomes with complex repeats, present significant challenges for assembly. The advent of long-read sequencing enables the assembly of complete...

Oatk: a de novo assembly tool for complex plant organelle genomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

07.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A single-cell multi-omics atlas of rice - Nature A single-cell multi-omics atlas of rice is revealed, providing insight into cell-type functions and molecular programs.

An @nature paper presents a single-cell multi-omics atlas of eight rice organs. Insights emerging from this resource include new cell states during rice development and correlations between cell type and agronomic traits.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

#CampusVisit
Students of grades 11 and 12 from Carmel Academy, Bengaluru, visited NCBS for an insightful campus visit.
They actively engaged with graduate students from the laboratories of Profs Sanjay Sane, Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee and P. V. Shivaprasad.

23.07.2025 05:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Seeing this Nature cover art for first time from the Crick selfish dna article.
Reminds me of this joke:
Why do crustacean genomes contain a lot of transposons ? It’s shellfish DNA

09.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

#ICAR2025

17.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In love with these roomies...
#naidilehostel

09.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#AwardHighlight!🏆
Steffi Raju, graduate student from @shivaprasadpv.bsky.social's lab was one among the ten Early Career Researchers to receive the travel award by @aabiologists.bsky.social to attend the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research at Ghent, Belgium

🎉Congratulations Steffi!

07.07.2025 07:11 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

View of Concertzaal at ICAR2025 venue

We will be at ICAR 2025 presenting the latest updates in the Arabidopsis Informatics Session, June 19 from 1400-1530 in the Concerthall.
Swing by our booth for some special swag. #TAIR #ICAR2025 #arabidopsis

10.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0