@stevenkelly.bsky.social
Photosynthesis, Evolution, Guitars | Professor @OxfordBiology | Co-founder & CSO @WildBioscience
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OrthoFinder just dropped a major update
Itβs faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes
Letβs break it down (1/10)
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Researchers in @biology.ox.ac.uk and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a Β£6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.
Read more β¬οΈ #OxfordClimate
So true: "In a very short time, we have created not only silly systems of governance and regulation, but are also managing to subvert academic life through the creation of bullshit jobs and, I would argue, bullshit practices."
24.03.2025 14:19 β π 24 π 8 π¬ 2 π 1Thank you! βΊοΈ
22.03.2025 21:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Second writeup! This paper made me fall back in love with photosynthesis evolution. β€οΈ
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis (The Plant Cell) @stevenkelly.bsky.social (Summary by Mae Mercado @maemercado.bsky.social⬠) buff.ly/LyHf7qN
#PlantaePSRW
Images showing shape of hypocotyls (WT, phot1 and cry1) under dark or blue light, with the growth rate color-coded onto the tissue. The WT elongates in the dark, but not in the light. The phot1 mutant continues elongating under blue light, as does the cry1, but in cry1 the elongation is is a different location, closer to the cotyledons.
#PlantSci Research Weekly March 7 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: C4 metabolite transporters; Insights from Marchantia pangenome; cry1 & phot work synergistically; Plasmodesmata as MCS for intercellular communication; Developmental robustness from antagonizing cis-elements; (1/2)
07.03.2025 07:31 β π 24 π 6 π¬ 1 π 2@stevenkelly.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @dubcovskylab.bsky.social @williamsanu.bsky.social
07.03.2025 07:31 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Wild is hiring! If youβre passionate about making an impact in crop improvement using genomics and comp bio come join the team!
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...
Lots of βοΈ traffic over Oxford today. Never seen so many before
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In the May 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth)
Hidekazu Kobayashi, Takao Oi
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
The first step on a path to C4 rice by genome editing βοΈπ§¬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A preprint several years in the makingβ¦
A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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23.02.2024 06:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A quick visit to my (scientific) roots todayβ¦ havenβt changed a bit πππ
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Engineering the cyanobacterial ATP-driven BCT1 bicarbonate transporter for functional targeting to C3 plant chloroplasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.14.580295v1
16.02.2024 22:03 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social
05.02.2024 23:31 β π 24 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1
The NHM was looking spectacular this evening π¦
20.01.2024 19:40 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Muskβs Starlink satellite train just passed over Oxford.. satellites stretched horizon to horizon β¦ I genuinely thought it was aliens!
18.01.2024 19:34 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer
21.12.2023 08:13 β π 30 π 22 π¬ 0 π 1Never too late!
08.12.2023 07:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So it turns out that electroporation of exogenous DNA into organisms is entirely natural.
peerj.com/articles/165...
Exciting opportunity at the Queenβs College Oxford in association with @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. The Browne JRF is a three year independent research fellowship available in any area of biology that complements Oxford Biology.
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/br...
Please repost!
Green branching shoots of Selaginella apoda
π¨Come join the labπ¨ to lead on developing Selaginella apoda as a genetic model system πΏ
1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec
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"People don't take climate action because they don't understand the science", someone said in a discussion yesterday.
But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? π§ͺ
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Awesome!
21.11.2023 21:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Nice!
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Our prepring about comparative gene regulatory network analysis is available on bioRxiv! We focused on the regulation of C4 and C3 photosynthesis and identified conserved regulators for other pathways too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #generegulation #photosyntheis #PlantScience
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