Catharina Merchante / Karen

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enhorabuena a los 4!!! 😃😃😃

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

I had the incredible luck of attending the seminar that Jane Goodall gave in Malaga this spring.
She truly knew how to communicate science and how to engage people. Her passion was contagious.
RIP.
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RIP Jane Goodall. She was such an inspiration & role model. May her memory be a blessing 🧪👩‍🔬 #HPS

Con profunda tristeza, lamentamos compartir que nuestra querida fundadora, la Dra. Jane Goodall, ha fallecido por causas naturales hoy, a los 91 años de edad, en California, donde se encontraba en gira por los Estados Unidos.

Hoy ha sido el #DíaMundialDeLaTraducción, así que debemos felicitar a quien mejor lo está haciendo... desde hace unos 3.800 millones de años: el #ribosoma.

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to weigel@tue.mpg.de. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Ecofloristic Characterization and Conservation Challenges of Medicinal Plant Resources and Knowledge in Mbanza-Ngungu, Kongo-Central Province (DR Congo) - Human Ecology We aim to evaluate the composition, distribution, and availability of key medicinal plants in their natural habitats, assess their conservation status, and explore species interactions that are vital ...

👏 Congratulations to Pathy Kibungu on our new paper in Human Ecology on the characterization and conservation challenges of plant resources in the DRC!
🌿 709 species identified in Mbanza-Ngungu
💊 35% medicinal, many rare
⚠️ Urgent conservation needed
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s107...

🌱 ¿Quieres realizar tu tesis doctoral desarrollando un atlas del transcriptoma single-cell y la caracterización funcional de reguladores del desarrollo y maduración del fruto de fresa?

Ofrecemos un contrato de la convocatoria FPI asociado al proyecto PID2024-155863OB-I00

Awesome!! 🥳

🎓 Today our PhD researcher Carolina Huércano made her PhD defense at the IHSM La Mayora (Teatinos).

✨ Congratulations, Carolina! ✨

#PhD #PHDdefense

The Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipAV targets plant U‐box proteins and induces proteasomal‐dependent degradation of BIK1 Plants have developed a complex immune system to detect and respond to invading pathogens. A critical aspect of this defense relies on regulatory mechanisms that control the activation of immune res...

Our new paper is out in New Phytologist! We describe how the Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipAV suppresses plant immunity by directly interfering with key defense regulators. 🧵👇
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Engineering – Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This webinar is the 1st in a series together with "The Plant Journal" Join us for a webinar hosted in collaboration between The Global Plant Council and the "The Plant Journal", exploring the latest ...

🌱Big news
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social to highlight TPJ papers

1st features researchers from our 𝑆𝐼 𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 🌱🧬
🗓️Sept 29 ⏰17:00 CEST
🎙️Hosted by EiC @katherinedenby.bsky.social
🔗 Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

SI onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

We are hiring a PhD student (FPI) for the
🧬🌱Plant Epitranscriptomics Lab 🧬🌱
at IHSM La Mayora (UMA-CSIC) ‪@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social‬‬
to study the role of m6A in axillary bud dormancy

Candidates send CV and motivation letter to:
✉️laura.arribas@csic.es
📆 until Sep 30th

So looking forward to having you here!! 😊

🌟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🗣️

Excited to share the first members of our keynote lineup!
🔹 Federico Ariel
🔹 Brian Gregory
🔹 Polly Hsu @pollyhsulab.bsky.social
🔹 Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social
🔹 Hervé Vaucheret

More speakers and more info coming soon!

Storytellers have a fitness advantage. This study on the Agta – a Filipino hunter-gatherer population – found that skilled storytellers have increased reproductive success relative to unskilled storytellers, with an average additional 0.5 living offspring.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Yiliang!

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

Gracias @lluismontoliu.bsky.social por este precioso artículo. Fred Sanger: icono de la biología molecular, ganador de dos premios Nobel, científico inspirador e irrepetible
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Delicious coffee that came with the wishes for a “great and successful day” 😍 it will be! (hopefully full of writing) 💪

Enhorabuena!!! 🩷 Vaya racha!! Dejad algo para el resto de los mortales 😂

I’ m already jealous of the student that will do the PhD thesis within your team!! 😃😃😃

Congratulations!!! So happy for you, guys, and the entire team! 🩷 Very well deserved and I’m sure the outcome will be amazing.

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

A person stands on a stage behind a podium, in front of people seated at tables. To the right there is a large screen showing an image of text that says ""Shaping the future of Plant research: The Plant Cell Symposium."

Editor-in-Chief Pablo Manavella kicks off the inaugural
The Plant Cell Symposium at #PlantBio2025, bringing the journal closer to authors. Meet editors, learn about the editorial process, and discover more about the journal run by your peers. @aspbofficial.bsky.social #plantscience

Yunde and Pablo smiling in front of a Plant Cell poster.

Yunde and Pablo smiling in front of a Plant Physiology poster.

Two of my favorite @Editors in Chief, Yunde Zhao @plantphys.bsky.social & Pablo Manavella @theplantcell.bsky.social at #PlantBio2025.
They are very approachable and would love to hear about your research. Publishing in ASPB journals helps fund all our activities: education, outreach, travel awards

"La expectativa de felicidad es más intensa que la propia felicidad, pero el dolor de una derrota consumada supera siempre la intensidad prevista en sus peores cálculos."
"El corazón helado", Almudena Grandes