This is a true story. The events depicted in this manuscript took place in Rehovot & Riverside. At the request of the survivors, the names have been strictly kept. "Optimized Small-Molecule Pull-Downs Define MLBP1 as an Acyl-Lipid-Binding Protein" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp… Go Fish

Nothing short of overpowered! Dynamic control of plant water use using designed ABA receptor agonists science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…

Great to see the work resulting from our very fruitful collaboration — spearheaded by Yufei & Assaf from Hebrew University — online PNASNews : A ligand-independent origin of abscisic acid perception | #plantsci #evolution #charophytes #plantphys #algae | pnas.org/content/early/…

A year a go when we were brainstorming an idea a colleague told me "nice story but where is the data", here it is. Done with humility by Yufei Sun and lots of friends. HUJI Agri Hebrew University Jan de Vries pnas.org/content/early/…

We have new open tenure track positions in the Institue of Plant Sciences & Genetics in Agriculture HUJI Agri Hebrew University. Looking for excellent candidates with expertise in Genetics, Breeding, or Photosynthesis, to join us. shorturl.at/knBGM

We had a beautiful hypothesis about how auxin triggers root regeneration. It flows down from the stele and because it can't flow back when you cut the root it forms a new auxin peak. A simple and beautiful self-repair mechanism. The only problem was that it was wrong...

Our liverwort findings indicate that ACC was a plant signal for at least 400 million years. “Ethylene-independent functions of the ethylene precursor ACC in Marchantia polymorpha” by Li et al. (rdcu.be/b9c1b) News&Views: nature.com/articles/s4147…

I was sure that AI is good just for games like StarCraft II and DOTA 2... guess not :) ‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/g…

Do old genes learn new tricks? Maybe not. This collaborative work with Zach Lippman group shows that the ancient homeobox WOX9, thought to have species-specific functions, actually has a common deeply conserved pleiotropic role. Cell . cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Holy Moly, just got tenured

Bioorthogonal information storage in L-DNA with a high-fidelity mirror-image Pfu DNA polymerase go.nature.com/3j1IbPF

The QC. Everybody likes the QC. It plays an important part in regeneration. But, does it really? And what does it do exactly? academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

A Modified Yeast Two-Hybrid -Adjustable Expression to Battle the Signal Saturation. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A small pixel of light after many days of grief. This work started when I returned to Israel, and it came to light alongside the understanding that there is no (safe) place but home. Jan de Vries Hannes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…