Western civilization at work

📢 APPLY THIS WEEK: Join our Plant Tissue Culture & Transformation team as a Technician The Sainsbury Laboratory📍Norwich, UK.

Interested in plants and want to work in a strategic support role? 🌱🧬🧫

Apply before 30 April '24 ⬇️
Salary: £25,138 – £28,759
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📢 We have an open #PhD position available to study 'Processing bodies as a target of pathogenic bacteria'. If you're interested in #proteostasis , processing bodies, plant-microbe interactions apply ♻️🌱🦠🔬 Please share 📢 More info in the ad and here theustunlab.com

#CelebratingAlumni Alessandra Devoto Shirasu Lab@RIKEN

Great visit at the student meeting Royal Holloway RHUL Biology with my dear plant scientist colleagues Laurence Laurence Bindschedler and Alessandra Alessandra Devoto

“Tips for writing academic paper threads” by KamounLab
kamounlab.medium.com/tips-for-writi…

DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals ft.com/content/a08e4a…

🎉Thrilled to share that I will join the Dept of Botany and Plant Science UC Riverside in fall 2024 as Asst Prof of Plant Resilience!
Couldn't have done this without the sacrifices of my parents, family Jyothi Kumar, PhD & support of mentors Kenneth D. Birnbaum James Schnable Rebecca Roston...

After three years at Vienna I can finally report our findings linking cell wall damage and vacuolar protection through ATG8ylation!!

Thanks a lot to all the people involved in making this a reality! What an amazing ride it has been so far.

Looking pretty impressive with our fungal dataset too. Next up to check how it improves assembly. By Rita Tam.

In sum, we think we discovered a #Vacuolar_Quality_Control & #mechanostasis pathway that links cell wall integrity sensing to vacuolar homeostasis. Thanks to everyone involved and let us know what you think...

📢NEW #Preprint , Brainchild of Jose Julián with Alessia, Peng & our amazing collaborators. Topics covered #ATG8ylation , #cell_wall_damage , #vacuolar_quality_control , #mechanostasis . biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Intrigued? See the 🧵for a summary:

Cell wall damage activates an autophagy pathway. Congrats Yasin and team Yasin Dagdas 🎉

This type of news is a disaster for the future of the nation. Who will educate and equip the next gen for the 21st century? The UK will pay for this in 10-20 years.

Instead, the politicos focus is Rwanda….

“Surrey uni academics back no confidence vote as 'morale is very low…”

Only 2 African players in ATP Tour Top 250. Shameful, really.

Extreme contrast.

April 2024 will go down as one of the most incredible flips on record in Europe. Summer to winter for some.

The warmth broke an enormous number of April records and the cold is now beating some late April records.

Exclusive: Aussie swimming coach Denis Cotterell opens up on what it’s really like inside Chinese swimming.

- Rejects claims of systemic doping
- Opens up on Sun Yang
- The “atrocious” conditions inside kitchen where food was contaminated.

“I’m upset”

smh.com.au/sport/swimming…

So South Africa and Africa share in real-time COVID-19 variant data but the USA does not for a Flu strain H5N1 of pandemic potential? Amazing how incompetent the USA scientists are or maybe 'hiding' information?

The massive faculty walkout at Columbia right now in solidarity with the student protesters is incredible. Faculty everywhere should follow suit.

Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.

The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of…. birds.