Breaking - Workers sitting in at the UC Office of the President have been told they are under arrest. #UAWonStrike

Proud to write and sign this letter advocating for unity in our fight for contracts!

I’m proud to vote YES on the new UAW SRU contract. The pay raises will make UC Riverside graduate students some of the best paid in the country when adjusting for cost of living.

I think one of the most challenging parts of working in the UC is the complexity. Who has the power to make what decision? Is it UCOP? Is it the Regents? Is it Academic Senate? It's really frustrating to see people upset that some of our priorities aren't in the TA'ed contracts

My undergrad mentee is graduating in the summer after working in our molecular plant genetics lab for what will be 2 years! He's on the hunt for a lab assistant/technician position after graduation. Seen any posts?

This course was transformational in my development as a plant biologist. Highly recommend applying!

Our recent study trying to dive into the process of drought recovery in Arabidopsis has uncovered new insights into the molecular response of plants to rehydration -> 80% of drought-responsive genes return to normal levels within 15-60 minutes of rehydration. 1/

Registration is open for a PCA workshop on Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology. Join us for the first part of a two-part workshop that will focus on bridging the gap between laboratory work and data generation! #PlantSci #scSeq Details: bit.ly/scSeqTech1

Attention, plant scientists! Are you working on any plants belonging to the red groups? We are looking for collaborators who could provide us with RNA capturing expression of organs of plants from the neglected plant lineages.

The Plant Cell Atlas group has done a wonderful job building a collaborative scientific community in plant single cell biology. Highly recommend applying to this conference!

In an unconscionable move by the UC, University of California Police arrested 3 workers on felony charges and confiscated their possessions for writing messages in chalk and washable paint calling on UC to stop underpaying workers.🧵

How can we create climate-resilient varieties and increase the carbon-capture potential of croplands? Check out this newly published collection of article. Congrats to all authors & thanks to Editor Joanna Clark ⁦PLOS Biology⁩ for many contributions. collections.plos.org/collection/eng…

We developed a new CID module that can be reprogrammed to bind diverse ligands. It works very well in plants, and we used it to make plant-based biosensors. W/ WheeldonLab, T. Whitehead, Nusinow Lab, Brian Volkman, Beltran Lab, nature.com/articles/s4158…

So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827

Sean Cutler, Sean Cutler, and I are looking for post docs and students to join us on a collaborative project. Email us if you have interests in plant synbio and turning plants into sensors. [email protected], [email protected]

I cannot stress enough how happy I am to share this with you. Most of the work carried out over the last two years of my PhD has finally been brought together in a manuscript, now available on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Plant Science Research Weekly: August 23 plantae.org/plant-science-… Three reviews: Membrane remodeling to cope with cold; Rewiring gene regulatory networks for plant improvement; Stem-borne roots to study trans-organogenesis (1/3)