Some of the biggest pumpkins in the world are now on display at NYBG. 🎃 Top off the Halloween season by checking out these botanical behemoths, each weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds—but don't wait, as they'll only be here through November 1.

My mentor, Dr. Chris Randle, asked me to join his botany class as a guest speaker. Together we worked through a "Deconstructing Thanksgiving" lecture for his students it was pretty fantastic. I'll be honest––he did the phylogenetic grunt work, but I gave excellent commentary.

We're hiring a research technician to help us understand radiation sensitivity in nematodes. Soon-to-graduate undergrads are eligible! New York City! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/85716

New Press Release published on @nsf 's Research News covering Chia-Yi Cheng 's recent paper: Machine learning uncovers 'genes of importance' in agriculture nsf.gov/discoveries/di…

This is a selection of the thousands of native potato varieties that grow in Peru. What is evenmore interesting is that agronomists are looking to the ancestral knowledge of Peruvian farmers to identify genetic strains that can resist climate change buff.ly/2LjJzgH

In Orduña et al. 2022, we combine co-expression networks, DAP-seq, TF-transient overexpression followed by transcriptomics and novel enzyme characterization to demonstrate S2 MYBs target the stilbenoid, early phenylpropanoid and shikimate pathways. Dario Cantù S. Carol Huang #tomsbiolab

Beyond the transcriptome: Carol Huang online from NYU describes her lab's new Double DAP-seq method for studying bZIP heterodimer TF binding specificity...she identified tons of new sites and bZIP9's role in ABA response! #ICAR2022 Concurrent10

Very happy to share our new work on building CRISPRi-based synthetic gene circuits in plants. A huge effort led by the excellent Adil Khan and Brendan Kidd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In our new study in Nature Biotechnology we describe a toolkit of synthetic gene circuits for stable cell reprogramming in plants. We hope this platform will provide useful new tools to the community for engineering plant form and function with greater precision nature.com/articles/s4158…

COVID warning for #PlantBio2022 At #ICAR2022 we advised masking in sessions but not at social sessions/events. Sadly ~1/4 attendees caught the virus. Everyone can reduce their risk but people can also make their own decisions. All that said: Enjoy getting together!

An updated nomenclature for plant ribosomal protein genes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We seek community input on an updated nomenclature for plant ribosomal protein genes. The goal is to adopt a universal nomenclature to make cross kingdom referencing easier.

Excited to introduce PHYTOMap, a new method for multiplexed 3D spatial gene expression analysis in WHOLE-MOUNT plant tissue! My first preprint from the Joe Ecker lab at Salk Institute. 1/🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@LuciaScience Michael Love Daniela Witten Davide Risso A few years back, Patrick 浩亮 Kimes Keegan Korthauer, myself, and others wrote a review / benchmark of various flavors of FDR in application to comp bio problems. Let me know if this helps, or I can try to summarize here too! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Why does chatGPT make up fake academic papers? By now, we know that the chatbot notoriously invents fake academic references. E.g. its answer to the most cited economics paper is completely made-up (see image). But why? And how does it make them? A THREAD (1/n) 🧵

Our effort in the Joe Ecker lab (Tatsuya Nobori Natanella Illouz-Eliaz 🎗️) to generate a single-nucleus atlas of seed-to-seed development in Arabidopsis, along ten developmental time points and a range of tissues is online! and browsable at arabidopsisdevatlas.salk.edu biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

Very happy that our bZIP doubleDAP-seq study is out at Nature Communications: "Double DAP-seq uncovered synergistic DNA binding of interacting bZIP transcription factors". Led by Miaomiao Li. Read it here: rdcu.be/dbrUB.

Excited to share the fantastic speaker list for our Fusion Conferences: Probing human disease using single-cell technologies Please RT register and spread the word! Great mix of clinical and basic science+incredible venue on the beach in Cancun (photos below)! fusion-conferences.com/conference/154

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