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Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, James B. Duke Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM). DukeMGM medschool.duke.edu/news/heitman-e…

An evergreen reminder - despite the celebrations (and problems) of our cultural diversity, humans are genetically pretty undiverse - humans don't come in groups from a genetic perspective

The paper is up on bioRxiv if you want to dive deeper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thrilled to share our latest preprint on how Chlamy acclimates to light stress under day-night cycles! We provide a genome-wide view of the central dogma, correlate changes in thylakoid membranes with the lipidome, track photodamage, quenching, and more. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Cryo-EM structure of Arabidopsis ADR1-EDS1-PAD4 complex solved using Benthi expression! Benthamiana as a model organism to study Arabidopsis NLRs 🤯

It is my absolute pleasure to share my incredible postdoc Dawei's Dawei Dai manuscript on epigenetics and aging in Arabidopsis. It is the work I am most proud of thus far in my career, and every figure has a breakthrough that we are excited about biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

🌾🧬 New BSPP Blog: Learn how Zymoseptoria tritici effectors help this wheat pathogen suppress plant immunity. Discover the latest research from Dr. Thynne and team in Molecular Plant Pathology. buff.ly/3UCWy0q #PlantPathology #CropScience #WheatDisease

Can the combination of protein structure prediction and geometric data analysis overcome the limitations of sequence-based methods in identifying leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain boundaries and repeat units? PLOS Comp Biol UC Berkeley "Structure-aware annotation of leucine-rich

Today, we remember the incredible life and legacy of HHMI Investigator and pioneering plant biologist Joanne Chory of the Salk Institute. A devoted researcher, colleague & mentor, Joanne has had a profound impact on science and all of us who knew her. Read more about Joanne’s

How much of phenotypic variation is due to transcriptional variation? We are starting to think about it in relation to stress response doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-0… so I was really happy to see a preprint on this topic from Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and colleagues biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ksenia Krasileva Even better, in the revision submitted we show that methylation variation can impact TF binding but is *not* important for phenotypic variation.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Ksenia Krasileva I’m not terribly surprised by that. F1 mop1 plants have lost all CHH methylation in regions abutting important regulatory regions and they can look absolutely normal. The system is well buffered.

Sometimes you just have to persevere through negative reviews. Reviewers, please be kind :) #methodsmatter bit.ly/gs2-scholar

We are #hiring a Research Assistant Professor at NDSU! Apply now through the official NDSU link. Join our dynamic team of faculty dedicated to cutting-edge research in plant diseases. NDSUPlantPathology The American Phytopathological Society #PlantSciJobs prd.hcm.ndus.edu/psp/recruit/EM…

WATCH: Professor Ben Blackman's collaborative research project on sunflowers was featured in a PBS video about how their internal clock allows them to predict where and when the sun will travel each day. The footage was captured at the Oxford Tract Greenhouses at Cal. youtube.com/watch?v=sz-eYY…

New!!!👇 #NLRbiology Kudos AmirAli Toghani Ryohei Terauchi Yu Sugihara

Scientists. Noticed it is quiet here? Everyone has gone where the sky is blue. If you haven't yet, move over to get the good stuff

The Keith Slotkin has discovered a plant genome-engineering technique called TATSI that could streamline the process of developing improved crop traits, getting them from the lab to field in record time. Learn more in MIT Technology Review: loom.ly/aW5DyoQ