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The #PlantScienceSaturday crew is ready! Stop by and join in the fun! This initiative is inspired by members who wanted to give back to our host cities' communities. Learn more, and/or join us! plantbiology.aspb.org/plant-science-… #PlantBio2023 ForsythFarmersMarket

Proud PI hearing about the lab’s presentations at #PlantBio2023. Talk today by Peng Liu, with Kaushik Panda on deck. And posters by Marianne Kramer & Yu-Hung Hung. Great work!

I'm truly honored to have chaired the "Current Advances in Plant Gene Editing" session at #PlantBio2023! A huge thank you to all the speakers for delivering insightful talks to our engaged audience! Divya,Armando Casas-Mollano,CJ Tsai,Nicholas Ruppel,barbara Marques.Keith Slotkin

Excited to represent Keith Slotkin at my first Keystone Symposia! The organization is top-notch, and the talks and posters have been truly inspiring. Thrilled to be a part of transposable element community! Keystone Symposia #KSTransposons24

We wrote a little about how TEs get their names in this article: annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

The Plant Cell welcomes 2024 Assistant Features Editors. Congratulations to all of our successful applicants. We look forward to working with this terrific group of early career researchers in 2024! buff.ly/3Qe4O5g ASPB

Thanks to all who supported and attended BioBash last month! St. Louis’ #plantscience and #agtech ecosystem is a great place to be. Check out our careers page for current opportunities here at the Danforth Center: loom.ly/TGrNbv0

IN BRIEF: Fading beauty: The protein degradation mechanism behind rose petal senescence (Peng Liu) buff.ly/432TX2U ASPB #PlantSci

In an exciting endorsement of the impact of our work, technology developed by Keith Slotkin has been selected as the very first project of the new National Science Foundation/NobleReach Emerge partnership. Learn more: loom.ly/mOH9msI

IN BRIEF: Dissecting and redesigning enhancers of photosynthesis genes (Peng Liu) buff.ly/49TCLyH Josh Cuperus ASPB #PlantSci

IN BRIEF: From the archives: On DNA maintenance – SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes, DNA damage repair, and transposon excision repair mechanisms (Peng Liu) buff.ly/3Juhil8 ASPB #PlantSci

Peng Liu, PhD, is a senior research scientist at the Danforth Center, where he focuses on genome editing and transposable elements in key crops. Learn more about his work: loom.ly/aNJ7j-E

Applications for the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor program (volunteer positions) are being accepted between now and October 15, 2024. Who should apply? Late-stage PhD students & postdocs who want to expand their horizons and skillsets. More ➡️ blog.aspb.org/plant-physiolo…

The @Slotkin_lab Danforth Center is hiring a new laboratory technician. Lots of cool work to be done on transposable elements! Please retweet to spread the word! paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

Scientific journal nature has published research authored by scientists in our Keith Slotkin. The publication focuses on a technology called TATSI, which enables faster and less expensive production of improved plants. Learn more: loom.ly/cTNDkKc

So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in Nature Publishing. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by Peng Liu. nature.com/articles/s4158…. 🧵

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Transposase-assisted target-site integration for efficient plant genome engineering (Nature) Peng Liu @slotkin_lab (Summary by Ching Chan ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/3zZftuT #PlantaePSRW

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