🪲Weaver ants, aphids, bugs and beetles. Today was all about observing the world around us. Snapshots from the nature walk as a part of the field ecology summer camp organized by the Science Education Office for the children of NCBS staff. Spiders And The Sea Museum and Field Station Facility at NCBS

🚨 Exciting milestone! My first first-author paper from my PhD is now published in New Phytologist - and it’s open access! 🎉 (1/3) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Introducing the newest startup to spin out of the Danforth Center: Spearhead Bio. Spearhead’s technology enhances the efficiency of genome engineering by harnessing the plant’s own natural DNA. 🌱 Learn more: loom.ly/UVnGrzc

Today, we pay tribute to Prof. Panchanan Maheshwari. A pioneer who revolutionised hybrid plant creation and redefined biology education in India. His scientific spirit lives on through his research in embryology and through his teaching. Dr Jitendra Singh Abhay Karandikar

"I loved math when I was growing up. Nobody in my family was a scientist, but my father loved doing puzzles. So we did a lot of puzzles." In our interview with 2020 chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna, she tells us about how her scientific journey started: bit.ly/2M82Chu

It's crazy how some people need no proof to believe a lie but demand endless proof to accept the truth.

🚨 Preprint alert!! Thrilled to share our new story where we report the discovery of a new sporophytic maternal-effect mutant in Arabidopsis. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#ResearchExplained! In a first, Vivek Hari Sundar & team from Dr Shiva prasad's group at NCBS has identified a new H4 histone variant in rice which may have helped semi-aquatic rice varieties adapt to changing environments.🌾 Read here:bit.ly/4jNcirp By Rupsy Khurana

🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). Check out quotes from editors and popular content on our #TransposonDay2025 page 👉mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/transposonday2…

Great turnout for the #ICAR2025 opening reception!

Glad to be featured in the newsletter of AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social Feeling elated to be one among the 11 ECR awardees... The conference has been extremely rewarding and personally enriching.

#AwardHighlight!🏆 Steffi Raju, graduate student from Shiva prasad lab was one among the ten Early Career Researchers to receive the travel award from AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social to attend the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research at Ghent, Belgium 🎉Congratulations Steffi!

New Article: "Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation" rdcu.be/ew9ig With N&V: "Gene regulation: A binding agreement" rdcu.be/ew9jn Large-scale study of transcr. factor binding across multiple flowering plant species.

This is still my favourite time-lapse I've made 🌱 A tiny mustard seed (half a millimetre) germinating into a seedling. 7 days in 9 seconds.

Rooting knowledge with these curious minds...It was a pleasure to be part of this engaging experience.

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? There are the pleasures of: 1. Having the initial idea or insight, 2. Watching the idea develop into new experiments or a new model, and 3. Telling others. Martin A. Schwartz also talks about this on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/74-…

Back from holidays. During this time, we published two papers about engineering FLS2-flg22 perception, to expand the recognition spectrum, and one News & Views highlighting them: rdcu.be/eBbgd rdcu.be/eBbgk rdcu.be/eBbgm

New Article: "CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants" rdcu.be/eBbi9 With alliterative News&Views: "Phosphorylation powers plant Polycomb" rdcu.be/eBbjZ

Trade-off between rice epigenome and cold adaptation dlvr.it/TMblSP #plantscience