Postdoc at Stanford in the Brophy Lab, Developing technologies to engineer plants
Riverside, CA
Joined April 2014
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Plant Science Research Weekly: August 23 plantae.org/plant-science-re… Three reviews: Membrane remodeling to cope with cold; Rewiring gene regulatory networks for plant improvement; Stem-borne roots to study trans-organogenesis (1/3)
ALT Schematic showing how gene regulatory networks work, with activators, repressors, and target genes functioning in networks.
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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/10.1101/…
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Sean Cutler, @cutlersr, 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]
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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/ @LabWheeldon, T. Whitehead, @NusinowLab, @bvolkie, @BeltranJBio, nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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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 @PLOSBiology for many contributions. collections.plos.org/collect…
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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.
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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
ALT Promo for the PCA workshop on Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology Part 1: From plants to data generation. This is a free, virtual event taking place on April 14, 2023 from 8 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific time.
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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/
Drought Recovery Induced Immunity Confers Pathogen Resistance biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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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?
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Proud to write and sign this letter advocating for unity in our fight for contracts!
rank and file organizers across the UC have written an open letter against an anti-union no-vote campaign. read it, sign on, and let's keep building solidarity to fight the boss.
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
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Breaking - Workers sitting in at the UC Office of the President have been told they are under arrest. #UAWonStrike – at Sacramento, CA
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*Monday* is the Day! UCR faculty show your solidarity with graduate students, post docs, and represented workers. 💪🏽BE THERE!👊
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Check out our latest #preprint! We found that microbes reduce Striga parasitism in sorghum by blocking haustorium formation in Striga and inducing suberization and aerenchyma formation in sorghum roots. @bradylabs biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵👇1/9
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Happy to share our @IWYP_wheat collaboration with @StuRoy1 and others on rice OsPSTOL1 and its impact in wheat: enhanced root growth and hastened low phosphate signaling @mpriorstrksback biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Alex Borowsky retweeted
We are excited to share new work from our group at .@UCBerkeley. We characterized hundreds of plant transcription factors, that modulate gene expression to enrich gene regulatory networks. See thread for a summary. #transcription #plantsynbio #systemsbio
tinyurl.com/z3nfm8x5
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Happy to share our #preprint on suberin and drought tolerance in tomato! A thrilling project where we have shown how the exodermis in tomato gets suberized and acts as a root barrier with great importance in the plant drought response @bradylabs 🧵👇 1/9
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We're #hiring! Open position in @Ginkgo's #NGS #ComputationalBiology group that is ideal for a fresh Ph.D. or someone with equivalent industry experience. We do tons of cool stuff, and I've loved the work and the people since joining earlier this year! ginkgobioworks.com/job-listi…
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I am so excited to share this work! Please checkout this thread for more information about our paper in @NatureFoodJnl 🥳
Our paper “A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production” is out @NatureFood! We propose a new technology for energy efficient food production independent of biological photosynthesis. 1/👇
nature.com/articles/s43016-0…
ALT A combined electrochemical–biological system for the production of food from CO2. a, CO2 electrolysis uses electricity (generated by photovoltaics) to convert CO2 and H2O into O2 and acetate. This process was optimized to produce an effluent output ideal for supporting the growth of food-producing organisms. b, Chlamydomonas, Saccharomyces, mushroom-producing fungus and a variety of vascular crop plants were grown using the electrolyser-produced effluent. c, The organisms grown using the electrolyser-produced effluent serve as food or food products. This system is capable of making food independent of photosynthesis, using CO2, H2O and solar energy.
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A UC Riverside-led team has learned what happens to the roots of rice plants when they’re confronted with two types of stressful scenarios: too much water, or too little. These observations form the basis of new protective strategies.
universityofcalifornia.edu/n… #UCRscience