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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

ha ha 😀yes and, some fancy equipment

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Tatsuya 😀

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks 😀🌱🔬

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Sean 😀

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Sam 😀

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2d

Massive news for the lab 🎉🎉🎉

We received Canada Foundation for Innovation - CFI's JELF (John R. Evans Leaders Fund) grant!

Thanks to the team, office of research @science.ubc.ca, and colleagues @ubcbotany.bsky.social for the generous help and support.

www.innovation.ca/news/jelf-cf...

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Yale MCDB @mcdb-yale.bsky.social · 3d

🌿 Calling All Plant Enthusiasts! 🌺

Join us at the Sussex Symposium this Friday for a day dedicated to plant biology! 🌳

🎙️ Don't miss the keynote by Dr. Ken Birnbaum!

🗓️ 9 AM - 5 PM 📍 Jones Auditorium, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

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Raju Soolanayakanahally @rajuaafc.bsky.social · 3d

Breeding better #seabuckthorn! At AAFC, we identified 4 standout genotypes with longer fruit stalks (easier to harvest), larger, sweeter berries, and richer nutrition. Weather played a key role too. doi.org/10.1139/cjps...

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 3d

....and a 3i customer visiting Heidelberg from Australia kindly sent me this photo of Nicole and @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social busy talking about microscopy with a handful of visitors to our booth.

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MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 4d

We're excited to welcome Christopher Topp to the Plant Resilience Institute! Dr. Topp uses powerful imaging tools to envision the future of sustainable agriculture, and he will soon bring his expertise in root biology to MSU. Read the full story: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

KATANIN promotes cell elongation and division to generate proper cell numbers in maize organs

Microtubule severing is essential for proper eukaryotic cell elongation and division. Here we show that the microtubule severing protein, KATANIN, is encoded by two genes in Zea mays (maize) called Di...

www.biorxiv.org

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 5d

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 11d

🍀🔬

MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 6d

A time projection of the microtubules in the katanin mutant by Stephanie Martinez 🥳

Maize epidermal cells with a live cell marker for microtubules where microtubule color from cyan to red indicate time.

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 6d

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Gorgeous imaging by Takashi Ueda sensei's lab!

Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants @natplants.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Protocol for Super-resolution Confocal Imaging: bio-protocol.org/epdf/3732

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 6d

(3/3) Shimon Sakaguchi published his foundational work in 1995 in the Journal of Immunology, a society's journal with ~3.4 impact factor (current year).

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7636184/

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 6d

(2/3) The core of Shimon Sakaguchi's experiment was simple, elegant, and driven by a fundamental biology question.

nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 6d

(1/3) Congratulations to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi! 🎉🎉🎉

nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Two important facts about Shimon Sakaguchi's discovery highlighted in this thread.

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Kirk Amundson @kirkamundson.bsky.social · 8d

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology

The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...

careers.massachusetts.edu

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, Milos. Credit goes to @juliazheku.bsky.social

Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 9d

Lab is expanding to a new horizon of imaging!

I am extremely proud of my grad student @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia to take a lead on our new Vibratome and create this GORGEOUS 3D image of the radial section of wheat root.

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 10d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 10d

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Actin filaments drive spindle positioning in Arabidopsis meiosis II @newphyt.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks a lot @planteditors.bsky.social
This is amazing!

Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, added! go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 10d

Membrane trafficking meets root barriers, resilience, and carbon storage 🌱🌍
New discovery: Blocking clathrin-mediated endocytosis in Arabidopsis roots sparks ROS bursts → ectopic suberization. This might unlock ways to increase suberization in roots and C in soils
#PlantScience #RootBiology #Suberin

doi.org

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 10d

Penelope Lindsay on ear development in maize. From last week's #Zeavolution seminar: youtu.be/KEZ8LdkD1to

CLAVATA receptor networks shape maize development

YouTube video by Zeavolution

youtu.be

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