Sunil Kenchanmane Raju
@kenchanmane.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Duplication, Epigenomics, Comparative Single-cell Omics.
https://kenchanmanelab.com/
https://kenchanmanelab.com/
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Happy #NativeNovember!
This year feels especially meaningful as I’m graduating with my #PhD. Indigenous people are still here: thriving, dreaming, and making those dreams a reality. This month, we honor resilience, heritage, and determination. #IndigenousinSTEM
This year feels especially meaningful as I’m graduating with my #PhD. Indigenous people are still here: thriving, dreaming, and making those dreams a reality. This month, we honor resilience, heritage, and determination. #IndigenousinSTEM
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy #NativeNovember!
This year feels especially meaningful as I’m graduating with my #PhD. Indigenous people are still here: thriving, dreaming, and making those dreams a reality. This month, we honor resilience, heritage, and determination. #IndigenousinSTEM
This year feels especially meaningful as I’m graduating with my #PhD. Indigenous people are still here: thriving, dreaming, and making those dreams a reality. This month, we honor resilience, heritage, and determination. #IndigenousinSTEM
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Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few...
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few...
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
Are you aware of others? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
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Thanks for hosting me! UCR has such an awesome group of plant folks. Full house at my talk - such an honor ❤️
Thoroughly enjoyed @arunsethuraman.bsky.social's talk at the @ucriverside.bsky.social BPSC seminar today, "Exploring angiosperm polyploidy continuum at the species and population levels" 🌱 🌱
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Thanks for hosting me! UCR has such an awesome group of plant folks. Full house at my talk - such an honor ❤️
Thoroughly enjoyed @arunsethuraman.bsky.social's talk at the @ucriverside.bsky.social BPSC seminar today, "Exploring angiosperm polyploidy continuum at the species and population levels" 🌱 🌱
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed @arunsethuraman.bsky.social's talk at the @ucriverside.bsky.social BPSC seminar today, "Exploring angiosperm polyploidy continuum at the species and population levels" 🌱 🌱
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
@jrossibarra.bsky.social made an appearance in one of the slides!!
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Looking forward to my lecture on Wednesday @ucriverside.bsky.social in the Botany & Plant Sciences seminar series! I’ll present some of our recent work on forward time whole genome sims & demographic inference in the polyploid continuum. See y’all there? plantbiology.ucr.edu/seminars
Seminars
BPSC 250 Seminar Series Fall 2025 Organizer: Louis Santiago Winter 2026 Organizer:
plantbiology.ucr.edu
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Looking forward to my lecture on Wednesday @ucriverside.bsky.social in the Botany & Plant Sciences seminar series! I’ll present some of our recent work on forward time whole genome sims & demographic inference in the polyploid continuum. See y’all there? plantbiology.ucr.edu/seminars
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I was fortunate to listen a great talk by Sherry Flint-Garcia this morning in the Zeavolution seminar series.
The pigmentation imaging of maize kernel at cellular level is gorgeous! 🌽🔬
The pigmentation imaging of maize kernel at cellular level is gorgeous! 🌽🔬
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I was fortunate to listen a great talk by Sherry Flint-Garcia this morning in the Zeavolution seminar series.
The pigmentation imaging of maize kernel at cellular level is gorgeous! 🌽🔬
The pigmentation imaging of maize kernel at cellular level is gorgeous! 🌽🔬
Fantastic seminar on 'chromatin regulation and evolution' by @hitenmadhani.bsky.social at @ucriverside.bsky.social
Loved how he started with the classic Linaria vulgaris epigenetics example 🌱
Loved how he started with the classic Linaria vulgaris epigenetics example 🌱
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Fantastic seminar on 'chromatin regulation and evolution' by @hitenmadhani.bsky.social at @ucriverside.bsky.social
Loved how he started with the classic Linaria vulgaris epigenetics example 🌱
Loved how he started with the classic Linaria vulgaris epigenetics example 🌱
Had such a blast hosting @lmueller.bsky.social from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
Her seminar on plant–fungus interactions via CLAVATA signaling sparked so many great conversations @ucriverside.bsky.social
Her seminar on plant–fungus interactions via CLAVATA signaling sparked so many great conversations @ucriverside.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Had such a blast hosting @lmueller.bsky.social from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
Her seminar on plant–fungus interactions via CLAVATA signaling sparked so many great conversations @ucriverside.bsky.social
Her seminar on plant–fungus interactions via CLAVATA signaling sparked so many great conversations @ucriverside.bsky.social
So cool to see ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) -- my native language in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 😍
This is a reminder that @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishes abstracts in both English and your native language, using your native alphabet. You can see and read those online. Here is a screenshot of a great example. Love seeing this in my favorite journal.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So cool to see ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) -- my native language in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 😍
Inspired after hearing about Joanne Chory’s transformative legacy at the 'SoCal Science with Purpose' symposium last week. Her work is a testament to how vision, perseverance, and purpose-driven work can reshape science and its impact on the world👩🔬
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Inspired after hearing about Joanne Chory’s transformative legacy at the 'SoCal Science with Purpose' symposium last week. Her work is a testament to how vision, perseverance, and purpose-driven work can reshape science and its impact on the world👩🔬
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New paper showing how immigration alters the ecological processes structuring the assembly and variation in #Monarch caterpillar gut #microbiomes.
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly
The distribution of biodiversity depends on processes operating across scales, yet multiscale paradigms have struggled to permeate host-microbiome research. By integrating multi-scale ecological theo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New paper showing how immigration alters the ecological processes structuring the assembly and variation in #Monarch caterpillar gut #microbiomes.
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience
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Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
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Seeing some meltdowns over this this morning. To be clear, this is an optional browser extension by creators unaffiliated with Google. GS itself still just reports the vanilla h-index.
Goodhart's Law is among my favorite adages ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure").
Goodhart's Law is among my favorite adages ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure").
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Seeing some meltdowns over this this morning. To be clear, this is an optional browser extension by creators unaffiliated with Google. GS itself still just reports the vanilla h-index.
Goodhart's Law is among my favorite adages ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure").
Goodhart's Law is among my favorite adages ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure").
Reposted by Sunil Kenchanmane Raju
DNA methylome responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: A multi-study analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.682861v1
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
DNA methylome responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: A multi-study analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.682861v1
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Amazing day hearing Prof Qi Mu from Uni of Delaware talk about phenotypic plasticity at UCR - a highly relevant trait for crop improvement 🌽
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Amazing day hearing Prof Qi Mu from Uni of Delaware talk about phenotypic plasticity at UCR - a highly relevant trait for crop improvement 🌽
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📣 This week we opened up our 📊 Public Data Dashboard to celebrate community members’ collective contributions to open peer #preprint review and to demonstrate PREreview’s growth and impact over the years.
Check it out: stats.prereview.org
Learn more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...
Check it out: stats.prereview.org
Learn more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
📣 This week we opened up our 📊 Public Data Dashboard to celebrate community members’ collective contributions to open peer #preprint review and to demonstrate PREreview’s growth and impact over the years.
Check it out: stats.prereview.org
Learn more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...
Check it out: stats.prereview.org
Learn more: content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...
Looking to host a fellow to explore regulation of duplicate genes in plant development & adaptation using single-cell & spatial transcriptomics.
Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology.
Reach out if interested and eligible!
Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology.
Reach out if interested and eligible!
Applications for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Now Open
Applications for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Now Open on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Looking to host a fellow to explore regulation of duplicate genes in plant development & adaptation using single-cell & spatial transcriptomics.
Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology.
Reach out if interested and eligible!
Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology.
Reach out if interested and eligible!
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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
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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...
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For this week’s #Zeavolution we’ll have Hui Liu from Sanzhen Liu’s lab presenting on “CRISPRa in maize”. See everyone Wednesday!
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For this week’s #Zeavolution we’ll have Hui Liu from Sanzhen Liu’s lab presenting on “CRISPRa in maize”. See everyone Wednesday!
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🌱 Join us for our upcoming workshop Quantifying Plant Morphogenesis: 4D Insights with MorphoGraphX!
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🌱 Join us for our upcoming workshop Quantifying Plant Morphogenesis: 4D Insights with MorphoGraphX!
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.
Learn how to quantitatively analyze plant confocal imaging data using MorphoGraphX.
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Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
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A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Can’t believe it’s been a year already! Time really does fly when you’re having fun.
🎉Celebrating the 1st anniversary of our lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
Grateful to my brilliant team for the energy and fun you bring every day and to my mentors for their continued guidance 🙏
🎉Celebrating the 1st anniversary of our lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
Grateful to my brilliant team for the energy and fun you bring every day and to my mentors for their continued guidance 🙏
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can’t believe it’s been a year already! Time really does fly when you’re having fun.
🎉Celebrating the 1st anniversary of our lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
Grateful to my brilliant team for the energy and fun you bring every day and to my mentors for their continued guidance 🙏
🎉Celebrating the 1st anniversary of our lab @ucriverside.bsky.social
Grateful to my brilliant team for the energy and fun you bring every day and to my mentors for their continued guidance 🙏
Reposted by Sunil Kenchanmane Raju
📢 Happening this Friday! Join us for the #Botany360 Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Panel on Oct 3, 2025 at 1 pm ET.
Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students!
Register:
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#IamaBotanist
Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students!
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#IamaBotanist
September 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
📢 Happening this Friday! Join us for the #Botany360 Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Panel on Oct 3, 2025 at 1 pm ET.
Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students!
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#IamaBotanist
Hear from reviewers & grad students on writing strong NSF GRFP applications + fellowship tips. Free & open to students!
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#IamaBotanist