Laura Turchi (she/her)
@turchil.bsky.social
Plant Scientist working in Comms at The Sainsbury Lab, Norwich
I like all things plants 🧬🌱
Former Plantae fellow 🌟📣
I like all things plants 🧬🌱
Former Plantae fellow 🌟📣
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📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
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Only Lord Farquaad is missing
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Only Lord Farquaad is missing
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new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
Versatile NTP recognition and domain fusions expand the functional repertoire of the ParB-CTPase fold beyond chromosome segregation
Nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent molecular switches regulate essential cellular processes by cycling between active and inactive states through nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These mechanis...
www.biorxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
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Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs
Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!
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I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.
October 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.
First post on the Node and first attempt at summarising a paper that is not about plants! 😱
Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
Limb regeneration guide for axolotls 📋
Laura Turchi (@turchil.bsky.social) highlights a recent paper by @leootsuki.bsky.social and team on The Node ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/limb-regener...
Laura Turchi (@turchil.bsky.social) highlights a recent paper by @leootsuki.bsky.social and team on The Node ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/limb-regener...
Limb regeneration guide for axolotls - the Node
A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl
thenode.biologists.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
First post on the Node and first attempt at summarising a paper that is not about plants! 😱
Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
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Busy week for TSL Ventures!
First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.
Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀
First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.
Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀
September 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Busy week for TSL Ventures!
First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.
Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀
First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.
Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀
Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥
Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥
Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
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Ago will forever remind me of the most unhinged review title I’ve ever seen
September 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Ago will forever remind me of the most unhinged review title I’ve ever seen
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I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚
EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025
💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025
💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025
September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚
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Cool program alert! "The P2P Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science, imaging, data science, etc, but have limited research experience. It enables adults with at least an associate's degree to upskill in emerging technologies & methods" 🧪🌱
Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open.
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275
Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
www.danforthcenter.org
September 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Cool program alert! "The P2P Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science, imaging, data science, etc, but have limited research experience. It enables adults with at least an associate's degree to upskill in emerging technologies & methods" 🧪🌱
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TSL's great fun day out
September 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
TSL's great fun day out
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Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Honest question: is there a point in learning to write in 2025, when everyone uses AI? Asking for a friend
August 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Honest question: is there a point in learning to write in 2025, when everyone uses AI? Asking for a friend
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Get your questions ready for Samantha Dobbie, Caroline Durbin and @drannagardner on our science communication panel at New Phytologist next generation scientists, today at 16:30 BST (UTC+1)!
Join us online: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#scicomm #plantscience
Join us online: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#scicomm #plantscience
August 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Get your questions ready for Samantha Dobbie, Caroline Durbin and @drannagardner on our science communication panel at New Phytologist next generation scientists, today at 16:30 BST (UTC+1)!
Join us online: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#scicomm #plantscience
Join us online: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#scicomm #plantscience
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We are thrilled to share that our scientists joined the opening of Future of Food, a new free exhibition held @sciencemuseum.org.uk about how food must change to protect the planet 🌍
Resistant potatoes developed in Jonathan Jones's group are an integral part of the exhibition 🥔 buff.ly/slKlOSy
Resistant potatoes developed in Jonathan Jones's group are an integral part of the exhibition 🥔 buff.ly/slKlOSy
July 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We are thrilled to share that our scientists joined the opening of Future of Food, a new free exhibition held @sciencemuseum.org.uk about how food must change to protect the planet 🌍
Resistant potatoes developed in Jonathan Jones's group are an integral part of the exhibition 🥔 buff.ly/slKlOSy
Resistant potatoes developed in Jonathan Jones's group are an integral part of the exhibition 🥔 buff.ly/slKlOSy
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Anyone brought their kids to conferences? Any conferences that have on-site childcare? Finally got data to present for next year, but I'll also have 3 x 3-and-under 🤪
July 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Anyone brought their kids to conferences? Any conferences that have on-site childcare? Finally got data to present for next year, but I'll also have 3 x 3-and-under 🤪
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Interested in learning more about range-wide variation in floral traits in #Mimulus cardinalis? Join me in Mesquite C (Phytochemical section) at 9:15am this morning (Tuesday) to find out!
July 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Interested in learning more about range-wide variation in floral traits in #Mimulus cardinalis? Join me in Mesquite C (Phytochemical section) at 9:15am this morning (Tuesday) to find out!
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Norwich Pride 2025 Norwich Research Park
July 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Norwich Pride 2025 Norwich Research Park
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"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants
A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Come and work for me! Permanent Senior Advisor in Pedagogy and Practice post. Want someone w experience in design & delivery of PGCAP - we have bold plans! @bnuni.bsky.social really exciting place to work right now. Pls share #AcademicDevelopment #HigherEducation
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jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
Senior Advisor Pedagogy and Practice (1801) | Buckinghamshire New University
Full Time (37 hrs per week) Permanent Contract – High Wycombe </st
jobs.bucks.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Come and work for me! Permanent Senior Advisor in Pedagogy and Practice post. Want someone w experience in design & delivery of PGCAP - we have bold plans! @bnuni.bsky.social really exciting place to work right now. Pls share #AcademicDevelopment #HigherEducation
jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
Very cool work, congrats Alba! 🔥🔥
In @elife.bsky.social: Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals
A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.
doi.org
July 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Very cool work, congrats Alba! 🔥🔥
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🎶Festival Messiaen au jardin du Lautaret, c'est parti pour l'édition 2025 !!!
www.jardindulautaret.com/agenda-actua...
www.jardindulautaret.com/agenda-actua...
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎶Festival Messiaen au jardin du Lautaret, c'est parti pour l'édition 2025 !!!
www.jardindulautaret.com/agenda-actua...
www.jardindulautaret.com/agenda-actua...
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We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC
Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
www.vandepoelelab.be
July 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC