Thomas Blein
@bleinthomas.bsky.social
Plant molecular biologist 🥼 / @cnrs.bsky.social researcher working at @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social (Paris-Saclay university) 🇫🇷
Interested in quantitative growth control and non-coding RNAs specialy #lncRNA 🌱🧫🧬🖥️🔬
https://thomas.blein.me
Interested in quantitative growth control and non-coding RNAs specialy #lncRNA 🌱🧫🧬🖥️🔬
https://thomas.blein.me
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In vivo RNA structure influences the translation and stability of plant long noncoding RNAs #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In vivo RNA structure influences the translation and stability of plant long noncoding RNAs #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
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A telomere-to-telomere reference genome assembly of tomato cultivar Heinz 1706 #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A telomere-to-telomere reference genome assembly of tomato cultivar Heinz 1706 #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
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Registrations are open for the Summer School "Saclay Plant Science" (SPS) 2026 on Plant Single Cell at Versailles ! ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Registrations are open for the Summer School "Saclay Plant Science" (SPS) 2026 on Plant Single Cell at Versailles ! ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
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A review from F. Frugier' team aiming at identifying the common molecular mechanisms associated to the different beneficial plant-microbe symbiotic and endophytic interactions
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A review from F. Frugier' team aiming at identifying the common molecular mechanisms associated to the different beneficial plant-microbe symbiotic and endophytic interactions
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #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
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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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9 international PhD students, 17 partners, 1 goal: coordinated by Université Paris-Saclay, the HeatDDR Doctoral Network is training the next generation of plant scientists to boost crop resilience to heat and climate change 🌱🔥 ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
9 international PhD students, 17 partners, 1 goal: coordinated by Université Paris-Saclay, the HeatDDR Doctoral Network is training the next generation of plant scientists to boost crop resilience to heat and climate change 🌱🔥 ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
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plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.683968v1
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.683968v1
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From non-coding to chromatin regulators: VIVIpary and the rise of lncRNAs in plant biology #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
June 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
From non-coding to chromatin regulators: VIVIpary and the rise of lncRNAs in plant biology #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
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Long noncoding RNAs as molecular architects: Shaping plant functions and physiological plasticity #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
September 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Long noncoding RNAs as molecular architects: Shaping plant functions and physiological plasticity #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
Interested in #lncRNA and #ArtificiaIntelligence?
In the frame of our recently founded French-Korean bilateral project DHARP, we are recruiting a post-doc in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence in our team at
@ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Application limit: 01/12/2025
In the frame of our recently founded French-Korean bilateral project DHARP, we are recruiting a post-doc in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence in our team at
@ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Application limit: 01/12/2025
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Interested in #lncRNA and #ArtificiaIntelligence?
In the frame of our recently founded French-Korean bilateral project DHARP, we are recruiting a post-doc in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence in our team at
@ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Application limit: 01/12/2025
In the frame of our recently founded French-Korean bilateral project DHARP, we are recruiting a post-doc in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence in our team at
@ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Application limit: 01/12/2025
New academic year and we are lucky to host two new PhD students in our group at @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social. Welcome Laura and Valentin!
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FunRNA Team Welcomes two new PhD students this Fall: Laura Chabes Pereira and Valentin Bourdin | FunRNA team
The FunRNA team is growing! We are excited to welcome Laura Chabes Pereira and Valentin Bourdin, two talented new PhD students whose research will expand our exploration into the world of long non-cod...
funrna.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
New academic year and we are lucky to host two new PhD students in our group at @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social. Welcome Laura and Valentin!
funrna.org/post/2025-10...
funrna.org/post/2025-10...
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Have a look to the new study from the Frugier team at IPS2, about the sTDIF signaling peptide that modulates the root stele diameter and primary metabolism to accommodate symbiotic nodulation. ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Have a look to the new study from the Frugier team at IPS2, about the sTDIF signaling peptide that modulates the root stele diameter and primary metabolism to accommodate symbiotic nodulation. ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/... #PlantScience
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Check out the open access paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle - Nature Plants
This study presents an extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents ten distinct developmental time points inclusive of six diverse organs.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Check out the open access paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The histone variant H3.14 is an early player in the abiotic stress response of Arabidopsis.
#PlantScience 🌾🧪
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#PlantScience 🌾🧪
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The histone variant H3.14 is an early player in the abiotic stress response of Arabidopsis
The combinatorial changes in DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications, and histone variants underlie the complexity of chromatin stru…
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August 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The histone variant H3.14 is an early player in the abiotic stress response of Arabidopsis.
#PlantScience 🌾🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PlantScience 🌾🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ICYMI: New Online! A histone variant that manages abiotic stress in plants
A histone variant that manages abiotic stress in plants
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 06 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00884-7H3.14, a histone variant of unknown role, has a dual transcriptional function in the abiotic stress response in plants: activation of stress response genes and inhibition of growth genes.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
ICYMI: New Online! A histone variant that manages abiotic stress in plants
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RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants.
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RNA elements and their biotechnological applications in plants
Engineering of plants for improved traits and efficient heterologous protein production can be achieved by modifying or introducing cis- or trans-acting RNA elements. The function of these elements d...
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August 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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PhD Position: Root System Architecture and Plant Adaptation to Climate Change at the Institute of Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM) and the PhenoMEn team at the Amélioration Génétique et Adaptations des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP)
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantSciJobs
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
PhD Position: Root System Architecture and Plant Adaptation to Climate Change at the Institute of Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM) and the PhenoMEn team at the Amélioration Génétique et Adaptations des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP)
#PlantSciJobs
#PlantSciJobs
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New in @natbiotech.nature.com: a team led by scientists at MSK and University of Toronto have developed a new platform to facilitate the study of RNA-biding proteins (RBPs) across hundreds of species of plants, insects, and animals.
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function - Nature Biotechnology
RNA-binding motifs in eukaryotic proteins are presented in a comprehensive resource.
www.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New in @natbiotech.nature.com: a team led by scientists at MSK and University of Toronto have developed a new platform to facilitate the study of RNA-biding proteins (RBPs) across hundreds of species of plants, insects, and animals.
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Only 3 out of 9 tools for detecting protein-coding sequences beat a naive baseline — popular methods often fail on real data. #genomics #bioinformatics #lncRNA bit.ly/3GgrDD2
July 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Only 3 out of 9 tools for detecting protein-coding sequences beat a naive baseline — popular methods often fail on real data. #genomics #bioinformatics #lncRNA bit.ly/3GgrDD2
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Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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July 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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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
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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
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Seminar by DR Kiran Mysore , Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 11:00 a.m . in the Red Room of the teaching building : " An update on Medicago Tnt1 resources and Engineering Agrobacterium to improve plant transformation and regeneration." You are all welcome #PlantScience
July 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Seminar by DR Kiran Mysore , Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 11:00 a.m . in the Red Room of the teaching building : " An update on Medicago Tnt1 resources and Engineering Agrobacterium to improve plant transformation and regeneration." You are all welcome #PlantScience
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📜 Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
🧑🔬 Richalynn Leong, Xin He, Bob Sebastiaan Beijen, @dinglab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natbiotech.nature.com
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Agronomy #PlantStress #PlantGenomics
🧑🔬 Richalynn Leong, Xin He, Bob Sebastiaan Beijen, @dinglab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natbiotech.nature.com
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Agronomy #PlantStress #PlantGenomics
Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture - Nature Biotechnology
Gene regulatory networks are crucial for understanding complex gene regulation in plants and could advance crop improvement for more sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural practices.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📜 Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
🧑🔬 Richalynn Leong, Xin He, Bob Sebastiaan Beijen, @dinglab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natbiotech.nature.com
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Agronomy #PlantStress #PlantGenomics
🧑🔬 Richalynn Leong, Xin He, Bob Sebastiaan Beijen, @dinglab.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @natbiotech.nature.com
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Agronomy #PlantStress #PlantGenomics
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I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!)
In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
In defense of funding foundational plant science
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May 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!)
In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...