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Carey Metheringham
@carey-metheringham.bsky.social
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Plant Scientist and Bioinformatician Post Doc at University of Dundee using direct RNA sequencing to study the effects and control of RNA modification in Arabidopsis
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Carey Metheringham @carey-metheringham.bsky.social · Jun 27
After three long years, the last part of my PhD work is now published in Science!

We found that ash trees in the UK are evolving (some) resistance to ash dieback; a rare case where natural selection is happening quickly enough to see within a single generation.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic
Rapid evolution through small shifts in allele frequencies at thousands of loci is a long-standing neo-Darwinian prediction but is hard to characterize in the wild. European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsi...
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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · Apr 20
This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is science fiction and fantasy that uses PLANTS in exciting or interesting ways. Your recommendations are welcome!

Books! Games! Movies! Shows! Anime and graphic novels!
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Apr 23
New Article: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/eiWNF

Fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution... #PlantScience
Many ferns images from the paper.
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Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social · Nov 19
Our paper "Comparative evaluation of methods for the prediction of protein-ligand binding sites" is now published on Journal of Cheminformatics!

🔗 tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS

On this paper we benchmark 13 original ligand site prediction tools and 15 variants on our curated reference dataset: #LIGYSIS!
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