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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬

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🌱 Professor, Uni of Birmingham • Plant Science Lead & Biosciences Head of Research • BBSRC/ERC funded research on Proteostasis, N-degrons, PTMs, chromatin modifications, PRC2, flooding, oxygen 🌿 🏳️‍🌈 https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Mar 26

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis

Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...

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dave dougan @douganlab.bsky.social · 2d

And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting

In two recent papers in Cell, Zhu et al. and Luo et al. use selective ribosome profiling to identify the substrates and timing of co-translational protein targeting to mitochondria. The results sugges...

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 3d

Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social

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Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling

Protein synthesis can contribute to plant cell signaling at multiple regulatory levels. Recent studies have expanded the conditions that are directly …

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 12d

And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 13d

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 13d

It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 14d

Very nice - congratulations to you and all co-authors!

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 16d

1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
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ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants

Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.

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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 15d

We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience

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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 15d

After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊

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Daan Weits @daanweits.bsky.social · 16d

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 15d

The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 16d

#ISPLORE2025JP is about to start in beautiful Nagoya! We're excited for a full week of low-oxygen and flooding #plantscience 🌱🌊

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 17d

After a fantastic week exploring Tōkyō and Ōsaka, today it’s the Shinkansen 🚅 to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow 🌱 Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research! #ISPLORE2025JP

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 17d

See you soon - safe travels!

Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Anne-Marie - best of luck as you settle into your new position!! 🌱

Anne Marie Labandera Nadeau @annelab27.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am happy to share that I have started my dream job as a Permanent Researcher (Chargée de Recherche) at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE-Orléans, BioForA unit).

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wonderful to be back at Queen’s College in Oxford for the annual @gpsep.bsky.social network meeting! 🌱

Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing to see so many plant science projects funded! (And special congrats to @vinayshukla.bsky.social and @tinaschreier.bsky.social !!) 🌱

Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Rashmi Sasidharan @rsasidharan.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

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Thomas Arnesen @natmachinery.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | Important finding by Kim, Tian, Ratcliffe and Keeley @ox.ac.uk @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #N-degron www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | PNAS

Selected proteins containing an N-terminal cysteine (Nt-Cys) are subjected to rapid, O2-dependent proteolysis via the Cys/Arg-branch of the N-degro...

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congratulations Travis et al!

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nice one guys!!

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm tired of people saying that they don't care that a photo or video is AI because it's "still cute." No, it isn't. None of it is. It's all soulless and takes away from the beauty and rarity of things in real life. 😩

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

Large group of diverse scientists and researchers gathered outside a modern building for a New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium.

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our 'Spotlight' discussing an excellent recent paper by @lauradc.bsky.social @n-end-rules.bsky.social & @syno2xis.bsky.social et al on the evolution of oxygen signalling in land plants is now online at Molecular Plant.

Spotlight: tinyurl.com/7ydn6p4a

Original paper: tinyurl.com/yw5yd4f8

The evolutionary rise of oxygen sensing in land plants

Land plants evolved from aquatic green algal ancestors to dominate terrestrial ecosystems approximately 480 million years ago during the Ordovician period (Hammarlund et al., 2020). This major event i...

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