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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 2d

My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online!

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Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠

Check out their great story here:
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DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance

Rory Osborne; DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance, The Plant Cell, , koaf238, https://

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 12d

Incredible location ✅
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅

What more could we ask for!?

Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP

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

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

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 18d

Safe travels!

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 18d

Look out Japan, here we come!

So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿

Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks Juliet!

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hehe thanks ;)

Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jul 28

Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Jul 27

A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠

Manuel González Fuente @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

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Manuel González Fuente @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congrats Jo and team :D

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jun 16

Check out their full story here 👇

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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 facilitates the transition from heterotrophy to photoautotrophy during seedling emergence

Two phases of gene repression by Polycomb repressive complex 2 are associated with metabolic and developmental transition during seedling establishment in

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jun 16

My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱

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Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬

Great work and congrats to all involved 👏

Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment

Rory Osborne; Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment, The Pl

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you Mary! :D

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Apr 29

Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱

Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬

Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏

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£9 million investment fuels groundbreaking bioscience research

From unlocking the secrets of animal movement to tackling antimicrobial resistance, UK’s brightest bioscience minds are pushing the boundaries of innovation.

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Mar 27

Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D

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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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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · Jan 22

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