Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
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Assistant professor in the biology department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lab website https://walkerlab-uic.github.io/. All opinions, spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors are still my own.
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Jeremy M. Brown
@jembrown.bsky.social
· Aug 15
Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
· Jul 15
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Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Sequencing historical RNA: unrealized potential to increase understanding of the plant tree of life
Recent studies have demonstrated that it is a misconception that transcriptome sequencing
requires tissue preserved at ultracold temperatures. Here, we outline the potential
origins of this misconcept...
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Christopher Krieg 🌿
@ckrieg.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Joe Walker
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· Jul 2
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Shawn
@shawn-anthony.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Going green: Recycling transcriptomes to infer evolutionary relationships, gene duplication, gene tree conflict, and patterns of molecular evolution in the Apocynaceae
Background and Aims: The flowering plant family Apocynaceae exhibits diverse adaptations with biological and pharmaceutical significance, many of which have been studied with RNA-seq. However, despite...
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Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Going green: Recycling transcriptomes to infer evolutionary relationships, gene duplication, gene tree conflict, and patterns of molecular evolution in the Apocynaceae
Background and Aims: The flowering plant family Apocynaceae exhibits diverse adaptations with biological and pharmaceutical significance, many of which have been studied with RNA-seq. However, despite...
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Phil Carella
@philcarella.bsky.social
· Apr 1
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants
Robinson et al. identify pathogenic Pseudomonas viridiflava in wild Marchantia polymorpha
liverworts and interrogate the mechanisms enabling virulence in non-flowering and
flowering plants. Their resu...
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Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
· Mar 28
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Joe Walker
@evojfwalker.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Herbaria provide a valuable resource for obtaining informative mRNA
While DNA has built the framework for molecular insights from museum collections, the utility of archival RNA remains largely unexplored. Likely a consequence of the known instability of RNA relative ...
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Phil Carella
@philcarella.bsky.social
· Dec 19
A necrotizing toxin enables Pseudomonas syringae infection across evolutionarily divergent plants
Grenz et al. interrogate the Pseudomonas syringae species complex for its capacity to infect evolutionarily divergent host plants. Their results demonstrate that broad host isolates from phylogroup 2 rely on the lipopeptide toxin syringomycin to promote host necrosis and enhance bacterial growth in plants.
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