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Rodrigo Reis

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A/Professor at UniBern.bsky.social working on posttranscriptional regulation in plant adaptation. RNA structure; Thermomorphogenesis www.rodrigoreislab.com 🇧🇷🇦🇺🇦🇷🇨🇭🇮🇳🇨🇳🇪🇨🇮🇷

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · Aug 25

My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!

- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis

Link to both preprints below

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 3d

It's next week!
Don't miss out!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 8d

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Sreya Das will present again (!) in our JC. This time, she will present her paper on the role of PIF3 in thermomorphogenesis.

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 5d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

www.science.org

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 8d

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 10d

Very interesting finding!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Aphid-derived cross-kingdom RNA dynamics underpin maize resistance

Aphids are major pests of maize (Zea mays), yet the molecular mechanisms underlying their interactions with host plants remain poorly understood. Here, we identified and functionally characterized lon...

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John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 17d

It's tomorrow!!
Come join us!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 24d

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
It's next week! Don't miss out!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 18d

Congrats Laura!!! Very well deserved! All the best in your independent position!!

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Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · 23d

I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...

Laura Lorenzo Orts

IMB Mainz

www.imb.de

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 22d

SA again!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Drought inhibits thermomorphogenesis via salicylic acid‐mediated suppression of ELF3 phase separation

Plants must respond properly to ensure growth and survival when facing complex environmental challenges. This study reveals that drought inhibits high temperature-induced thermomorphogenesis by enhan...

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 22d

Direct link between SA and response to warm temperatures

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Salicylic acid reduces ELF3 phase separation and suppresses thermomorphogenic growth in Arabidopsis

We show that SA suppresses thermomorphogenic growth by influencing the ELF3-PIF4-auxin pathway in Arabidopsis. This study provides new insights into hormonal regulation of temperature-responsive grow...

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 24d

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
It's next week! Don't miss out!

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 25d

How will AI change the creative scientific process? Check out our discussion with the Google Co-Scientist team on the latest episode of the Night Science Podcast!

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 27d

Congratulations, Danve and team!! I really like the concept of @micropub7n.bsky.social . Great way to share and get recognised

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 27d

Our lab's @micropub7n.bsky.social manuscript led by former BSc thesis student Karen Liu is now published online! @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Here we report defence hormone-related gene expression in pathogen-infected tomato plants at two temperatures:
micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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siddhartha jena @epijenatics.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to share my postdoc work, out on bioRxiv today! Histones package DNA into nucleosomes to form the building blocks of chromatin, but how modular and programmable is this system? 1/9

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 29d

Nice interview to Katie Peichel @currentbiology.bsky.social

I completely agree with her claims for more funding for curiosity-driven research, basic Science... Science.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Catherine Peichel

Interview with Katie Peichel, who studies the evolutionary genetics of sticklebacks at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

www.cell.com

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 29d

Improved artificial miRNA for gene knockdown
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enhanced MicroRNA Accumulation and Gene Silencing Efficiency through Optimized Precursor Base Pairing

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous 21-nucleotide small RNAs that direct sequence-specific silencing of complementary messenger RNAs to regulate a wide range of biological processes. In plants, miRNA pr...

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · 29d

PIF4 regulates CAT2/3 to control H2O2 levels under warm temperatures

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PIF4-mediated regulation of H2O2 homeostasis controls Arabidopsis seedling thermomorphogenesis

Thermomorphogenesis under high ambient temperature involves extensive developmental changes, including hypocotyl elongation at the seedling stage, in Arabidopsis. Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), partic...

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Sep 1

On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself!
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵

Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Sep 1

Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben!
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern

Nacht der Forschung 2025

Die «Nacht der Forschung» ist ein «Fest des Wissens und der Forschung», bei dem die Universität Bern die Vielfalt und Breite ihrer Forschung der Öffentlichkeit näherbringt.

www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · Sep 1

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce our next JC with De Fan presenting his paper on multisensor signaling framework in thermomorphogenesis!
Don't miss it!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · Sep 1

Congratulations Tonni!! Wonderful news!!! Uni Zurich is the lucky one! All the best there!

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich.
A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 26

🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · Aug 25

Thanks, Lothar!

Rodrigo Reis @rodrigoreislab.com · Aug 25

Thanks, Elia!