Steve Kelly
@stevenkelly.bsky.social
Photosynthesis, Evolution, Guitars | Professor @OxfordBiology | Co-founder & CSO @WildBioscience
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In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.
There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!
Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com
#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!
Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com
#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.
There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!
Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com
#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!
Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com
#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social
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OrthoFinder just dropped a major update
It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes
Let’s break it down (1/10)
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes
Let’s break it down (1/10)
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
OrthoFinder just dropped a major update
It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes
Let’s break it down (1/10)
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes
Let’s break it down (1/10)
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Researchers in @biology.ox.ac.uk and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.
Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
New ARIA award will aim to deliver a revolution in sustainable
Researchers in the University of Oxford’s Department of Biology and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to
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June 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Researchers in @biology.ox.ac.uk and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.
Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
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So true: "In a very short time, we have created not only silly systems of governance and regulation, but are also managing to subvert academic life through the creation of bullshit jobs and, I would argue, bullshit practices."
March 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So true: "In a very short time, we have created not only silly systems of governance and regulation, but are also managing to subvert academic life through the creation of bullshit jobs and, I would argue, bullshit practices."
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Second writeup! This paper made me fall back in love with photosynthesis evolution. ❤️
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis (The Plant Cell) @stevenkelly.bsky.social (Summary by Mae Mercado @maemercado.bsky.social ) buff.ly/LyHf7qN
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis | Plantae
C4 photosynthesis, an adaptive mechanism to spatially concentrate CO2 around Rubisco to enhance carbon fixation, has evolved independently at least 60 times in plants. This process spatially…
buff.ly
March 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Second writeup! This paper made me fall back in love with photosynthesis evolution. ❤️
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis (The Plant Cell) @stevenkelly.bsky.social (Summary by Mae Mercado @maemercado.bsky.social ) buff.ly/LyHf7qN
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis | Plantae
C4 photosynthesis, an adaptive mechanism to spatially concentrate CO2 around Rubisco to enhance carbon fixation, has evolved independently at least 60 times in plants. This process spatially…
buff.ly
March 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The complexities of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis (The Plant Cell) @stevenkelly.bsky.social (Summary by Mae Mercado @maemercado.bsky.social ) buff.ly/LyHf7qN
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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#PlantSci Research Weekly March 7 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: C4 metabolite transporters; Insights from Marchantia pangenome; cry1 & phot work synergistically; Plasmodesmata as MCS for intercellular communication; Developmental robustness from antagonizing cis-elements; (1/2)
March 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
#PlantSci Research Weekly March 7 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Review: C4 metabolite transporters; Insights from Marchantia pangenome; cry1 & phot work synergistically; Plasmodesmata as MCS for intercellular communication; Developmental robustness from antagonizing cis-elements; (1/2)
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Wild is hiring! If you’re passionate about making an impact in crop improvement using genomics and comp bio come join the team!
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...
Plant Genomics and Machine Learning Scientist
Wild Bio
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Wild is hiring! If you’re passionate about making an impact in crop improvement using genomics and comp bio come join the team!
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...
jobs.recruit.charliehr.com/wildbioscien...
Lots of ✈️ traffic over Oxford today. Never seen so many before
November 29, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Lots of ✈️ traffic over Oxford today. Never seen so many before
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In the May 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth)
Hidekazu Kobayashi, Takao Oi
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth)
Hidekazu Kobayashi, Takao Oi
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth) | International Journal of Plant Sciences: Vol 185, No 3
Premise of research. Endopolyploidy is the occurrence of different levels of ploidy in the cells of the somatic tissues of an organism. Although several cell functions have been associated with endopo...
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May 24, 2024 at 8:51 PM
In the May 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth)
Hidekazu Kobayashi, Takao Oi
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Endopolyploidy in the Leaf Cells of Rhodes Grass (Chloris gayana Kunth)
Hidekazu Kobayashi, Takao Oi
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
May 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
A preprint several years in the making…
A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
February 29, 2024 at 7:29 AM
A preprint several years in the making…
A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
A quick visit to my (scientific) roots today… haven’t changed a bit 😂😂😂
February 22, 2024 at 8:03 PM
A quick visit to my (scientific) roots today… haven’t changed a bit 😂😂😂
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Engineering the cyanobacterial ATP-driven BCT1 bicarbonate transporter for functional targeting to C3 plant chloroplasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.14.580295v1
Engineering the cyanobacterial ATP-driven BCT1 bicarbonate transporter for functional targeting to C3 plant chloroplasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.14.580295v1
The ATP-driven bicarbonate transporter BCT1, a four-component complex in the cyanobacteria CO2-conce
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February 17, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Engineering the cyanobacterial ATP-driven BCT1 bicarbonate transporter for functional targeting to C3 plant chloroplasts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.14.580295v1
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A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social
Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1
Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1
Leaves of flowering plants are characterised by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with th
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February 5, 2024 at 11:31 PM
A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social
The NHM was looking spectacular this evening 🦖
January 20, 2024 at 7:40 PM
The NHM was looking spectacular this evening 🦖
Musk’s Starlink satellite train just passed over Oxford.. satellites stretched horizon to horizon … I genuinely thought it was aliens!
January 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Musk’s Starlink satellite train just passed over Oxford.. satellites stretched horizon to horizon … I genuinely thought it was aliens!
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Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer
THE WIP6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOO MANY LATERALS SPECIFIES VEIN TYPE IN C4 AND C3 GRASS LEAVES https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572592v1
THE WIP6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOO MANY LATERALS SPECIFIES VEIN TYPE IN C4 AND C3 GRASS LEAVES https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572592v1
Grass leaves are invariantly strap shaped with an elongated distal blade and a proximal sheath that
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December 21, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer
So it turns out that electroporation of exogenous DNA into organisms is entirely natural.
peerj.com/articles/165...
peerj.com/articles/165...
December 8, 2023 at 6:43 AM
So it turns out that electroporation of exogenous DNA into organisms is entirely natural.
peerj.com/articles/165...
peerj.com/articles/165...
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Exciting opportunity at the Queen’s College Oxford in association with @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. The Browne JRF is a three year independent research fellowship available in any area of biology that complements Oxford Biology.
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/br...
Please repost!
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December 1, 2023 at 5:56 PM
Exciting opportunity at the Queen’s College Oxford in association with @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. The Browne JRF is a three year independent research fellowship available in any area of biology that complements Oxford Biology.
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/br...
Please repost!
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/br...
Please repost!
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🚨Come join the lab🚨 to lead on developing Selaginella apoda as a genetic model system 🌿
1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec
Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec
Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
November 27, 2023 at 10:29 AM
🚨Come join the lab🚨 to lead on developing Selaginella apoda as a genetic model system 🌿
1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec
Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
1.5 yr PDRA, Deadline 13th Dec
Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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"People don't take climate action because they don't understand the science", someone said in a discussion yesterday.
But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? 🧪
But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? 🧪
November 23, 2023 at 10:22 AM
"People don't take climate action because they don't understand the science", someone said in a discussion yesterday.
But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? 🧪
But why do we treat climate science different than medicine? If people are told they have diabetes, they don't go "I don't understand the endocrine system, yum, cake" do they? 🧪
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Our prepring about comparative gene regulatory network analysis is available on bioRxiv! We focused on the regulation of C4 and C3 photosynthesis and identified conserved regulators for other pathways too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #generegulation #photosyntheis #PlantScience
Comparative analysis of gene regulatory networks identifies conserved regulators in seed plants
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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November 21, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Our prepring about comparative gene regulatory network analysis is available on bioRxiv! We focused on the regulation of C4 and C3 photosynthesis and identified conserved regulators for other pathways too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #generegulation #photosyntheis #PlantScience
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The genetic basis of dynamic non-photochemical quenching and photosystem II efficiency in fluctuating light reveals novel molecular targets for maize (Zea mays) improvement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.01.565118v1
The genetic basis of dynamic non-photochemical quenching and photosystem II efficiency in fluctuating light reveals novel molecular targets for maize (Zea mays) improvement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.01.565118v1
Maize is a major global crop species which uses C4 photosynthesis. Although C4 is typically consider
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November 2, 2023 at 3:03 PM
The genetic basis of dynamic non-photochemical quenching and photosystem II efficiency in fluctuating light reveals novel molecular targets for maize (Zea mays) improvement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.01.565118v1