Srinivasan has posted responses to our manuscript documenting data duplication in his papers. They are filled with insults, and all instances of identical data are dismissed as "typographical errors." You can find his responses and our thoughts here: github.com/pachterlab/LP_… 🧵

The galls are so nutritious that psyllids that transitioned to galling have lost their nutritional symbionts ! 🤯academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do…

Postdoc position available to work with me, in collaboration with Chris Lane Chris Lane, on Nephromyces, the closest non-parasitic, extracellular symbiont relatives of the blood parasites (Plasmodium et al). How did the business of blood parasitism start? jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48203/

The strange state of current publishing. I think some stats on our recent Cellstates paper provide interesting food for thought. The preprint was put on BioRxiv and within 3 months there were ~8500 abstract views and >2000 PDF downloads. We also submitted it to PCB 6-11-2023 1/n

One of my biggest fear in job applications is when I need a letter my referees are out of town and won't make it in time.

More spooky pictures. Catharanthus plants with tobacco rattle virus with a green fluorescent marker.

Cross-species interactome analysis uncovers a conserved selective autophagy mechanism for protein quality control in plants biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

SINGLE-CELL LONG-READ is now a reality! 🧬 Apply now to work with ArgenTag and experience our high-resolution, instrument-free technology. Join us in advancing single-cell research argentag.com/single-cell-ki… #SingleCell #LongReadSequencing #EarlyAccess #Genomics

Negative results are fine. The real headaches are inconclusive results.

Can we turn Arabidopsis into coffee? Looking at the biosynthetic pathway, reconstitution of caffeine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis shouldn't be too difficult.

First T2T genome of medicinal Penthorum chinense decoded, shedding light on its evolution, metabolism & medicinal value. #PCGenome #MedicinalPlants Oxford Journals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…

A new preprint from Ksenia Krasileva lab: Engineering pathogen-inducible promoters for conferring disease resistance in tomato biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In this study we designed and tested a workflow for using pathogen-inducible (PI) promoters to regulate autoactive NLR genes, aiming to confer broad-spectrum resistance in tomatoes without incurring a fitness cost.

New outreach idea: a NileRed style Youtube channel, but instead of chemical transformations (e.g., turning plastic gloves into hot sauce: youtube.com/watch?v=1B3Xi5…), about biological transformations. Make stuff like caffeinated Arabidopsis and vanilla moss and film it.

Thrilled to share that my latest publication Nature Plants is now available! 🎉 This journey has been incredible. I am so proud to finally share it with you. nature.com/articles/s4147…

Has anyone tried tissue culture with VIGS treated tissues? Will the siRNA propagate through regeneration?

Just contributed another icon to Bioicons (bioicons.com). This is a riparian plot (or synteny plot) that I made in PPT (bioicons.com/icons/cc-by-4.…). There are a lot of very nice vector graphics icons there. You can also contribute your own graphics.

The Biology Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring (again!). We have TWO TT faculty positions: Developmental Cell Biology and Plant Biology. Please share and apply! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… umass.edu/biology/

Here is a comparison between Qubit and nanodrop for 39 total RNA samples (from petal tissues).

“Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease” 😂😂😂