Isaiah Taylor

Biologist.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

6/6 💡Our work shows how physical separation of signal sources acts as a "circuit breaker" in plants, ensuring precise control of organ shedding. Read more here:  https://t.co/mJGpMkQfYH  #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

1/6 🎉Excited to share my final major paper bridging my PhD at Mizzou & postdoc at Duke, now in @PNASNews! We uncover simple and elegant mechanisms Arabidopsis uses to limit floral abscission signaling. Link: https://t.co/mJGpMkQfYH

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

5/6 🔬Misexpressing IDA in the remaining cells caused an abscission-signaling overactivation phenotype, highlighting how this spatial control is crucial for balanced abscission.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

@LecoqJerome @sinabooeshaghi @AllenInstitute Maybe 45TB of uncompressed text, 570GB compressed?

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

@sinabooeshaghi @LecoqJerome @AllenInstitute Not technically wrong. It was trained on 570GB, plus another 44500GB.

[Frank Harrell @f2harrell]

Interesting study, incompetent analysis: “We found that men in the highest quintile of ultraprocessed food consumption, compared those in the lowest quintile, had a 29% higher risk of developing colorectal cancer,” - https://t.co/m9RzRtJSQE

[Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab]

I think we have to let go of the notion that every paper needs review. Just because we write something doesn’t mean that we are entitled to the time required from our peers to review it.

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

A single cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild type and cell identity mutants https://t.co/G0o1hKyjkV #biorxiv_plants

[Trevor Nolan @TNPlantBio]

Our preprint describing Robotic Assay for Drought (RoAD), an automated system for Brassinosteroid and drought phenotyping experiments in soil-grown plants is up on BioRxiv. https://t.co/3JjMARONCN. A great collaboration w/ Lie Tang, @JustinWWalley and @yanhaiyin labs.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

@PhDemetri Not an expert, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but unless covid infection is incurable (like HIV) I think it means we can develop immunity, and therefore at least some vaccines should work.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

@thecrobe Actually, I'm the complete opposite. I think after the intense period before submission I'm happy to get a mental break.

[Kevin Lehner @krlehner]

Happy to share this part of my PhD in the Benfey Lab @DukeU. It was a really rewarding collaboration with @ShaoYanlin in Chuanzao Mao's lab @ZJU_China. We used a combination of phenotyping methods to identify a root system architecture (RSA) mutant and clone the underlying gene.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

Rashmi is a main architect of the very extremely useful KitaakeX rice mutant collection. This project simply would not have happened without her work.

[Rashmi Jain @jrashmi20]

Great work and I am proud to be a part of this!

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

@rellanalvarez @TNPlantBio That pretty much sums up the paper. And we conclude that growing straight down is not always such a great idea.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

This has been a fascinating project leading us in a direction trying to use lab based growth assays to understand core principles about how roots grow in natural substrates. We expect more insights to come. 8/8

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

New preprint from Benfey lab on exploratory primary root growth in rice.
https://t.co/wRIvE6A3cD
Great collaboration with Dan Goldman (GA Tech), Pam Ronald (UC-Davis), and Elliot Hawkes (UCSB). W/@krlehner, @pcronald, @NotesByNiba, and more.

[Isaiah Taylor @I_W_Taylor]

Lots of other things in the paper. Interestingly HK1 seems to function in a hybrid ET/cytokinin-type pathway. Not surprisingly, the pathway appears to regulate auxin transport in the root tip. Among other results supporting this idea, a rice aux1 mutant doesn’t circumnutate. 7/8