BLOG - Blueprint for scientific success - great teamwork, a thick skin, and a happy accident
In the case of Dr Robert Kelly-Bellow's team, a chance glimpse of a “wobbly spine” in a dwarf variety of an obscure aquatic plant has led to a whole new outlook.
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🌿 Today, we remember Salk Professor Joanne Chory, a visionary plant biologist and a force for climate action. Her research revolutionized how we understand plant biology and inspired solutions to fight climate change. Joanne’s brilliant mind and passion will forever impact the world. 💚
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Issue 19 is complete!
Cover: Timelapse images of a developing Arabidopsis sepal (three time points) with lgo-2 mutation, which causes an increased number of cell divisions. Each cell and its daughters are the same color. See Burda et al.:
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Shuyao Kong @sykong15 and Mingyuan Zhu @Mingyuan2328 are on a roll! Here is the next installment in our DRMY1 and robustness story. DRMY1 maintains translation and TOR signaling to maintain robustness in the initiation of sepal primordia. Thread 1/5 https://t.co/sSNJflDHuq
Painting by numbers: Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint early in petal formation that dictates the size of their bullseyes! Awesome work by Lucie Riglet & @Edwige_M's Team Hibiscus with modelling by @zardilis
Read @ScienceAdvances paper
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The newest discovery in our robustness research thanks to Dr. Shuyao Kong @sykong15, @Mingyuan2328, @RichardSmithLab, David Pan, and Brendan Lane.
Tradeoff between speed and robustness in primordium initiation mediated by auxin-CUC1 interaction https://t.co/GwHOwL93Mp
Check out our latest methods article detailing the approach for live imaging and analyzing cell growth in deeper, inaccessible layers of Arabidopsis tissues, using sepals as the reference organ @RoederLab
https://t.co/kL9zM8fEXU
📢Two postdoc positions available in the shiny new Morgan group!!!
Looking to hire 1 x biochemist and 1 x cytologist/microscopist to study the mechanism of meiotic crossover formation. Interested?? Apply here:
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Email me for more info
Let's fly into flower heads, and enjoy the hidden beauty of vasculature structures within it. Excited to share our work is now published @NewPhyt! A result from multi-year collaboration @ElomaaPaula@PPrusinkiewicz@AgriForHelsinki@CanLightSource
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Check out our latest paper: "On the pixel selection criterion for the calculation of the Pearson's correlation coefficient in fluorescence microscopy". Thanks to co-authors @samwalds Sally Jones and @pd_christine !!!
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