Harsha Somashekar

Studying meiosis recombination in plants 🌱🧬 Assistant Professor @NIG_idenken
Former
| Postdoc @mpipz_cologne 🇩🇪
| Ph.D @NIG_Idenken 🇯🇵

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

Thrilled to share that I've officially become Dr. Harsha Somashekar! 🎓

Yesterday marked my Ph.D. Graduation Ceremony, where I was also honored to receive the SOKENDAI Award for my research at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) from the University President!

[RAP-DB @rapdbjp]

Our new RAP-DB paper has been published in Rice (https://t.co/PYBGcWTpyZ).
https://t.co/FNWpLKJ5sP

[Brad Nelms @NelmsLab]

Excited to share our preprint! By avoiding genetic bottlenecks leading to the germline, plant development prevents mutations from spreading to many offspring: https://t.co/ITxZ7cxm1E

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

One of the best free stats books for life science with R
https://t.co/fCauENL37c

[国立遺伝学研究所 @NIG_idenken]

Full /Associate Professor (Department of Gene Function and Phenomics) The National Institute of Genetics invites applications for one full or associate professor position in the Department of Gene Function and Phenomics. Please see the details below. #NIG https://t.co/hMAAmmtwBb

[国立遺伝学研究所 @NIG_idenken]

Full /Associate Professor (Department of Gene Function and Phenomics) The National Institute of Genetics invites applications for one full or associate professor position in the Department of Gene Function and Phenomics. Please see the details below. #NIG https://t.co/hMAAmmtwBb

[LifeScienceAlliance @LSAjournal]

Centromeres contain two physically distinct CENP-A nucleosomes, one of which associates with the CENP-C complex and regulating CENP-C levels is critical for accessibility of the centromeric chromatin fiber for transcriptional machinery @theNCI @dpmelters
https://t.co/PBMeNt72H6

[IASPRR @iasprr.bsky.social @iasprr]

The DNA methylation–demethylation balance prevents development of multiple megaspore mother cells in Arabidopsis https://t.co/QkaS0NFOoj

[Bhim B. Biswa @BhimBBiswa]

We published a near-complete genome of an 800-year-old cherry tree from Izu Ōshima Island, Japan! 🌸🌳 #Genomics #CherryBlossom

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

Grateful for all the support and encouragement throughout this journey!

[国立遺伝学研究所 @NIG_idenken]

Dr. Harsha Somashekar won the Plants Best PhD Thesis Award.
https://t.co/6XT88yCLH8

[Schuh Lab @SchuhLab]

Women lose >90% of their #eggs by their mid-30s, with persistent #DNADamage driving this loss. But why isn’t this damage repaired?

Our new work in @CurrentBiology, led by @ninadini_sharma, reveals the causes of high DNA damage in aged oocytes.🧬💥

https://t.co/hd8iT1TKnJ (1/13)

[Tadasu Nozaki @tadasu443]

Our paper was published in @Nature. We discovered a new aspect of the meiotic homolog pairing process named Rapid Homolog Juxtaposition (RHJ). During RHJ, homologous loci undergo spatial juxtaposition from far apart to very close together in a short time.
https://t.co/AvWJb113Ob

[Annals of Botany @annbot]

🎉Great news! The paper ‘Callose deficiency modulates plasmodesmata frequency and extracellular distance in rice pollen mother and tapetal cells’ by Harsha Somashekar and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/8)

👉 https://t.co/Ww1fuMB2QH

#AoBpapers #PlantScience

[Charlie Underwood @charliesousbois]

We @RIBESresearch @Radboud_Uni are seeking to strengthen our team in Crop Biotechnology with two new assistant professors. The deadlines are November 3. Please re-share! https://t.co/V0dFVgEmgB
https://t.co/iG0AaQ9ilx

[Shiva prasad @shivaprasad_pv]

Excited to share Vivek Hari Sundar's paper in Genome Research describing a new (probably major) role of Plant-specific Polymerase IV. https://t.co/l4aE12fECW Vivek is an extraordinary graduate student and this is only part I of his thesis. @genomeresearch @CSHLPress

[Leonardo Jo @leonardojo]

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

Happy to share the second story from my doctoral works carried at @NIG_idenken published @annbot

Great collaborative with Dr. Keiko Takanami and Akane Oishi (Koide lab), @YoselinBenAlf and Dr.Rie Hiratsuka (Jikei University)

https://t.co/XCnbSJA4e5

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

New paper from my PhD lab Exploring the functional domains of MEL2, the master regulator driving the mitosis-to-meiosis transition in rice. Discover how it orchestrates granule assembly for successful meiosis! 🌾🔬

Happy to contribute to this paper! ✨

[国立遺伝学研究所 @NIG_idenken]

Nonomura group has published a wonderful paper entitled "Impact of protein domains on the MEL2 granule, a cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein complex maintaining faithful meiosis progression in rice.” in New Phytologist !
https://t.co/5lY4bUsgKo

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

@BhimBBiswa Congrats Bhim!

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

Preprint alert!!
Happy to share the second part of my doctoral work!

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

Callose Deficiency Modulates Plasmodesmata frequency and the intercellular space In Rice Anthers https://t.co/vofVCrbmSO #biorxiv_plants

[Harsha Somashekar @harshasshekar]

@hendersi Congratulations Ian!