Gunjan Sharma

Nice news and views article by my lovely colleagues @gunjansharma88.bsky.social and Akanksha Bhatnagar 🌱☀️🥵

A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share!
Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham.
Deadline 15th February.
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

NEWS & VIEWS: FAMA and bHLH090: Coordinating myrosin cell development and herbivory defense (Marcella Teixeira) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...

How does a single plant cell tell symbiont from pathogen?
We show that the Symbiotic Determinant 1 of NFR1 evolved to facilitate nitrogen-fixing symbiotic signalling.
I’m thrilled to share our published data from my PhD back in Aarhus! #symbiosis #juxtamembrane #ensa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Preprint alert:

🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

Measurement-model-remote sensing framework to improve and scale predictions of ecosystem response to climate change across landscapes.

Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models

Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Daniel Gibbs Lab Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!

Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Congratulations 🎉
@jsontgerath.bsky.social , who received this year’s award for the best plant science master thesis @uni-freiburg.de

Today, all our representatives at other Universities were
asked to find the best theses at their universities

It was so great having you at @johninnescentre.bsky.social!

Some amazing conversations on AI in writing, teaching, and the importance of plants 🌾

Grateful to be a part of the @aspbofficial.bsky.social community ❤️

#ThrowbackThursday to last week Thursday at #ISPLORE2025JP where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the #ISPLORE2025JP hashtag for some of the best moments 🌱🌊

Huge thanks to the ISPLORE community for this award! Beyond the inspiring science in last few days, this is extra fuel to keep driving our low Oxygen research forward.
Phenomenal work by the organizers at Nagoya University.
See you in the UK for the next one! #ISPLORE2025JP

#ISPLORE2025JP is over.. but not before a comedy performance and closing ceremony by the organizers Mikio Nakazono and Moto Ashikari 😆

Thanks so much to all organisers and sponsors for making this edition possible. It was truly amazing!

Next edition reveal by @djgibbs.bsky.social: #ISPLORE2028UK

@rsasidharan.bsky.social pays tribute to Rens Voesenek for his major contributions to our field and #plantscience in general. 🌱🌊 Inspiring anectdotes and life lessons from Rens, who was a mentor to many of us.

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Beautifully engaging and Ted-talk worthy lecture by the first Rens Voesenek awardee Ole Pedersen at #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊 Ole contributed significantly to our community, including all his work on oxygen dynamics in plants, especially in the field (and ocean!).

Congratulations to all #ISPLORE2025JP Best Oral and Poster presentation winners. Very high quality of ECR talks this year!

Enjoyed every bit #ISPLORE2024JP

So proud of @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social for winning best oral presentation award at #ISPLORE2025JP 🥇🤗☔🌱

It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci

So happy to have presented my work on the epigenetic basis of flooding tolerance in plants #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊

Primed to persevere: Hypoxia regulation from epigenome to protein accumulation in plants Abstract. Plant cells regularly encounter hypoxia (low-oxygen conditions) as part of normal growth and development, or in response to environmental stresse

Next @gunjansharma88.bsky.social talks about Histone demethylation on the regulation of hypoxia genes 🌱🌊

academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊

In the last session before lunch we have @n-end-rules.bsky.social open the Hypoxia sensing and signalling session describing a novel oxygen sensing substrate 🌱🌊 Exciting!

Jun Prof. Dr. Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com talking about VRN2-dependency in flooding stress memory at ISPLORE 2025 🌊🌱 #ISPLORE2025JP

Having a great time presenting our work at #ISPLORE2025JP, great people, great science, great food 👌🏻

The #ISPLORE2025JP audience is very happy the last talk standing between them and lunch was finished 😉 Official group photo still coming 📷

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Developing leaves form a spatiotemporal oxygen gradient that is sensed through the oxygen sensing machinery and directs morphogenesis | New preprint from @daanweits.bsky.social and @syno2xis.bsky.social labs #N-degron #Cysteine #hypoxia @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The speed of hypoxia: great talk by @mikellavi.bsky.social at the @isplore.bsky.social conference in Nagoya!

After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊

www.cell.com/developmenta...