Prof. Keiko Torii

STEM Girl Day at UT Austin @texasscience.bsky.social
this weekend. 25 years of promoting future #WomenInSTEM
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今週末は弊大学•テキサス大学オースティン校の「理数工系の女子の日」。幼稚園〜中学生が対象。四半世紀続け粘り強く、科学技術分野への女性の参入を後押し。
girlday.utexas.edu

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Ahhh, (Saturday + Sunday)/2, sorry for the typo.

Sutarday morning in Austin TX neighborhood 🤠!

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany.

Registration opening soon!

Very nice genetic dissection of the roles of BSK kinases in brassinosteroid signaling by Wenqiang Tang's lab. bsk-u (ko for BSK1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12) really looks like a bri1 null mutant and can be rescued by over-expressing BSK3. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Happy Luna New Year 2026!🥰🐴🧧 ~Cerebrating all the great news in the Torii lab.

A child drawing of a female scientist. The hedline is: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Feb 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and at RIKEN BDR, we celebrate the achievements of #womeninscience by holding an IDWGIS Symposium. We also recently launched Mirai Alliance, a mentorship network for women researchers in life sciences. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Our latest at JoVEJournal. Scalable, inexpensive transformation pipeline using RUBY🌱❤️. tuned for the video📽️. Congrats, Page and Calvin 🥰!
"Efficient Regeneration-based Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of an Asexual Amphibious Brassicaceae Species, Rorippa aquatica"
app.jove.com/t/69672/effi...

Chromatin state architecture governs transcription factor accessibility across plant genomes Author summary In eukaryotes, DNA is tightly associated with histone proteins. Histone covalent modifications and histones isoforms, also called histone variants provide most of the complexity of chro...

This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience

Wow, super exciting! Also, a great tool for the community. Congrats 🥰🎉🌱

Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Plantscience

Seattle is getting very serious about the New Year Countdown 2026 #Cloudcity😭 新年カウントダウンの花火＆ドローンショウまであと二時間半。霧の街シアトルが本気を出してきた..
left: this morning; right: 2.5 hours to the countdown
左: 大晦日の昼; 右: 新年まであと二時間半

Congrats, Ayami. Review article (in JPN) describing the discovery of a small molecule that reduces the number of stomata. W/ our long-term collaborator chemist Prof. Kei Murakami [気孔の数を調節する分子の発見]🌱⚗️
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jscr...

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳
Just published @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done, Akie! Identification of a peptide hormone-receptor module bypassing the ABA signaling to close stomata upon drought. A big breakthrough🍃😊
-Local peptide signalling induces stomatal closure under drought stress @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineering compact Physalis peruviana (goldenberry) to promote its potential as a global crop Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana) produces sweet, nutritionally rich berries, yet like many minor crops, is cultivated in limited geographical regions and has not been a focus of breeding programs for...

Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Image text. Call for 2026 ASPB Award Nomindations. Nomindation Deadline Friday, February 13, 2026. (11:59 p.m. ET). Featuring the ASPB logo and plant science-themed background.

📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱

👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt.

#plantscience

CSHL - Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering 2025 Meeting. At the poster session. Just wonderful to meet w/ talented Early Career Scientists 🥰🧬🌱. I learned so much from this broader plant bio meeting. Thanks, Cyril, Becky, and Beth for the invitation!
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

¡Muchas gracias de nuevo por la invitación! ¡Lo pasé muy bien con todos ustedes!🥰

Last week, I had the chance to participate in the XVII Chilean Society for Plant Biology meeting 🤩. Inspiring talks from colleagues in Chile and invited speakers @keikoutorii.bsky.social, Malcolm Bennett, @gabkrouk.bsky.social , José Feijó and many others. Looking forward to the next edition!

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word!

tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Somos las biólogas vegetales! Santiago, Chile 🌱🇨🇱🥰　#WomenInScience

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳
Just published @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research Technician - Torii Lab Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Technician to s...

🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪
HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants.
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Research Specialist - Torii Lab Primary Work Address: 2500 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Lab We are currently seeking a proactive Research Specialist to s...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words
HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills.
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Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Thank you! Enjoy reading🥰