I’m also deeply grateful to my supervisors, Professor Francesco Licausi @syno2xis.bsky.social and Dr Emily Flashman @emilyflashman.bsky.social, all my lab team and friends - your encouragement really carried me through this journey!
A huge thank you to my examiners, Professor Joost Van Dongen and Dr Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social , for an engaging and genuinely enjoyable three-hour discussion.
After four years of hard work and late nights, I’m incredibly happy to share that yesterday I successfully defended my DPhil in Biology at the University of Oxford - with only minor corrections! 🎉
Feeling excited and ready for the next chapter!
New work from the Synoxys lab!
Glad to be back in Vienna and have some nice chats about evolution! 🌱
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!
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Thrilled to make my first post here 🌱 Right after presenting at #ISPLORE2025JP, where I shared our work on how anatomy & habitat shaped the oxygen-sensing machinery of angiosperms. Please check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We continue the last part of the #ISPLORE2025JP hypoxia signalling section with talks by @beagiuntoli.bsky.social, Alexey Shapiguzov, @monicaperri1.bsky.social and Yuming He 🌱🌊 Check out Monica's preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
Engineered mutations in the AtPCO4 active site reduce its activity and improve plant submergence resilience! Our new preprint: tinyurl.com/2ydj7qx5, 1 of 2 preprints out this week from the @emilyflashman.bsky.social and @syno2xis.bsky.social labs to link PCO function in plants with flood tolerance!
In our new preprints, we explored the diversity landscape or potential for engineering N-terminal and their effect on stress tolerance and development when used to substitute endogenous enzymes. Enjoy the read!
Can we modulate plant oxygen sensing to enhance flood resilience?🌿🔧
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This is one of two preprints out this week from the @syno2xis.bsky.social and @emilyflashman.bsky.social labs, two angles on how PCOs shape plant flood resilience. Don’t miss the full story!
