Rodrigo Reis

My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!! - We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA - We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis Link to both preprints below

And now the second preprint of the lab! doi.org/10.64898/202... HY5 shoot-root movement is real and it is necessary and sufficient for the root developmental response to neighbour shading. This is a story in collaboration with the lab of @ronaldpierik.bsky.social + @kyravandervelde.bsky.social

RFviewJS v1.2.0 for #RNA secondary structure visualization is out! This release features many fixes and new features. Particularly, we introduced Outline mode, useful for example to generate review-ready pictures of large multi-domain RNAs. github.com/dincarnato/R...

Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types? In our new study, out now in @nature.com, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our preprint now peer-reviewed and published 🌾🔬🧬 Grasses have a signature short-long leaf epidermal pattern: small stomata & hair cells spaced by long pavement cells, but how is it built? Premitotic BdPL1 sets cell-size asymmetry; postmitotic BdBRX-solo/BdYDA1 enforces fate. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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@mpipz.bsky.social Core Facility Protein Mass Spectrometry Service

🚀 Rxiv-Maker is now peer-reviewed and open access! Write your manuscript in Markdown and get a typeset PDF or an editable Word file, with figures, citations and cross-references numbered for you. Led by Bruno Saraiva, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab 🔬 doi.org/10.1242/jcs.265183

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Happy to have contributed to this awesome collaboration work with Yang Qu and my Brazilian colleagues! Ayahuasca plant genomes reveal retrotransposon-derived centromeres and contrasting routes to DMT and β-carbolines www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣 Our next JC will have Haibo Xiong (Yongjian Qiu's group, University of Missouri) presenting his paper on how structured and disordered regions of PIF4 contribute to its function in thermomorphogenesis. Don't miss out!!

🌾🧬 Warming alters how rice roots split carbon between growth and respiration. Cortical cell expansion peaks at ~28°C; extremes shift carbon toward respiration. ABA mutants show reduced sensitivity. Root physiology matters for plant-soil carbon fluxes. #plantscience academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Too much water can be a challenge for plants, too! 🌱💧 Our new Spotlight in Molecular Plant explores how COSR channels link hypoosmotic stress to Ca²⁺ signaling. Happy to share this piece with Matteo Grenzi and Yang Zhao! doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Nesse domingo, quem não votar no Lula estará apoiando os Bolsonaros e tudo que eles representam. A essa altura, quem ainda apoia os Bolsonaros bom caráter não é. Não seja essa pessoa. O voto é secreto: vote honesto.

Disrupting two Arabidopsis thaliana xylosyltransferase genes results in plants deficient in thermomorphogenesis Liu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Z3GEAQ...

Now online! Salicylic acid engages central metabolic regulators SnRK1 and TOR to govern immunity by differential phosphorylation of NPR1

Excited to share two recent collaborative works from the lab related to cell surface RNA binding proteins (csRBPs) in cancer.

I am very pleased to present the lab’s first #bluetorial! This concerns our recent publication in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev.... This work, led by postdoc (and former grad student) Kelsey Reed, is the result of many years of hard work by a wonderful team. (1/n)

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

🧵 1/8 Have you ever wondered how information embedded within exons regulates gene expression in plants? 🌱🧬 Check out our latest work, where we explore how exonic enhancers (EEs) shape gene expression in plants! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our new preprint: a very cool fluorescence tool developed by @samwalds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Two back-to-back publications about transcriptional regulations of SA-mediated activation of plant immunity from Nin Zheng’s lab and Yuelin Zhang’s lab www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first preprint of my lab has just come out doi.org/10.64898/202... This paper came out at the same day on the sudden passing of Prof. Meng Chen. Without his work, this paper would not have existed. He was an extremely supportive member of the plant photobiology community..

BackBone Builder (B3): a modular Golden Gate standard with a compatible Agrobacterium parts library is now published in @plantphys.bsky.social ! Has been a very useful system for our lab. @psb-vib.bsky.social #PlantScience academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Incredibly happy to share the first publication from our lab, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 How do cells coordinate RNA processing with nuclear organization and the cell cycle? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So happy to see @michaelraissig.bsky.social speaking at #BT2026 about his fascinating work on stomatal development 🌱

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check this

Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏

Another AI agent swarm cooperation example discovered on a wiki. That these things are not atracting more public discussion is beyond me. collusion.wiki

Check out this really cool study where @matthiaserb.bsky.social's lab used Kalanchoë laxiflora to study volatile uptake routes and found that stomatal and non-stomatal pathways both play a role. Again, this project idea came from an inspiring visit and discussion with @jameshartwell.bsky.social!

Panos, Xiaofeng, and I, together with several colleagues, have just published a practical guideline for studying biomolecular condensates in plants. Great to see this work out! 🌱 #condensates 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you're looking for a REALLY active protein kinase, they found one. Crazy stuff www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to be hosting the #Thermomorphogenesis 2026 meeting at @dundee.ac.uk, with 3 days full of exciting research and discussions about recent advances in plant temperature responses. Very happy to be part of such a supportive community!

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

I cannot recommend this opportunity enough! Amazing science with truly fantastic people! Not to mention the beautiful Botanical Gardens 5 feet away!

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

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Auxin-DGAT2 crosstalk regulates high-temperature-induced hypocotyl elongation 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Khamzaaliyeva et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

I just published: We still publish one paper at a time. Nobody reads science that way anymore Publishing is stuck in one mode. Reading has already changed. kamounlab.medium.com/we-still-pub...

Thrilled to share the latest review I had the incredible pleasure to write together with @amustoe.bsky.social, out today in #COSB, about probing #RNA structural ensembles, non-equilibrium intermediates and isoforms. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔬🌱 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🌱🔬 Rodríguez et al. present SuB3, a simple, fast, and inexpensive method to separate nuclear and cytoplasmic contents of plant cells to study where genes are active and how they are regulated. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

My lab at #Yale has two #riboswitch research openings: 1. Postdoc with mammalian gene manipulation experience (tinyurl.com/zzb269em); 2. Postdoc (or BS, MS) with bioinformatics skills (tinyurl.com/3j73jfcn). Send your cv to me or to Kavita at kumari.thakur@yale.edu.

Online at @cellcellpress.bsky.social today: everything you always wanted (???) to know about Auxin Signaling and never dared to ask. From Jiashu, Aaron and Martijn in our team, with @luciastrader.bsky.social and Tongda Xu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣Thermomorphogenesis community📣 I’m very excited to announce that Su Hyun Park will present her preprint on ORE1-UBP12/13-PIF4 module in thermomorphogenesis regulation in our next JC!! Come join us!!

🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

Time for another preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social and @defengshen.bsky.social. We found some surprising secrets that connect and uncouple root barrier formation with systemic nitrogen signaling in shoots. see the thread below for more details