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Enjoyed writing this review with Lichman Lab on plant biosynthetic pathway discovery, thanks for the opportunity. Thanks Michael Krogh Jensen for the invite!

Pre-Print is out! Lichman Lab A novel enzyme discovered with an unprecedented reaction involved in piperidine alkaloid biosynthesis: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #plantsci #plants #research #secondarymetabolism #alkaloid

🥳Well done again Charlay - the thesis had everything from chemical synthesis to plant transformation to genome annotation! Great outcomes including this (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). Thanks to Anne Osbourn and Federico Sabbadin for the viva 🥳

4 fully-funded Generation Research MSc by Research studentships available Biology at York & Chemistry at York for applicants with widening participation eligibility. Apply by July 10th! generationresearch.ac.uk/phd-and-master…

We have just published some fantastic new case studies from our HVB funded projects - take a look here highvaluebiorenewables.net/case-studies/

🚨New analysis from The Royal Society UK visa costs for researchers: 🫣 21x higher than France (Talent passport for researchers) 😱34x higher than Germany (Scientific visa) 😬Have increased by 126% since 2019 while other countries have made theirs cheaper royalsociety.org/news-resources…

The next Enhancing Research Culture Workshop is coming up! Hear from an exciting line-up of speakers that will share their experiences and knowledge on how to obtain funding for conferences, travel and training. Open to all UoY staff and PGR students york.ac.uk/staff/research…

Looking forward to today's Enhancing Research Culture Workshop on funding for Early Career Researcher training and travel! There's even free dwarf tomato plants for attendees grown by the Biology Horticulture Team 🍅 #GrowYourResearchCulture york.ac.uk/staff/research…

We are excited to announce the renewal of our #AthenaSwan Gold award. We were the first Biology department in Great Britain to be granted a Gold award in 2014 and are proud to continue to build and strengthen our inclusive culture, embedded in all our activities. #GenderEquality

How do TFs recruit the transcriptional machinery? This critical cellular function is incompletely understood. Led by postdoc Nick Morffy, we experimentally identify Arabidopsis ADs at scale and use this immense dataset to create an AD predictor, TADA. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis | Nature Communications ⁦Nature Communications⁩ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy to share our chromosome level genomes for Drepanocaryum sewerzowii and Marmoritis complanata, two new assemblies within the Nepetinae and related to catnip. academic.oup.com/g3journal/arti… Grant Godden Daniel Jeffares @LabRat_C Lichman Lab

Probably the best part of the annual Generation Research symposium Biology at York is when students talk about the benefits they experienced during research and technical placements! Also - the calibre of talks so far has been exceptional!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Incredible outputs and presentations from the summer students at the 2024 #GenRes symposium University of York #excellent #science #independence #confidence #ideas #careers #joy! This is such a great use of funds. generationresearch.ac.uk/about-us/

Brilliant collaboration to be part of! Cobus Smit made a wonderful contribution. Thank you O'Connor Lab especially Dagny prashant nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT Now published in #G3journal: Cobus Smit from Lichman Lab generated chromosome level genomes for Drepanocaryum sewerzowii and Marmoritis complanata, plant species related to catnip, that are used in traditional herbal medicines. bit.ly/3WR1ijd

Come work with us! Please RT! We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice. Apply online before Nov. 3. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru… Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

The next Enhancing Research Culture Workshop is coming up! PhD students and Postdocs at York are invited to eat and chat about research culture across disciplines, how we can shape it and whether 'Research Team Charters' could help. Sign up now forms.gle/k3dbqxwA6oq5b9…

Preprint alert 🚨 Cautions in the use of Oxford Nanopore sequencing to map DNA modifications: officially reported “accuracy” ≠ reliable mapping in real applications. We performed a critical assessment of nanopore sequencing (across different versions of models) for the detection of

Congratulations to Dr Chris Hill who has been awarded the Lister Institute Research Prize, which recognises exceptional early-career biomedical scientists in the UK! Read more about Chris's award and research in the news article york.ac.uk/news-and-event…