New (and first!) work out of the Drew lab on modeling peptides using blackbox optimization techniques: CMA-ES-Rosetta: Blackbox optimization algorithm traverses rugged peptide docking energy landscapes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to be able to share this. Work led by Natalia, Karolis and now @atyszka.org on bluesky! where they obtained and analyzed transcriptomes from tissue sitting on Natalia’s desk for up to six months. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Joseph Walker 🌐🔬The success of this method opens doors for similar studies across diverse species and ecosystems. Researchers can now explore transcriptomes in a more convenient and environmentally friendly manner. (6/6) 👉 buff.ly/48OaE3P #PlantScience #Transcriptomics #AoBpapers

Natalia Ruiz-Vargas leads a paper showing you can get transcriptomes from tissue sitting out for six months. Hopefully makes data collection for phylotranscriptomics easier. A lot of fun working with now @atyszka.org on bluesky! , Karolis, May, Eric and Robie. Link here: buff.ly/48OaE3P

Convergent evolution of water-conducting cells in Marchantia recruited the ZHOUPI gene promoting cell wall reinforcement and programmed cell death doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… Nice work led by Justin Goodrich now available post-peer review.

🌿 Exciting news from Annals of Botany ! 🌿 We're thrilled to welcome 7 new handling editors to our editorial board, each bringing invaluable expertise to guide groundbreaking research in the field.

Excited to share the updated version of our manuscript on the evolution and function of plant immune receptor domains. A great collaboration with Sophien Kamoun Sebastian Schornack and Joe Walker lab UniversityofIllinois. 🧵 from 1st author KhongSam Chia coming tomorrow. academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Our recent work on representations of olfactory stimuli in sensory neurons and cortical projections to the OB is now formally published. With Gautam Reddy, Vaibhav Konanur, and MurthyLab at Harvard. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Brand spanking new flowering plant tree of life! Hot off the press nature. Huge thanks to @KewScience and all 279 co-authors for tireless graft on this for past 8 years. We hope you all like it! #angiosperms353 nature.com/articles/s4158…

🥳I am very excited to see this paper finally comes out. Thanks a lot to Stephen and all the coauthors for putting your valuable time into this work! ❤️

Happy to share our study on the critical role of the lipopeptide syringomycin in promoting Pseudomonas syringae virulence across land plants. Project led by Kris Grenz and KhongSam Chia, John Innes Centre and collaborators now @atyszka.org on bluesky! & Joseph Walker biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Super cool study on the gene(s) underpinning the manifestation of floral bullseye patterns across diverse Hibiscus flowers. May Yeo et al from the Edwige Moyroud group Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) - also featuring friend and collaborator Joseph Walker . Congrats!! 🌺 🐝 🧬… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to see this come out, awesome work by now @atyszka.org on bluesky! and a fun chance to collaborate with Drew Larson !

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now Cell Host & Microbe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 cell.com/cell-host-micr…

There is ONE WEEK left to apply for the #PlantScience #PhD position in my lab! This will use the latest #microscopy, #biosensor and #ecophysiology techniques!

Excited to see this come out! Miles, an undergraduate in the lab, led this project and plans to keep it maintained and up to date as he transitions to being a graduate student. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

RNA from herbarium specimens is more stable than you think. Cool new study from now @atyszka.org on bluesky! Joseph Walker and team. KhongSam Chia and I were happy to contribute by functionally validating an NLR immune receptor last expressed in 1956.

Getting quality transcriptome assemblies from Herbarium samples is possible biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Work led by now @atyszka.org on bluesky!. Another fun collaboration with Philip Carella and KhongSam Chia, who functionally validated an NLR immune receptor from a sample collected in 1956.