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This Wednesday (April 1st) ASPB is launching a new #plantsci virtual seminar series via @Plantae_org! Learn more about this exciting new series, and sign up to participate here: plantae.org/plantae-presen…

Please vote for my lab's entry into the BioRender figure competition: Ultra-deep DNA methylation patterns via amplicon sequencing. By postdoc Andrea McCue. app.biorender.com/contest/galler…

Breaking news: small RNA-directed DNA methylation is a thing! (15 years after plant biologists described it). It would have been nice to have one plant bio reference in this paper. nature.com/articles/s4158…

24-nt phasiRNAs move from tapetal to meiotic cells in maize anthers biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

IN BRIEF: Hunting for TEs: microRNAs switch targets in developing pollen (Saima Shahid) German Martinez Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) #PlantSci doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

Two new positions available in our research group at the Danforth Center in St. Louis: Postdoc (tinyurl.com/2p86zjnv) and Data Scientist II (tinyurl.com/ycafs2ce). Using long-read transcriptomics to study the initiation of epigenetic silencing. Please RT!

New paper from the lab describing a Protein-to-RNA tethering system that works in plants: plantmethods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… After years of hard work, A big congrats to Diego Cuerda-Gil, Yu-Hung Hung and Kaushik Panda.

Interested in tethering a protein to your favorite RNA? It’s the last day check out my poster (200-001) at #PlantBio22 !

MTBA members reunion Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association (BTBA) 2022 symposium!

Wish you all the best with the great adventures to come in your own lab Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) !

Excited to highlight recent work from the lab: CRISPR-targeted transposable element insertion for efficient plant genome engineering researchsquare.com/article/rs-267… Led by the terrific Peng Liu

Proud PI hearing about the lab’s presentations at #PlantBio2023. Talk today by Peng Liu, with Kaushik Panda on deck. And posters by Marianne Kramer & Yu-Hung Hung. Great work!

The Keith Slotkin past and present at #PlantBio2023! Peng Liu, Yu-Hung Hung, Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ), Meredith J Sigman, Dalen Fultz, Harper Lowrey, Marianne Kramer, Kaushik Panda. Great scientists and people!

Scientific journal nature has published research authored by scientists in our Keith Slotkin. The publication focuses on a technology called TATSI, which enables faster and less expensive production of improved plants. Learn more: loom.ly/cTNDkKc

So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in Nature Publishing. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by Peng Liu. nature.com/articles/s4158…. 🧵

Hello friends, I am making a movie for the start of #ICAR2025 in Ghent next year! I need your help to make it a community project! Please retweet + comment your favorite Arabidopsis live imaging video to be featured in the movie. Anything from macro to single-molecule, tell me!

If you're struggling to assemble large DNA constructs, check out Chengsong's DASH system, which combines Golden Gate cloning, recombineering, and site-specific recombinases to build multigene constructs of ~100kb. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu (David R. Liu) on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize (Breakthrough) in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing and prime editing: two breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or

IN BRIEF: Palmer amaranth’s arsenal: Rearrangement of eccDNA provides dual herbicide resistance in Amaranthus palmeri (Yu-Hung Hung) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… Yu-Hung Hung ASPB #PlantSci

Latest work from the lab led by Yu-Hung Hung in The Plant Journal! We engineered a RNA-binding protein to sort and protect a Cas9 transcript for long term expression! Can be applied to any engineered transcript as a UTR: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…