Alex Borowsky

Plant Science Research Weekly: August 23 plantae.org/plant-science-… Three reviews: Membrane remodeling to cope with cold; Rewiring gene regulatory networks for plant improvement; Stem-borne roots to study trans-organogenesis (1/3)

@JohnathanNapie1 @PlantTeaching @jnbserres Ultimately, if we want to speed things up, need to have sufficient funds (or more efficient regulatory processes) to start regulatory approval in parallel with validation that the engineering works in the field.

@JohnathanNapie1 @PlantTeaching @jnbserres Investments here are mostly coming from industry. Gene editing regulations can be less expensive and time consuming, but that can mean a lot of bending over backwards to design an editing strategy when a simple transgene approach can do the same job.

Interested in how we can leverage all this fancy new omics data to improve plants for productivity under climate change? @jnbserres and I share our ideas in this new review: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Free to read link: rdcu.be/dPlEQ

@adeelzafarpbg Thanks Adeel!

Congratulations Dr. Alex Borowsky for your big day. It’s been great having you as a colleague and collaborating for different projects in the lab, always impressed with your scientific and professional skills. Best wishes for all endeavors to come 👍🏻👍🏻

I cannot stress enough how happy I am to share this with you. Most of the work carried out over the last two years of my PhD has finally been brought together in a manuscript, now available on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sean Cutler, @cutlersr, and I are looking for post docs and students to join us on a collaborative project. Email us if you have interests in plant synbio and turning plants into sensors. wheeldon@ucr.edu, cutler@ucr.edu

We developed a new CID module that can be reprogrammed to bind diverse ligands. It works very well in plants, and we used it to make plant-based biosensors. W/ @LabWheeldon, T. Whitehead, @NusinowLab, @bvolkie, @BeltranJBio, nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Ferebee2PhD I can refer you, just need your email address.

@ArpitaBKulkarni @CellAtlas 3. Spatial technologies are coming rapidly to the plant space! See PHYTOMAP: doi.org/10.1038/s41477…, application of curioseeker (slide seq) doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…, and stereo-seq doi.org/10.1016/j.devc…. Many groups have used 10X Visium.

@ArpitaBKulkarni @CellAtlas The advent of long read sequencing really helped with the genome issue, as many plant species have very large genomes with high repeat content. There are many plants which don’t yet have genome sequences, but more likely the issue is the lack of $$$ for this type of research!

Research on animal/mammalian cells have dominated the #scRNAseq field these past years. But what’s the state of #singelcell research in #plants? Can it be done? The answer is YES! Short 🧵 on #scRNAseq challenges in plants & poss opportunities to accelerate this research 👇🏻

@ArpitaBKulkarni You haven't quite captured the current state of the field- connect with me or other members of the @CellAtlas community if you want to learn more.

If you are someone working on single cell technologies in plants and have feedback or comments, feel free to reach out!

How can we create climate-resilient varieties and increase the carbon-capture potential of croplands? Check out this newly published collection of article. Congrats to all authors & thanks to Editor Joanna Clark ⁦@PLOSBiology⁩ for many contributions. collections.plos.org/collection/eng…