NelsonLab@BTI

A groundbreaking new collaborative @NaturePlants paper led by @RoseAMarks1, a @michiganstateu PRI postdoc fellow in the @bob_vanburen Lab, sheds new light on the evolutionary origins & mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants. Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/marks…

@fern_way @joy_van500 @lau_gunn @JXBot @BTIscience Congrats!!!

Two new papers out this week! Paper #1 on developing a new #hornwort #transformation method to visualize #pyrenoids @joy_van500 @lau_gunn @JXBot @BTIscience academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

@KatelynJButler The NSF/USDA REU program @BTIscience is more plant genomics focused, but our “admissions” committee very much selects for applicants from smaller universities/colleges without research opportunities. We also have ~40 spots available every year, so maybe greater chances?

Since the seasonal dunking-on-lncRNAs is back, and I do 💕 lncRNAs, a 🧵 on what I think have been the sources of the main problems in the 15 years of the field so far:

Hi all - the Nelson lab is looking for a post-doc to work on a collaborative project with the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems at Cornell. See the link for details and please forward! recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

Minimap2-2.27 released with new presets for accurate Nanopore reads and Illumina Complete Long Reads (both recommended by vendors), along with a few minor features and bug fixes. Output alignment identical to v2.26 except the value at a custom tag. github.com/lh3/minimap2/r…

What if plants could dry out but remain viable, then spring back to life when water is once again available? By studying how mosses cope w/ water scarcity, BTI researchers hope to harness these mechanisms to help make crops more resilient. news.btiscience.org/235225-drying-… @AndrewDLNelson

Wade got over 1M views on TikTok in less than 24 hours and he doesn’t even internet.

hey that's our paper!

@kheyduk Yes please!

New Preprint from our lab! 🎉 If you have #directRNA @nanopore sequencing runs, you might be interested in re-basecalling your #RNA002 data with our trained basecalling models and get 97% (!) accuracy! Tweetorial available below by @GDiensthuber, who beautifully led this work👇

Proud to announce our Arabidopsis ORFeome paper has been published in @ThePlantCell! We systematically uncovered > 7K novel translation events and found many important genes are regulated by uORFs. @LarryWu90267524 @JustinWWalley academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

In the land down under, at the very first #PAGAustralia, my post-doc, Xiaodan Zhang is about to give a talk on lessons resurrection moss genomes can teach about seed germination and drought responses in flowering plants! @BTIscience #stresstolerance #transcriptionalregulation

What can a "simple" moss tell us about desiccation tolerance in angiosperms we don't already know? Quite a bit actually! Great collaboration and awesome work by my post-doc Xiaodan Zhang! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wow. By optimizing the reference transcriptome for scRNA-seq, they were able to identify over 4,500 additional genes and more than 20% extra sequencing reads in human PBMCs. Anyone wants to try this in Arabidopsis?? nature.com/articles/s4159…

Absolutely thrilled to see our co-expression network story on #MyMesotaenium online @NaturePlants — Big thanks to everyone involved, funding @ERC_Research , @dfg_public & the great @watertoland community. See also the detailed thread by @Fuerst_Jansen rdcu.be/dkBaj

Check it out! @bti_skirycz Our News & Views in @NaturePlants on discovered link between phenolic acids and regulation of translation through Stress Granules 🥳👍 Big Congrats to the authors 👍🍹 @KaustResearch @kaustcda 👍nature.com/articles/s4147…

Hi all! The Nelson lab @BTIscience is looking for a lab tech to help out on some very interesting (IMO) functional genomic projects. Please apply below! Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research - Lab Technician I recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…