Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ)

Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded Yorkshire Biosciences #PhD project on Striga epigenomics @sheffielduni by 7th Jan 2026 👇 findaphd.com/search/Project… Open to UK/International students. #ParasiticPlant #PlantSciJobs

HASTY-dependent miRNA cell-to-cell movement is required for systemic pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communic…

Unlocking stronger gene silencing in plants! 🌱🔓 Excited to share our new paper in @ThePlantJournal. We discovered that a single base pair (A18G) in the shc precursor dramatically enhances amiRNA accumulation and silencing efficiency. 🧬✂️ @IBMCP doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70…

Managed to get some Cuscuta plants started in Sheffield just in time for student projects next year- glad that the seeds germinated despite all the challenges during lab move from USA to UK! #ParasiticPlants

An Argonaute protein traffics from nematode to mouse and is a vaccine against parasitic nematodes | EMBO Reports link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Transposable elements: mediators of epigenetic inheritance in plants dlvr.it/TPlc7k #plantscience

News&Views on 2 papers in @NatureCellBio : "Transcription factor-mediated recruitment of small interfering RNA production" rdcu.be/eSCLa 2 studies uncover the recruitment of the key siRNA-producing RNA pol IV mediated by transcription factors to specific DNA sequences.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- How parasitic plants avoid being parasitized (Science) (Summary by Mary Williams) plantae.org/how-parasitic-… #PlantaePSRW

Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded Yorkshire Biosciences #PhD project on Striga epigenomics @sheffielduni by 7th Jan 2026 👇 findaphd.com/search/Project… Open to UK/International students. #ParasiticPlant #PlantSciJobs

Our new discovery that bacteria utilize extracellular vesicles to deliver RNAs into fungi substantially broadens the paradigm of Cross-Kingdom RNA communication! Big congrats to ⁦@J_NinoSanchez⁩, ⁦@HuaitongW⁩ and all! Thanks for your hard work! cell.com/molecular-plan…

🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project 'PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress. 🧬 PhD 1 (UK only) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/f… 🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/m… 🌱 PhD 3 (UK only) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/d… #PhD

📣 Happy to announce that we are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher @JohnInnesCentre to join my Wellcome-funded project. 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. jic.ac.uk/vacancies/3686…

Ever wondered how soil bacteria survive viral attacks while coping with pollution and climate stress? This project exploring microbial defence systems and their link to mobile genetic elements that help bacteria detoxify pollutants and resist stress. findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

Oxidative stress: a new player in the regulation of AGO1 homeostasis? | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/jxb/article/76…

New preprint now out from Jake Harris' Chromatin & Memory group. Read the paper, 'CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromeric crossover recombination in Arabidopsis': tinyurl.com/2ht3pwb9

Post doc position in Extracellular vesicles and cross kingdom communication in the Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Final week to apply! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The action of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE 2 in plant growth inhibition (Yuelin Liu, Wei Yan, Qianyan Linghu, Huijuan Tan, Hongwei Guo) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @ASPB #PlantSci

Hot off the press! Our new preprint shows that HASTY (HST)–driven miRNA mobility is a key trigger for systemic immunity in Arabidopsis. #PlantImmunity #miRNA biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @musso_manu22867 @nicoscecchini

We are looking for a new colleague to work as a postdoctoral researcher on crop genomics and machine learning! The position is within our GenomeDesigner project (ru.nl/en/research/re…). Feel free to be in touch or directly apply here: ru.nl/en/working-at/… Please share!!!

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to “The action of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE2 in plant growth inhibition” (Carsten Poul Skou Nielsen, Laura Arribas-Hernández, Peter Brodersen) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @ASPB #PlantSci