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Alex Borowsky

@atborowsky.bsky.social
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NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology working to design plant cis-regulatory sequences and broaden access to plant synthetic biology tools. Brophy Lab, Stanford

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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No one knows - still to be negotiated after the shutdown ends I think. House was floating something like a 20% cut, no cut proposed in the Senate. The good news is that both of those numbers are far from the 55% cut in the budget request from the White House
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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
There is definitely a weird gap in this size range. If you can just tack on extra sequence after a restriction site, IDT eBlocks are the cheapest 300 bp option - $21 each, but minimum order is 24.
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Vivian Zhong @vivzhong.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Side quest # TooMany of this PhD: I co-authored an article for @issuesinst.bsky.social on the need for better soil data to monitor topsoil loss, plus farmland price valuation that reflects the true quality of soil to incentivize topsoil preservation. Feedback most welcome! issues.org/better-soil-...
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For Better Soil, Get Better Data
Relying on outdated soil quality data to value farmland creates a disincentive for farmers to invest in conserving topsoil.
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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
MYBs are always the worst. I’ve had some luck by including a larger set of species, aligning full length proteins and trimming with ClipKIT.
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Mingyuan Zhu @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025! We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting! Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is a great opportunity for early career researchers! The plant single cell community is welcoming and supportive.
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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Come to the GRS too if you can! www.grc.org/single-cell-...
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2025 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology (GRS) will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Alex Borowsky @atborowsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Bailey-Serres lab uses these protocols developed in Neelima Sinha’s lab. The magnetic beads mRNA prep is especially good and seems to work really consistently across species/tissues. plant-plasticity.github.io/resources/RN... plant-plasticity.github.io/resources/Br...
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Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)
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2025 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Andrew D Hanson @adhansonlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🙏 NSF for supporting @uf-ifas.bsky.social / UF Horticultural Sciences' trailblazing workshop 'How SynBio can *realistically* impact crop improvement & agriculture'! We brought🌱 SynBio ECRs together w/ top ag biotech & crop breeding experts to identify disconnects btwn their worlds & how to fix them⬇️
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!
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Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
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