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Joe McKenna @joemckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🌱🔬 We're hiring! 2-year Senior Technician in the McKenna Lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social. Plant cell biology meets proteomics. We want someone enthusiastic to help drive our research forward. Interested? DM or email for an informal chat. workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY... #PlantScience #Jobs

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Senior Research Technician

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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369

Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.17.744369v1 So pleased to see this work online 😄 Building on our previous study that showed symbiont effectors modulate host hormone signalling, we further characterised the roles of S. indica effectors in influencing plant stress responses.

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you're attending the @sebiology.bsky.social conferennce, make sure to join myself and @robynemm.bsky.social for day 2 of the Plant Epigenetics session! Featuring somatic memory, epigenetic perception, immunity and developmental plasticity 😍🌿🧬

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Sara Lopez-Gomollon @gomollonsara.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for the SEB meeting in Florence! There will be two sessions on plant epigenetics - don't miss this great opportunity to showcase your research and network with a fab community 😀

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

So happy to see this work finally online! In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory

Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...

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Eirini Kaiserli @ekaiserli.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠 Check out their great story here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

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DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance

Rory Osborne; DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance, The Plant Cell, , koaf238, https://

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Incredible location ✅ Excellent science ✅ Amazing community ✅ Perfectly organised ✅ What more could we ask for!? Safe travels to everyone! #ISPLORE2025JP

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Look out Japan, here we come! So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿 Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠

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Manuel González Fuente @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬 Great work and congrats to all involved 👏

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Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment

Rory Osborne; Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment, The Pl

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱 Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬 Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏 tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2

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Rory Osborne @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D 🧬

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