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Joan Marquez-Molins

@molins.bsky.social
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Biotechnologist. Member of www.ncrnalab.com. Currently EIGENT fellow at @i2sysbio.es. Postdoc at @_SLU. PhD at @IBMCP.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The only “higher plants” I will acknowledge are species that grow into tall trees. They are literally higher.
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 30/01/2026
New OA Article: "Long-distance transport of siRNAs with functional roles in pollen development" rdcu.be/e1pxk ...These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.
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Joan Marquez-Molins @molins.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My way to work 🇸🇪
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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 04/12/2025
Finally! The European Union allows the use of genome editing! 🌱🌾🫛🇪🇺🧬 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...
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EU einigt sich auf Lockerungen für gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel
Für viele gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel soll es künftig keine Hinweispflicht mehr in Supermärkten geben. Darauf einigten sich Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der EU-Länder.
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Javier Brumós @jbrumos.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🎙️🌱 ¡La presentación del proyecto PUA fue un éxito rotundo! 🚀 Hemos compartido los resultados sobre la emisión de ultrasonidos por las plantas. Gracias a todos por participar en esta jornada de ciencia, arte y filosofía que busca redefinir nuestra concepción de las plantas.
Presentación del proyecto en La Casa Encendida Presentación del proyecto en La Casa Encendida Presentación del proyecto en La Casa Encendida Presentación del proyecto en La Casa Encendida
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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 25/11/2025
Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: kgs.link/TreesAreDead
An illustration of a cross-section of a tree trunk, highlighting the core labeled "Undead wood" and a glowing ring-shaped layer labeled "Alive part".
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Rubén González @rubengonzalez.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Version 2 is out! More comprehensive text plus new tissue- and pathway-specific analysis revealing how different viruses trigger systemic aging through diverse mechanisms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Enteric viral infections promote systemic accelerated aging in Drosophila
Do viral infections accelerate aging, and does this acceleration scale with pathogenicity? Using transcriptomic aging clocks, we measured biological age in Drosophila infected with four enteric RNA vi...
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Noel Blanco-Touriñán @noelponte.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Our latest review, co-authored with @agustilab.bsky.social (@ibmcp.bsky.social), “Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks,” is now published in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social
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q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The role of post-translational modifications in the dynamics of cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates in #plants A #ResearchReview by Legoux et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Impact of post-translational modifications on cytoplasmic biomolecular condensate dynamics. The figure shows the importance of phosphorylation (a–g), ubiquitination (h, i), and other PTMs (j–m) in the dynamics of cytoplasmic biomolecular condensate formation under different biotic and abiotic stresses and for different target proteins.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hypothesis: tissue/cell types with the least somatic mutations have the highest regenerative potential. There is a selective pressure to prevent differentiated tissues from regenerating, as to not propagate deleterious somatic mutations.
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Today's the last day to apply for the Plant Cell Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program, usually postdocs or senior PhD students! It's a fantastic opportunity, a great learning experience & a lot of fun too. If you aren't quite ready, in June 2026 Plant Physiology will open its own call for AFEs 👍
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Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
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Laura Arribas-Hernández @laura-ah.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are hiring a PhD student (FPI) for the 🧬🌱Plant Epitranscriptomics Lab 🧬🌱 at IHSM La Mayora (UMA-CSIC) ‪@ihsmumacsic.bsky.social‬‬ to study the role of m6A in axillary bud dormancy Candidates send CV and motivation letter to: ✉️laura.arribas@csic.es 📆 until Sep 30th
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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
No shade on Ambros and Ruvkun, who did amazing work on the first miRNA. But Hamilton and Baulcombe were the ones that showed these are a whole class of molecules.
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🧪 #RNAsky If you aren’t using RNAcanvas to draw your RNA structures and explore alternative structures, you are missing out! 56 citations in a year, with multiple ones in top journals like Nature, Science & Cell. Easy to use and packed with unique features! Try it! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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RNAcanvas: interactive drawing and exploration of nucleic acid structures
Abstract. Two-dimensional drawing of nucleic acid structures, particularly RNA structures, is fundamental to the communication of nucleic acids research. H
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Out of curiosity I just tried ChatGPT plagiarism checker. It falsely accused the text I checked of copying "verbatim" from citations that do not include the text it quotes. When I point this out, ChatGPT admits it was wrong. Totally useless and worse, potentially harmful.
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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
With Joe in our lab, we discovered a new mode of how some viral sattelites can spread : A form of viral hitchhiking we termed Viral Trojan Horse ! check our paper on biorXiv : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Rather than framing it as “universities have become dependent on federal funding”, it should be framed as the US depends on universities for innovation & training.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I remember when I was doing rice pollen small RNA for my PhD work, I kept getting sRNA that are ~30-ish. We thought these were due to bad RNA integrity, so we gave up working on it. Didn't know these half tRNAs are actually important.
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Carlos Briones @brionesci.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“Nada tiene sentido en biología excepto a la luz de la evolución” Theodosius Dobzhansky Nada tiene sentido actualmente en Estados Unidos excepto bajo las sombras de la ignorancia más lamentable y el negacionismo más peligroso:
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Want decent competent cells with at least 10^6 CFU/mL but don't feel like stressing? Try this: 1. Grow ecoli overnight 37C in LB shaking 250rpm 2. Spin down 1mL 15sec 10,000xg 3. Decant and resuspend in 500uL of ice cold TSS buffer. Vortex to resuspend in 3 pulses 1 sec. Done
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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Are you interested on the evolution and cell-type specialization of plant antiviral defences (shorturl.at/oRs9X), are you eligible for a MSCA fellowship (shorturl.at/oRFiD). Get in touch to support your application to join the MoRE Lab!, please, help us spread the word!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Despite popular myths, there is no stereotypical scientist. Each person brings their own history, personality, interests and approach to their work. I love interviews with scientists that reveal their back story and how they view their life and work 1/2 🧪
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
For technology papers, one way to tell if the authors actually want others to use their new techniques (rather than just a PR paper): if they have deposited their plasmids or plasmid sequences (if applicable) anywhere.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
Has anyone tried combining geminivirus replicon + transposon to improve genome integration for plant transformation? The virus replicon enables T-DNA rolling-circle amplification in the presence of replication protein. (Figure from academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...). Great papar, BTW 🧵
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
A PhD position is available in my group at SLU. Come join us in Sweden to work on plant regeneration and grafting, supported by Wallenberg Foundation. Details below. Please RT! #plantscijobs #plantscience
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