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Weizmann Institute of Science @weizmann.ac.il · 09/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Nir Galili, Dr. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Dr. Tom Manovitz and Dr. Tamar Rott Shaham upon being awarded the Beresheet Grant from the Israel Science Foundation

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Azrieli Fellowship for postdoctoral research is now open for submission! Excellent postdocs come join us! 🌱 Study how plants respond to and recover from stress - from physiology and phenotyping to single-cell and spatial genomics in the Illouz-Eliaz Lab. Azrieli Fellowship deadline: 11 Nov 2026

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International Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation

The Azrieli Fellows Program is an elite group of academics who cultivate a network of leading professionals in Israel and around the world.

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc

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Michael Borg @borglab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Friends and colleagues who have family in Iran, I cannot imagine what you’re going through. Just know that we are with you and we are hoping for the best. 🙏🏻

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Wishing us a year of more tolerance, discussion, peace and unexpected discoveries. Happy new year everyone 🎊✨🎉

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Don't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?... @natanellae.bsky.social

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Let’s talk about plants, let’s talk about taking social action. Thank you @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social for acknowledging educational and societal contributions! #ScienceEd #PlantBio #Arabidopsis

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aspbplantbiology.bsky.social @aspbplantbiology.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🌱 Welcome to the official Bluesky channel for #PlantBio2026! Join us as we count down to the premier global plant science meeting, July 18–22, 2026 in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social and @cspbscbv.bsky.social. This is where plant science grows. 🌿 #PlantScience

Image text: It's Official! #PlantBio2026. plantbiology.aspb.org. Featuring ASPB and CSPB/SCBV logos on a themed-background

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Driving to work today, I feel sick to my stomach, thinking about the people killed on Bondi Beach Australia, while celebrating their holiday, because they are Jewish. I’m not OK.

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It was my great pleasure to be on the No time to read podcast! Thank you @aribidopsis.bsky.social for the invitation and fun discussion!

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

2/2 Inspire curiosity, learning, and a love of science in the children you care about. 🪴🎁🌱 Purchase here: a.co/d/htj2hcJ

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

1/2 Give the gift of knowledge this Christmas or Chanukah! Arbi the Model Plant tells the story of Lona, a young girl who receives a tiny plant as a gift, and discovers the amazing world of plant biology along the way. 👇

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

When you work on short day-grown Arabidopsis, long day’s growth seems like a miracle 🌱😆

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C-SPIRIT @c-spirit.org · 24/11/2025

🎉 Congrats to Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologis on TCP3 and cell expansion in Arabidopsis! The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

New Publication!
Congratulations to C-SPIRIT Members Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on the publication of their article TCP3-mediated regulation of cell expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana!
Motoaki
Seki
Team Leader of the Plant Genomic Network Research Team
RIKEN CSRS
Read the article!
Toshinori
Kinoshita
Professor within the Department of Plant Physiology
Nagoya University

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Interesting work showing guard cell specific - severity dependent drought responses in Arabidopsis | INTACT-based guard cell transcriptomes from a progressive drought time course reveal targets for modifying stomatal responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Fascinating study sheds light on dehydration tolerant proteins, which proteins tends to be more stable during dehydration-rehydration and more (*not in plants). Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation

Desiccated cells lose over 85% of their water content and experience widespread biomolecular dysfunction. Romero-Pérez et al. show that the yeast proteome contains a subset of proteins that are desicc...

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In this case well deserved is an understatement. Congrats @joeecker.bsky.social you are a giant not in one field of science but two! And yet you are so modest. So impressive, so proud to be a part of the lab!

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A must- and an enjoyable read- congrats on these amazing discoveries.

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Niko this is an amazing story! Amazing job by all the team and huge congrats to Huei-Hsuan!!

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I never saw this beautiful video about Joanne Chory, published in 2024 in honor of her receiving the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP1... In case somebody else missed it too... #PlantScience #FranklinMedal

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Joanne Chory | 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science

YouTube video by The Franklin Institute

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 25/09/2025

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on! #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 elifesciences.org/articles/105... 1/🧵

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨 JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪 ✨ You’ll gain: 🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience 📝 Write commentary pieces 🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩‍💻 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The reality in science is that creativity is not treated as a core skill while hypothesis testing is, and that is the imbalance that we want correct through the Night Science Institute! www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/art... www.night-science.org

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The Night Science Institute Is Changing How Science Teaches Creativity

In this interview with Professors Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, explore how night science brings creativity, ideation and collaboration back into the heart of modern science.

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨 Last Call – Sept 24, 11:59 PM MDT! Submit your scholarship applications and abstracts for the Keystone Symposia on Cardiometabolism in Health & Disease. 📅 Jan 26–29, 2026 | Keystone, CO 🔗 keysym.us/KSCardiometa... ▶️ youtu.be/pgiNkzgopdQ #KSCardioMetab26 #cardiometabolism #cardiac #heartdisease

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KSQA: Dr. Daniel Kelly (Cardiometabolism in Health and Disease)

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Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Fun review of Arabidopsis anti-pathogen metabolism with @somssich.bsky.social and @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social. Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal

Arabidopsis remains one of the best studied models today and has a number of remarkable chemical defense systems which actively engage, interact and preven

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Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska @routierlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📢🌱 Job alert: Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics (Tenure-track) Join our interdisciplinary research environment, in Montréal Botanical Garden! 📅 Deadline: October 13, 2025 📍 Université de Montréal, Canada Please share! 🌿 drive.google.com/file/d/1Sxkt...

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends! Fun science during the day (see below) and a Le'Chaim during the night! 👩‍🔬🍷Shana Tova! youtu.be/tzlzwhTq6n0?...

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Spatial transcriptomics in drought and recovered leaf cross sections

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/09/2025

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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John Manners @jmaus.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Sad news. Plant science has lost a global champion with the passing of Steve Long. His recent work on engineering enhanced photosynthesis portends future breakthroughs in crop yield and food security. Here is a tribute from the Uni Essex where started 🧪 #plantscience www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...

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Tribute to Professor Steve Long | Blog | University of Essex

Professor Steve Long was a visionary scientist. His research helped shape our understanding of fundamental plant biology and the long-term impacts of climate change on plant productivity, with wide-ra...

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file… #PlantSciJobs

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Transgenerational decline through insidious effects of #drought memory A #Letter by Pantin et al.👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Training petunia plants to chronic drought over 25 clonal generations does not enhance adaptive responses to drought but rather leads to plant mortality.

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

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Plants Boost Their Immune System to Recover from Drought

Plant biologist Natanella Illouz-Eliaz studies how the Arabidopsis plant responds to stress such as moderate drought. During drought recovery, the plant boosts its immune system and undergoes genetic ...

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I want to work with you! Super impressed by your talk at GRC single cell!

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