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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The final talk of #PGRP2026! After three amazing days of RNA biology, Eduardo Mateo-Bonmatí closes the scientific program by showing how PNUTS-like scaffolding of the CPF phosphatase coordinates 3′-end processing and FLC silencing 🧬✂️❄️

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Byeong-ha Lee shows how spliceosomal protein interactions promote nuclear speckle organization and splicing robustness 🧬✂️✨ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Moving to RNA methylation, Sarah Rennie decodes the principles of m6A deposition and recognition in Arabidopsis 🧬✍️📖 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After the coffee break, Session 6 resumes with Rebecca Mosher on the epigenomic changes that follow the evolution of selfing 🧬🌸🔄 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Next, Julia Qüesta takes us to the earliest moments of plant life with transcription dynamics at early stages of development 🧬🌱⏱️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Xuehua Zhong on the mechanisms of DNA methylation dynamics and their role in environmental adaptation 🧬🏷️🌍 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Back from lunch, Session 6 (Epigenetics & Epitranscriptomics) opens with Craig Pikaard on the biochemistry of RNA-directed DNA methylation: the enzymatic reactions of RNA Polymerase V and its protein partners 🧬⚗️🏷️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Closing Session 5, Jérémie Bazin unveils a dual function of NSRa linking splicing and polyadenylation 🧬✂️🔗 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Back to lncRNAs with Thomas Blein, who explores the interplay between transcription factors and long non-coding RNAs in the regulation of lateral root initiation in Arabidopsis 🧬🤝🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Next, Matthew Parker shows how single-gamete genetics resolves epistatic variants underlying transmission bias 🧬🌸⚖️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After the coffee break, Session 5 resumes with Andreas Niebel, who presents how NFYA1 and long non-coding RNAs regulate nodule development 🧬🫘🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still with non-coding RNAs, Florencia Sol Rodriguez shows how alternative splicing of a coding gene produces a nuclear regulatory long non-coding RNA 🧬✂️🔄 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Session 5 continues with Josephine Herbst, who shows how the lncRNA LINDA safeguards meristem integrity after stem cell loss 🧬🛡️🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Into the world of non-coding RNAs! Session 5 opens with Martin Crespi, who shows how long non-coding RNAs regulate alternative splicing 🧬✂️🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 3, the final day of #PGRP2026, is here! A full day on non-coding RNAs, epigenetics and epitranscriptomics. We open with the keynote by Federico Ariel on warmth-responsive lncRNAs in chromatin dynamics 🧬🌡️🧶

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To close Session 4 and another exciting day of #PGRP2026, Neha Shukla presents her work on post-transcriptional regulation of meiotic transcripts by the RNA-binding protein CDM1 and its link to cytoplasmic condensates 🧬💧🌸

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We continue with Albrecht von Arnim, who shows how the circadian clock supports translational control across diel light and temperature cycles 🧬🕰️☀️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mar Castellano on selective translation in response to combined stresses and its coordination with protein folding in plants 🧬🧩🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Session 4 resumes after the coffee break and poster session with Julia Bailey-Serres, who presents how high-resolution disome footprinting links translational stochasticity with mRNA turnover 🧬🎲♻️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Flash talks again ⚡ Vivek Kumar Raxwal, Tomas Maria Tessi, An Vi Ly, Manuel Gonzalez Fuente and Manvi Sharma covered UPF1 beyond NMD, actin crosslinkers in PTGS, stress-driven translation initiation, bacterial P-body hijacking, and cell type-specific translation under temperature stress 🧬 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now it's Jean-Marc Deragon's turn, presenting how the loss of tRNA uridine thiolation affects mRNA translation, protein production and metabolite accumulation in Arabidopsis 🧬⚗️🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Session 4 continues with Daniel Gibbs, who shows how TOR–NOT4 signalling couples translation to co-translational quality control in plants 🧬⚙️✅ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Session 4 (Translation) opens with Rémy Merret, who presents the endoplasmic reticulum as a regulator of translation-dependent mRNA fate under heat stress in plants 🧬🔥🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Back from lunch with Polly Hsu, who decodes translation: hidden ORFs and a new rule for maximizing protein production 🧬🔍🏭 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Closing Session 3, Monika Zakrzewska-Placzek presents the functional synergy between DXO1 and XRN3 in Pol II transcription and cotranscriptional mRNA processing 🧬🤝⚙️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seong Wook Yang on the proteolytic networks that fine-tune the miRNA biogenesis and silencing machinery, through the proteostasis of HYL1, SE, DCL1 and AGO1 🧬♻️⚙️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After the coffee break, Session 3 resumes with Pascal Genschik, who shows that DRB2 is required for efficient and accurate DCL4 processing in plant antiviral immunity 🧬✂️🛡️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rodrigo Siqueira Reis on how RNA turnover mediates the plant growth-defense tradeoff at warm temperatures 🧬🌡️⚖️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dorothee Staiger maps the in vivo binding landscape of Arabidopsis CFI and its interplay with spliceosomal components in cleavage and polyadenylation site choice 🧬✂️📍 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Session 3 (RNA Processing & Turnover) opens with Dominique Gagliardi, who presents how a core combination of post-transcriptional processes drives the diversity of mRNA poly(A) profiles 🧬📏🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 2 of #PGRP2026 starts with Rosa Lozano-Durán and "Another one bites the dust: Geminivirus co-option of plant RNA splicing" 🦠✂️🌱

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And to close Session 2 and an exciting first day, Arsheed Sheikh shows how Turnip mosaic virus hijacks the host's own RNA methylation machinery to orchestrate plant infection 🦠🧬🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Session 2 is nearing its end. Andrew Nelson presents how the mRNA covalent modification dihydrouridine regulates transcript turnover and photosynthetic capacity during abiotic stress, from sorghum in the field to Arabidopsis mutants 🧬☀️🌾 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Session 2 continues with Ykä Helariutta, who presents how the bifunctional regulator thermospermine is recruited to methylated ribosomes, and how this recruitment directs xylem cell fate in plants 🧬🪵🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back from the break, Session 2 continues with Peter Brodersen on a proxy RNAi pathway for sensing cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA in plants 🧬🔍🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's a wrap on the flash talks! ⚡ Wil Prall, Marta Zimna, Mateusz Bajczyk, Camila Zlauvinen and Jesús Pascual Vázquez covered m6A erasure, pseudouridylation, miRNA biogenesis, TE-triggered chromatin loops and mitochondrial signalling to the epitranscriptome 🧬 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ATENTION ‼️ Please remember: tomorrow 6th October we will start at 9:15 at the engineering school! ⏰ 9:15 📍 maps.app.goo.gl/Bo4iFtSPCz3p...

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Claudia Cortés de Felipe takes the stage on viral influence on RNA granules: unravelling condensate dynamics in infection and immunity 🦠💧🛡️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next in Session 2, Friedrich Kragler on unravelling the complex relationship between mRNA long-distance transport and m5C methylation 🧬🚚🌱 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Session 2 is all about RNA Modifications & Structure, and it opens with Rupert Fray on suppressors of m6A writer and reader mutants 🧬✍️📖 #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back from lunch with The Plant Cell Lecture, given by Brian Gregory on the effects of RNA cleavage on plant post-transcriptional regulation 🌱🧬✂️ #PGRP2026

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And our last speaker of this first session is Pratheek Pandesha, that will talk about the initiation of RNAi in plants 🌱

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marco Incarbone is talking about the vertical transmission of RNA viruses and its regulation in plants 🌱🦠

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zofia Szweykowska-Kuliska will talk about how miRNA1889 targets the mRNA of DUSP12 in M. polymorpha and affects speematogenesis

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Artur Jarmolowsky is next, presenting a nice story about how D-bodies are not engaged in co-transcriptional miRNA biogenesis

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Felipe Feneslau de Felippes is next! Talking about the terminators in the regulation of gene expression and the onset of silencing

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Diego López-Márquez will talk about the Trp-binding pockets of AGO1 and how it facilitates RNA interference via SGS3

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The RNA silencing session starts with Javier Palatnik talking about the miRNA control of plant regeneration and stem-cell niche reconstitution

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our first keynote speaker, giving the EMBO lecture is Herve Vaucheret

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Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is about to start! Looking forward to 3 days of exciting science! Thanks to all speakers, attendees and sponsors!

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