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Santosh Satbhai

@santoshsatbhai.bsky.social
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Faculty of Biological Sciences at IISER Mohali, India . PhD from Nagoya University (Japan), Postdoc from @GMI- Vienna (Austria) and @Salk Institute (USA). Studying Plant -Environmental interactions. Lab website: www.sbslab.co.in

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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy to share dat my profile article is published in @newphyt.bsky.social A privilege to have my research journey & work featured in such a prestigious journal. Gr8ful to everyone who has supported & inspired me along d way. @rootstrapping.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Santosh B. Satbhai
Santosh B. Satbhai, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali (India).
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @plantphys.bsky.social journal @aspbofficial.bsky.social on how blue light, sensed by CRY1/CRY2 in the shoot, promotes root iron acquisition via HY5. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Presented our work at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC)-2026 on Water and Salt Stress in Plants! Thankful to the conference chairs for invitation, all participants for inspiring discussions!
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Happy to share that our article has been recognized by @newphyt.bsky.social as a #TopViewedArticle 2025🎉Grateful to the scientific community for the incredible readership, support, and engagement. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Delighted to join the Advisory Board of New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social from May 1, 2026. Grateful to @NewPhyt for the invitation. I look frd to contributing to the journal’s continued excellence & supporting the global plant science community.
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happy to share that our Tansley Insight nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... made @newphyt.bsky.social ‘s high-impact research highlights for 2024 & 2025! Thanks to all who read & cited our work!
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HY5: a key regulator for light‐mediated nutrient uptake and utilization by plants
ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 (HY5), a bZIP-type transcription factor, is a master regulator of light-mediated responses. ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 binds to the promoter of c. 3000 genes, thereby regulating vari....
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Great start to the @newphyt.bsky.social workshop at IISER Bhopal. Excellent opening talks by Prof. Ute @unicologne.bsky.social & @TheLahaLab (@iiscbangalore) on “Light-mediated development in early and land plants” Wonderful organisation by Sourav Datta & Prof. Liam Dolan. @gmivienna.bsky.social
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Looking forward to presenting our work at the special workshop “Molecular Mechanisms of Light-Regulated Plant Development” organized by @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/molec...
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Molecular mechanisms of light-regulated plant development
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Danger-associated #peptide modulates #iron #deficiency signaling and root growth in #Arabidopsis 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Shikha et al. @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience This figure was created in BioRender (BioRender.com/ biorender.com/xiunmb0).
Working model illustrating the role of the PEP2–PEPR2 module in regulating Fe homeostasis and plant growth under Fe deficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy to share that our new study is now published online in @newphyt.bsky.social We showed dat the PEP2–PEPR2 signaling module plays a key role in Fe-deficiency responses and root growth in Arabidopsis. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Danger‐associated peptide modulates iron deficiency signaling and root growth in Arabidopsis
Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants and humans, with plants being a primary dietary Fe source. Fe availability significantly affects plant health, development, and yield. Its deficien...
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱 Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.The functional diversity of plant cysteine-rich peptide families, RALF, and EPF/EPFL in Arabidopsis. The representation of various growth and developmental roles of well-characterised functionally RALF and EPF members based on their expression in different Arabidopsis organs. EPF, Epidermal Patterning Factor; EPFL, EPF-Like; RALF, Rapid Alkalinization Factor.
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Check out the latest pre-print from the lab! This work is led by a very talented PhD student Pooja. "Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis" #IISERMohali www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Blue Light Promotes Root Iron Acquisition via a Shoot CRY-HY5 Signaling Module in Arabidopsis.
● Iron (Fe) is an essential element for almost all living organisms and its deficiency severely impacts crop productivity and human health. While the mechanisms underlying iron uptake and accumulation...
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John Manners @jmaus.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪
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The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane
Genomic analyses of 390 accessions reveal the domestication history of highly polyploid sugarcane and the wild contributors to its diversification and to modern cultivars.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 13/10/2025
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture Our new review is now online @natbiotech.nature.com w/ Richalynn, Xin, Bob, Toshi, & Jorge A full-text view-only is accessible via rdcu.be/euscD www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
Nature Biotechnology - Gene regulatory networks are crucial for understanding complex gene regulation in plants and could advance crop improvement for more sustainable and climate-resilient...
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
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Greg Vert @plantubiquitin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New paper out showcasing the ALFA tag/ALFA nanobody technology for plant protein tagging. www.cell.com/plant-commun... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins
Short summary paragraph : The versatile ALFA tag/ALFA Nanobody system enables a wide range of imaging and biochemical approaches for studying proteins in plants, including localization, protein:protei...
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RDP lab @rdplab.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🎉 Congratulations to our director Gwyneth Ingram, awarded the 2025 CNRS Silver Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research in plant developmental biology. 🌱 👉 More info: www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite... 👉 Her profile: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #plantscience
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience
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48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
This study employs time-lapse single-nucleus RNA sequencing in Arabidopsis seedlings, revealing distinct circadian rhythms in specific cell types and identifying ABF1 as a regulator that shortens the ...
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The TAIR12 genome reannotation has FINALLY been submitted to GenBank. Now we await review and approval. Stay tuned for updates, hopefully within the next month. Thank you to everyone that made this project possible. @labschneeberger.bsky.social @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @sigmafacto.bsky.social
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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
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Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Ren Ujimatsu @rujimatsu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!! We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A fungal transcription factor converts a beneficial root endophyte into an anthracnose leaf pathogen
Endophytic fungi colonize healthy plant tissues without disease. Ujimatsu et al. reveal that the fungal transcription factor CtBOT6 triggers the virulence of a root-associated beneficial endophyte by ...
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Elia Stahl @eliastahl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our institute @iecb.bsky.social is looking for new group leaders. The call is also addressing plant scientists🌱! Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux! www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr/en/news/grou...
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Santosh Satbhai @santoshsatbhai.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Excited to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor at IISER Mohali. I’m deeply grateful to my lab’s current and past members for their hard work. A big thank you to my mentors, especially @rootstrapping.bsky.social and my colleagues for their continuous support!
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/01/2025
OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation by Knut Drescher & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation - Nature Microbiology
Peptidoglycan released by neighbouring kin or non-kin cell lysis induces physiological changes that protect from a range of stresses, including phage predation.
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SPS Saclay Plant Sciences @spsplantsciences.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Summer School 2025, Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy June 29 - July 4, 2025 – Versailles (France), eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Preprint alert, please share!! With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
NPR1 promotes blue light–induced plant photomorphogenesis by ubiquitinating and degrading PIF4 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #plantscience
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GetGenome @getgenome.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
GetGenome Seminar Series arriving in 2025! Please complete the short survey to help inform us what your needs are forms.office.com/e/BbnfePfd2H
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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 20/12/2024
With this news in mind, I am happy to announce we are recruiting a postdoc or PhD student with expertise in Plant Microbiology. Come join us in sunny Freiburg ! Please share far and wide, thank you, and happy holidays! 🌲 #plantscience #phd www.hartman-plantlab.com/post/we-re-r...
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We're recruiting a Postdoc or PhD student
PostDoc or PhD position available on "Root-bacterial interactions" in Plant Environmental Signalling & DevelopmentDescriptionUtilizing beneficial bacteria to control plant root ethylene signalling, de...
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Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A common immune response node in diverse plants
Small molecules activate a defense mechanism shared by all flowering plants
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Hyperosmolarity-induced suppression of group B1 Raf-like protein kinases modulates drought-growth trade-off in Arabidopsis www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #plantscience
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Hyperosmolarity-induced suppression of group B1 Raf-like protein kinases modulates drought-growth trade-off in Arabidopsis | PNAS
When plants are exposed to drought stress, there is a trade-off between plant growth and stress responses. Here, we identified a signaling mechanis...
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
NLR toys at Mauricio Contreras ⁦‪@mpcontreras4‬⁩ seminar today 🧸 🌱 #NLRbiology
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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great opportunity for postdocs including 🌱! Join Salk’s Rising Stars Symposium, May 13–14. Present your research, engage with leading scientists & explore pathways at Salk. Apply by January 10, 2025! salk.edu/about/our-co... #PlantBiology #RisingStars #SalkInstitute
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Rising Stars Symposium - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
We are pleased to announce the second annual Rising Stars Symposium at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. This symposium is intended to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding postdoctora...
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