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Steven Fanara

@stevenfanara.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher in plant science, mineral nutrition and stomatal signaling. « Secretly » fascinated by mRNA processing.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Satoshi Fujita @583original.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our review on the dynamics of Brassinosteroid molecules and BRI1 receptor @plantubiquitin.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social Congrats Rakuri and Julien! dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Maite Saura @maitesaura.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social
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sylmerlot @sylmerlot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In the frame of the French ANR funded project HOMONIME project (anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2...), we will open 3 PhD positions to work on nickel homeostasis in plants using genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and spectrometric approches in Toulouse, Grenoble and Pau. Contact me for further informations
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Exploration des mécanismes de l'homéostasie du nickel chez les plantes à l'aide d'une espèce hyperaccumulatrice
Le nickel est un métal essentiel pour les plantes. Il est le cofacteur indispensable à uréase, qui dégrade l’urée pour recycler l’azote. Cependant, le nickel est toxique quand il est présent en excès,...
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Zinc and iron homeostatic interactions in a mutant lacking nicotianamine vacuolar storage and citrate xylem loading www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Steven Fanara @stevenfanara.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
📢 Preprint alert! We investigated how citrate loading into xylem vessels and nicotianamine (NA) compartmentation jointly regulate metal homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. doi.org/10.64898/202... A little thread...
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
TurboID-based proteomic profiling reveals proxitome of the IRT1 metal transporter and new insight into metal uptake regulation in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Katharina Melkonian @katharinamel1.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨ It is my pleasure to share: "Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants" Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantScience A thread...
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🧬 RESEARCH 🧬 Specific domains of the Arabidopsis RS2Z splicing factors contribute to their nuclear localization, nucleocytoplasmic dynamics, and ability to contact protein partners and specific pyrimidine-rich RNA motifs - Fanara et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 2.Localization of RS2Z proteins in all vegetative and reproductive organs. Translational fusions are expressed in seed coat (A/a), embryo (B/b), hypocotyl (C/c), and cotyledons (D/d), 2-week-old root epidermis (E/e) including root hairs (F/f), leaf epidermis (G/g–I/i) including trichomes (G/g and H/h) and stomata (I/i), immature floral bud (including sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil) (J/j), mature gynoecium (valves, stigma, and style) (K/k), mature androecium (anther and filament) (L/l), pollen grains [(M/m and N/n), arrow], ovules (O/o), and funiculi [(O/o), arrow], petals (including veins) (P/p) and sepals (including veins) (Q/q). Red signals represent chlorophyll autofluorescence. At least three independent T3 homozygous lines were generated and analyzed, revealing similar fluorescence profiles.
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Greg Vert @plantubiquitin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tired of struggling with different tags to generate transgenic plants expressing your favorite protein ? Check out our latest preprint about ALFA technology and its MANY applications for plant biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
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Broad application of plant protein tagging with ALFA tag for nanobody-based imaging and biochemical approaches
Epitope tags are broadly used for detecting, modifying or purifying proteins of interest, but their breadth of application is often rather poor. Recently, the rationally designed ALFA tag and its ALFA...
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Steven Fanara @stevenfanara.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My proposal was one of 1,966 submitted in the MSCA-LIF (Life Sciences) section this year. Despite my initial doubts, I am beyond thrilled to have been awarded this grant. I am truly honored to have incredible supervisors who guide me in the right direction.
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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Quite a few new entries on the CRISPR list incl. @nevillesanjana.bsky.social @grunewald.bsky.social @sdomcke.bsky.social @rosswilsonlab.bsky.social @leopoldparts.bsky.social @bkleinstiver.bsky.social @mgdurrant.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DEwe6ZD
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Dr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪 @zeinabrekad.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🚨 Update for #RNA science fans: I checked on #Bsky registry, and here is a 'condensate' (😆) of all #RNA #RNAsky starter packs so far: 1. General RNA biology #1 go.bsky.app/RN6HnZp
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇
A profile picture of Douglas Prasher from Martin Chalfie's Nobel Lecture
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