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Yiliang Ding

@yiliangding.bsky.social
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Tenured Group Leader @JohnInnesCentre, Honorary Professor @uniofeastanglia, Honorary Group Leader @BabrahamInst. Working on RNA structure functionalities

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haopengyu.bsky.social @haopengyu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Five wonderful years at @johninnescentre.bsky.social Thank you @yiliangding.bsky.social , @CarolineDean and @KeLi for your support and guidance, and to the whole lab and all my friends across JIC/TSL. Thanks to Yiliang for organising such a lovely send-off. Now on to the next adventure 💪
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social - “Investigating how plants use RNA to cope with stress” biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv... 4/4
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Investigating how plants use RNA to cope with stress (DING_J26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very successful #CEPAMS2026 annual symposium! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Next one will be in Beijing next year😀
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Big congratulations to my postdoc @haopengyu.bsky.social who will start his own group @slcuplants.bsky.social ! AI for plant science! Super exciting!
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
CEPAMS 2026 Annual Meeting👍Welcome remarks by @cristobaluauy.bsky.social and Caroline Dean @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ding lab in 2026❤️Continue growing❤️ @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New AI for plant scientists: PlantScience.ai 🧬 Expert-level plant biology Q&A with real citations. No misread jargon. No outdated info. Just verifiable answers from the latest literature. Virtual collaborator for real discovery. #Plantscience @mplantpcom.bsky.social www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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PlantScience.ai: An LLM-powered virtual scientist for plant science
PlantScience.ai is a virtual plant scientist that combines a continuously expanding knowledge graph with large language models to provide citation-traceable, expert-level answers across plant biology....
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Plant Science Research Weekly --  Unveiling PlantScience.ai: A niche LLM to power your plant science research (Molecular Plant) @yiliangding.bsky.social @haopengyu.bsky.social (Summary by Shakunthala Natarajan @shakunthalan.bsky.social) buff.ly/Tlb0wmk #PlantaePSRW
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Big congratulations to my postdoc Ran on receiving Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! Well done 👍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Big congratulations! Very beautiful work👍👍👍
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haopengyu.bsky.social @haopengyu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our paper is now live🎉! Huge thanks to all co-authors for your support @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Our journey of AI in plant science starts here, built for plant scientists, aimed at accelerating discovery. www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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PlantScience.ai: An LLM-Powered Virtual Scientist for Plant Science
PlantScience.ai is a virtual plant scientist that combines a continuously expanding knowledge graph with large language models to provide citation-traceable, expert-level answers across plant biology....
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haopengyu.bsky.social @haopengyu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ever heard of foundation models but not sure where to start? 🤔 We wrote a review for RNA biologists, no AI background required 😊 Everything explained through RNA biology examples you already know 🧬 @yiliangding.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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AI foundation models for RNA biology
RNA biology is undergoing a transformative revolution driven by AI foundation models. These models learn the intricate relationships between RNA sequence, structure, and function by training on vas...
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carolinedean.bsky.social @carolinedean.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The review Martin Howard and I have written on "Graded versus ON/OFF control in quantitative gene expression and epigenetic memory" is now available in The EMBO Journal DOI 10.1038/s44318-026-00750-y
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Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It was a wonderful experience to receive my Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist medal in the gorgeous Banqueting House this week! Then give a public lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine! A giant thank you to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the The New York Academy of Sciences
Me at the Blavatnik Awards, with my fellow finalists and giving me lecture
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
VACANCY - We’re looking for a Laboratory Technician to join the @yiliangding.bsky.social group, investigating the role of #RNA structure in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/la... Closing date - 17 March Contract - 36 months, Full-time
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Laboratory Technician (Ding Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Laboratory Technician to join the Cell & Developmental Biology Department, to support the cutting-edge science of the John Innes Centre.
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@science.org Evolution of error correction through a need for speed | Science #evolution 🧬🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolution of error correction through a need for speed
Kinetic proofreading is a class of error-correcting mechanisms in biology that expend energy to avoid mistakes during replication, transcription, and translation. Proofreading is typically assumed to ...
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Seychelle Vos @voslab.org · 19/02/2026
🚨New preprint! We built a cell-free genomics platform (GATO-seq) to probe transcriptional regulation and discovered a “super pause” sequence that triggers a new Pol II active-site conformation. Huge shout-out to @robertovn.bsky.social for pulling off this monster of a project. tinyurl.com/superpause
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 19/02/2026
Check out Arc’s related open roles: job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcinstitute... Go behind the paper with the authors in this blog post: arcinstitute.org/news/multi-e...
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MULTI-evolve: Rapid Evolution of Complex Multi-mutant Proteins | Arc Institute
The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. To address this problem, we developed MULTI-evolve, a framework for efficient protein evolution that applies machine learn...
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 19/02/2026
Finding one mutation that improves a protein is hard. Finding five that work together is exponentially harder. Today in @science.org, Hsu and Konermann labs present MULTI-evolve, a lab-in-the-loop framework that does it in just one machine learning-guided round.
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy #ChineseNewYear! Sending warmest wishes to JIC's Chinese communities, friends, followers and partners as we welcome the Year of the Horse 🐴
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Big congratulations @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social🥳👍👍👍
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Big congratulations 🎉 👍👍👍
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Prof. Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New paper out! i-Motif, not G-quadruplex, stability regulates insulin expression - published in @narjournal.bsky.social Team effort driven by Dr Dilek Guneri supported by Dr Chris Morris, @timcraggs.bsky.social, @yiliangding.bsky.social and Prof Steve Smith academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧬🔬@science.org A genetically encoded device for #transcriptome storage in mammalian cells | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @broadinstitute.org
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A genetically encoded device for transcriptome storage in mammalian cells
Understanding how cells make decisions over time requires the ability to link past molecular states to future phenotypic outcomes. We present TimeVault, a genetically encoded system that records and s...
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Plantscience
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Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley
Anthropogenic selection of grain traits such as dormancy has shaped the developmental trajectories of crops. In cereals, shortening dormancy provides rapid and even postharvest germination, but increa...
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Proximity labeling users: check out this study by @zhixingchen2.bsky.social and Peng Zou, which establishes how much contact-dependence vs. diffusion is responsible for biotinylation — tl;dr TurboID has a much smaller effective radius! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2
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Spatial barcoding reveals reaction radii and contact-dependent mechanism of proximity labeling - Nature Chemical Biology
A DNA nanoruler platform enables precise measurement of the labeling radii of TurboID and APEX2, uncovering their contact-dependent mechanisms. These findings redefine the enzymology of proximity labe...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
🧬 @science.org A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ckadoch.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🔬 #chromatin #transcription #cancer 🧫
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A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform
Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes modulate DNA accessibility and gene expression; however, their genomic targeting mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify SWIFT (SW...
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The Ding lab wishes you a joyful Christmas and a New Year filled with happiness and discovery ❤️❤️❤️
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The work, recently published in the journal @science.org, was led by @weibingyang.bsky.social, with key contributions on RNA structure and localisation from @yiliangding.bsky.social: www.cepams.org/cepams-resea...
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CEPAMS Research Unravels Key Mechanism Governing Plant Stem Cell Activity - CEPAMS
Left: the shoot apex of an Arabidopsis thaliana plant.Right: the shoot apical meristem. Actively dividing stem cells are shown in green, and the cell walls are labelled in magenta.
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
@science.org Chromatin buffers torsional stress during transcription | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chromatin buffers torsional stress during transcription
During eukaryotic transcription, Pol II must overcome nucleosome obstacles and, because of DNA’s helical structure, must also rotate relative to DNA, generating torsional stress. However, there is lim...
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Exciting project!Great opportunity!
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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
@incarnatolab.bsky.social delivered an outstanding talk on RNA structural ensembles in living cells — a truly groundbreaking perspective that could reshape how we approach RNA-based drug discovery. @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social
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norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We are pleased to host Prof Ying Wang on Wednesday 3rd December 2pm @johninnescentre.bsky.social . Please join us for this exciting talk. @yiliangding.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @rnasociety.bsky.social Lexogen
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norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We are pleased to host Prof Danny Incarnato @incarnatolab.bsky.social on 5th December 9:30am @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Please join us for. @yiliangding.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @rnasociety.bsky.social Lexogen
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Super interesting talk by Ying Wang on plant viroid! What a nice model for studying RNA structure😊
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Katherine Denby 🌱🥬 @katherinedenby.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New PhD opportunity available in my lab, in collaboration with Betty Chung (Cambridge), focusing on plant RNA viruses and AI-driven design. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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AI RNA Design for Developing Antiviral Solutions in Sugar Beet (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - AI RNA Design for Developing Antiviral Solutions in Sugar Beet (Plant BioDesign JIC project) at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science community!@haopengyu.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist
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Angela Juhasz @angijuhasz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our pan-gtranscriptome analysis delivers a detailed roadmap for gene expression and regulation promising to fuel innovations in crop improvement to face climate challenges. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
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De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome - Nature Communications
Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat genomes, identify core and dispensable transcriptome, and reveal conservation and divergence of gene expression balance across homoeologous subgenomes.
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Exciting news in wheat science! A new study in @natcomms.nature.com shows the first wheat pan-transcriptome: uncovering hidden diversity across modern wheat lines 🌾 Congrats to @earlhaminst.bsky.social & @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social for this major advance! ➡️ buff.ly/XEQlCnT #WheatConnect
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De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome - Nature Communications
Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat genomes, identify core…
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congratulations! Very cool!
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Super successful workshop! Thank you very much to all the speakers including all the talent postdocs and students! @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Big congratulations 🎊
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder to register for “Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age” a Nature Conferences here in Boston, December 8th - 10th! natureconferences.streamgo.live/cracking-the... Great line of up RNA speakers covering basic and translational nucleic acid biology+recent clinical successes
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Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age
The 2025 conference brings together leading academics and industry professionals to explore developments and challenges in the rapidly evolving field of nucleic acid medicines. By uniting researchers ...
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Yiliang Ding @yiliangding.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
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Alper Akay @alperakay.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This Thursday AI in RNA biology event organised by @yiliangding.bsky.social @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social! Don’t miss!
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