Andrea Paterlini (he/him)
Plant Molecular Biologist 🌱 Lecturer in Genetics Education at the University of Edinburgh. Tweets are my own 🌈
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. All this year's teams signed-up; a record 32 from around the UK and Ireland. Some new, some returning, some regular, two present in every competition since the start in 2016! Welcome to all! Which ones are you supporting?
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)"But teaching helps you to be a better scientist. We tend to become overspecialized, and teaching forces you to return to fundamentals, understand them thoroughly, and communicate them clearly." Cyril is always right, right? 💚
- 🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥 Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬 interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Out in @science.org this week: A decline in epigenetic silencing of TEs in older plant organs but not in the shoot meristem. TCX5 and TCX6 help regulate DNA methylation in this context. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🎯🌾 DARWIN REVIEW 🌾🎯 Schreier et al. list gene targets and propose genetic strategies to begin engineering enhanced plasmodesmata-mediated cell-to-cell connectivity in crops, aiming to increase yield and improve climate resilience. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Novel repressors of cambium activity in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Arabidopsis Membrane Contact Site protein SYNAPTOTAGMIN A maintains sieve element endomembrane morphology and function biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Rewiring vascular patterning through translational control in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Out First Release in @science.org this week: A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
- New Teaching Tool! blog.aspb.org/new-teaching... Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” by M. Deglialberti, C. Paleni, F. Fainelli, C. Lambertini, & Silvia Manrique. @tank-silvia.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Come and hear me yap about the #LiverwortHunt, a citizen science project which we (@slcuplants.bsky.social) ran in 2021, and was published last year as a part of the Marchantia polymorpha pangenome paper doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- 📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on January 28 at 8:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2026 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/FbmaFGR #PlantScience
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)👀 In very close collaboration with Rishi Bhalerao's group , check out our latest work how plasmodesmata act as integrators of temperature cues to prevent premature dormancy break bud tree ➡️ with imaging and data analysis support from the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social. rdcu.be/eY1Cv
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)NEWS - New group leader outlines big, broad, shared vision Dr Chris Whitewoods, a specialist in leaf development, will return to our institute as a tenure track group leader in 2026 🌱👉 www.jic.ac.uk/news/new-gro...
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🧵 Just out in Cell after more than 10 years in the making! 🎓 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Plants and animals evolve radically different body plans. Do they also operate under fundamentally different molecular evolutionary constraints during organ formation? @cellpress.bsky.social
- @lizalvey.bsky.social is an amazing educator (and a great friend)! Did I mention she is also a plant scientist? 🌱 Extra points! Very happy we got to do a profile on her for the @ecl-hubs.bsky.social network. Go and check it out!
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)New preprint on ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts! A story led by @josepmercadal.bsky.social together with Susan Tremblay, @leoniekraska.bsky.social, Martin Hutten. Check the thread below! @mpipz.bsky.social Link: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Join us for a two-and-a-half-day meeting in the scenic Wye Valley, to discuss how membrane contact sites shape cellular homeostasis across organelles, organisms, and approaches. 📍 Chepstow, South Wales, UK | 🗓️ 28–30 September 2026 👉 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)I’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi Here is a brief description of our research interests: www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_... #PlantSciences
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)I was in a meeting where we talked about summer projects for undergraduates interested in plant science, & someone shared this link 💚 @apaterlini.bsky.social Some deadlines are as early as January, so pass this on to those who might be interested! www.plantsciencefutures.org.uk/work-experie...
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)I taught Genetics again this year. We need to include discussion of the problematic history of our field, especially as the claims of eugenics are once again centered in our political discourse. Last year I wrote this piece, explaining my reasoning and approach 🧪 1/n www.cell.com/trends/genet...
- Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)It's our annual #PlantScience Day! 110 attendees, 2 amazing plenary talks from Prof. John Christie @glasgow.ac.uk and Prof. Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social , 10 talks from IMPS members, 15 posters and 4 awards!
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Press release on our new work about inferring Spatial Ploidy (iSPy), a collaboration with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox Lab, with @nickrussell31.bsky.social being the first author @mpipz.bsky.social @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social www.mpipz.mpg.de/5771290/pr-f...
- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?
- UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
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- Reposted by Andrea Paterlini (he/him)A new study from the @maizel-lab.org, @dolfweijers.bsky.social, and @roelandmerks.bsky.social labs starting to unravel a role of SOSEKI proteins in cellular mechanosensing.
- New preprint! SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation. tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
