Ben Field 🌿
Marseillais Brittanique and 🌿plant biologist interested in chloroplasts. Also @Ben_Field@mas.to
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Visit our Web site, register and subit your abstract for the next Plant Energy Mangement Meeting next july on Montpellier pem26.cnrs.fr @frannybarbs.bsky.social @lacombeb.bsky.social @franzificht.bsky.social @ccf-claire.bsky.social @msubrandizzilab.bsky.social @hatem-rouached.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
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- Cool! 🤩A new biosynthetic gene cluster in Arabidopsis! 🌿 #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02185-5
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Dear Plant ECRs, don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿La médaille de l’innovation 2025 du CNRS est décernée à Alda Mari, Aziz Moqrich, Pascale Senellart et Alain Wagner. Ils illustrent la variété des recherches du CNRS et le rôle primordial que joue la recherche fondamentale dans le développement de technologies de rupture. 👏
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
- Organelles harbour pH gradients biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- A synthetic molecule can trigger chloroplast de-differentiation via SAL1 inhibition and accumulation of PAP. Nice story! #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿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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- Interesting things are happening in the dark! Salicylic acid and ROS signaling modulate hypocotyl elongation in darkness via NPR1 and EX1" www-science-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange
- Our preprint is finally out 🌿 “𝒑𝒑𝑮𝒑𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒔𝒊𝒔” Its been a journey- first spotted by Matteo Sugliani over ten years ago, carried forward by Shanna Romand, and brought to the finish line with help from many collaborators. #PlantScience tinyurl.com/wpf3bp25
- What we found: The chloroplast stress signalling nucleotide ppGpp helps plants tolerate high light. When ppGpp levels rise, plants seem better prepared- not just by boosting photoprotection (NPQ), but by reprogramming metabolism and antioxidant defences to handle light stress.
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- A nice study showing the role of the chloroplast cysteine-synthase-complex as a hub that promotes ABA-induced stomatal closure and drought resistance. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Discovery of a chromatin-associated complex (CACG) of ~16 proteins that negatively regulates the expression of nutrient-starvation-induced gene. CACG is of course controlled by TOR! #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 📄 New paper: A massive photosystem I–fucoxanthin chlorophyll supercomplex has been discovered in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. 🌊🌱 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Open position !! Either at the Engineer or post-doctoral level, to work on filamentous phages. Collaboration between Laetitia Houot's group and Thierry Doan @thicoz.bsky.social. To apply at the E level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... To apply at the post-doc level: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com 130 bryophyte genomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience
- Fascinating study on the regulation of chloroplast protein accumulation via the coordination of chloroplastic translation and cytosolic transcription during dark-light transitions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- "Bidirectional regulation between TOR kinase and chloroplasts: emerging connections in photosynthetic organisms." Now with journal formatting for easy reading! 😁 #PlantScience academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
- Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social
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- Plant Plastids: From Evolutionary Origins to Functional Specialization and Organelle Interactions url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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- Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿An exciting negative result!
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...
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- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿We have an open engineer position to work on type IX secretion (T9SS), under the supervision of @doan_thierry (collab with HP Fierobe & A. Tolonen). 1-year contract, renewable up to 3.5 years. Please apply here or forward to anyone potentially interested: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿New paper: More than 2700 human 3′UTRs are highly conserved. These 3′UTRs are essential components in mRNA templates, as their deletion decreases protein activity without changing protein abundance. Highly conserved 3′UTRs help the folding of proteins with long IDRs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ben Field 🌿I’m happy that our commentary is out! (It would be wonderful if this made a difference!) In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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