Philippa Borrill
Wheat geneticist and group leader at John Innes Centre. Interested in #micronutrients, #senescence, #polyploidy and #genomics. She/her. borrilllab.com
- Reposted by Philippa BorrillApplications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social. 🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
- Delighted to be selected for the Carlotta Award celebrating female wheat researchers 🎉 Thank you to the committee - it was lovely to meet you in Bari! I am sure this award will continue to promote women's contributions to wheat research under the stewardship of @wheatinitiative.bsky.social
- The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
- We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?... #plantsciences #plantscijobs
- Reposted by Philippa BorrillExciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
- Reposted by Philippa BorrillFantastic opportunity to start your independent career at the JIC here. Great startup package. Repost = nice. Thank you!!!
- New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
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- In #wheat mutants we've long wondered if the expression of homoeologs is upregulated to compensate. Could that explain homoeolog redundancy? Spoiler alert: no! Great summary by lead author @delfidorussen.bsky.social ⬇️ and the whole preprint is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience
- I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾 It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social The key take-aways, a 🧵
- Thanks to all authors @delfidorussen.bsky.social @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social and the many colleagues we've discussed this question with over the years!
- Wonderful to see such a range of plant model organisms featured in @cp-devcell.bsky.social. From crops like wheat and maize all the way through to liverworts, algae & ferns!🌾🌿🌽🥬🦠 Many opinions including why I propose using wheat as a model to investigate polyploidy: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
- It's an honour to be shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025 for our work on epigenetics in crop breeding. I'm excited to see where this work leads us! Here we describe our first steps into epigenetic mutants in wheat doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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- Our latest work found that homoeolog expression bias is inherited for ~26% of triads in wheat. Intriguingly we found that new patterns of homoeolog expression bias are more frequent when one of the parents is a landrace. Read more in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/eokf2 @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Happy to share that our study of inheritance of homoeolog expression bias in wheat biparental populations is out in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Genome Biology! 🧬 Many thanks to all co-authors and @philippaborrill.bsky.social for great leadership on the project! #PlantScience #Botany rdcu.be/eokf2
- Thank you to all co-authors for a great collaboration @glombikm.bsky.social Ramesh Arunkumar, Sam Burrows, Sophie Mogg and Xiaoming Wang!
- Looking for the direct target genes of a transcription factor in #wheat? Our protocol uses protoplasts, skipping transgenic plants to save months! Great step by step protocol @emilieknight.bsky.social! Read more below ⬇️ Thanks to all contributors! #plantscience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com
- It was a pleasure to host @ismaelgf.bsky.social for 3 months @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Looking forward to continuing our collaboration with @irnasa.bsky.social on transcriptomic responses to water deficit in wheat 💦🍞🌾
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- Congratulations to Isabel Faci @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fascinating talk on how decoupling environmental signals can induce aerial branching in wheat!
- Congratulations to @katielong.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fabulous talk on the intricate patterns of gene expression in wheat spikes!
- Wonderful talk from @delfidorussen.bsky.social at #Monogram2025 about DNA methylation mutants in wheat. You can read the full MET1-1 mutant characterisation which was just published this week @jxbotany.bsky.social ⬇️
- Really enjoying #Monogram2025 so far @ibers.bsky.social Great talk by @chen-ji.bsky.social on her latest work exploring gene expression patterns in wheat grains. So many interesting genes to characterise!
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