Christine Faulkner
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner📣Special Issue - call for papers📣 ‘Plant Vascular Biology: Functional Design for Transport and Signaling’🌱 Organising Editors: Koh Aoki, Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social, Yrjö Helariutta, Yuki Kondo & Misato Ohtani 📝More info & contact: academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/Sp... #PlantScience
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerJoin us in Norwich this July for the TSL Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions! ☀️🌱🧬 Discuss the latest approaches & discoveries in plant health with international keynote and local speakers. APPLY by 30 March '26 ⬇️ Click link for more info www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...
- We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
- We have a PhD studentship available for a student who wants to engineer immune responses by tinkering with the connectivity between cells. Based at JIC, collaboration with the Ezer lab, deadline 19th Jan, UK students only. Get in touch for more info! #PlantSciJobs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerVery 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...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerOur Plant Proteins meeting has begun! Starting the day with his 2025 Early Career Research Award Lecture, Dr Tatsuya Nobori discussed the development of PHYTOMap, a novel method for multiplexed single-cell 3D spatial gene expression analysis in whole-mount plant tissues.
- You can ask my students about how annoying the fist pumping and/or welling up after their conference talks gets. 😬
- 'I did not expect how rewarding it is to watch a student train their scientific ‘muscles’ – they push back on what is known, map out knowledge about something completely new, then present it to the community.' In Profile: @pdchristine.bsky.social 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerToday for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who...
- New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerNew #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity? #wheat #spikelet #development biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerNew PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWe have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerNew opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
- We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
- And check out the other opportunities at JIC! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/project-for-...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerApplications 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...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerOxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerEVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025 💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerThis is a fantastic talk by Chris Hawes @nhm-london.bsky.social. He speaks about #PlantMicroscopy in particular, but also the History of #Microscopy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFZ... Have a look at this Obituary of Chris, too: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
- Yesterday I talked* science with modellers, mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists and geneticists. Sound like your kind of place? Join us! Applications for a tenure-track or tenured Group Leader ar JIC close Monday. (*I love chatting - if you come to JIC I *will* stop you in the corridor)
- GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
- **GROUP LEADER VACANCY** Discovery Plant Sciences Got burning questions about how plants grow and respond to their environment? So do we. Come join us! #johninnescentre #plantscijobs
- GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
- So exciting to see greater resoluton of features long hinted at - another leap in our understanding of these enigmatic structures! #Plasmodesmata
- New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM
- JIC GROUP LEADER VACANCY We're looking for interests in areas including, but not limited to, growth and development, environmental and organism interactions, physiology, signalling and molecular processes, taking quantitative cell biological, genetic, biochemical and modelling approaches.
- GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
- VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
- VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op... Closing date - 11 August 2025 Contract - Full time, indefinite
- Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWe’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September
- GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
- We're looking for interests in areas including, but not limited to, growth and development, environmental and organism interactions, physiology, signalling and molecular processes, taking quantitative cell biological, genetic, biochemical and modelling approaches.
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerMust read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerNow with a Research Briefing: "Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data" rdcu.be/eiWOU
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience
- Stepwise increase in plasmodesmata during C4 evolution in Flaveria biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience
- We need to talk about mobile RNAs... SNP-based analysis of transcriptomic datasets are subject to technical noise, incomplete genome assemblies and pseudoheterozygosity so it seems like we don't know as much as we thought we knew. #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerThat is a huuuge deal! That might change the view on what a mobile RNA is. Congrats to the authors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uni-hamburg.de @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerNEWS - Deep dive into plant signalling data reveals a noisy “elephant in the room.” A far-reaching study has cast doubt on statistical methods used to identify long distance signalling networks in plants. okt.to/UFqTgO
- We need to talk about mobile RNAs... SNP-based analysis of transcriptomic datasets are subject to technical noise, incomplete genome assemblies and pseudoheterozygosity so it seems like we don't know as much as we thought we knew. #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerI'm searching for nice Arabidopsis Col-0 chromatin datasets (modification agnostic), eg MNase-seq, DNase-seq, ATAC-seq. Does anyone have any favourite datasets you could point to?
- The Faulkner lab thesis rainbow is coming along nicely!
- We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerPRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWhat is a differentially expressed gene? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerA Bayesian framework for ranking genes based on their statistical evidence for differential expression biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plasmodesmata Editors: Tessa Burch-Smith & Jake Brunkard Deadline: 1st Feb 2025 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🔗 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @pdchristine.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social (1/2)
- An immune signalling holiday tale: A Poales-specific EXO70 clade doesn't fit in with the extended family. #PlantScience
- Putative neofunctionalization of a Poales-specific EXO70 clade biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWith Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year #ICAR2025 (Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025). - How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication web.cvent.com/event/448810...
- Applications are open for a Sainsbury PhD studentship in my team. "How do plant cells balance the pros and cons of staying connected?" #PlantScience www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- JIC Mentor Champions 2024! So proud to have Andy on my team! His heart, enthusiasm, patience and skill are cornerstones of the lab and make it a place where questions are always welcomed and people leave equipped and enabled!
- We're looking for a postdoc to join our team. If you are fascinated by mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication in plants, get in touch to find out more. #PlantScience www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
- Kickoff for the 2024 Plasmodesmata Meeting! Intercellar!!
- The Morris lab have done a re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets and discovered that most pipelines identify mobility based on SNP frequencies that fall beneath sequencing error rates. This is an incredibly important read if you are interested in long-distance mRNA mobility! #PlantScience
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerMy review of The Light Eaters, a book about "plant intelligence", is out in @ScienceMagazine today. Let me know what you think! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #plantscience #plantbiology
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner📜 Plasmodesmal closure elicits stress responses 🧑🔬 Estee E. Tee, Andrew Breakspear, Diana Papp, @pdchristine.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata #PlantStress #PlantImmunity #PlantSignaling
- The latest pre-print from the lab is out! This was an epic effort over many years to make, verify, and experiment with lines in which we can close plasmodesmata outside of a physiological context. Turns out, plasmodesmal closure triggers a range of stress responses! #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner📜 Plasmodesmata and intercellular molecular traffic control 🧑🔬 Estee E. Tee, @pdchristine.bsky.social 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔊 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (by Tessa Burch-Smith) #️⃣ #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata #PlantSignaling
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerA week left to apply! 🚨 I’m looking for a research technician to join us @oxfordbiology.bsky.social and to help set up an efficient transformation pipeline in the C4 species Gynandropsis gynandra. Come work with us on leaf anatomy and photosynthesis! 🌱🪴 Find out more 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- We are recruiting a JIC Bioimaging Platform Lead, ideally someone with a passion for imaging, microscopes and a wide range of research interests. Contact me, or the retiring post holder Kim Findlay, for further information if you are interested. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/bi...
- This review says that in doi.org/10.1126/scia... we "suggested that glutamic acid ... is released from cells ... [and] diffuses over long distances in plants.". To clarify, we suggested that long distance movement of amino acids is driven by flow, not diffusion. It's an important distinction.
- 📜 ROS are universal cell-to-cell stress signals 🧑🔬 María Ángeles Peláez-Vico1, Ron Mittler, et al. 📔 Current Opinion in Plant Biology 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantStress #PlantImmunity #PlantROS #PlantDevelopment
- Plasmodesmata 2024 will be on 17th-20th Sept, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre (St Louis, USA). Person-to-person communication about cell-to-cell communication! plasmodesmata.genetics.wisc.edu
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerI'm super excited to have this story up on BioRxiv. The entire paper was led from start to finish by former PhD student, Hannah Thomas! @hannahraethomas.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerIf you are an early career researcher in plant sciences, this summer school in Germany is for you! 🌿👩🌾🔬🦠 ceplas-ipk-summerschool.de For 80€ it includes accommodation and full board. We have a great programme, so join us 22.-26. Sept 2024! @ceplas.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social #TRANSPLANTBIO
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWe are delighted to celebrate Tatsuya's well-deserved recognition in winning the Biochemical Society's 2025 Early Career Research Award! The Sainsbury Laboratory is very excited to welcome Tatsuya as a new group leader this summer. www.tsl.ac.uk/news/upcomin...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerGraft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.29.587379v1
- Congratulations Dr Sally Jones! Fledgling falcon #5 to take flight.
- We set out to consolidate what we know about plasmodesmata but maybe we better consolidated the questions to which we still need answers. What molecules move through plasmodesmata? And how? How far do they go? And what information/resource do they carry? Have a read to see what we think. ⬇️
- New #TansleyReview on #Plasmodesmata by Estee E. Tee and @pdchristine.bsky.social "Plasmodesmata and intercellular molecular traffic control" Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerI'm launching a new writing & editing business, The Sustainable Professor. Whether you are working on a paper, proposal, review, statement, or tenure package–and whether you are at the brainstorming stage or just need a last-minute polish–I'm here to help. www.thesustainableprofessor.com
- How do you quantify co-localisation? Do you know how your Pearson's coefficient is calculated? Sergio's analysis is worth a read if you use these calculations in your analysis @samwalds.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerBioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface towards a conserved fungal pathogen effector https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576400v1
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerThe blast effector Pwl2 is a virulence factor that modifies the cellular localisation of host protein HIPP43 to suppress immunity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576406v1
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerDo all the reviews you want, but the bottom line has been obvious for 10+ years. "We urgently need publicly funded scientists doing essential research for overall public benefit & a nice social media strategy doesn’t make that happen – funding does." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerWe have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology! Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students. Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO #plantsci
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner[Please repost] Don't miss this exciting EMBO | EMBL Symposium "Diversity of plants: from genomes to metabolism" April 9-12, 2024, in Heidelberg. Registration closes soon! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
- Reposted by Christine FaulknerBack-to-back ❗ papers from Emmanuelle M. Bayer, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social, and many others on #Plasmodesmata function. Formation of plasmodesmata bridges: bsky.app/profile/soms... Plasmodesmata as inter-cellular exchange regulators: bsky.app/profile/soms... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment
- Reposted by Christine Faulkner📜 Plasmodesmata act as unconventional membrane contact sites regulating inter-cellular molecular exchange in plants 🧑🔬 J. Pérez-Sancho, M. Smokvarska, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social, E. M. Bayer, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment
