Natanella Illouz-Eliaz
Plant biologist interested in stress recovery mechanisms. Postdoc @Ecker-lab @Salk and NIH/NIGMS K99 fellow. #DroughtStress #StressRecovery #PlantScience
- Friends and colleagues who have family in Iran, I cannot imagine what you’re going through. Just know that we are with you and we are hoping for the best. 🙏🏻
- Wishing us a year of more tolerance, discussion, peace and unexpected discoveries. Happy new year everyone 🎊✨🎉
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazDon't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?... @natanellae.bsky.social
- Let’s talk about plants, let’s talk about taking social action. Thank you @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social for acknowledging educational and societal contributions! #ScienceEd #PlantBio #Arabidopsis
- Now available! The NAASC 2025 Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards Webinar featuring Natanella Illouz-Eliaz (early career recipient), Dawn Nagel, Nicholas Provart & Anna Stepanova (later career recipients). Congratulations to these community role models! youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz🌱 Welcome to the official Bluesky channel for #PlantBio2026! Join us as we count down to the premier global plant science meeting, July 18–22, 2026 in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social and @cspbscbv.bsky.social. This is where plant science grows. 🌿 #PlantScience
- Driving to work today, I feel sick to my stomach, thinking about the people killed on Bondi Beach Australia, while celebrating their holiday, because they are Jewish. I’m not OK.
- It was my great pleasure to be on the No time to read podcast! Thank you @aribidopsis.bsky.social for the invitation and fun discussion!
- First episode of Season 4 of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast is online! 🎙️🍀 In this episode, @natanellae.bsky.social Natanella told us about her recent @natcomms.nature.com paper on drought stress recovery. Podcast: tinyurl.com/mudf23je Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- When you work on short day-grown Arabidopsis, long day’s growth seems like a miracle 🌱😆
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz🎉 Congrats to Motoaki Seki and Toshinori Kinoshita as well as their colleagues on their new paper in New Phytologis on TCP3 and cell expansion in Arabidopsis! The work supports the C SPIRIT mission to advance plant resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience
- Interesting work showing guard cell specific - severity dependent drought responses in Arabidopsis | INTACT-based guard cell transcriptomes from a progressive drought time course reveal targets for modifying stomatal responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
- This is transformative!!
- Fascinating study sheds light on dehydration tolerant proteins, which proteins tends to be more stable during dehydration-rehydration and more (*not in plants). Protein surface chemistry encodes an adaptive tolerance to desiccation: Cell Systems www.cell.com/cell-systems...
- In this case well deserved is an understatement. Congrats @joeecker.bsky.social you are a giant not in one field of science but two! And yet you are so modest. So impressive, so proud to be a part of the lab!
- Salk scientist Joseph Ecker awarded McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies europesays.com/us/292528/ October 10, 2025 Salk scientist Joseph Ecker awarded McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies October 10,…#us #news #usnews
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazPlant Science Research Weekly -- Not just reversal: the hidden power of drought recovery (Science) @natanellae.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/TNffcja #PlantaePSRW
- A must- and an enjoyable read- congrats on these amazing discoveries.
- A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Good one!
- 🌱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
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazI never saw this beautiful video about Joanne Chory, published in 2024 in honor of her receiving the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP1... In case somebody else missed it too... #PlantScience #FranklinMedal
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazTime for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on! #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾 elifesciences.org/articles/105... 1/🧵
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨 JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪 ✨ You’ll gain: 🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience 📝 Write commentary pieces 🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩💻 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazA haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazThe reality in science is that creativity is not treated as a core skill while hypothesis testing is, and that is the imbalance that we want correct through the Night Science Institute! www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/art... www.night-science.org
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz🚨 Last Call – Sept 24, 11:59 PM MDT! Submit your scholarship applications and abstracts for the Keystone Symposia on Cardiometabolism in Health & Disease. 📅 Jan 26–29, 2026 | Keystone, CO 🔗 keysym.us/KSCardiometa... ▶️ youtu.be/pgiNkzgopdQ #KSCardioMetab26 #cardiometabolism #cardiac #heartdisease
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazFun review of Arabidopsis anti-pathogen metabolism with @somssich.bsky.social and @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social. Started to make a complete catalogue and had to focus. Even with all this knowledge, we still haven't studied most Arabidopsis enzymes or metabolites doi.org/10.1093/plph...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz📢🌱 Job alert: Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics (Tenure-track) Join our interdisciplinary research environment, in Montréal Botanical Garden! 📅 Deadline: October 13, 2025 📍 Université de Montréal, Canada Please share! 🌿 drive.google.com/file/d/1Sxkt...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazRSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @bar-plantbio.bsky.social @natanellae.bsky.social
- Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends! Fun science during the day (see below) and a Le'Chaim during the night! 👩🔬🍷Shana Tova! youtu.be/tzlzwhTq6n0?...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazSad news. Plant science has lost a global champion with the passing of Steve Long. His recent work on engineering enhanced photosynthesis portends future breakthroughs in crop yield and food security. Here is a tribute from the Uni Essex where started 🧪 #plantscience www.essex.ac.uk/blog/staff/p...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file… #PlantSciJobs
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazTransgenerational decline through insidious effects of #drought memory A #Letter by Pantin et al.👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue
- Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazJoin us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Want to dive into the datasets from our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper? 🌱📊 Check out this step-by-step guide on how to explore and analyze the #drought #recovery #datasets with Omnibusx: Check out the paper and datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tutorial: youtu.be/YI0RVFiQnMs
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazA database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazMSU is great place to do plant science research. My lab will be a great place to develop new expertise in genomics and plant molecular biology. Application instruction and link: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Please email me if you have any questions.
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazJoin our campus! The Vienna BioCenter PhD program offers 20+ fully-funded positions: Open call now! Read more: www.vbcphd.at Our working language is English #viennabiocenter #vbcphd
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazEarly embryos develop... and eliminate threats @estebanhoijman.bsky.social & co recently discovered that early embryos can eliminate bacterial infections before immune cells are formed. Take a look at the dynamics of their first encounter with microbes. thenode.biologists.com/early-embryo...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazVery happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazPost-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance, according to a paper in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I8vq6i #plantscience 🧪
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazLed by @natanellae.bsky.social, we identified 3,000+ recovery-specific genes in Arabidopsis and mapped their activation at single-cell resolution, revealing a unique immune response after rehydration. 🌱 #PlantScience #StressBiology #OpenAccess
- Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazICYMI: New Online! A histone variant that manages abiotic stress in plants
- All DRII-ed up: How do plants recover after drought? | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-Eliaz🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazThe @rheelab.bsky.social at the MSU Plant Resilience Institute is now #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how #nematodes respond to chemical and environmental cues as part of @c-spirit.org and @waliianhydro.bsky.social. 🪱 Apply now at: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... #PlantSciJobs
- Other interesting examples for ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 🎸🎸🎸 My #TCTeAC friends will get it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazOur department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazPreprint: De-novo design of proteins that inhibit bacterial defenses Our approach allows silencing defense systems of choice. We show how this approach enables programming of “untransformable” bacteria, and how it can enhance phage therapy applications Congrats Jeremy Garb! tinyurl.com/Syttt 🧵
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazDrought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation ->Nature | #Drought #Climate #Water | More info from EcoSearch
- Reposted by Natanella Illouz-EliazPlants prioritize immunity over growth during recovery from drought conditions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Great work and a recommended read!
- This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory: Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇
- Couldn’t have done this without amazing collaborators @salkinstitute.bsky.social Joseph Swift, @tralee-sci.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social alongside members of the @joeecker.bsky.social lab on the neuro side. Salk cores!!
- And experts in drought physiology @yotamzait.bsky.social y.social and Adi Yaaran, and plant pathology @tuang.org in Saul Burdman's lab. 🙏
