Delfi Dorussen
PhD student studying wheat genetics/genomics at the John Innes Centre | University of Cambridge and WUR graduate | I love plants 🌿👩🔬🌾🌺 | she/her
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenSpatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution (Katie A Long , Ashleigh Lister , Maximillian R W Jones , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenHomoeolog expression in polyploid #wheat #mutants shows limited transcriptional compensation Dorussen et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @delfidorussen.bsky.social @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social @philippaborrill.bsky.social
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenThe 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
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenBLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenWomen, Plants, and the Power of a Name Researchers uncover the real women behind botanical names, turning obscure eponyms into powerful stories of recognition and representation. botany.one/2025/07/wome... #Botany #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 🧵
- Homoeolog expression in polyploid wheat mutants shows limited transcriptional compensation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- We asked whether mutations in single genes are compensated by transcriptional up-regulation of their homoeologs, given that mutations in multiple homoeologs are often required to produce a mutant phenotype in wheat (i.e. the homoeologs are redundant) 1/8
- To answer this question, we performed RNA-seq on hexaploid EMS-mutagenised lines and identified homoeolog groups in which one homoeolog is affected by a premature termination codon (PTC) mutation For these groups, we compared the homoeolog expression levels between the mutagenised line and WT 2/8
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View full threadWe'd love to hear any comments/questions/feedback on this work! Many thanks to BBSRC @ukri.org, @nrpdtp.bsky.social, @dsw-isp.bsky.social & @bric-isp.bsky.social for funding 8/8
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenHappy 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
- Very cool protocol development from Emilie in the Borrill Lab 🧪 👇
- 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
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenFor #WorldTapirDay my #linocut Malayan tapirs, adult and baby. 🐡🧪 There are 4 types of tapir; this linocut is of both an adult & baby Malayan tapir. Tapirs always look very dapper, if improbable, in their black and white coat. The adults with their white saddles look like an aardvark crossed with 🧵
- I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
- It was great to work on this project together with Sam Burrows and @philippaborrill.bsky.social, as well as having vital contributions from Joe Crudgington, Giorgia di Santolo, James Simmonds and Marco Catoni
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenMy latest article for The Observer 😍🙏
- Reposted by Delfi DorussenThe world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
- It was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at #PAG32 😄🌾🧬
- #IWGSC-Feuillet Early Career Awardee Delfi Dorussen @johninnescentre.bsky.social starts the #IWGSC workshop #PAG32 presenting her work on whether transcriptional compensation facilitates functional redundancy in wheat.
- Some cool research I was very happy to be a part of 🌱👇
- Researchers have streamlined methods to study chloroplast & mitochondrial impacts on photosynthesis. Plants currently capture only ~1% of solar energy; optimized genetics could increase this sixfold. buff.ly/3PoNSaT... #PlantScience
