Rory Osborne
@drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
BBSRC Fellow | Uni of Birmingham
Assistant Features Editor | The Plant Cell
Investigating how chromatin influences plant adaptation to stress and environmental memory
Assistant Features Editor | The Plant Cell
Investigating how chromatin influences plant adaptation to stress and environmental memory
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Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in
hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition
of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
tinyurl.com
Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬
@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...
Reposted by Rory Osborne
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2
My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online!
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠
Check out their great story here:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠
Check out their great story here:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance
Rory Osborne; DSPicable V: TuMV exploits a dual-specificity phosphatase to suppress MAPK signaling and host resistance, The Plant Cell, , koaf238, https://
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online!
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠
Check out their great story here:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠
Check out their great story here:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Incredible location ✅
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Incredible location ✅
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Look out Japan, here we come!
So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿
Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social
So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿
Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Look out Japan, here we come!
So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿
Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social
So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿
Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social
Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁
A whole bunch of Assistants Features Editors from @theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social getting to know each other 💚
#PlantBio2025
#PlantBio2025
July 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁
Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿
July 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿
Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠
If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).
July 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠
Reposted by Rory Osborne
If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).
July 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).
My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬
Great work and congrats to all involved 👏
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬
Great work and congrats to all involved 👏
Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment
Rory Osborne; Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment, The Pl
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬
Great work and congrats to all involved 👏
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬
Great work and congrats to all involved 👏
Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱
Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏
tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2
Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏
tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2
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April 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱
Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏
tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2
Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏
tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2
Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬
Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in
hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition
of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
tinyurl.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬
Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D
🧬