Yasin Dagdas
@plantophagy.bsky.social
Cell biologist excited about autophagy, quality control, evolution, and membrane trafficking. Reads and thinks about academic mentoring, equality & diversity. https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/evolutionary-cell-biology
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December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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✨New preprint!
🧵1/4 Excited to share our work on AI-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases. Amazing work by @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social et al!
Multi-lab collaboration @banfieldlab.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social @jacobsenucla.bsky.social🧬
🔗👇
🧵1/4 Excited to share our work on AI-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases. Amazing work by @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social et al!
Multi-lab collaboration @banfieldlab.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social @jacobsenucla.bsky.social🧬
🔗👇
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
✨New preprint!
🧵1/4 Excited to share our work on AI-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases. Amazing work by @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social et al!
Multi-lab collaboration @banfieldlab.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social @jacobsenucla.bsky.social🧬
🔗👇
🧵1/4 Excited to share our work on AI-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases. Amazing work by @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social et al!
Multi-lab collaboration @banfieldlab.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social @jacobsenucla.bsky.social🧬
🔗👇
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Last chance to join a training session at #CellBio2025! Interested in more? Check out the full @embolableadership.bsky.social course line-up and book your spot!
Develop your skills at #CellBio2025 in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15 EST at the EMBO #training "Giving a flash talk or poster presentation" with speaker Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at Molecular Systems Biology - EMBO Press. 🧪
EMBO Lab Leadership
American Society for Cell Biology
EMBO Lab Leadership
American Society for Cell Biology
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Last chance to join a training session at #CellBio2025! Interested in more? Check out the full @embolableadership.bsky.social course line-up and book your spot!
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Oh if this isnt a very familiar molecule :)
A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10 2025
Check out the full list: go.nature.com/4rIQH8H
Check out the full list: go.nature.com/4rIQH8H
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Oh if this isnt a very familiar molecule :)
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Manu Prakash, plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, who was recently interviewed for @jcellsci.bsky.social. #100biologists @prakashlab.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Our next extraordinary biologist is Manu Prakash, plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, who was recently interviewed for @jcellsci.bsky.social. #100biologists @prakashlab.bsky.social
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My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Targeted gene induction to generate stem cells for regeneration of recalcitrant species
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Targeted gene induction to generate stem cells for regeneration of recalcitrant species
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
www.science.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Targeted gene induction to generate stem cells for regeneration of recalcitrant species
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Targeted gene induction to generate stem cells for regeneration of recalcitrant species
My summary here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
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For all #ubiquitin aficionados out there: Our new study, where we used an #alphafold based screen and found a new class of plant-specific DUBs, which cleave K63 chains and interfere with endocytosis at the plasma membrane. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
DUCs are C2 domain containing plant-specific deubiquitinases stabilizing endocytic cargo at the plasma membrane
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) remove ubiquitin modifications from proteins in a substrate- or linkage-selective manner and regulate numerous cell-biological processes, including endocytosis. By performing ho...
www.biorxiv.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For all #ubiquitin aficionados out there: Our new study, where we used an #alphafold based screen and found a new class of plant-specific DUBs, which cleave K63 chains and interfere with endocytosis at the plasma membrane. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research
The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...
research.pasteur.fr
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?
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In the WALII Symposium I provided insights of how our recent research on #seedmaturation #phylotranscriptomics is helping us to explore the link between seed #development & plasticity, including regulation and #evolution of #desiccationtolerance.
The recording link is below!👇🏾🌱🧐
#plantscifyi
The recording link is below!👇🏾🌱🧐
#plantscifyi
Thank you to everyone who made our inaugural WALII Symposium: Exploring Life Without Water a success! 🎉
Videos from some of our 4 Invited Speakers and 12 Contributed Speakers are now available on our YouTube channel! Be sure to check it out at the link below!
www.youtube.com/@WaterandLif...
Videos from some of our 4 Invited Speakers and 12 Contributed Speakers are now available on our YouTube channel! Be sure to check it out at the link below!
www.youtube.com/@WaterandLif...
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
In the WALII Symposium I provided insights of how our recent research on #seedmaturation #phylotranscriptomics is helping us to explore the link between seed #development & plasticity, including regulation and #evolution of #desiccationtolerance.
The recording link is below!👇🏾🌱🧐
#plantscifyi
The recording link is below!👇🏾🌱🧐
#plantscifyi
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Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders
Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now
Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now
Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
A path to success: Development's Pathway to Independence programme
ABSTRACT. For post-docs pursuing an academic career, the transition to a group leader position can be a notoriously difficult one, not least because the availability of necessary support and training ...
journals.biologists.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders
Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now
Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now
Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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📣🥳 We are thrilled to share that our director, Raphaël Mercier @raphmercier.bsky.social has been awarded the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields 🌱✨. Congratulations 👏👏 #plantsci #genetics 👉https://bit.ly/3MtCGLW
vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...
vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...
Professor Raphaël Mercier - VinFuture Prize
SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Innovations in the development of clonal hybrid crops Hybrid vigor, refers to the higher performance of a hybrid plant in comparison to those of its parents. Although hybrid s...
vinfutureprize.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣🥳 We are thrilled to share that our director, Raphaël Mercier @raphmercier.bsky.social has been awarded the VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields 🌱✨. Congratulations 👏👏 #plantsci #genetics 👉https://bit.ly/3MtCGLW
vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...
vinfutureprize.org/laureates/pr...
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Water Leaks Damage Egyptian Artifacts at the Louvre. www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti.... In the meanwhile in Egypt, the super modern Grand Egyptian Museum just opened. An interesting definition of ‘who can be trusted with preservation'...
Au musée du Louvre, plusieurs centaines d’ouvrages ont été endommagés par une fuite d’eau
« Entre 300 et 400 ouvrages » ont été touchés par une fuite d’eau survenue le 27 novembre, a détaillé l’administrateur général adjoint du musée, en précisant qu’il s’agissait de « revues d’égyptologie...
www.lemonde.fr
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Water Leaks Damage Egyptian Artifacts at the Louvre. www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti.... In the meanwhile in Egypt, the super modern Grand Egyptian Museum just opened. An interesting definition of ‘who can be trusted with preservation'...
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Rodriguez Salazar, @caglaeroglu.bsky.social et al. show that Drp1-mediated mitochondrial fission is necessary for peripheral #astrocyte process formation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
📕 Part of The Year In Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#CellBio2025 #Mitochondria
📕 Part of The Year In Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#CellBio2025 #Mitochondria
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Rodriguez Salazar, @caglaeroglu.bsky.social et al. show that Drp1-mediated mitochondrial fission is necessary for peripheral #astrocyte process formation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
📕 Part of The Year In Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#CellBio2025 #Mitochondria
📕 Part of The Year In Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#CellBio2025 #Mitochondria
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🚨We are hiring🚨
We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026.
You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment.
👉 More information below
📩 Apply until 4 January 2026
We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026.
You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment.
👉 More information below
📩 Apply until 4 January 2026
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🚨We are hiring🚨
We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026.
You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment.
👉 More information below
📩 Apply until 4 January 2026
We’re looking for a part-time Administrative Assistant (19.75 h/week) starting 1 March 2026.
You’ll support finance tasks, organise events, manage website updates, and work with a friendly team in an international environment.
👉 More information below
📩 Apply until 4 January 2026
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social
Deadline: 5 Januar 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social
Deadline: 5 Januar 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social
Deadline: 5 Januar 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
W2 Professorship: Plant Physiology @rptu.bsky.social
Deadline: 5 Januar 2026
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
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Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
www.science.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Thrilled to have our paper out in @science.org. Cell division guides plant cell wall formation. Does the reverse hold? We show that bimodal pectin methylesterification, via PME5 mRNA nuclear sequestration, influences plant cell division and cell plate orientation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy St. Nicholas Day!
I grew up in Belgium so this song is part of my heritage 🍪🥿🐑.
I wonder if there are sweets in my shoes today?
youtu.be/Ed_sX9LvHv4?...
I grew up in Belgium so this song is part of my heritage 🍪🥿🐑.
I wonder if there are sweets in my shoes today?
youtu.be/Ed_sX9LvHv4?...
Ô grand Saint-Nicolas patron des écoliers - chanson de Noël - HD
YouTube video by Les Baladidous
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Happy St. Nicholas Day!
I grew up in Belgium so this song is part of my heritage 🍪🥿🐑.
I wonder if there are sweets in my shoes today?
youtu.be/Ed_sX9LvHv4?...
I grew up in Belgium so this song is part of my heritage 🍪🥿🐑.
I wonder if there are sweets in my shoes today?
youtu.be/Ed_sX9LvHv4?...
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Latest from the lab "Filopodome proteomics identifies CCT8 as a MYO10 interactor critical for filopodia functions
"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Work driven by @anagracanin.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @ivaskalab.bsky.social and @bengoult.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Work driven by @anagracanin.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @ivaskalab.bsky.social and @bengoult.bsky.social
Filopodome proteomics identifies CCT8 as a MYO10 interactor critical for filopodia functions
Cancer cells utilize filopodia to explore, adhere to, and invade their surrounding microenvironment, yet the protein networks that organize these protrusions remain incompletely defined. To uncover th...
www.biorxiv.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Latest from the lab "Filopodome proteomics identifies CCT8 as a MYO10 interactor critical for filopodia functions
"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Work driven by @anagracanin.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @ivaskalab.bsky.social and @bengoult.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Work driven by @anagracanin.bsky.social
A great collaboration with @ivaskalab.bsky.social and @bengoult.bsky.social
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Very proud of our lab manager, Aida de la Cruz, for winning the Nancy Hutchinson mentoring award (www.fredhutch.org/en/education...) based on her mentees' nominations.
@fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org
Internal news: centernet.fredhutch.org/n/2025/12/sp...
@fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org
Internal news: centernet.fredhutch.org/n/2025/12/sp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Very proud of our lab manager, Aida de la Cruz, for winning the Nancy Hutchinson mentoring award (www.fredhutch.org/en/education...) based on her mentees' nominations.
@fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org
Internal news: centernet.fredhutch.org/n/2025/12/sp...
@fredhutch.org @basicsci.fredhutch.org
Internal news: centernet.fredhutch.org/n/2025/12/sp...
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@mbcapitao.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD today. Congratulations!
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
@mbcapitao.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD today. Congratulations!
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‼️ It’s been more than two months since our study was published on Nature Communications!
We show how the V-ATPase dysfunction activates a selective autophagy pathway in yeast.
If you haven’t read it yet, check it out!⤵️
We show how the V-ATPase dysfunction activates a selective autophagy pathway in yeast.
If you haven’t read it yet, check it out!⤵️
V-ATPase-dependent induction of selective autophagy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
V-ATPase-dependent induction of selective autophagy - Nature Communications
Here the authors show that mutations in V-ATPase genes in follicular lymphoma trigger V-ATPase-dependent autophagy. This process, linked to tryptophan metabolism and ribosome biogenesis, may help tumor cells thrive under stress conditions.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
‼️ It’s been more than two months since our study was published on Nature Communications!
We show how the V-ATPase dysfunction activates a selective autophagy pathway in yeast.
If you haven’t read it yet, check it out!⤵️
We show how the V-ATPase dysfunction activates a selective autophagy pathway in yeast.
If you haven’t read it yet, check it out!⤵️
Reposted by Yasin Dagdas
A light-induced apical auxin signalling minimum marks the site of organogenesis and de novo meristem formation in Marchantia sporelings (now peer-reviewed): authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDc83QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A light-induced apical auxin signalling minimum marks the site of organogenesis and de novo meristem formation in Marchantia sporelings (now peer-reviewed): authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDc83QW8S...
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Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The B-class auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for meristem organization in free-living plant gametophytes
Land plants (embryophytes) are multicellular eukaryotes with a remarkable capacity to grow continuously during their life span. They achieve this by m…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
www.science.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci