Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
@djgibbs.bsky.social
🌱 Professor, Uni of Birmingham • Plant Science Lead & Biosciences Head of Research • BBSRC/ERC funded research on Plant Proteostasis, PTMs, chromatin modifications, PRC2, flooding, oxygen 🌿 🏳️‍🌈

https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab
And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
After a fantastic week exploring Tōkyō and Ōsaka, today it’s the Shinkansen 🚅 to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow 🌱 Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research! #ISPLORE2025JP
September 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wonderful to be back at Queen’s College in Oxford for the annual @gpsep.bsky.social network meeting! 🌱
September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Fantastic to be hosting the @newphyt.bsky.social Next Generation Scientist
Meeting here at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social this week! Looking forward to hearing about all the exciting plant science research being carried out by early career delegates from all over the world 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻‍🔬 👩🏽‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬👨🏿‍🔬 🌍
August 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Lovely to catch up with @ekaiserli.bsky.social and @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social here in Milwaukee - the first time we have seen each other since our joint paper was published earlier this year! 🌱🧬
July 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Arrived in a very hot Chicago ahead of the Plant Biology 2025 meeting in Milwaukee this Saturday ☀️ @aspbofficial.bsky.social 🌱 🧬
July 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Congratulations and happy graduation day to Dr Max Schwarze! A paper from his main PhD project looking at co-translational protein quality control in plants is coming very soon! 🌱
July 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just landed in Düsseldorf and looking forward to some productive plant proteostasis discussions and project planning with @suaybuestuen.bsky.social et al! 🌱 🧬 🦠
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Squeezed in a bit of sightseeing with Lina here at the UK meiosis meeting in Liverpool 🧬 🌱 🐁
March 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our study also suggests that there is a gradient of oxygen availability across leaf development, and that stable VRN2-PRC2 may transduce endogenous hypoxia signals into the epigenetic control of growth. This is a key focus of future work in the lab!
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Our work suggests that VRN2-PRC2 methylates these PIF targets early on in leaf development when cells are dividing, and that this is required for dynamically controlling their expression - and cell expansion- later on as leaves mature.
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We show that VRN2-PRC2 is required for depositing H3K27me3 in several key PIF4 target genes (e.g. HAT4 and YUC8/9), which keeps them epigenetically poised for conditional repression via a PhyB-VIL1/VRN5 signalling cascade (see also this excellent study by Kim et al 2021: tinyurl.com/yc8z8fed).
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We found that vrn2 mutant rosettes are larger than the wild type due to elevated expression of PIF-regulated genes (e.g. SAURs) and increased cell expansion. Interestingly, this effect occurs specifically in the light.
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
VRN2 was previously identified as an oxygen-regulated target of the PRT6 N-degron pathway (tinyurl.com/2c47fsxr). This post translational control restricts VRN2 accumulation, leading to its enrichment in the shoot apex and emerging leaf primordia.
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We left Amsterdam so late yesterday that Florence airport closed whilst we were mid flight, so we got diverted to Pisa. Fortunately they arranged coaches to Florence airport and eventually I got a taxi to the hotel at 03.30 😝 Otherwise I would have been phoning @beagiuntoli.bsky.social 😂😂
January 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Early to the airport with Rory; off to Florence ahead of the GRC plant proteolysis meeting that starts on Sunday! 🌱🧬
January 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Congratulations Max for passing your PhD viva yesterday! ☺️ I’m very proud, and wish you the best of luck for your exciting postdoc position in Zurich! Thanks to Steven Spoel and @drelunadiez.bsky.social for examining, and @seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social for chairing 🌱🧬 🎉
November 22, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Great to have Suayb Üstün visiting Birmingham to talk to us about all the fantastic work he and his group are doing looking at “toxic relationships” and plant stress responses 🌱 🧬 🦠
November 14, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Arrived in sunny (though slightly chilly) Zaragoza ☀️🥶 ready for the roxyCOST annual meeting 🌱 🍅 💧 🧬 🧪
March 6, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Today is the 10 year anniversary of me joining UoB Biosciences as a Birmingham Fellow 🤯 🎉 (so I thought it was about time to have an office clear out 🤣)
October 2, 2023 at 8:52 AM