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
https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab
And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧
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
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
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
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
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
Wonderful to be back at Queen’s College in Oxford for the annual @gpsep.bsky.social network meeting! 🌱
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 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻🔬 👩🏽🔬👨🏼🔬👨🏿🔬 🌍
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
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 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻🔬 👩🏽🔬👨🏼🔬👨🏿🔬 🌍
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 🧬 🌱 🧑🏻🔬 👩🏽🔬👨🏼🔬👨🏿🔬 🌍
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
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! 🌱🧬
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
Arrived in a very hot Chicago ahead of the Plant Biology 2025 meeting in Milwaukee this Saturday ☀️ @aspbofficial.bsky.social 🌱 🧬
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
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! 🌱
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
Just landed in Düsseldorf and looking forward to some productive plant proteostasis discussions and project planning with @suaybuestuen.bsky.social et al! 🌱 🧬 🦠
Squeezed in a bit of sightseeing with Lina here at the UK meiosis meeting in Liverpool 🧬 🌱 🐁
March 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Squeezed in a bit of sightseeing with Lina here at the UK meiosis meeting in Liverpool 🧬 🌱 🐁
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 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!
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
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.
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 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).
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 😂😂
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
Early to the airport with Rory; off to Florence ahead of the GRC plant proteolysis meeting that starts on Sunday! 🌱🧬
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
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 🌱🧬 🎉
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
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 🌱 🧬 🦠
Arrived in sunny (though slightly chilly) Zaragoza ☀️🥶 ready for the roxyCOST annual meeting 🌱 🍅 💧 🧬 🧪
March 6, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Arrived in sunny (though slightly chilly) Zaragoza ☀️🥶 ready for the roxyCOST annual meeting 🌱 🍅 💧 🧬 🧪
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
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 🤣)