Weeding the Gems

The first GARNet Research Roundup of 2020 begins with a study from the University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute in which they have adapted nanopore direct sequencing to analyse the Arabidopsis mRNA methylome. The second study is also from Dundee and is an analysis of alternative splicing in C4 sugarcane. The next two[…]

Taken from the John Innes Centre Dame Helen Mirren has helped renew efforts to keep plant disease Xylella fastidiosa out of the UK in 2020 – the UN’s International Year of Plant Health – narrating a new animation that warns of the devastation it causes, including the death of millions of olive trees in Europe.[…]

On 27th/28th February we will be holding the inaugural UK Rice Consortium meeting for Early Career Researchers. This short meeting will be focussed on providing a forum for all postdocs and PhD students involved in rice research projects to come together and exchange ideas and experience on working with rice in the UK. Download Meeting[…]

The final GARNet Research Roundup of 2019 begins with three studies from the John Innes Centre. Firstly Steve Penfield’s group conducts a field-experiment that monitors FLC levels in winter oilseed rape. Second is a study from the Zilberman lab looking at the relationship between Histone H1 and DNA methylation. Third is work from the Yant[…]

GARNet are delighted to be able to support early career researchers to attend the Monogram2020 meeting at the University of Dundee. https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/monogram20/ We are able to provide £200 to each successful applicant to help with meeting costs. We hope to support attendance of at least 6 applicants. Please return the application form to geraint@garnetcommunity.org.uk by[…]

David Seung who is a new group leader the John Innes Centre talks to GARNet about a paper in Plant Physiology entitled ‘Natural polymorphisms in Arabidopsis result in wide variation or loss of the amylose component of starch‘. This fascinating paper attempts to begin to answer a key question in plant science: Why do they[…]

http://meetings.embo.org/event/20-plant-intercellular-communication Please return this form to geraint@garnetcommunity.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday April 1st 2020. We are able to provide free student/postdoc/technician registration (€330) for five successful applicants who will be selected by members of the organising committee and a representative of GARNet. Eligibility: At the time of the meeting the applicant must a UK-based researcher[…]

Chiara Airoldi talks to GARNet about her recent paper published in Nature Plants entitled ‘TTG1 proteins regulate circadian activity as well as epidermal cell fate and pigmentation’. This work was conducted at the University of Cambridge in the labs of Beverly Glover and Alex Webb and brings together a fascinating evolutionary story of gene family[…]

This bumper edition of the GARNet Research Roundup begins with three papers that have a focus on the circadian clock. First is from Cambridge and looks at a novel role for TTG1 in control of the clock. The second paper also includes co-authors from Cambridge and looks at the clock Evening Complex. The final clock[…]

At the end of October GARNet hosted a workshop on the the 3d RNAseq App that has been developed by Wenbin Guo and Runxuan Zhang at the James Hutton Institute. Workshop schedule and attendees can be downloaded here (PDF). The 3D RNA-Seq Analysis Tool is designed for the comprehensive differential expression, alternative splicing analysis and[…]

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