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Kevin

@kpot12

Just a plant molecular biologist with special interest in metabolism and gene regulation. Also, big time basketball player.

 Cary, NC
Joined October 2011
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@thecapitulab is hiring! Looking for a Postdoc to work on this @NSF funded project studying capitulum development @AuburnU. The work involves really cool developmental transcriptomics of diverse species while diving deeper with functional genetics. Reach out with questions! 🌻
Jennifer Mandel (@JenniferMandel) profile pictureJennifer Mandel@JenniferMandel29 Aug 2022
🌻Ever wonder how the capitulum evolved? Excited to announce our NSF PGRP award to ask that question! Work will generate new genomic resources across Asterales, Dipsacales and Apiales to address broad questions related to capitulum development and evolution @Dsjones552 @jmbrkphd
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#PhytochemTalks Fall 2022 is fully charged up and ready to go! Seven speakers from three different continents, one every other Friday starting next Friday, Sept 9th, at 12PM EST. For more info/registration: phytochemtalks.github.io. Happy #PhytochemicalFriday!
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Some rhizobia (nitrogen-fixing, bacterial symbionts of legumes) can produce the plant hormone gibberellin. In this paper, we describe how this affects nodulation phenotypes in soybean, and potentially the fitness of the rhizobial symbionts. nature.com/articles/s41396-0…
Production of the plant hormone gibberellin by rhizobia increases host legume nodule size

Production of the plant hormone gibberellin by rhizobia increases host legume nodule size

The ISME Journal - Production of the plant hormone gibberellin by rhizobia increases host legume nodule size

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Engineered anthocyanin biosynthesis allows modulation of tomato fruit colours ranging from 'Crimson' over 'Magenta' to 'Indigo' #FlavonoidFriday (details: lnk.tu-bs.de/Ro3vE7)
Tomato fruits of the cultivars 'Crimson', 'Magenta', and 'Indigo' and their major anthocyanins. #FlavonoidFriday: https://lnk.tu-bs.de/Ro3vE7. Publication: https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae7090327

ALT Tomato fruits of the cultivars 'Crimson', 'Magenta', and 'Indigo' and their major anthocyanins. #FlavonoidFriday: https://lnk.tu-bs.de/Ro3vE7. Publication: https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae7090327

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JOB ALERT: The Harkess lab at @AuburnAg and @hudsonalpha is recruiting a post-doc in comparative genomics of plant sex chromosomes, and/or duckweed genomics.
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Happy to share our latest work in elucidating and engineering a full biosynthetic pathway for colchicine, a plant alkaloid used historically to treat inflammation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Total Biosynthesis of the Tubulin-Binding Alkaloid Colchicine

Total Biosynthesis of the Tubulin-Binding Alkaloid Colchicine

Abstract. Colchicine (1) is a bioactive plant alkaloid from Colchicum and Gloriosa species that is used as a pharmaceutical treatment for inflammatory dise

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Interested in floral development and evolution? @thecapitulab is actively looking for graduate students to start in Fall 2022! Come work with us at @AuburnU, using comparative genomics and genetics to study the coolest plants, the Asteraceae! 🌻 Email for more info #newPI RT pls!
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Our new paper describing biosynthesis of huperzine A (a neuroactive plant alkaloid) just came out! pnas.org/content/118/24/e210…
A metabolic regulon reveals early and late acting enzymes in neuroactive Lycopodium alkaloid...

A metabolic regulon reveals early and late acting enzymes in neuroactive Lycopodium alkaloid...

Plants synthesize many diverse small molecules that affect function of the mammalian central nervous system, making them crucial sources of therape...

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Here's a picture of my buddy Joe Kieber (from @UNC_Biology, @unccollege and @UNC) who just found out he's been elected to the National Academy of Sciences @NationalAcad Congratulations Joe! nasonline.org/news-and-multi…
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Congrats Daniel! Auburn got a good one!
Daniel Jones (@Dsjones552) profile pictureDaniel Jones@Dsjones55224 Apr 2021
Excited to share that I’ve accepted a position @AuburnU as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences beginning this fall! Can’t wait to kick off the lab where we will be working on floral development in the sunflower family! #WarEagle
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The maize NAM genomes project is finished! Visit MaizeGDB.org for genes, transposons, repeats, centromeres, methylomes and ATAC-seq. Supported by NSF-1744001, w/ @mbhufford, Doreen Ware, @HirschCandice, @agentindeed, and many others biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Today we announced the publication of the most-detailed Vanilla genome in Nature Food. This work provides critical genomic resources for vanilla production that will improve the livelihoods of small-scale vanilla farmers and build resilient supply chains. ow.ly/qxl050CJinh
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CLAVATA peptide signaling buffers flower formation against temperature variation by regulating auxin biosynthesis. Some beautiful work by Zack Nimchuk’s lab: cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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CLAVATA Signaling Ensures Reproductive Development in Plants across Thermal Environments @CurrentBiology from Zack Nimchuk's lab cell.com/current-biology/ful… Movie: Time-Lapse of Flower Termination and Recovery in crn
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Check it out! New insights into how CLAVATA signaling integrates with other networks to regulate flower development! Congrats @Dsjones552!
Daniel Jones (@Dsjones552) profile pictureDaniel Jones@Dsjones5525 Nov 2020
Very excited to share my latest paper out today in Current Biology!cell.com/current-biology/ful…

CLAVATA Signaling Ensures Reproductive Development in Plants across Thermal Environments

Jones et al. demonstrate that plants use overlapping pathways to ensure robust reproduction across diverse temperatures. In colder environments, CLAVATA peptide signaling promotes flower development...

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… by @alex_marand
A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution

A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution

Cis -regulatory elements (CREs) encode the genomic blueprints for coordinating spatiotemporal gene expression programs underlying highly specialized cell functions. To identify CREs underlying...

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We are hiring for Vice President, Technology and Products. Apply now at elolife.ag
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Incredibly excited to share that our team at @EloLifeSystems is partnering with Dole Foods to save the banana! elolife.ag/saving-the-cavend…
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Excited about our latest collaboration between Rich Moore's lab @miamiuniversity and our lab @hudsonalpha, led by Taylor Chae (now Bio Dept at Xavier): sex-linked expression and hermaphrodite reversions in papaya. #sexchromosomes biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Sex-linked gene expression and the reversion to hermaphroditism in Carica papaya L. (Caricaceae)

Sex-linked gene expression and the reversion to hermaphroditism in Carica papaya L. (Caricaceae)

One evolutionary path from hermaphroditism to dioecy is via a gynodioecious intermediate. The evolution of dioecy may also coincide with the formation of sex chromosomes that possess sex-determining...

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