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
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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
@djgibbs.bsky.social
· Mar 26
VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in
hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition
of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
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Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
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Excited for 2 days of @episeedlink.bsky.social conference on Priming and Epigenetic Stress Memory in #plantscience in Amsterdam! The stage is set with a watergun for speakers going overtime 😳💦
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Excited for 2 days of @episeedlink.bsky.social conference on Priming and Epigenetic Stress Memory in #plantscience in Amsterdam! The stage is set with a watergun for speakers going overtime 😳💦
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🌱🌍 A new UCD-led international study reveals what inspires people to study plant biology, a subject essential for building the future workforce needed to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and food security.
January 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
🌱🌍 A new UCD-led international study reveals what inspires people to study plant biology, a subject essential for building the future workforce needed to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and food security.
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New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw
January 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
New in Science of Plants: "Inferring hypoxia-responsive regulators of cell fate in plant meristems throughsingle-cell transcriptomics" rdcu.be/eXYvw
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Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
Abstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉
Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence.
More information
www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html
Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence.
More information
www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html
January 14, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬
Congratulations @tamatar.bsky.social ! It was a really enjoyable discussion of some great work 😊
Congrats to @tamatar.bsky.social for passing her PhD viva with flying colours, studying the role of diverse ubiquitin topologies in plant immunity!!🥳🎊🥳 Many thanks to examiners @djgibbs.bsky.social and Lucas Frungillo!
January 9, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Congratulations @tamatar.bsky.social ! It was a really enjoyable discussion of some great work 😊
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Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory
Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Lovely new review on H3K27me3 dynamics and potential functions in #plantscience by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Today we are excited for a day of talks from the 2025 Molecular Biodiscovery Meeting at the
@unibirmingham.bsky.social. Combined between the
#UoBbiosciences and #UoBSchool_Chem
@unibirmingham.bsky.social. Combined between the
#UoBbiosciences and #UoBSchool_Chem
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Today we are excited for a day of talks from the 2025 Molecular Biodiscovery Meeting at the
@unibirmingham.bsky.social. Combined between the
#UoBbiosciences and #UoBSchool_Chem
@unibirmingham.bsky.social. Combined between the
#UoBbiosciences and #UoBSchool_Chem
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🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion - Nature
Bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters can be utilized and engineered to transport non-canonical amino acids into Escherichia coli for highly efficient synthesis of proteins with novel func...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
🧵👇 1/9
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting
In two recent papers in Cell, Zhu et al. and Luo et al. use selective ribosome profiling
to identify the substrates and timing of co-translational protein targeting to mitochondria.
The results sugges...
www.cell.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling
Protein synthesis can contribute to plant cell signaling at multiple regulatory levels. Recent studies have expanded the conditions that are directly …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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
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1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
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Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
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#ISPLORE2025JP is about to start in beautiful Nagoya! We're excited for a full week of low-oxygen and flooding #plantscience 🌱🌊
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#ISPLORE2025JP is about to start in beautiful Nagoya! We're excited for a full week of low-oxygen and flooding #plantscience 🌱🌊
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
Congratulations Anne-Marie - best of luck as you settle into your new position!! 🌱
I am happy to share that I have started my dream job as a Permanent Researcher (Chargée de Recherche) at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE-Orléans, BioForA unit).
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Congratulations Anne-Marie - best of luck as you settle into your new position!! 🌱
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! 🌱
Amazing to see so many plant science projects funded! (And special congrats to @vinayshukla.bsky.social and @tinaschreier.bsky.social !!) 🌱
Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!
The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
September 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Amazing to see so many plant science projects funded! (And special congrats to @vinayshukla.bsky.social and @tinaschreier.bsky.social !!) 🌱
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🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!
September 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!