Enrique Gonzalez Duran
@egonzalezduran.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam | Interested in evolutionary genetics of eukayotes – studying endosymbiosis in plants with an experimental twist.
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Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
💡 INSIGHT 💡
Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧
Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧
Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💡 INSIGHT 💡
Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧
Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Vittoria Clapero comments on Liu et al.’s recent JXB paper - showing how ¹³C tracing reveals intra-leaf photosynthetic dynamics during drought & rewatering ☀️💧
Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Last week I was awarded the Jeff Schell Prize 2025 for outstanding research by our MPl, in recognition of our most recent Nature Plants paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am deeply honored, and thankful to my co-authors + the many, many helpful colleagues who made this research possible.
I am deeply honored, and thankful to my co-authors + the many, many helpful colleagues who made this research possible.
🌱 Congrats to @egonzalezduran.bsky.social & Dr. Rita Bastos Lima on receiving the Jeff Schell Prize for their outstanding research in molecular evolution & seed development 👏
www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2797204/news...
www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2797204/news...
Jeff Schell Prizes awarded to exceptional young scientists in molecular evolution and seed development
Dr. Enrique Gonzalez Duran and Dr. Rita Bastos Lima receive the Jeff Schell Prize for significant advances in plant research.
www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de
June 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Last week I was awarded the Jeff Schell Prize 2025 for outstanding research by our MPl, in recognition of our most recent Nature Plants paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am deeply honored, and thankful to my co-authors + the many, many helpful colleagues who made this research possible.
I am deeply honored, and thankful to my co-authors + the many, many helpful colleagues who made this research possible.
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
The June issue is now fully online:
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The June issue is now fully online:
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
Very excited to see one of our EGT plants in the cover of @natplants.nature.com!
While tobacco flowers have 5 petals, this beauty produces 3-petal and 4-petal flowers, likely as consequence of mutation/genome instability.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📷: E.G-D., MPI-MP
Cover: Erin Dewalt
While tobacco flowers have 5 petals, this beauty produces 3-petal and 4-petal flowers, likely as consequence of mutation/genome instability.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📷: E.G-D., MPI-MP
Cover: Erin Dewalt
June 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Very excited to see one of our EGT plants in the cover of @natplants.nature.com!
While tobacco flowers have 5 petals, this beauty produces 3-petal and 4-petal flowers, likely as consequence of mutation/genome instability.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📷: E.G-D., MPI-MP
Cover: Erin Dewalt
While tobacco flowers have 5 petals, this beauty produces 3-petal and 4-petal flowers, likely as consequence of mutation/genome instability.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📷: E.G-D., MPI-MP
Cover: Erin Dewalt
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻
We encourage New Generation Researchers to take the stage and share their new ideas on cytoplasmic genetics. Don't miss the talks by Femke van den Berg and Schewach Bodenheimer.
Registration Deadline: 13 June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
#SEBconference
We encourage New Generation Researchers to take the stage and share their new ideas on cytoplasmic genetics. Don't miss the talks by Femke van den Berg and Schewach Bodenheimer.
Registration Deadline: 13 June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
#SEBconference
June 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻
We encourage New Generation Researchers to take the stage and share their new ideas on cytoplasmic genetics. Don't miss the talks by Femke van den Berg and Schewach Bodenheimer.
Registration Deadline: 13 June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
#SEBconference
We encourage New Generation Researchers to take the stage and share their new ideas on cytoplasmic genetics. Don't miss the talks by Femke van den Berg and Schewach Bodenheimer.
Registration Deadline: 13 June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
#SEBconference
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Join us at SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻 #SEBconference
Early Career Researchers, @egonzalezduran.bsky.social and Tom Theeuwen, will share their excellent research with us in the Plant Session P4!
Conference Registration Deadline: 13th June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Early Career Researchers, @egonzalezduran.bsky.social and Tom Theeuwen, will share their excellent research with us in the Plant Session P4!
Conference Registration Deadline: 13th June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
June 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Join us at SEB Annual Conference in Antwerp🌻 #SEBconference
Early Career Researchers, @egonzalezduran.bsky.social and Tom Theeuwen, will share their excellent research with us in the Plant Session P4!
Conference Registration Deadline: 13th June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Early Career Researchers, @egonzalezduran.bsky.social and Tom Theeuwen, will share their excellent research with us in the Plant Session P4!
Conference Registration Deadline: 13th June
Link: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
Research team uncovered a stress response network in algae and #plants, spanning 600 million years of #evolution. Using bioinformatics, identified genetic 'hubs' that shape responses to stressors, offers insights into early adaptations of land plants.
buff.ly/02DjhYH v @unigoettingen.bsky.social
buff.ly/02DjhYH v @unigoettingen.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Research team uncovered a stress response network in algae and #plants, spanning 600 million years of #evolution. Using bioinformatics, identified genetic 'hubs' that shape responses to stressors, offers insights into early adaptations of land plants.
buff.ly/02DjhYH v @unigoettingen.bsky.social
buff.ly/02DjhYH v @unigoettingen.bsky.social
There's a press release for our new @natplants.nature.com article!
Plants use fast DNA repair to guard against risky gene transfers from their own organelles—the lessons might go beyond plant biology
Release tinyurl.com/prnpegrb by @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants use fast DNA repair to guard against risky gene transfers from their own organelles—the lessons might go beyond plant biology
Release tinyurl.com/prnpegrb by @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why Plants Patch Broken DNA So Fast
Researchers uncover how rapid DNA repair protects genomes from internal threats, with implications for cancer biology
www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de
May 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There's a press release for our new @natplants.nature.com article!
Plants use fast DNA repair to guard against risky gene transfers from their own organelles—the lessons might go beyond plant biology
Release tinyurl.com/prnpegrb by @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plants use fast DNA repair to guard against risky gene transfers from their own organelles—the lessons might go beyond plant biology
Release tinyurl.com/prnpegrb by @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new Nature Plants paper is out!
Defects in nuclear DSB repair can boost gene transfer from plastids up to 20X— suggesting 1) organellar DNA has strong mutagenic potential and 2) fast repair is key for genome stability in plants & possibly other species nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
Defects in nuclear DSB repair can boost gene transfer from plastids up to 20X— suggesting 1) organellar DNA has strong mutagenic potential and 2) fast repair is key for genome stability in plants & possibly other species nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair - Nature Plants
Inactivation of double-strand break repair pathways greatly increases the integration of plastid DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco plants, highlighting the mutagenic potential of organellar DNA a...
nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our new Nature Plants paper is out!
Defects in nuclear DSB repair can boost gene transfer from plastids up to 20X— suggesting 1) organellar DNA has strong mutagenic potential and 2) fast repair is key for genome stability in plants & possibly other species nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
Defects in nuclear DSB repair can boost gene transfer from plastids up to 20X— suggesting 1) organellar DNA has strong mutagenic potential and 2) fast repair is key for genome stability in plants & possibly other species nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A gatekeeper for gene transfers - Nature Plants
Large-scale genetic screening for plastid-to-nucleus gene transfers identifies that fast double-strand break repair functions as a key barrier for nuclear integration of organellar DNA and provides in...
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Enrique Gonzalez Duran
New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair - Nature Plants
Inactivation of double-strand break repair pathways greatly increases the integration of plastid DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco plants, highlighting the mutagenic potential of organellar DNA a...
nature.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w