Frederica Theodoulou
@freddietheodoulou.bsky.social
Plant scientist, interested in proteostasis, hypoxia, and baking.
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We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.
Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Watching @britishbakeoff.bsky.social final 🎂 Going to be sad when it’s all over. Love that the last showstopper of the season is basically an outlandishly giant cake ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Watching @britishbakeoff.bsky.social final 🎂 Going to be sad when it’s all over. Love that the last showstopper of the season is basically an outlandishly giant cake ❤️
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓
Amused to report that I was just energetically mixing some cake batter and my Apple watch announced that I had closed my exercise ring for the day 😆🍰🏅
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Amused to report that I was just energetically mixing some cake batter and my Apple watch announced that I had closed my exercise ring for the day 😆🍰🏅
Another great meeting to consider: @ukbspr.bsky.social is coming to Cambridge in 2026 for all things #proteomics. A great sense of community, excellent engagement from industry and cross-kingdom science. #BSPR2026
We are delighted to inform you that BSPR 2026 will be held at the @ebi.embl.org campus in Cambridge from the 13th to the 15th of July. Make sure to save the data and join us for the a meeting full of great science focused on British & Irish Proteomics.
#proteomics #BSPR2026 #massspectrometry
#proteomics #BSPR2026 #massspectrometry
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another great meeting to consider: @ukbspr.bsky.social is coming to Cambridge in 2026 for all things #proteomics. A great sense of community, excellent engagement from industry and cross-kingdom science. #BSPR2026
A conference about #proteostasis in a palazzo in Palermo; inclusive, affordable, and organised by the marvellous @giglionelab.bsky.social - what’s not to like? Oh, and there is a fantastic lineup of talks plus slots to spare #ProteinTermini2026
See you at Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the 2026 Protein Termini Conference | Co- and post-translational modifications | Proteolytic processing and degradation pathways | Microbes, plants, animals #ProteinTermini2026 #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A conference about #proteostasis in a palazzo in Palermo; inclusive, affordable, and organised by the marvellous @giglionelab.bsky.social - what’s not to like? Oh, and there is a fantastic lineup of talks plus slots to spare #ProteinTermini2026
Lemon curd cupcakes (and the last rose from my garden this year) for this morning's bake sale. All in aid of suicide prevention charity theolliefoundation.org a very worthwhile cause.
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Lemon curd cupcakes (and the last rose from my garden this year) for this morning's bake sale. All in aid of suicide prevention charity theolliefoundation.org a very worthwhile cause.
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
The resilience of youth 🍃What makes young Arabidopsis leaves survive flooding longer than their seniors? We tried to find out - check out our new preprint to know what we discovered @freddietheodoulou.bsky.social @leeggangers.bsky.social @hans-van-veen.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social
How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leaf-age specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is determined by distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery
While the molecular mechanisms mediating submergence tolerance have been extensively studied, those underpinning age-dependent resilience remain poorly characterized. In Arabidopsis thaliana, submerge...
www.biorxiv.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The resilience of youth 🍃What makes young Arabidopsis leaves survive flooding longer than their seniors? We tried to find out - check out our new preprint to know what we discovered @freddietheodoulou.bsky.social @leeggangers.bsky.social @hans-van-veen.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social
How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leaf-age specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is determined by distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery
While the molecular mechanisms mediating submergence tolerance have been extensively studied, those underpinning age-dependent resilience remain poorly characterized. In Arabidopsis thaliana, submerge...
www.biorxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
Thank you to everyone who attended our #BiologyWeek Networking and Awards Ceremony last night! Congrats to all the awardees for their achievements, including those who entered our creative & careers awards, & the winners of the President’s Medal.
Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week...
Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week...
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended our #BiologyWeek Networking and Awards Ceremony last night! Congrats to all the awardees for their achievements, including those who entered our creative & careers awards, & the winners of the President’s Medal.
Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week...
Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week...
A Fairer Feast- How can technological breakthroughs work for everyone? Looking forward to this ARIA event at Venture Café London next week to celebrate #WorldFoodDay. venturecafelondon.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A Fairer Feast- How can technological breakthroughs work for everyone? Looking forward to this ARIA event at Venture Café London next week to celebrate #WorldFoodDay. venturecafelondon.org
Had my head in proteomics data spreadsheets all day but pleased to have whipped up this offering tonight ☺️🍰
October 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Had my head in proteomics data spreadsheets all day but pleased to have whipped up this offering tonight ☺️🍰
Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
Hello to all my floodie friends currently in Nagoya! 🌾🌊👋 I'm so sorry I couldn't make it to #ISPLORE2025JP this time: will be following the posts from @isplore.bsky.social and feeling wistful all week. Hope you have a great meeting ☺️
#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 7:36 AM
Hello to all my floodie friends currently in Nagoya! 🌾🌊👋 I'm so sorry I couldn't make it to #ISPLORE2025JP this time: will be following the posts from @isplore.bsky.social and feeling wistful all week. Hope you have a great meeting ☺️
Great to be sharing exciting progress with #PrecisionBreeing in our #GreenEngineering BBSRC institute strategic programme @rothamsted.bsky.social Several valuable traits in the pipeline @ukri.org #PBO #GeneEditing
It was a great pleasure to host 15 of the
@euinuk.bsky.social agrifood counsellors in London to campus this week. Lots of discussion around future crops and precision breeding...🧬🌱
@euinuk.bsky.social agrifood counsellors in London to campus this week. Lots of discussion around future crops and precision breeding...🧬🌱
September 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Great to be sharing exciting progress with #PrecisionBreeing in our #GreenEngineering BBSRC institute strategic programme @rothamsted.bsky.social Several valuable traits in the pipeline @ukri.org #PBO #GeneEditing
It's been far too long since my last baking post, so I wanted to announce a recent acquisition: a cake dome which I am launching with a grown up but still childish slab of cake. Dark chocolate icing with sprinkles tasted better than it looks!
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It's been far too long since my last baking post, so I wanted to announce a recent acquisition: a cake dome which I am launching with a grown up but still childish slab of cake. Dark chocolate icing with sprinkles tasted better than it looks!
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.
📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025!
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.
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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!!
👏 Great to see plant scientists among the ERC StG winners 🌿 congrats all!
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 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
👏 Great to see plant scientists among the ERC StG winners 🌿 congrats all!
Stunning double rainbow @rothamsted.bsky.social this evening 🌈
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Stunning double rainbow @rothamsted.bsky.social this evening 🌈
Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!
Exciting news📣: #ProteostasisUK is hiring a network manager to help drive an ambitious, #BBSRC funded initiative connecting and expanding #Proteostasis research across the UK. Position initially for 3 years. Deadline September 28th. More info: tinyurl.com/f83rp673 & proteostasisuk.co.uk Please RT
hireful.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!
Reposted by Frederica Theodoulou
Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"
Epic structure paper from @clausenlab.bsky.social @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social and collaborators providing mechanistic insight into how the UBR4 complex (=BIG in plants 🌿😊) fulfils apparently disparate roles in protein turnover 🤩
Glad to share the final version of our story about the UBR4 complex, an E4 ligase protein quality control hub @science.org. Now with more cryo-EM structures and a deeper dive into substrate recognition, especially escaped mitochondrial proteins @clausenlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Epic structure paper from @clausenlab.bsky.social @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social and collaborators providing mechanistic insight into how the UBR4 complex (=BIG in plants 🌿😊) fulfils apparently disparate roles in protein turnover 🤩
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This always blows my mind. Dude mapped qtl for a quantitative trait to a chromosome in 1923!
Related but cool combo of cytogenetics and phenotype. Know when the first QTL was mapped?
Sax, K. 1923. The association of size differences with seed coat pattern and pigmentation in Phaseolus vulgaris. Genetics 8:552-560.
Sax, K. 1923. The association of size differences with seed coat pattern and pigmentation in Phaseolus vulgaris. Genetics 8:552-560.
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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