Facundo Romani
@fromani.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF (U of Cambridge)🇬🇧. PhD (UNL)🇦🇷Biotechnologist (UNQ)🇦🇷. Gene regulation and plant EvoDevo.
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Facundo Romani
@fromani.bsky.social
· Mar 14
The minimal cell-cycle control system in Marchantia as a framework for understanding plant cell proliferation
The regulation of cell division is broadly conserved across eukaryotes, governed by cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) to coordinate progression through the cell cycle. Plants have evolved a ...
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After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo
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A SABATH family enzyme regulates development via the gibberellin-related pathway in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693594v1
December 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A SABATH family enzyme regulates development via the gibberellin-related pathway in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693594v1
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It was a great meeting, thanks to all the speakers, particularly @sramundo.bsky.social and @rensingstefan.bsky.social for their keynotes.
Next year is already announced, looking forward to #NonseedUK2026 in Edinburgh,organised by @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social 🙂
#Plantscience
Next year is already announced, looking forward to #NonseedUK2026 in Edinburgh,organised by @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social 🙂
#Plantscience
December 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It was a great meeting, thanks to all the speakers, particularly @sramundo.bsky.social and @rensingstefan.bsky.social for their keynotes.
Next year is already announced, looking forward to #NonseedUK2026 in Edinburgh,organised by @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social 🙂
#Plantscience
Next year is already announced, looking forward to #NonseedUK2026 in Edinburgh,organised by @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social 🙂
#Plantscience
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📢 New publication 'The B-class #auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for #meristem organization in free-living #plant gametophytes' by Eduardo Flores-Sandoval et al. in Current Biology 🧪🌱
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December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
📢 New publication 'The B-class #auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for #meristem organization in free-living #plant gametophytes' by Eduardo Flores-Sandoval et al. in Current Biology 🧪🌱
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience
Non-seed plant research in the spotlight
Summary: With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, this Meeting Review highlights the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with @karimaelm.bsky.social, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks @biologists.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social. #PlantScience
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Very happy to share this study in collaboration with @jaz-humphreys.bsky.social and @frannybarbs.bsky.social , with our little contribution, on the role of Ck on Sugar-mediated gemma formation @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Carbon availability acts via cytokinins to promote gemma cup formation in Marchantia polymorpha
Liverworts can clonally propagate by producing compact shoot structures called gemmae, which develop within basket-like structures known as gemma cups. It was previously reported in Marchantia nepalen...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Very happy to share this study in collaboration with @jaz-humphreys.bsky.social and @frannybarbs.bsky.social , with our little contribution, on the role of Ck on Sugar-mediated gemma formation @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The B-class auxin response factor MpARF2 is essential for meristem organization in free-living plant gametophytes
Land plants (embryophytes) are multicellular eukaryotes with a remarkable capacity to grow continuously during their life span. They achieve this by m…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Out today... From Bowman lab, MpARF2 is the first essential transcription factor to be described for meristem maintenance in Marchantia. Glad to have contributed to another paper with Eduardo. #plantsciences #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our paper “Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant” is out in @gigascience.bsky.social! We present a T2T genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia with truly giant chromosomes. 🌱🧬 #plantgenomics #T2T #liverworts @nanoporetech.com
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl !
tinyurl.com/m8tkkxd3
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl !
tinyurl.com/m8tkkxd3
Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant - the complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia (Jungermanniopsida, Marchantiophyta)
AbstractBackground. The liverwort A. endiviifolia, a dioicous, simple thalloid species, is notable for its cryptic diversity, habitat adaptability, genomic
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November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Our paper “Giant chromosomes of a tiny plant” is out in @gigascience.bsky.social! We present a T2T genome assembly of the simple thalloid liverwort Apopellia endiviifolia with truly giant chromosomes. 🌱🧬 #plantgenomics #T2T #liverworts @nanoporetech.com
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl !
tinyurl.com/m8tkkxd3
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl !
tinyurl.com/m8tkkxd3
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Excited to share our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com . We uncover hundreds of inhibitory interactions between common chemical pollutants and human gut bacteria. A thread🧵 (1/10) #microbiomesky #microsky @kiranrpatil.bsky.social lab @mrc-tu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Industrial and agricultural chemicals exhibit antimicrobial activity against human gut bacteria in vitro - Nature Microbiology
Screening of 1,076 compounds reveals 168 chemical pollutants with inhibitory effects on gut bacteria and genetic screens indicate commonality between pollutant and antibiotic resistance.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Excited to share our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com . We uncover hundreds of inhibitory interactions between common chemical pollutants and human gut bacteria. A thread🧵 (1/10) #microbiomesky #microsky @kiranrpatil.bsky.social lab @mrc-tu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BUT: restoring MER3 can partly rescue fertility. With DREAM’s role conserved from plants to animals, we’re excited to shed light on how reproduction is orchestrated across multicellular life! 🌱🔬✨ #Meiosis #Science #PlantBiology
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Transcriptional control of meiotic recombination by the DREAM complex
Meiotic chromosome segregation and recombination, essential for sexual reproduction and evolution, require a specialized gene set. However, how meiotic gene expression is controlled remains largely un...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BUT: restoring MER3 can partly rescue fertility. With DREAM’s role conserved from plants to animals, we’re excited to shed light on how reproduction is orchestrated across multicellular life! 🌱🔬✨ #Meiosis #Science #PlantBiology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r...
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r...
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
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MpNPR modulates lineage-specific oil body development and defence against gastropod herbivory in Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688000v1
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
MpNPR modulates lineage-specific oil body development and defence against gastropod herbivory in Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688000v1
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#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
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SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
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SynBYSS chair
SynBYSS_2026
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November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#SynBYSS 2026 webinar series schedule is live!
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Untenured professors, postdocs & senior grad students with a good publication record & interest in academia,
Please self-nominate to give a talk in 2027 by sending CV to tsmoon7@gmail.com
Thanks, all!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SynBYSS chair
Don't forget to register for the Non-seed. The deadline is on Friday.
Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃
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ALT: a sign that says open with red lights on it .
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November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Don't forget to register for the Non-seed. The deadline is on Friday.
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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.schornacklab.net
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.schornacklab.net
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How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇
New paper! Work led by @p-bourguet.bsky.social and Frédéric Berger at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social and @esasaki007.bsky.social identified how protein CDCA7 helps plants stably maintain epigenetic modifications across generations.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇
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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. 👇
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If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
A new tool for engineering Phaeodactylum tricornutum: the METE promoter drives both high expression and B12‐tuneable regulation of transgenes
The promoter of the METE gene in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is repressed by nanomolar concentrations of vitamin B12. It can be used to tune the expression of genes for reporter proteins or ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Some highlights of the wonderful visit to Huazhong Agricultural University. Great scientific discussions and the best food. Thanks professor Fei Zhang for hosting.
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Some highlights of the wonderful visit to Huazhong Agricultural University. Great scientific discussions and the best food. Thanks professor Fei Zhang for hosting.
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Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Glad to see Eftychis CRISPR multiplexing pipeline published now in Journal of Experimental Botany #plantsciences #marchantia academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha
Abstract. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a widely used model organism for studying land plant biology, which has also proven to be a promising test
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October 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Glad to see Eftychis CRISPR multiplexing pipeline published now in Journal of Experimental Botany #plantsciences #marchantia academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
🧵 👇 1/6
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Decay stages of Jurassic wood debris from Scotland: evidence for the coevolution of fungal rot, arthropods and the nurse log strategy
A key feature of extant conifer forests is the high percentage of seeds that germinate and establish on dead wood; in some forests, this can exceed 90%. This deadwood can act as an ideal nursery for...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
🧵 👇 1/6
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧵 👇 1/6
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
Marchantia berteroana at 3000 meters above the sea level. Vallecitos, Mendoza.
September 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Marchantia berteroana at 3000 meters above the sea level. Vallecitos, Mendoza.
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EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏰ From 9:30 am
📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF
For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6
@philcarella.bsky.social
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏰ From 9:30 am
📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF
For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
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4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 | John Innes Centre
General Information Established thanks to the support of the Genetics Society, the Non-Seed Plant Sectional Interest Group brings together UK researchers studying all aspects of plant biology using…
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September 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏰ From 9:30 am
📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF
For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6
@philcarella.bsky.social
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏰ From 9:30 am
📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF
For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge...
💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6
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