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Mayank Sharma
@mayankdu.bsky.social
Oberassistent (Established Researcher-I), Lecturer @ETH Zürich, Plant Cell Biologist, All about #chloroplasts #starchbiosynthesis #membraneremodeling (tweets=my opinion)
Pinned
Hot off the press, first PI paper 🎉. Reporting a novel protein (VIA1) involved in thylakoid membrane biogenesis. VIA1 (similar to ESCRT-II) and bind to chloroplast ESCRT-III (VIPP1). Showing a direct role of VIPP1 in thylakoid biogenesis.
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/msrepdna
Reposted by Mayank Sharma
1/ Preprint alert:

🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄‍♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Conference
Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants", annual meeting of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Hey #TeamTomo …would you like to try some 🍦ICECREAM!? Our @unibas.ch colleagues over at the @ivandokmanic.bsky.social lab have developed a stunningly effective tool to de-noise and de-wedge your tomograms. The contrast and details will give you brain freeze! 🍨❄️🤯

Please try, we need feedback 🧪🧶🧬🔬
October 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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ETH Zurich just turned 170 years!

Have a look into our past here:
www.instagram.com/p/DP6Jr-ACp0...
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Concluded the teaching for this semester. 🧑‍🏫 The greatest feeling is to transfer the knowledge. 💡
October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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What else I am offering
• My services for transforming PhD theses into Thesis Glossies with Thesis & Zo
• And not to forget my blogs about recent plant science articles under Plant & Zo
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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So, we all know that VIPP1 (the Very Important Protein in Plants) is the "photosynthetic ESCRT-III", required for the biogenesis and maintenance of light-harvesting thylakoids. But what about ESCRT-II, you say? ...Meet VIA1! Congrats @mayankdu.bsky.social on your lab's first paper! #PlantScience 🧪 🌾
Hot off the press, first PI paper 🎉. Reporting a novel protein (VIA1) involved in thylakoid membrane biogenesis. VIA1 (similar to ESCRT-II) and bind to chloroplast ESCRT-III (VIPP1). Showing a direct role of VIPP1 in thylakoid biogenesis.
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/msrepdna
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hot off the press, first PI paper 🎉. Reporting a novel protein (VIA1) involved in thylakoid membrane biogenesis. VIA1 (similar to ESCRT-II) and bind to chloroplast ESCRT-III (VIPP1). Showing a direct role of VIPP1 in thylakoid biogenesis.
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/msrepdna
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Reposted by Mayank Sharma
New work from the Synoxys lab!
About how does a plant’s habitat, whether growing in water, drylands, or typical soils, shape the evolution of its oxygen-sensing machinery.
Indulge!
#plantscience
#ISPLORE2025JP
Thrilled to make my first post here 🌱 Right after presenting at #ISPLORE2025JP, where I shared our work on how anatomy & habitat shaped the oxygen-sensing machinery of angiosperms. Please check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC!
This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It is not often that you see shiny flowers but these water-buttercup, Ranunculus lingua, are definitely shiny. They thank this to a unique and rare combination of traits. 🧵1/3
August 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Our new review with Benoit Menand and Jose Crespo on the emerging connections between TOR, chloroplasts and photosynthesis 😎 in plants 🌿and algae 🦠 #PlantScience url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-...
August 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Starch Enthusiasts can register for Starch Round Table 2025 by 3rd October: Minneapolis USA

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Transact Campus
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August 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Webinar : Optimizing Immunoprecipitation of FP-Tagged Proteins in Plant Cell Extracts

📅 Date: August 7th, 2025
🕒 Time: 9AM CDT / 3PM BST / 4PM CEST
🔗 Register here: ptglab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#PlantBiology #ProteinBiochemistry #Immunoprecipitation #GFPTrap #MolecularBiology
July 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Outstanding work by @anyalb.bsky.social in my lab - she targeted enzymes to synthetic biomolecular condensates in plants and showed increases in metabolic pathway activity, likely due to protection of the introduced enzymes from proteolysis
#PlantScience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Preprint alert, please share!!
With our new study, we engineered an orthogonal hypoxia-responsive system in plants inspired by mammalian HIF protein degradation. We demonstrated that this system could control protein stability and activity, enabling modulation of Oxygen sensing outputs. Here's how:
December 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM