Rachel Wells
@oilseedrachel.bsky.social
Brassica scientist working towards crop improvement
Friday flea beetle husbandry :)
It’s been a busy week with a conference, time course experiments and finally mucking in with the team to sort the colonies :)
It’s been a busy week with a conference, time course experiments and finally mucking in with the team to sort the colonies :)
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Friday flea beetle husbandry :)
It’s been a busy week with a conference, time course experiments and finally mucking in with the team to sort the colonies :)
It’s been a busy week with a conference, time course experiments and finally mucking in with the team to sort the colonies :)
Great to see this work out in press and the data released for access. A great collaboration from the Brassica BRAVO team @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @rothamsted.bsky.social and JIC informatics. Well done Hugh, Laura and team!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A dataset of tissue-specific gene expression dynamics during seed development in Brassica - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A dataset of tissue-specific gene expression dynamics during seed development in Brassica
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to see this work out in press and the data released for access. A great collaboration from the Brassica BRAVO team @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @rothamsted.bsky.social and JIC informatics. Well done Hugh, Laura and team!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Shadow of the enemy for @samtmugford.bsky.social
So many aphids on my weeping silver birch right now!
So many aphids on my weeping silver birch right now!
April 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Shadow of the enemy for @samtmugford.bsky.social
So many aphids on my weeping silver birch right now!
So many aphids on my weeping silver birch right now!
Lovely to have a visit @johninnescentre.bsky.social from the Institute and of Vegetables and Flowers, CAAS, Beijing. Lots of chat about #entomology and #brassica diversity.
April 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Lovely to have a visit @johninnescentre.bsky.social from the Institute and of Vegetables and Flowers, CAAS, Beijing. Lots of chat about #entomology and #brassica diversity.
Come join us for a Royal Society of Biology Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer!
my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...
my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...
mySociety: Me and the RSB
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April 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Come join us for a Royal Society of Biology Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer!
my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...
my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...
Rex the @johninnescentre.bsky.social science cat with sunny morning scientific musings by the pond
February 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rex the @johninnescentre.bsky.social science cat with sunny morning scientific musings by the pond
Lovely to see this update on bioRxiv. So much work by Sana and the team! Was lovely for Ruth to experience Lyon and add our curve registration methodology :)
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Arabidopsis natural variation induces complex transcriptomic heterochronies at the floral transition and perturbs the coupling between leaf and flower development by an unexpected genetic control
Plant development may be viewed as a sequence of tightly orchestrated events in space and time. The coordination of developmental stages gives rise to various organs, such as leaves or flowers. For in...
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Lovely to see this update on bioRxiv. So much work by Sana and the team! Was lovely for Ruth to experience Lyon and add our curve registration methodology :)
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Reposted by Rachel Wells
Amazing to see PTI and ETI suppression taking place from same Aphid. I'm imagining the evolutionary arms race that led to this 😍
Congrats to Team Hogenhout.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to Team Hogenhout.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 21, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Amazing to see PTI and ETI suppression taking place from same Aphid. I'm imagining the evolutionary arms race that led to this 😍
Congrats to Team Hogenhout.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to Team Hogenhout.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Rachel Wells
Congratulations @delfidorussen.bsky.social on being awarded the #IWGSC -Feuillet Early Career award to present your work on #wheat homoeolog transcriptional compensation at PAG.🌾 #ProudPI.
Want to know more about #IWGSC-Feuillet Early Career Awardee Delfi Dorussen @johninnescentre.bsky.social ? Read her profile here: www.wheatgenome.org/people/early...
January 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Congratulations @delfidorussen.bsky.social on being awarded the #IWGSC -Feuillet Early Career award to present your work on #wheat homoeolog transcriptional compensation at PAG.🌾 #ProudPI.
January 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hello San Diego!!! Happy to be attending PAG
January 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hello San Diego!!! Happy to be attending PAG
Love this memory of crossing with my girl. She made a pretty good RA. A few years and she will be part of the summer casual staff team. Be the bee!!!!
December 13, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Love this memory of crossing with my girl. She made a pretty good RA. A few years and she will be part of the summer casual staff team. Be the bee!!!!
Reposted by Rachel Wells
Come and join an amazing community of researchers in plant-insect interactions, Group leader position at the John Innes Centre
#plants #insects
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...
#plants #insects
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...
Plant-Insect Group Leader | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on plant-arthropod interactions, including insects.
www.jic.ac.uk
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Come and join an amazing community of researchers in plant-insect interactions, Group leader position at the John Innes Centre
#plants #insects
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...
#plants #insects
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...
No better place on a cold day that a warm lit glasshouse :)
December 4, 2024 at 12:31 PM
No better place on a cold day that a warm lit glasshouse :)
Oooooh, I just love this bit. A tiny romanesco!!!!
November 28, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Oooooh, I just love this bit. A tiny romanesco!!!!
Lovely to have a networking visit from the Xianghu Laboratory, Hangzhou. A bit chilly in the field!Really hope to visit in the future to talk #OSR
November 28, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Lovely to have a networking visit from the Xianghu Laboratory, Hangzhou. A bit chilly in the field!Really hope to visit in the future to talk #OSR
And so begins establishing my network on here after moving across from Twitter.
Behold the #Brassica #oilseedrape #OSR and #CSFB #fleabeetle
Behold the #Brassica #oilseedrape #OSR and #CSFB #fleabeetle
November 28, 2024 at 11:49 AM
And so begins establishing my network on here after moving across from Twitter.
Behold the #Brassica #oilseedrape #OSR and #CSFB #fleabeetle
Behold the #Brassica #oilseedrape #OSR and #CSFB #fleabeetle