Priya Ramakrishna
@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at EPFL, CH •
🌱 Interested in cellular adaptation to environmental stress • Microscopy enthusiast 🔬• Cryo-elemental imaging ❄️ • #newPI
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/pal/
🌱 Interested in cellular adaptation to environmental stress • Microscopy enthusiast 🔬• Cryo-elemental imaging ❄️ • #newPI
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/pal/
Pinned
Plant Adaptation Lab (PAL) – Situated at Institute of Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
ramakrishna.ch
🌱 Excited to share that I will start my lab at EPFL, CH this June supported by a @snsf.ch Starting Grant! ramakrishna.ch
We are interested in plant mineral nutrition and will deep-dive into the fine-tuned mechanisms employed by plants to adapt to abiotic stresses such as salinity.
#newPI #plantsci
We are interested in plant mineral nutrition and will deep-dive into the fine-tuned mechanisms employed by plants to adapt to abiotic stresses such as salinity.
#newPI #plantsci
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Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️
Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱
@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
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Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience
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Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells
in Microbiology Spectrum
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in Microbiology Spectrum
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells | Microbiology Spectrum
Accurate and reliable measurements of cellular properties are fundamental to understand
the function and activity of microbes. This study addresses to what extent Raman microspectroscopy
and nano-scal...
journals.asm.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells
in Microbiology Spectrum
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
in Microbiology Spectrum
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚
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📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
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1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
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Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾
Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III - Nature
An approach that combines single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed perturbation identifies genes that enable the biosynthesis of direct precursors of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, whose curren...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾
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🎉🆕📰🎉: Leaf Na+ effects and multi-trait GWAS point to salt exclusion as the key mechanism for reproductive stage salinity tolerance in rice
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🎉🆕📰🎉: Leaf Na+ effects and multi-trait GWAS point to salt exclusion as the key mechanism for reproductive stage salinity tolerance in rice
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning
In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization,
linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis.
The research uncove...
www.cell.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664
Plastids in a Pinch: Coordinating Stress and Developmental Responses Through Retrograde Signalling
Plastids can sense environmental stress and improve whole plant adaptation through retrograde communication to the nucleus. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of integrated canonical and ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664
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90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
Omaya Dudin
Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why
unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
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New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM
wwwfbm.unil.ch
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now!
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition
Iron acquisition is a critical challenge for plants, especially in iron-deficient soils. Recent research underscores the importance of root-exuded coumarins in modulating the root microbiome community...
www.biorxiv.org
June 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now!
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change.
The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.
The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.
A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657543v1
June 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change.
The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.
The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.
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🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱
🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3]
We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting.
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
bsky.app/profile/fase...
🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3]
We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting.
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
bsky.app/profile/fase...
June 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱
🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3]
We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting.
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
bsky.app/profile/fase...
🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3]
We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting.
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
bsky.app/profile/fase...
Valuable advance in correlative #cryoCLEM - #CryoET imaging - especially applied to a challenging plant tissue!
Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱
Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts!
#plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging
Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱
Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts!
#plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging
Check out our latest work, featuring beautiful, first-of-their-kind cryo-tomograms of crucial plant cell wall modifications, Casparian strips, suberin lamellae, lignified xylem walls and more! From our Electron Microscopy Facility led by @chgenoud.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Imaging of specialized plant cell walls by improved cryo-CLEM and cryo-electron tomography
Cryo-focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FIBSEM) has become essential for preparing electron-transparent lamellae from cryo-plunged and high-pressure frozen specimens. However, targeti...
www.biorxiv.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Valuable advance in correlative #cryoCLEM - #CryoET imaging - especially applied to a challenging plant tissue!
Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱
Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts!
#plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging
Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱
Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts!
#plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging
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This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!
📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱
👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
#plantscience
👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
#plantscience
June 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!
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Subcellular plant carbohydrate metabolism under elevated temperature (Charlotte Seydel , Martin Heß , Laura Schröder , Andreas Klingl , Thomas Nägele) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
doi.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature.
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Active transport enables protein condensation in cells
The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
www.science.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature.
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds - Diao et al. - Plant, Cell & Environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds
Stable oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δ2H) isotope compositions of tree-ring compounds preserve information about environmental waters; however, our understanding of their isotopic relationships is hamp...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds - Diao et al. - Plant, Cell & Environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
🧵👇
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
🧵👇
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
🧵👇
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
🧵👇
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New paper alert!
Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible.
Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#plantscience
Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible.
Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#plantscience
May 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New paper alert!
Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible.
Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#plantscience
Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible.
Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#plantscience
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🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology.
🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social
We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.
#AcademicJobs
🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social
We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.
#AcademicJobs
Plant Biology - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Department of Biology - English
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de
May 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology.
🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social
We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.
#AcademicJobs
🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social
We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.
#AcademicJobs
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We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below:
career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
Career Opportunities: Postdoc or PhD student position in Plant Physiology (22260)
career5.successfactors.eu
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below:
career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
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Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...