Rodrigo Reis
rodrigoreislab.com
Rodrigo Reis
@rodrigoreislab.com
A/Professor at UniBern.bsky.social working on posttranscriptional regulation in plant adaptation.
RNA structure; Thermomorphogenesis
www.rodrigoreislab.com 🇧🇷🇦🇺🇦🇷🇨🇭🇮🇳🇨🇳🇪🇨🇮🇷
Pinned
My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!!

- We identified nearly 60 conserved RNA structures in plastids #chloroplast #RNA
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis

Link to both preprints below
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I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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We have an open Post Doc position in plant-volatile interactions, starting April 2026. Ideal if you love to use molecular tools to understand the natural world and improve agriculture. Interested? Send your CV, grades, motivation letter and refs (single pdf!) to vera.ogi@unibe.ch. Please share.
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢 Thermomorphogenesis community 📢
I’m very happy to announce that Srinivas Kunta will present his paper on PIFs in tomato thermomorphogenesis, where they show key differences to Arabidopsis PIFs.
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The role of post-translational modifications in the dynamics of cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates in #plants

A #ResearchReview by Legoux et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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This week I've been designing constructs and what I found very helpful is the Fluorescent Protein BLAST tool from FBbase. Don't need to guess which fluorescent protein people were using. Just run FB Blast.

www.fpbase.org/blast/
FPbase Fluorescent Protein Sequence BLAST
Search the database at FPbase for fluorescent protein sequences similar to a query amino acid or nucleotide sequence.
www.fpbase.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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And it's out!
Our paper on the optimization of smFISH to quantify cytokine mRNAs in T cells is published in EMBO Journal.
Using this protocol, we gathered interesting insights on cytokine mRNAs co-expression and localization in these teeny tiny human cells.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's tomorrow!! Don't miss out!!
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Sreya Das will present again (!) in our JC. This time, she will present her paper on the role of PIF3 in thermomorphogenesis.
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I really enjoyed recording "Big Biology"! We talked about A LOT of things, including my new passion project qedscience.com (check it out, more on this and big announcement coming soon:) 😍😍😍🔥🔥⚡️⚡️@bigbiology.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bigbiolo...
Biology outside the box (Ep 140)
What’s the value of risk-taking in research?
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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🌱 Join us tomorrow for the seminar "RNA regulation in warm environments" by Rodrigo Reis (@rodrigoreislab.com) from the Berna University, Switzerland

👀 Don't miss it!
📍 CRAG Auditorium

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/pajuebddxs
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It's next week!
Don't miss out!
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Sreya Das will present again (!) in our JC. This time, she will present her paper on the role of PIF3 in thermomorphogenesis.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
I’m very excited to announce that Sreya Das will present again (!) in our JC. This time, she will present her paper on the role of PIF3 in thermomorphogenesis.
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
September 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's tomorrow!!
Come join us!
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
It's next week! Don't miss out!
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...
Laura Lorenzo Orts
IMB Mainz
www.imb.de
September 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣
It's next week! Don't miss out!
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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How will AI change the creative scientific process? Check out our discussion with the Google Co-Scientist team on the latest episode of the Night Science Podcast!
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Our lab's @micropub7n.bsky.social manuscript led by former BSc thesis student Karen Liu is now published online! @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Here we report defence hormone-related gene expression in pathogen-infected tomato plants at two temperatures:
micropublication.org/journals/bio...
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Excited to share my postdoc work, out on bioRxiv today! Histones package DNA into nucleosomes to form the building blocks of chromatin, but how modular and programmable is this system? 1/9
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Nice interview to Katie Peichel @currentbiology.bsky.social

I completely agree with her claims for more funding for curiosity-driven research, basic Science... Science.

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Catherine Peichel
Interview with Katie Peichel, who studies the evolutionary genetics of sticklebacks at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
www.cell.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM