Sebastián R. Moreno
@sebamorenor.bsky.social
Plant developmental biologist. 🌱 Post-doc researcher at @slcuplants @Cambridge_uni Working with plant stem cells. 🧬 EN/ES (He/him) 🇨🇱
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Thank you for an energizing meeting with an amazing group of scientists in a beautiful volcano-strewn landscape. Wonderful event
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thank you for an energizing meeting with an amazing group of scientists in a beautiful volcano-strewn landscape. Wonderful event
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CellWhisperer: a multimodal AI that enables interactive scRNA-seq data exploration with natural-language conversations.
CellWhisperer: a multimodal AI that enables interactive scRNA-seq data exploration with natural-language conversations.
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data
Nature Biotechnology - CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
rdcu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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CellWhisperer: a multimodal AI that enables interactive scRNA-seq data exploration with natural-language conversations.
CellWhisperer: a multimodal AI that enables interactive scRNA-seq data exploration with natural-language conversations.
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Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition
#PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
#PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition
#PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
#PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
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Excited to announce our paper is out! Congrats to @pauformosa.bsky.social, @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, and Xihang Wang on this fun and beautiful story. We answered a question about the randomness of giant cell spacing that I have had for at least 15 years.
How are #plant #leaf epidermal cells patterned? @roederlab.bsky.social &co show that the pathway controlling #GiantCell formation in #sepals also controls cell size in #Arabidopsis leaves, via cell-autonomous & stochastic specification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/491F1qQ
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excited to announce our paper is out! Congrats to @pauformosa.bsky.social, @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, and Xihang Wang on this fun and beautiful story. We answered a question about the randomness of giant cell spacing that I have had for at least 15 years.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Also happy to say that Arabidopsis epidermal cells make the cover of @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, showing that nitrate availability impacts pectin metabolism and cell wall mechanics for growth 🌱
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Also happy to say that Arabidopsis epidermal cells make the cover of @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, showing that nitrate availability impacts pectin metabolism and cell wall mechanics for growth 🌱
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Beautiful story from @vnunezpascual.bsky.social, @robinsonsci.bsky.social and Rodrigo Gutierrez'lab! Congrats to the authors! 👏🤩 #plantscience #nitrateanddevelopment #pectin #cellwall
Also happy to say that Arabidopsis epidermal cells make the cover of @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, showing that nitrate availability impacts pectin metabolism and cell wall mechanics for growth 🌱
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Beautiful story from @vnunezpascual.bsky.social, @robinsonsci.bsky.social and Rodrigo Gutierrez'lab! Congrats to the authors! 👏🤩 #plantscience #nitrateanddevelopment #pectin #cellwall
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Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - @pdhsu.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org go.nature.com/43kdvBg
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - Nature Biotechnology
Engineered DNA recombinases efficiently and specifically insert genetic cargos without the use of landing pads.
go.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases - @pdhsu.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org go.nature.com/43kdvBg
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IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
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Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
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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
🌾 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
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
🌾 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
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This is key, & one of the main reasons why we organize the Molecular Biosystems Conference, which takes place in Chile and serves as a key hub in the region.
We hope more funders & sponsors agree and will support us in our mission, to help us continue organizing it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We hope more funders & sponsors agree and will support us in our mission, to help us continue organizing it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is key, & one of the main reasons why we organize the Molecular Biosystems Conference, which takes place in Chile and serves as a key hub in the region.
We hope more funders & sponsors agree and will support us in our mission, to help us continue organizing it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We hope more funders & sponsors agree and will support us in our mission, to help us continue organizing it
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out the finale of the Plant Cell Identity webinar series! 🌱 🔬 🧬
We had a panel discussion with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and Marc Libault, on why and how we define cell types, and what could be done better.
I love this question and its complexity! ✨
We had a panel discussion with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and Marc Libault, on why and how we define cell types, and what could be done better.
I love this question and its complexity! ✨
In case you missed it...
The final installment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series - The Open Panel Discussion, is now available on YouTube!
youtu.be/BNy3dNRphnc
The final installment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series - The Open Panel Discussion, is now available on YouTube!
youtu.be/BNy3dNRphnc
Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series - The Open Panel Discussion
YouTube video by Plant Cell Atlas
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Check out the finale of the Plant Cell Identity webinar series! 🌱 🔬 🧬
We had a panel discussion with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and Marc Libault, on why and how we define cell types, and what could be done better.
I love this question and its complexity! ✨
We had a panel discussion with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social and Marc Libault, on why and how we define cell types, and what could be done better.
I love this question and its complexity! ✨
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🎉🎖️Congratulations to 🌟Gabriel Péréz-Lara🌟 (UNAB, Santiago, Chile), winner of the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at #MBioSys25, held in Puerto Varas, Chile! 🎉👏👏👏🎊
@molbiosystems.bsky.social
@molbiosystems.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎉🎖️Congratulations to 🌟Gabriel Péréz-Lara🌟 (UNAB, Santiago, Chile), winner of the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at #MBioSys25, held in Puerto Varas, Chile! 🎉👏👏👏🎊
@molbiosystems.bsky.social
@molbiosystems.bsky.social
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
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“The scientific Nobels announced this week underscore that point. All three awards — granted each year in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research…Decades of inquiry paved the way for the technology, treatments and toys of tomorrow.” 🎁
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“The scientific Nobels announced this week underscore that point. All three awards — granted each year in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research…Decades of inquiry paved the way for the technology, treatments and toys of tomorrow.” 🎁
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New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
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Thank you all. And we hope to see you again in 2027 for the premier conference on gene regulation in Latin America!
🚀 Another edition of the Molecular Biosystems Conference is in the books! #mbiosys25
Thank you to our amazing speakers, participants, and sponsors, including ICGEB and @unubiolac.bsky.social, for making Puerto Varas a hub of exciting discussions on gene regulation and functional genomics. 🔽
Thank you to our amazing speakers, participants, and sponsors, including ICGEB and @unubiolac.bsky.social, for making Puerto Varas a hub of exciting discussions on gene regulation and functional genomics. 🔽
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you all. And we hope to see you again in 2027 for the premier conference on gene regulation in Latin America!
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I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid
Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid
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My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
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Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...
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Really nice work with an adaptive twist on SAM hydraulics. Congrats to @weibingyang.bsky.social and all involved 🌱🌊
#plantscience
www.cell.com/developmenta...
#plantscience
www.cell.com/developmenta...
Epidermal hydrodynamics controls water homeostasis of shoot meristems for plant adaptation to terrestrial environments
Zhu et al. uncover an evolutionarily conserved water transport pathway in the epidermis
of plant shoot meristems that maintains water homeostasis and regulates stem cell
activity. This epidermal hydro...
www.cell.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Really nice work with an adaptive twist on SAM hydraulics. Congrats to @weibingyang.bsky.social and all involved 🌱🌊
#plantscience
www.cell.com/developmenta...
#plantscience
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
www.cam.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)