Yiliang Ding
@yiliangding.bsky.social
Tenured Group Leader @JohnInnesCentre, Honorary Professor @uniofeastanglia, Honorary Group Leader @BabrahamInst. Working on RNA structure functionalities
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Yiliang Ding
@yiliangding.bsky.social
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NEWS - Professor Yiliang Ding awarded prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship
These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏
👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏
👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
Super lucky to get the Faraday!Very grateful for the support from @johninnescentre.bsky.social @carolined2.bsky.social, my group and all the collaborators/friends🙏
Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science community!@haopengyu.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist
We’ve built this virtual plant scientist PlantScience.ai to grow alongside human researchers🌿. It thinks like an expert, cites like a scholar, and never stops learning. Come and have a chat with it! @yiliangding.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PlantScience.ai
PlantScience.ai
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Rather than a static database, we've built an AI plant scientist that could continuously learn new knowledge😃Hope it will help the plant science community!@haopengyu.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social #AIscientist
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Our pan-gtranscriptome analysis delivers a detailed roadmap for gene expression and regulation promising to fuel innovations in crop improvement to face climate challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome - Nature Communications
Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat genomes, identify core and dispensable transcriptome, and reveal conservation and divergence of gene expression balance across homoeologous subgenomes.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Our pan-gtranscriptome analysis delivers a detailed roadmap for gene expression and regulation promising to fuel innovations in crop improvement to face climate challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earlhaminst.bsky.social @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social @edithcowanuni.bsky.social
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Exciting news in wheat science!
A new study in @natcomms.nature.com shows the first wheat pan-transcriptome: uncovering hidden diversity across modern wheat lines 🌾
Congrats to @earlhaminst.bsky.social & @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social for this major advance!
➡️ buff.ly/XEQlCnT
#WheatConnect
A new study in @natcomms.nature.com shows the first wheat pan-transcriptome: uncovering hidden diversity across modern wheat lines 🌾
Congrats to @earlhaminst.bsky.social & @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social for this major advance!
➡️ buff.ly/XEQlCnT
#WheatConnect
De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome - Nature Communications
Available wheat genomes are annotated by projecting Chinese Spring gene models across the new assemblies. Here, the authors generate de novo gene annotations for the 9 wheat genomes, identify core…
buff.ly
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Exciting news in wheat science!
A new study in @natcomms.nature.com shows the first wheat pan-transcriptome: uncovering hidden diversity across modern wheat lines 🌾
Congrats to @earlhaminst.bsky.social & @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social for this major advance!
➡️ buff.ly/XEQlCnT
#WheatConnect
A new study in @natcomms.nature.com shows the first wheat pan-transcriptome: uncovering hidden diversity across modern wheat lines 🌾
Congrats to @earlhaminst.bsky.social & @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social for this major advance!
➡️ buff.ly/XEQlCnT
#WheatConnect
Congratulations! Very cool!
Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Congratulations! Very cool!
Super successful workshop! Thank you very much to all the speakers including all the talent postdocs and students! @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Super successful workshop! Thank you very much to all the speakers including all the talent postdocs and students! @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001
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Reminder to register for “Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age” a Nature Conferences here in Boston, December 8th - 10th! natureconferences.streamgo.live/cracking-the...
Great line of up RNA speakers covering basic and translational nucleic acid biology+recent clinical successes
Great line of up RNA speakers covering basic and translational nucleic acid biology+recent clinical successes
Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age
The 2025 conference brings together leading academics and industry professionals to explore developments and challenges in the rapidly evolving field of nucleic acid medicines. By uniting researchers ...
natureconferences.streamgo.live
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder to register for “Cracking the Code: Nucleic Acid Medicines Coming of Age” a Nature Conferences here in Boston, December 8th - 10th! natureconferences.streamgo.live/cracking-the...
Great line of up RNA speakers covering basic and translational nucleic acid biology+recent clinical successes
Great line of up RNA speakers covering basic and translational nucleic acid biology+recent clinical successes
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Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
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This Thursday AI in RNA biology event organised by @yiliangding.bsky.social @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social! Don’t miss!
Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This Thursday AI in RNA biology event organised by @yiliangding.bsky.social @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social! Don’t miss!
Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Our annual event at Norwich RNA Club: AI in RNA Biology. Great speakers! Please join us this Thursday at 2pm @norwichrnaclub.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social
Super proud 👍👍👍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social
I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.
🧪 Can AI learn the language of plant life?
HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖
#HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy
HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖
#HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy
September 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Super proud 👍👍👍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Excellent example of the great nucleic acids research at UCL.
75% slowing of clinical progression of Huntington's disease using gene-silencing technology.
Great science with massive impact on patients from Prof Sarah Tabrizi and team 👏
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
75% slowing of clinical progression of Huntington's disease using gene-silencing technology.
Great science with massive impact on patients from Prof Sarah Tabrizi and team 👏
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Excellent example of the great nucleic acids research at UCL.
75% slowing of clinical progression of Huntington's disease using gene-silencing technology.
Great science with massive impact on patients from Prof Sarah Tabrizi and team 👏
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
75% slowing of clinical progression of Huntington's disease using gene-silencing technology.
Great science with massive impact on patients from Prof Sarah Tabrizi and team 👏
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Super cool!
In a new preprint from @brianhie.bsky.social's lab, the team reports the first generative design of viable bacteriophage genomes.
Leveraging Evo 1 & Evo 2, they generated whole genome sequences, resulting in 16 viable phages with distinct genomic architectures.
Leveraging Evo 1 & Evo 2, they generated whole genome sequences, resulting in 16 viable phages with distinct genomic architectures.
September 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Super cool!
Big congratulations 🎉🍾🎊
The Research Briefing for out Nature Chemistry paper on magnetically activated nucleic acids/synthetic cells is now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a more accessible summary of the work :) We hope you enjoy!
#chemsky 🧪 🧬 🧲
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a more accessible summary of the work :) We hope you enjoy!
#chemsky 🧪 🧬 🧲
September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Big congratulations 🎉🍾🎊
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Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join Ding-Dean Group, working on cutting-edge science in Arabidopsis molecular genetics.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Closing date - 8 October 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - Full time, 36 months
@yiliangding.bsky.social
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Closing date - 8 October 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - Full time, 36 months
@yiliangding.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher (Ding-Dean Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Ding-Dean Group at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join Ding-Dean Group, working on cutting-edge science in Arabidopsis molecular genetics.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Closing date - 8 October 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - Full time, 36 months
@yiliangding.bsky.social
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Closing date - 8 October 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - Full time, 36 months
@yiliangding.bsky.social
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Our paper on VEL-dependent polymerization is featured on the cover of this month's issue of @cp-molcell.bsky.social 🎉 The cover art was created by my talented friend Awesta - the result of hours of brainstorming together over video. Great fun teaming up for this!
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Our paper on VEL-dependent polymerization is featured on the cover of this month's issue of @cp-molcell.bsky.social 🎉 The cover art was created by my talented friend Awesta - the result of hours of brainstorming together over video. Great fun teaming up for this!
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NEWS - Shining new light on the processes that switch off genes
In new research which appears in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social, Dean group researchers have used Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate the functional role of polymerization in epigenetic silencing.
okt.to/lWxTgc
In new research which appears in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social, Dean group researchers have used Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate the functional role of polymerization in epigenetic silencing.
okt.to/lWxTgc
September 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
NEWS - Shining new light on the processes that switch off genes
In new research which appears in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social, Dean group researchers have used Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate the functional role of polymerization in epigenetic silencing.
okt.to/lWxTgc
In new research which appears in Molecular Cell @cellpress.bsky.social, Dean group researchers have used Arabidopsis thaliana to investigate the functional role of polymerization in epigenetic silencing.
okt.to/lWxTgc
Many thanks to Prof Chun Kit Kwok for giving an outstanding talk 🙏 Such exciting work! It’s super nice to see he is doing so well👍👍👍We got him a GQS 3D model 😊
September 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Many thanks to Prof Chun Kit Kwok for giving an outstanding talk 🙏 Such exciting work! It’s super nice to see he is doing so well👍👍👍We got him a GQS 3D model 😊
Many thanks to Prof Chun Kit Kwok for giving an outstanding talk 🙏 Such exciting work! It’s super nice to see he is doing so well 👍👍👍We got him a GQS 3D model 😊
September 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Many thanks to Prof Chun Kit Kwok for giving an outstanding talk 🙏 Such exciting work! It’s super nice to see he is doing so well 👍👍👍We got him a GQS 3D model 😊
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Our next speaker at Norwich RNA Club is Prof Chun Kit Kwok from City University of Hong Kong. Please join us this Friday at 2pm at @johninnescentre.bsky.social . @yiliangding.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Our next speaker at Norwich RNA Club is Prof Chun Kit Kwok from City University of Hong Kong. Please join us this Friday at 2pm at @johninnescentre.bsky.social . @yiliangding.bsky.social @whaerty.bsky.social @alperakay.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
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We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships | Royal Society
Seven pioneering researchers have been announced as the first recipients.
royalsociety.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
Reposted by Yiliang Ding
Congratulations to all the successful researchers, including our own @yiliangding.bsky.social - the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship offers her the opportunity to take her work on RNA structure profiling methods and AI powered models to another level. 👏
We are very happy to announce the seven pioneering researchers who are the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, long-term awards that support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships | Royal Society
Seven pioneering researchers have been announced as the first recipients.
royalsociety.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congratulations to all the successful researchers, including our own @yiliangding.bsky.social - the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship offers her the opportunity to take her work on RNA structure profiling methods and AI powered models to another level. 👏
Super lucky to get the Faraday!Very grateful for the support from @johninnescentre.bsky.social @carolined2.bsky.social, my group and all the collaborators/friends🙏
NEWS - Professor Yiliang Ding awarded prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship
These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏
👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
These long-term @royalsociety.org awards are worth £8m over 10 years to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Congratulations @yiliangding.bsky.social 👏
👉 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
August 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Super lucky to get the Faraday!Very grateful for the support from @johninnescentre.bsky.social @carolined2.bsky.social, my group and all the collaborators/friends🙏
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New opportunity in the lab for a research assistant (technician), to support our BBSRC and @erc.europa.eu funded project @microclockerc.bsky.social on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock. For this, we're looking for microbiology research experience #chronobiology www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...
Research Assistant (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Dodd Group, conducting cutting-edge research into circadian rhythms in bacteria and plants.
www.jic.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New opportunity in the lab for a research assistant (technician), to support our BBSRC and @erc.europa.eu funded project @microclockerc.bsky.social on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock. For this, we're looking for microbiology research experience #chronobiology www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...