Alexander Ciattoni
@aciattoni.bsky.social
Plant Scientist @ipbhalle.bsky.social. Currently doing a PhD with @marischuster.bsky.social
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Undergrads from Canada, Ireland, UK, & US: Don't miss the DAAD-RISE #plantscience funded internship at @ipbhalle.bsky.social with @snp2prot.bsky.social. Apply by Nov 30th: daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship 🌱
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Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
journals.plos.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Periodic PSA: "western" should be lowercase in western blot – unlike the "Southern" blot, which was named for a person, the western blot was named for a laugh
October 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Periodic PSA: "western" should be lowercase in western blot – unlike the "Southern" blot, which was named for a person, the western blot was named for a laugh
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist".
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
In my slide, 10/10 are white men.
Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again.
Here below you have 24 images.
20 are men, 4 are women (progress!).
23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Rewriting the code of plant immunity go.nature.com/475WgV7
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Rewriting the code of plant immunity go.nature.com/475WgV7
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens.
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen
Plants secrete a variety of proteases as a defense response during infection by microbial pathogens. However, the relationship between their catalytic activities and antimicrobial functions remains la...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens.
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈
While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈
While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social
Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social
My flatmate asked if I’ve ever made a GMO. This sparked a discussion making me realize how challenging science communication is and how scientists often lack training in it. I’m catching up with a podcast by @orlandodl.bsky.social that explains GMOs to a broader audience... while working with GMOs😅
September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My flatmate asked if I’ve ever made a GMO. This sparked a discussion making me realize how challenging science communication is and how scientists often lack training in it. I’m catching up with a podcast by @orlandodl.bsky.social that explains GMOs to a broader audience... while working with GMOs😅
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video!
Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#peerreview #preprint #scipub
Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#peerreview #preprint #scipub
Are you unsure what preprint peer review is? Or how to get started reviewing preprints?
Wonder no more! Our latest 5 min video explains all 📽️
youtu.be/bd8QRNm69P4
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#scicomm #preprints
Wonder no more! Our latest 5 min video explains all 📽️
youtu.be/bd8QRNm69P4
Subscribe to our newsletter for more: bit.ly/RIsub
#scicomm #preprints
What is preprint peer review?
You know what a preprint is but what is preprint peer review and how does it work? How is that different from journal organised peer review? We’ll answer these questions and explore the variety of preprint review services, highlighting the ones we most recommend.
To learn more, visit https://rippl
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video!
Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#peerreview #preprint #scipub
Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social
#peerreview #preprint #scipub
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I’m so proud to be a part of this OER that aims to lower the barrier for professors to incorporate molecular modeling & visualization into their courses (i.e. teaching students to interact w/3D models of proteins & other macromolecular structures &/or making custom figures)! doi.org/10.15781/m4z...
Seeing the Invisible: Learning to Teach with Biomolecular Visualization – Simple Book Publishing
Seeing the Invisible: Learning to Teach with Biomolecular Visualization – Simple Book Publishing
doi.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m so proud to be a part of this OER that aims to lower the barrier for professors to incorporate molecular modeling & visualization into their courses (i.e. teaching students to interact w/3D models of proteins & other macromolecular structures &/or making custom figures)! doi.org/10.15781/m4z...
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Stop citing journal names in your presentations - but PMIDs are too long (I will never get all of those numbers in the correct order!)
Check out this awesome tool that takes your DOI from 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002882 to pw75.
Much more accessible and easy for the audience!
Check out this awesome tool that takes your DOI from 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002882 to pw75.
Much more accessible and easy for the audience!
I really hope to see this change! Yet I would recommend to use the shortdoi service ( www.shortdoi.org ) to generate a shorter ID, compared to PMID. It allows IDs for anything that has a DOI, ie preprints included
www.shortdoi.org
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Stop citing journal names in your presentations - but PMIDs are too long (I will never get all of those numbers in the correct order!)
Check out this awesome tool that takes your DOI from 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002882 to pw75.
Much more accessible and easy for the audience!
Check out this awesome tool that takes your DOI from 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002882 to pw75.
Much more accessible and easy for the audience!
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Students at @leibnizipk.bsky.social have organised a well-crafted conference #PSSC-2025 in the previous few days. SNP2Prot members were able to join in this event and meet the Leibniz plant community🍀
@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @unihalle.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social
@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @unihalle.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Students at @leibnizipk.bsky.social have organised a well-crafted conference #PSSC-2025 in the previous few days. SNP2Prot members were able to join in this event and meet the Leibniz plant community🍀
@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @unihalle.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social
@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @unihalle.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social
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@aciattoni.bsky.social representing the #ReceptorBiochemistry group @ipbhalle.bsky.social at #PSSC2025.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Really happy to be at the 20th Plant Science Student Conference #PSSC2025 @leibnizipk.bsky.social
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
June 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@aciattoni.bsky.social representing the #ReceptorBiochemistry group @ipbhalle.bsky.social at #PSSC2025.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Really happy to be at the 20th Plant Science Student Conference #PSSC2025 @leibnizipk.bsky.social
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Really happy to be at the 20th Plant Science Student Conference #PSSC2025 @leibnizipk.bsky.social
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
I am looking forward to exciting talks and discussions in the next few days.
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Reposted by Alexander Ciattoni
Our authors can freely speculate the meaning and implications of their data in our new section:
💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡
buff.ly/0I8lpwz
💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡
buff.ly/0I8lpwz
May 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our authors can freely speculate the meaning and implications of their data in our new section:
💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡
buff.ly/0I8lpwz
💡 Ideas and Speculation 💡
buff.ly/0I8lpwz