Benjamin Cole
b-coli.bsky.social
Benjamin Cole
@b-coli.bsky.social
Plant biologist interested in functional genomics, bioinformatics, environmental stress adaptation, beer making
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New Article: "Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation" rdcu.be/ew9ig

With N&V: "Gene regulation: A binding agreement" rdcu.be/ew9jn

Large-scale study of transcr. factor binding across multiple flowering plant species.
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Looks like a really cool resource!
Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics Reveals How Tissue Context Shapes the Circadian Transcriptome of the Arabidopsis Leaf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659411v1
June 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The second Plant Cell Identity webinar by PCA is coming next Tuesday (10th December)! It will be my pleasure the moderate the exciting talks from @rachelmshahan.bsky.social and Geoff Schiebinger.

If you haven't signed up for the series yet, you can do so here:
bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM
I’m so very sad to learn that my mentor, Joanne Chory has passed away. She was a brilliant scientist, kind and insightful mentor, and an inspiration to so many.

www.salk.edu/news-release...
Joanne Chory, Salk Institute professor and pioneering plant biologist, dies at age 69 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA—Salk Professor Joanne Chory, one of the world’s preeminent plant biologists who led the charge to mitigate climate change with plant-based solutions, died on November 12, 2024, at the age of ...
www.salk.edu
November 14, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Coexpression enhances cross-species integration of scRNA-seq across diverse plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.569145v1
Coexpression enhances cross-species integration of scRNA-seq across diverse plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.569145v1
Single-cell RNA sequencing is increasingly used to investigate cross-species differences driven by g
www.biorxiv.org
November 30, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Does earthquake bluesky work the same as earthquake Twitter?
October 28, 2023 at 1:41 AM
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Plant scientist Blake Meyers named as new director of UC Davis Genome Center

www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
August 29, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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[Reposting our 🧪paper threads to preserve them]

Our labs' first PDF-formatted paper is out!

With Adam Deustchbauer, we adapted #RBTnSeq to representatives of the #Ralstonia solanacearum species complex.
Goal: identify shared and strain-specific traits that pathogens use across their life cycles.
August 30, 2023 at 1:41 PM