A privilege to attend the 9th annual Computational Plant Biology workshop last week at @slcuplants.bsky.social heard inspiring talks, got direct help and advice with pipeline bottlenecks and explored some very pretty places!

It’s been a wonderful meeting so far at #NGS2025 the ECR community is a great place to be right now, and we’ve had some fascinating talks and workshops. Loved presenting my work on mtDNA and mito dynamics #plantscience

Got papped yesterday at the @biology.ox.ac.uk research showcase spreading the good word about mitochondrial dynamics! So fun being in the new LaMB building and interacting with psych/bio colleagues 🌱🧠

(You can check out the paper I was soapboxing about here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

During this work, I developed a ubiquitous, photoconvertible, stable mtDNA marker for plants based on the bacterial H-NS protein, developed in human lines by @mitomorph.bsky.social I hope this tool will be of great help to the plant mitochondrial community!(7/9)

Do we differences in ‘social’ characteristics, or how well connected different individuals are? Yes! Mitos without mtDNA are less well connected to the rest of the network. (6/9)

So, do we see differences in physical movement? Yes! (5/9)

Then we asked, do individuals with mtDNA move/interact differently to those without? This follows our tracking & network analysis I developed during my PhD (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34015261/) - but now we can build functional data into these networks! (ie,colour code networks by yes/no mtDNA)(4/9)

We started by characterising exactly how many mitos per cell have mtDNA (not before quantified per cell), using SYBR green as a marker in fixed tissue. (3/9)

Nice to be back in sunny Münster to help out with the GoPMF Imaging Workshop 2025!

Hey blue skies- We have updated our latest #BioRxiv paper-

We found that #mitochondria in #plants without mtDNA move and connect differently to those with mtDNA!

Now featuring two different methods of measuring mtDNA and mitochondrial motility.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...