Cian
cianduggan.bsky.social
Cian
@cianduggan.bsky.social
🌱 CEO & Co-founder of @ResurrectBio.bsky.social

- we make crops resistant to disease.

Previously Postdoc/PhD at
Imperial College London. 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧
Happy Spring 🌱 🌹 everyone

We spotted a cheeky soy plant winding up the lab window-blind's chain 😍

- yes we have 'decorative' soy plants 😅
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Will be hiring in the new year, hit me up if you have students you think would be a good fit and interested in doing protein systems biology projects!
🍾Funded! Almost can't believe it!
2 (!!) FWO Grants (the max. allowed/PI) allowing us to deploy our proteomics toolkit to 1️⃣ better understand how viruses 🦠 interact with their insect vectors and plants and 2️⃣ understand circadian clock ⏰ gene regulation under changing environments!
www.mehta-lab.com
The Mehta Lab at KU Leuven
The Mehta Lab at KU Leuven researches plant chronobiology for climate adaptation.
www.mehta-lab.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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📢 PhD Opportunity in my lab on Plant Immune Receptor Bioengineering at @imperiallifesci.bsky.social
🌱 Start: October 2025
📅 Deadline: 12th January 2025
🇬🇧 Open to UK students
💰 Fully funded
ℹ️ More info: tinyurl.com/w6ap9v9f
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology
🙏 Please share with interested candidates!
Bioengineering of plant NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) immune receptors to enhance disease resistance at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bioengineering of plant NLR (nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat) immune receptors to enhance disease resistance at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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🧂SALT🧂
The other day I wrote about the marvellous story behind road salt.
But it turns out there's even more surprises when you consider the OTHER type of salt - the kind you sprinkle on your chips.
Might seem humdrum, but, even today, it's still one of the most important substances in the world...
November 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM
I keep finding googly eyes in my lab 👀
November 22, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Amazing to see PTI and ETI suppression taking place from same Aphid. I'm imagining the evolutionary arms race that led to this 😍

Congrats to Team Hogenhout.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 21, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Plant biologists! We need you!
We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science.
Please check here and shared widely:
forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3...
#PlantSci
a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
ALT: a man holding a large green leaf with the words i just love a good leaf below him
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November 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Back on that #BlueSoup. I plated some fresh plates from @bielleogy.bsky.social onto ISP2 rich media and M9 Minimal Media with 20mM glucose. Fluorescien overnight!!! Seen via 395nm flashlight. Incubated at 28C.
November 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Hey Bluesky! just posted on lab automation on X - will try it here too 😀

Arya Lipman asked "life sciences automation seems to only be working in limited use cases (unless I'm missing it) - companies have burned a lot of cash on robots that sit idle. what's next / where is the opportunity here?" 🧵
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I found a pentameric leaf formation while hiking in Japan.

Are there HR spots there from pentameric resistosomes? #meta #plantsci #NLR
September 24, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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I just published: Resurrection is now a thing: Reviving plant immunity for a sustainable future

@ResurrectBio is pioneering sustainable agriculture through Disease Resistance Resurrection. Find out more 👇
link.medium.com/HbvSr41YyMb
link.medium.com
September 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM