Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
@djgibbs.bsky.social
🌱 Professor, Uni of Birmingham • Plant Science Lead & Biosciences Head of Research • BBSRC/ERC funded research on Plant Proteostasis, PTMs, chromatin modifications, PRC2, flooding, oxygen 🌿 🏳️🌈
https://sites.google.com/site/danielgibbslab
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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
@djgibbs.bsky.social
· Mar 26
VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in
hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition
of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
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Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
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🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion - Nature
Bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters can be utilized and engineered to transport non-canonical amino acids into Escherichia coli for highly efficient synthesis of proteins with novel func...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Daniel Gibbs Lab
Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs
@ University of Birmingham
sites.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...
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And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting
In two recent papers in Cell, Zhu et al. and Luo et al. use selective ribosome profiling
to identify the substrates and timing of co-translational protein targeting to mitochondria.
The results sugges...
www.cell.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
And now for something completely different in co-translational targeting: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling
Protein synthesis can contribute to plant cell signaling at multiple regulatory levels. Recent studies have expanded the conditions that are directly …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very nice new review on roles for translational control in plant cell signalling by @maureynoso.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
And that’s a wrap on #ISPLORE2025JN 🇯🇵 🌱 🫧
It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci
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1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with exceptional talks by @mikellavi.bsky.social, Daai Zhang, @vinayshukla.bsky.social and Lina Zhou 🌱🌊 Check out @beagiuntoli.bsky.social's recent preprint #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
After the lunch break, the hypoxia signalling session continues with talks of @djgibbs.bsky.social and Peter Geigenberger, check out Dan's recent paper! #ISPLORE2025JP 🌱🌊
www.cell.com/developmenta...
www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
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Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
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#ISPLORE2025JP is about to start in beautiful Nagoya! We're excited for a full week of low-oxygen and flooding #plantscience 🌱🌊
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#ISPLORE2025JP is about to start in beautiful Nagoya! We're excited for a full week of low-oxygen and flooding #plantscience 🌱🌊
After a fantastic week exploring Tōkyō and Ōsaka, today it’s the Shinkansen 🚅 to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow 🌱 Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research! #ISPLORE2025JP
September 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
After a fantastic week exploring Tōkyō and Ōsaka, today it’s the Shinkansen 🚅 to Nagoya ahead of ISPLORE 2025 tomorrow 🌱 Looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and hearing the latest in plant low oxygen and flooding research! #ISPLORE2025JP
Congratulations Anne-Marie - best of luck as you settle into your new position!! 🌱
I am happy to share that I have started my dream job as a Permanent Researcher (Chargée de Recherche) at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE-Orléans, BioForA unit).
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Congratulations Anne-Marie - best of luck as you settle into your new position!! 🌱
Wonderful to be back at Queen’s College in Oxford for the annual @gpsep.bsky.social network meeting! 🌱
September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Wonderful to be back at Queen’s College in Oxford for the annual @gpsep.bsky.social network meeting! 🌱
Amazing to see so many plant science projects funded! (And special congrats to @vinayshukla.bsky.social and @tinaschreier.bsky.social !!) 🌱
Wow - congrats to all plant scientists! @izzysaurlab.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @clemmar.bsky.social @vinayshukla.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social so great to see 🌱s being rewarded the ERC StG!
The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
✴️ redefining false memories
✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic
✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues
✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood
✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure
Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
September 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Amazing to see so many plant science projects funded! (And special congrats to @vinayshukla.bsky.social and @tinaschreier.bsky.social !!) 🌱
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🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!
September 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!
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Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | Important finding by Kim, Tian, Ratcliffe and Keeley @ox.ac.uk @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #N-degron www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | PNAS
Selected proteins containing an N-terminal cysteine (Nt-Cys) are subjected to rapid,
O2-dependent proteolysis via the Cys/Arg-branch of the N-degro...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | Important finding by Kim, Tian, Ratcliffe and Keeley @ox.ac.uk @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #N-degron www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I'm tired of people saying that they don't care that a photo or video is AI because it's "still cute." No, it isn't. None of it is. It's all soulless and takes away from the beauty and rarity of things in real life. 😩
August 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I'm tired of people saying that they don't care that a photo or video is AI because it's "still cute." No, it isn't. None of it is. It's all soulless and takes away from the beauty and rarity of things in real life. 😩
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Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!
Our 'Spotlight' discussing an excellent recent paper by @lauradc.bsky.social @n-end-rules.bsky.social & @syno2xis.bsky.social et al on the evolution of oxygen signalling in land plants is now online at Molecular Plant.
Spotlight: tinyurl.com/7ydn6p4a
Original paper: tinyurl.com/yw5yd4f8
Spotlight: tinyurl.com/7ydn6p4a
Original paper: tinyurl.com/yw5yd4f8
The evolutionary rise of oxygen sensing in land plants
Land plants evolved from aquatic green algal ancestors to dominate terrestrial ecosystems
approximately 480 million years ago during the Ordovician period (Hammarlund et al.,
2020). This major event i...
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our 'Spotlight' discussing an excellent recent paper by @lauradc.bsky.social @n-end-rules.bsky.social & @syno2xis.bsky.social et al on the evolution of oxygen signalling in land plants is now online at Molecular Plant.
Spotlight: tinyurl.com/7ydn6p4a
Original paper: tinyurl.com/yw5yd4f8
Spotlight: tinyurl.com/7ydn6p4a
Original paper: tinyurl.com/yw5yd4f8
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Reminds me of probably one of the first #plantscience reviews I ever read, during my BSc Thesis in 2013 ;) An @isplore.bsky.social classic:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Reminds me of probably one of the first #plantscience reviews I ever read, during my BSc Thesis in 2013 ;) An @isplore.bsky.social classic:
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight
Re-join the New Phytologist next generation scientists live stream at 18:30 BST (UTC+1), when we'll be delighted to welcome Noni Franklin-Tong for a special evening lecture on 'A research career focused on investigating how self-incompatibility works'
👉 www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
👉 www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
August 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This was a fantastic talk - the perfect blend of personal and scientific insight
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Epigenetics Update - CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants go.nature.com/40QLm3w
#Epigenetics #H3K27me3 #Plants
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging research; epigenometech.com
#Epigenetics #H3K27me3 #Plants
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging research; epigenometech.com
CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants - Nature Plants
This study reports that the CK2 kinase–H3K27 methyltransferase (PRC2) signalling promotes genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and the formation of epigenetic cold memory at a potent floral repressor in A...
go.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Epigenetics Update - CK2 kinase–PRC2 signalling regulates genome-wide H3K27 trimethylation and transduces prolonged cold exposure into epigenetic cold memory in plants go.nature.com/40QLm3w
#Epigenetics #H3K27me3 #Plants
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging research; epigenometech.com
#Epigenetics #H3K27me3 #Plants
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Perfect for cancer, immunology, and aging research; epigenometech.com