Alicja Kunkowska
@AlicjaKunkowska
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Postdoc - PlantLab (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
Pisa, Tuscany
Joined October 2012
📣ASPB is happy to announce the 2026 Plantae Fellows, an impressive group ready to bring their best to this resource for the global plant science community!🌱 Read more: https://t.co/YE8y8pCLSR
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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 #plantscience
https://t.co/hf4iNCiJao
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Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis https://t.co/L8yw7SCQIg
#biorxiv_plants
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Oxygen availability underpins energy production in multicellular organisms, yet internal oxygen gradients arise in both plants and animals. Plants sense these variations via the PLANT CYSTEINE...
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Preprint alert! 🗞 We used SynBio to "simplify" the plant oxygen sensing pathway and implement it in yeast🍄. We can now control yeast growth through oxygen! But most importantly, Here's a very short recap of what we understood thanks to it: https://t.co/ACvuvOhKna
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Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground?
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ https://t.co/cGctMhcJos 🇪🇺 #HorizonEurope
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NEWS & VIEWS: Clathrin to the rescue: Clathrin-mediated trafficking fine-tunes Arabidopsis copper tolerance (Alicja B Kunkowska) https://t.co/29kV2UIXaq
@AlicjaKunkowska @ASPB #PlantSci
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Job alert📣Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology!We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 & other organisms! DM me if you need more details https://t.co/SpcLFUqYSV
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🚨🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants @UUBeta Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 🪴🪴🪴 😀More details here https://t.co/EnJPW7Drp6 Please share!!
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We’re kicking off a brand-new webinar series with @ThePlantJournal 🧬🌱 Join us into the latest breakthroughs & challenges in plant engineering research. 📅 29 September 2025 ⏰ 17:00 CEST Hosted by @Katherine_Denby (Editor in Chief) https://t.co/cbZeUIQH1e
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Please share! Proud of the first publication from @RootandShootRCN. Three years work from a huge team of volunteers. We crafted aspirational community agreements, accessibility guides & conference recommendations, tested many and report on our outcomes. https://t.co/o5NFx9oPem
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The ROOT & SHOOT project in the plant sciences has produced guidelines to help scientific societies organize conferences that are more inclusive and offer more supportive environments to all attend...
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The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of @Dev_Cell. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: https://t.co/JAC1mJX2HX
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🌿 Meet PlantChatbot — your AI companion (ChatGPT-like tool) for plant biology! Built on a knowledge graph from 200,000+ papers and powered by LLMs. Try it now: https://t.co/I6965ypgNQ 🌱 #PlantScience #AI #KnowledgeGraph #Chatbot 1/3
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New paper alert! Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible. Please, have a look- https://t.co/SVVBcT21uk
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How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants? In collaboration with @Fra_LicO2si Great work from @LauraDalleC et. al. #plantscience @LeverhulmeTrust “ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia” https://t.co/ETNHLTz9G7
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This study investigates the evolution of low-oxygen responses in land plants mediated by group VII Ethylene Response Factors (ERFVIIs). Conserved transcriptional signatures of hypoxia responses...
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NEWS & VIEWS: ERF-VIIs and ORA59: Dual regulators of plant hypoxia and defense pathways during Botrytis cinerea infection (Maria-Angelica Sanclemente) https://t.co/SLAzZC0e6w
@MASanclemente @ASPB #PlantSci
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Very happy to see our latest paper by @ROsborne_93 et al out today in @Dev_Cell. In this work we identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling.
cell.com
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...
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Destined for destruction: The role of methionine aminopeptidases and plant cysteine oxidases in N-degron formation https://t.co/pzYddvp7YY from @OscarLorenzoS @emily_flashman et al!
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Abstract. The cysteine/arginine (Cys/Arg) branch of the N-degron pathway controls the stability of certain proteins with methionine (Met)-Cys N-termini, in
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More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers https://t.co/WKhg9oGElk
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Join us next week (Tuesday, Jan 28) for a free webinar on hypoxia and plants! It's an exciting topic and very relevant for our rapidly-changing climate due to more intense and frequent flooding. See you there! https://t.co/jEYMckonDE AM EDT | Noon UTC | 1 PM CET | 9 PM Tokyo
The January 2025 Focus Issue of Plant Physiology spotlights research on hypoxia in plants Join us on Tuesday January 28 for a free webinar exploring the topic of hypoxia in plants. 👉 https://t.co/DkIKVlsceE
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I had a lot of fun working together on this text and I'm very happy with the result! Give it a read everyone!
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