Anthony Bishopp
@Bishopp_Lab
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We are based at the University of Nottingham, UK and focus primarily on understanding the regulatory processes controlling root patterning.
Sutton Bonington, England
Joined December 2018
We are looking for a PhD candidate interested in the evolution and development of plants who can start in October 2025. Please see the link below for more details and contact information.
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Does reducing the number of auxin components limit the number of auxin responses? Does it change the kinetics? More importantly, would you be motivated to find out?.
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Duckweeds are free-floating angiosperms that have lost many developmental features, including apical growth, root hairs, root branching, and, in some cases, the ability to produce a root. This is coupled with a reduced number of auxin signalling components.
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We're looking for two postdocs to work in Nottingham on an interdisciplinary collaborative project with the @etienne_farcot and @RabhoRoot labs. One experimental biologist .and one mathematician.
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We've been really excited to see the interest in our recent paper about duckweed root vestigiality. It's a privilege to feature in the PNAS Front Matter journal club. Thank you @amygmcdermott for writing such an inspiring piece.
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What sets them apart from snakes and cavefish, is that many of the intermediate forms are still alive today. This makes them ideal models to understand root loss, and we are starting to look at the molecular mechanisms that underpin this.
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We also saw a shift in the expression of nutrient transporters from the root to the frond (the parts that look like aerial tissues). These data support the idea that duckweed roots are vestigial.
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When organs lose their function, they often undergo anatomical simplification. We observed a progressive loss of root anatomical complexity in duckweeds. We then considered root function and showed that duckweed roots are neither required for growth nor nutrient uptake.
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Duckweeds are quite amazing. Within a single family, there are genera with many roots, genera with a single root and rootless genera. This spectrum of root loss across the family suggested that the organ might be vestigial and may have lost its original function.
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What do snakes, cavefish and duckweed have in common? They are now all models for understanding organ loss. Inspired by research on limblessness in snakes and vision loss in cavefish, we examined root loss in duckweed. Paper here: in @CurrentBiology.
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We are looking for a postdoc to work on an interdiscplinary project on root hair patterning. The ideal applicant will have good skills in image acquisition and analysis. Please RT and feel free to contact me for more information.
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RT @rooting2021: Remember the deadline for abstracts for talks is this Friday (March 26th at 23:59CDT, that’s 4:59am in the UK, 5:59am in E….
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There have been so many crucial roles identified for AHP6, but we didn't have any idea if the psuedo phosphotransfer proteins had any role in other species. In this collaboration with Joe Kieber's lab we show functionally diverged roles for PHPs in rice.
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RT @ScienceMagazine: The volatile plant hormone ethylene allows plant roots to sense & avoid compacted soils, researchers report in Science….
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wonderful collaboration with @teva_vernoux @RDPlab @bradylabs.@AP_Mahonen @Francois_Parcy.showing a network of transcriptional repressors upstream of the activating ARFs.
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RT @efronilab: We had a beautiful hypothesis about how auxin triggers root regeneration. It flows down from the stele and because it can't….
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RT @EMPHASIS_EU: Have a look at this free online course on "Image Analysis Methods for Biologists" by @UniofNottingham starting on 11 May:….
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RT @kseniakrasileva: New preprint! Genome of a duckweed Wolffia reveals a single canonical NLR (plus 2 non-canonical) in its reductionist i….
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