Phil @wigge.bsky.social
@PhilWigge
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Biologist studying how plants sense temperature. How is #ClimateChange affecting crops and wild plants? @UniPotsdam @IGZ_Leibniz #inclusive lab 👩🏾🔬 🏳️🌈
Grossbeeren, Berlin
Joined June 2015
Have you noticed it’s getting chilly in the air? How are plants coping with this?.Happy to share the remarkable work of David Guillaume-Schöpfer, who did his PhD in the group, and our amazing collaborators @alexwebblab @lab_costa @Fabrizio_Doc.@Jaegerlab.
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Cold temperatures are a threat to temperate plants, and Arabidopsis thaliana has acquired an adaptive gene expression network controlled by CBF transcription factors. The CBFs are sufficient to...
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RT @JungLab_SKKU: Thrilled to share our latest work in Nature Plants studying temperature regulation of GI LLPS in plants. Beautiful collab….
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Nature Plants - GI forms an inactive nuclear condensate that is dispersed at high temperatures by FKF1 binding to GI’s intrinsically disordered region. The resulting FKF1–GI complex...
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RT @SouravBiotech: What a fantastic session on "Temperature sensing in plants" this morning at #ICAR2025! 🌱🌡️. Grateful to all the amazing….
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RT @LabStrader: Biomolecular condensates organize cellular contents. Most studies focus on passive phase separation, driven by salt, pH, or….
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The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
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RT @SurgeBiswas: Great write-up by @RobertFService at @ScienceMagazine on this work. Quotes from Wei Wang, David Baker, and Andrew Bradbury….
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Company finds candidates that bind to tricky proteins that deliver chemical messages in and out of cells
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RT @ZelenskyyUa: We commemorate the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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RT @jrkumita: So excited to finally see our CTPR-condensate work published!! Well done Chris, Mateo, Julia et al. @ChrisabcdeAoM @JuliaMari….
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The cell's ability to rapidly partition biomolecules into biomolecular condensates is linked to a diverse range of cellular functions. Understanding how the structural attributes of biomolecular...
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RT @Xuelei_Lai: Happy to be part of this amazing story! A natural gene on-off system confers field thermotolerance for grain quality and yi….
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A natural variation in QT12, a negative regulator of field thermotolerance controlled by upstream NF-Y transcription factors, leads to its insensitive response to high temperature, thereby improving...
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RT @M_VeronicaArana: Our work is finally out in volume 246:4 of New Phytologist! We are honored to have our work published alongside other….
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RT @RegulatoryNet: Take a look at our new pre-print: ELF3 controls trait heterogeneity in Arabidopsis and barley.
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Trait heterogeneity in a population increases the likelihood that some individuals will survive an unpredictable environmental stress. Individual plants mature at different rates due to genetics,...
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RT @Jackson_Lab: Here’s a paper that was many years in the making. The idea that the climate can affect the therm….
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Proteins operate through ligand and solvent interactions governed by thermodynamics, yet the enthalpy-entropy trade-offs that guide their functional evolution remain poorly understood. The LacI/GalR...
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RT @JayinKyiv: You can't understand the damage done to Europe/US relations without watching the German Foreign Minister's speech today, ess….
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RT @Chanhong_Lab: We are delighted to announce the publication of our manuscript " Temperature-driven changes in membrane fluidity differen….
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Membrane fluidity, influenced by cold and heat stresses, plays a critical role in ATP-dependent zinc metalloprotease-mediated photosystem II repair, implic
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RT @dallandrummond: Great article (in which I am quoted) about biomolecular condensates—in my field of cellular stress responses, “the revo….
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Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell
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RT @StressGranuleMC: I will be leading the session on biomolecular condensates that is open for all fields 🙌🌱🐭💁♀️not only for plant cells….
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RT @DavePosePadilla: Glad to share our latest work (preprint)! FaRIF at the Core of Strawberry Fruit Ripening: Deciphering its Targets and….
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Ripening Inducing Factor (RIF) is a key NAC transcription factor regulating strawberry fruit ripening. Previous studies using RIF- RNAi and overexpression lines in Fragaria × ananassa and CRISPR...
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Haven’t been on this platform for a long time for obvious reasons. You can find me as See you over there!.
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RT @MPlantPCom: Activation and memory of the heatshock response is mediated by Prion-like domains of sensory HSFs in Arabidopsis #research….
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Happy to share the PhD work of @MaolinPeng who did a remarkable project tagging all the Arabidopsis HSFs and discovering their mode of activation by heat via prion-related domains.
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Plants are able to sense and remember heat stress. An initial priming heat stress enables plants to acclimate so that they are able to survive a subsequent higher temperature. This stuty discovers...
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RT @jrkumita: Check out our study - NMR & MD simulations reveal how non-native contacts stabilise a key transient intermediate in the lysoz….
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Mutational variants of human lysozyme cause a rare but fatal hereditary form of systemic amyloidosis by populating an intermediate state that self-assembles into amyloid fibrils. Despite its signif...
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