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UT-Austin/HHMI & Nagoya ITbM — Tweets by Keiko Torii Lab members 🧪🌱 Dr. Torii’s personal account (mostly in JPN), @KeikoUTorii
Austin, TX & Nagoya, JP
Joined February 2013
Our latest made to the cover @ScienceAdvances! The power of chemistry unveiled the signal specificity boundary bet/w development & immunity. Congrats, Arvid, Krishna @mohansepuri , Pengfei, all the collaborators, esp. @Itamilab 🥳⚗️🌱. https://t.co/eoDj677AYh
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Congrats, Momoko @p_persica123 and all! Excited to see how former @Stomata_Tweets postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima @NatureComms 🪴 https://t.co/utpsYn51Xs
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🧬Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪 HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (e.g. protein NMR) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants. Please spread! https://t.co/NclCNRSWpG
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🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱 HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based omics/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. Please spread the words! https://t.co/vZZfz70HG8
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Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 https://t.co/ieg7FdRPKX
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Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬! https://t.co/BNU3f3dAAq
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Simon's mutant finally published! Well done, Satoko' lab with @HarroBouwmeest1 , Tobimatsu, Tohge collaborations. Glucosylation of endogenous haustorium-inducing factors underpins kin avoidance in parasitic plants | Science
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Parasitic plants rarely attack themselves, suggesting the existence of a kin-avoidance mechanism. In the root parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, prehaustorium formation is triggered by...
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Fantastic time in Mérida, Yukatán, a city in rich in culture and history, to reunite with my dear friend and colleague. #WomenInSTEM
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This commentary is about the recent publication by Tang et al. “Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration” @CellCellPress, placing it into historical and broader contexts. https://t.co/ztqR0XWUMX
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In Arabidopsis, transcriptional factors LEC2 and SPCH enhance local auxin biosynthesis, establishing a transcriptional framework that enables differentiated single somatic epidermal cells to regain...
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Dr. Torii’s commentary published @CurrentBiology “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell”🌱🧬 https://t.co/GSCsAa70JL
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- Now ads out in Science Careers! Please retweet and APPLY🤠🤘 https://t.co/hQfNefFoWv
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MBS UT Austin invites applications for tenure-track faculty position at the Assist Prof level. Early-stage Assoc Prof level are also considered.
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- Now ads out in Science Careers! Please retweet and APPLY🤠🤘 https://t.co/hQfNefFoWv
jobs.sciencecareers.org
MBS UT Austin invites applications for tenure-track faculty position at the Assist Prof level. Early-stage Assoc Prof level are also considered.
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Wholehearted congratulations to our colleague "Virus Slayer", Jason McLellan @McLellan_Lab @ut_mbs @TexasScience for becoming the 2025 MacArthur 'genius' Fellow. Such a wonderful, encouraging news amid the current health science funding crisis. https://t.co/6CbkBiGSFj
UT Austin’s Jason McLellan, professor of molecular biosciences in @TexasScience, has been named a MacArthur Fellow, often called the “genius grant", by @macfound! His groundbreaking research in structural biology continues to shape our understanding of how science can improve
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- @TexasScience @ut_mbs Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! https://t.co/yBKYrApR3y
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link corrected. If you have any questions, please contact Keiko Torii @KeikoUTorii 🥰🌱!
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🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- @TexasScience @ut_mbs Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! https://t.co/yBKYrApR3y
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🍀🔬 EBSn, a Robust Synthetic Reporter for Monitoring Ethylene Responses in Plants @PlantBiotechJ from @AlonsoStepanova lab https://t.co/DZSrdNrHaH
It was a busy summer at the Alonso-Stepanova Lab with four manuscripts now published. Pathy, Mario, and Anna's EBSn ethylene reporter paper is now available in the Plant Biotechnology Journal. https://t.co/hysTNa0sVP
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