Research Scientist at @DanforthCenter. Formerly @RootPhenomics lab and @PlantSciNottm PhD
Joined March 2017
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
22 Jul 2025
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026
Join diverse and welcoming lab at @UCBerkeley @HHMINEWS!
moilab.science/team/join-us
Team members are giving talks at Evolution/GRC EEG/SMBE/ASPB this summer, reach out!
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
16 May 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for BIG IDEAS last night at @DanforthCenter!
Special thanks to panelists Arnold Donald, Tom Hillman, Penny Pennington & emcee Katie Murphy, PhD.
Missed it? 🎥 Recording coming next week.
#BigIdeas #FutureForward #STLEvents #ThankYou
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
13 May 2025
So 🥳excited🎉 to publicly announce what we’ve been working on for over two years, 🔥Spearhead Bio🔥, which comes out of @DanforthCenter and my lab’s love of transposable elements!! danforthcenter.org/news/danf…
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
17 Feb 2025
Evaluation of 3D seed structure and cellular traits in-situ using X-ray microscopy @marcusdgriff
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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7 Feb 2025
Publication on use of X-ray Microscopy for phenotyping seeds is now out in Scientific Reports. A great collaborative effort in the IPREP Pennycress abiotic resilience project. > doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-8…
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
26 Jun 2024
So proud of my lab for our latest work out today in @Naturepub. We took advantage of transposable elements and CRISPR to perform targeted insertion of cargo DNA in the Arabidopsis and soy genomes. Led by @mcliupeng. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…. 🧵
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In collaboration with scientists from Germany, China and US, we spent 8 years on maize root domestication and adaptation with global water availability. Finally it is out nature.com/articles/s41588-0……..thanks for all collaborators and funding! @dfg_public @UniBonn
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
4 Mar 2024
ggPlantmap: an open-source R package for the creation of informative and quantitative ggplot maps derived from plant images academic.oup.com/jxb/advance…
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
5 Mar 2024
We have developed a non-invasive visualization method using optical fiber sensing to monitor root development in the soil in real time, 24 hours a day. Congratulations, Dr. Tei🎉
plantmethods.biomedcentral.c…
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
1 Feb 2024
I am hiring a postdoctoral researcher with my colleague Dr. Chen at ORNL to work on shoot and root responses to fungal and bacterial partners in Populus trees. Physiology, microbes, and image-based phenotyping all a plus. Check out the ad and please share! jobs.ornl.gov/Exempt/job/Oak…
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
23 Jan 2024
DIRT/μ - Automated extraction of root hair traits using combinatorial optimization biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
23 Jan 2024
Check out the latest @JXBot issue on Root Architecture and Rhizosphere - Microbial Interactions. Expert reviews and new research from @UoNHounsfield team members and numerous collaborators @pandeybipink @stu_rock @giffordlab @TransparentSoil @SjonHartman @Laurent_Laplaze
11 Jan 2024
Dig into our new special issue: Root Architecture and Rhizosphere—Microbe Interactions
bit.ly/35JchR9 🧵
ALT (Top) CaWIP2 contributing to lateral root development in chickpea showed high expression in the lateral root primordia (Debasis Chattopadhyay); (Bottom left) Medicago truncatula plant with rhizosphere soil surrounding the root and Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings with developing lateral roots (Gifford lab); (Bottom middle) Fluorescent image of a developing lateral root in Arabidopsis thaliana (Vissenberg lab) and brace roots in Sorghum (Ashley Hostetler); (Bottom right) Non-destructive visualisation of Phaseolus vulgaris roots using X-ray CT imaging (Craig and Solomon Sturrock).
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
4 Oct 2023
I'm at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. After my seminar presentation, we toured the X-ray microscope. We can see the root cell nondestructively in high resolution. It’s wonderful. And in the evening we had a wonderful dinner party. Thank you, Chris and Keith.
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
11 Sep 2023
I'm hiring a postdoctoral research associate at @ORNLBio_Env to help develop a SoilCosm to learn more about rhizosphere priming and soil carbon sequestration using continuous gas flux monitoring. Details and application instructions are in the link: jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…
ALT Left panel shows cartoon of CO2 above and a closeup of root in soil showing major carbon pools. Right side shows a SoilCosm chamber instrumented to measure several fluxes.
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
1 Sep 2023
A new long-term field experiment @Rothamsted for the 21st century, the Large Scale Rotation Experiment (LSRE); paper reporting the design, statistical approach & initial results of this field experiment with contrasting cropping systems doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-0… @Rothamsted_LSRE
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
16 Aug 2023
Benchmarked #models are the key to understanding #root system water uptake
Read the article: buff.ly/44AIAyQ
@infotroph @BenjaminDelory @MaJavx @deepanshuk22 @timokoch_ @fzj_ibg3 #DuMux #CPlantBox #RSWMS #OpenSimRoot #SRI #FSPM
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
17 Aug 2023
🚨 #ISRR12 Call for abstracts is now open!
Roots [& Roads] to a sustainable future
12-isrr-2024.de/call-for-abs…
Please RT and do not hesitate to share the information with your colleagues.
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Marcus Griffiths retweeted
17 Aug 2023
I will be hosting an international symposium on plant phenotyping in Tokyo (and Zoom webinar) on October 12. I hope you will join us!!
cps-supercrop.jp/en/ms_sympo…
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23 Jun 2023
Our work detailing temporal root response to nitrogen in pennycress is now out in @FrontPlantSci using a 3D gel system >> frontiersin.org/articles/10.… @RootDevo, as part of the IPREP Pennycress abiotic resilience project
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