Interested in #SmallRNA #Transposons #ParasiticPlants #InterspeciesRNAi. Lecturer @PPS_UoS @sheffielduni. 2019 Simons-LSRF fellow @ Danforth, PhD @penn_state.
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4 Nov 2025
Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded Yorkshire Biosciences #PhD project on Striga epigenomics @sheffielduni by 7th Jan 2026 👇
findaphd.com/search/ProjectD…
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant #PlantSciJobs
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HASTY-dependent miRNA cell-to-cell movement is required for systemic pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communication…
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Unlocking stronger gene silencing in plants! 🌱🔓 Excited to share our new paper in @ThePlantJournal. We discovered that a single base pair (A18G) in the shc precursor dramatically enhances amiRNA accumulation and silencing efficiency. 🧬✂️ @IBMCP doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70665
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Managed to get some Cuscuta plants started in Sheffield just in time for student projects next year- glad that the seeds germinated despite all the challenges during lab move from USA to UK! #ParasiticPlants
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10 Dec 2025
An Argonaute protein traffics from nematode to mouse and is a vaccine against parasitic nematodes | EMBO Reports link.springer.com/article/10…
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11 Dec 2025
Transposable elements: mediators of epigenetic inheritance in plants dlvr.it/TPlc7k #plantscience
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1 Dec 2025
News&Views on 2 papers in @NatureCellBio : "Transcription factor-mediated recruitment of small interfering RNA production" rdcu.be/eSCLa
2 studies uncover the recruitment of the key siRNA-producing RNA pol IV mediated by transcription factors to specific DNA sequences.
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17 Nov 2025
Plant Science Research Weekly -- How parasitic plants avoid being parasitized (Science) (Summary by Mary Williams) plantae.org/how-parasitic-pl…
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Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) retweeted
4 Nov 2025
Interested in dissecting the epigenetic code of a cereal killer? Apply for our fully-funded Yorkshire Biosciences #PhD project on Striga epigenomics @sheffielduni by 7th Jan 2026 👇
findaphd.com/search/ProjectD…
Open to UK/International students.
#ParasiticPlant #PlantSciJobs
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14 Nov 2025
Our new discovery that bacteria utilize extracellular vesicles to deliver RNAs into fungi substantially broadens the paradigm of Cross-Kingdom RNA communication! Big congrats to @J_NinoSanchez, @HuaitongW and all! Thanks for your hard work! cell.com/molecular-plant/abs…
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Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) retweeted
11 Nov 2025
🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project 'PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress.
🧬 PhD 1 (UK only) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/fr…
🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/mi…
🌱 PhD 3 (UK only) 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/de…
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13 Nov 2025
📣 Happy to announce that we are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher @JohnInnesCentre to join my Wellcome-funded project.
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36866/
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12 Nov 2025
Ever wondered how soil bacteria survive viral attacks while coping with pollution and climate stress? This project exploring microbial defence systems and their link to mobile genetic elements that help bacteria detoxify pollutants and resist stress.
findaphd.com/phds/project/mi…
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5 Nov 2025
Oxidative stress: a new player in the regulation of AGO1 homeostasis? | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/jxb/article…
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New preprint now out from Jake Harris' Chromatin & Memory group.
Read the paper, 'CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromeric crossover recombination in Arabidopsis':
tinyurl.com/2ht3pwb9
ALT Figure from the paper showing representative images from 3-week old plants.
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Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) retweeted
12 Oct 2025
Post doc position in Extracellular vesicles and cross kingdom communication in the Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Final week to apply! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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4 Oct 2025
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The action of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE 2 in plant growth inhibition (Yuelin Liu, Wei Yan, Qianyan Linghu, Huijuan Tan, Hongwei Guo) doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf2… @ASPB #PlantSci
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Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) retweeted
3 Oct 2025
Hot off the press! Our new preprint shows that HASTY (HST)–driven miRNA mobility is a key trigger for systemic immunity in Arabidopsis. #PlantImmunity #miRNA
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Saima Shahid (সায়মা শহীদ) retweeted
3 Oct 2025
We are looking for a new colleague to work as a postdoctoral researcher on crop genomics and machine learning! The position is within our GenomeDesigner project (ru.nl/en/research/research-n…). Feel free to be in touch or directly apply here: ru.nl/en/working-at/job-oppo… Please share!!!
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3 Oct 2025
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to “The action of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE2 in plant growth inhibition” (Carsten Poul Skou Nielsen, Laura Arribas-Hernández, Peter Brodersen) doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf1… @ASPB #PlantSci
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