PhD graduate at CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato (@CinvestavIra 🇲🇽). Algal biotechnology #Botryococcus and 🌱 #PlantTOR signaling pathway. @tkozawa.bsky.social
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Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
From light perception to energy signaling: integrating carbon dynamics with the Tre6P–SnRK1–TOR growth–stress axis: Trends in Biochemical Sciences cell.com/trends/biochemical-… @TrendsBiochem
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
🌱 We're hiring! The Coruzzi Lab at #NYU is seeking a PostDoc to join our team!
Explore exciting research at the intersection of #plantbiology, #genomics, and #systems biology in #NYC.
🔬 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181405
Please share with your networks! @nyuniversity
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Are plant roots really made up of concentric layers of homogeneous, differentiating cell types?
In our new study, out now in @Nature, we show a more complex picture: two distinct cell states within root lineages, shaped in part by the environment. 🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Glad to share our paper on “TWO-POINT” regulation: ALANINE and TAG carbon flux to starch for bioethanol feedstock in the microalga Desmodesmus. ❤️
Chen JC et al.. Bioresour Technol. 2026. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2026.135992. PMID: 42826800
news.nsysu.edu.tw/p/406-1120…😍
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
We are hiring an assistant/associate professor in legume breeding at University of Kentucky. lnkd.in/gbgiqPsq
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
This work led by @jennbrophy7 and her student @vivzhong97 in collaboration with my lab & student Michaela Jones published online this morning at Nature Biotechnology
nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Helps limit engr'd microbial functions to target plants
Exciting science, amazing collab
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
New research. Conveniently, Marchantia has relatively few transcription factors. Yet, we need to leverage on that at the family scale to have a more comprehensive picture. In this paper, we focused on ERFs, the second largest TF family. #PlantScience biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
What principles of TF activity have survived a billion years of evolution?
New Shih lab preprint! We used ENTRAP-seq to map activation and repression domains across Arabidopsis TFs and compared their activity in plants and yeast .
🍄⚖️🌱
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga.
Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source. In the early 2000s, he and Georg Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, an algal protein with unique properties, found on the surface of the cell. When it is illuminated by blue light, a channel opens through the protein. Charged ions then flow into the cell, creating an electrical impulse. They found that regardless of which cell they put the protein in, those cells became light sensitive.
#NobelPrize
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Salicylic acid engages central metabolic regulators SnRK1 and TOR to govern immunity by differential phosphorylation of NPR1: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
For those of you who haven’t made it to Bluesky yet: we’ve been wondering how information within exons regulates gene expression in plants 🌱🧬 Check out our latest preprint, where we explore the role of exonic enhancers (EEs) in gene expression! biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
‼️A new story from our lab!🙌 We show that SNI1, a component of the SMC5/6 complex, acts as a temperature-dependent brake on class II crossovers, helping shape where genetic exchange occurs in Arabidopsis. Huge effort by Alex made it happen🙏
1/2 My very first post on X—and what better occasion than the publication of our paper in @NaturePlants! 🌱
We identify SNI1 as the first plant gene linking temperature to meiotic recombination, generating genetic diversity that may help plants adapt.
nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Our group's latest preprint shows TurboID can be adapted for studying extracellular elicitor-receptor interactions in plants. Hopefully useful for the apoplastic MPMI community
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Led by former PhD @AbdelrahmanQutb
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
📣 We are looking for a PhD student in 2027!
Interested in studying rapid evolutionary dynamics of species in changing climates?
Apply to the MOI LAB by Nov 19!
Flyer below & tinyurl.com/flyerphdmoilab
@UCBerkeley
@igisci
@hhmi_science
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Two decades after revealing the mechanism of action of auxin, we have now uncovered the molecular mystery of another plant hormone: salicylic acid (SA), the precursor of aspirin that most of us have taken at some point in our lives. We were surprised again rdcu.be/EbdVwEStSHha
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
Out today in Nature: sex without crossovers.
Rhynchospora tenuis makes pollen, fertilises and sets seed, yet 0 crossovers in 10,997 pollen nuclei. Chromosome drive and ~87% seed abortion rebuild the mother's genotype, so the offspring are clones.
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1…
A new extreme of meiotic evolution:
✔️ no crossovers
✔️ no gene conversion
✔️ normal meiosis & fertility
Sex mimics clonality without becoming asexual, in the holocentric multicellular eukaryote 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴.
more about it:
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
New preprint from the Ducat lab!
Happy to be the leader of this story!We biochemically characterized a new sucrose phosphate phosphatase conserved in Cyanobacteria.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Takehiro A. Ozawa-Uyeda retweeted
New paper from the lab: The role of SlGH9-16 cellulase in gynoecium morphogenesis and fruit texture in tomato. Work lead by Daniela de la Mora-Franco @Daniela_DlaMora 🍅🌱@uga_langebio doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.202…
➡️Improved shelf-life 🍅
Great work by Busche et al. (2026) on how #PlantTOR can reduce #plasmodesmata (PD) transport by promoting the expression of PD-localized callose binding proteins (PDCBs), which drive #callose deposition at PD through the PP2A-ABI5-PDCB1/2 signaling axis.
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ALT Fig. 4. Glucose-TOR signaling drives callose deposition at plasmodesmata (PD) through the PP2A-ABI5- PDCB signaling axis. (A and B) TOR and PP2A antagonistically regulate callose deposition at PD in leaves. Callose deposits in cell walls were stained with aniline blue and visualized using confocal fluorescence microscopy. Inhibiting TOR with Torin2 (T2) significantly decreased PD callose (n ≥ 27, P < 10−2), whereas inhibiting PP2A with either CAN or OA significantly increased PD callose (n ≥ 27, P < 10−7). Representative images shown in (B). (C and D) Overexpressing the transcription factor ABI5 is sufficient to significantly increase callose deposition at PD compared to mock controls (35SPRO:GFP) (n ≥ 27, P < 10−7). (E and F) Silencing ABI5 is sufficient to reduce callose deposition at PD compared to mock controls (n ≥ 16, P < 10−1). Oppositely, silencing DSE1 increases PD callose, as expected (n ≥ 27, P < 10−7). (G) Glucose-TOR-ABI5 signaling induces PDCB1 and PDCB2 expression...