Excited to share our latest preprint: PlantRNA-FM, the first interpretable RNA AI foundation model for exploring functional RNA motifs in plants🌱🧬 A great collaboration with Ke Li's group
@UniofExeter
@HaopengYu
@JohnInnesCentre
promoted to Professor😀Many thanks to the current and previous lab members🙏I am super grateful for having great collaborators through the years🙏And many thanks to all the friends who have been supporting me and my lab in the past 10 years! Thank you all🙏❤️❤️❤️
A brand-new method for studying in vivo RNA structure from my group!A fine tuning on the RNA structure of the lncRNA COOLAIR could change plant flowering time.
@DingLab_RNA
and
@CarolineDeanLab
Very happy and honored to receive the support from ERC for the third time. Hope our project could contribute to the research field of RNA biology in general. Many thanks to my lab and all the friends who have been supporting us!
I am very honoured!!! It’s wonderful that the global community has recognised the importance of plant science in trying to solve the critical challenges of feeding the world! Many thanks to my team, my collaborators and my institute
@JohnInnesCentre
@DingLab_RNA
🎉The Blavatnik Awards and
@nyasciences
are excited to announce the Honourees of the 2024 Blavatnik Awards in the UK! Please join us in congratulating these nine incredible scientists sparking innovations that will transform our future world. Learn more:
In our new review paper,
@ywan_wan
and I focused on the functional importance of RNA structure in gene regulation. Many thanks to Yue and Xinang! I really enjoy the writing process.
Two preprints on the RNA G-quadruplex functions in response to stress in plants and human!!!
RNA G-quadruplex structure contributes to cold adaptation in plants. Our new preprint from the lab with
@kitkwok6
.
NEWS - Dr Yiliang Ding honoured with prestigious Blavatnik award
@YiliangDing
is among nine recipients of the 2024
@BlavatnikAwards
for UK Young Scientists, announced today by the Blavatnik Family Foundation & New York Academy of Sciences
@NYASciences
Lab party for our 10-year anniversary ❤️Many thanks to our previous and current lab members and their families🙏Many thanks to our friends, colleagues and mentors who have been supporting us🙏Looking forward to the next 10 years😊
The functional role of RNA structure in miRNA-mediated RNA degradation!!! This is the first half of the story. The following story will come with shocking plant phenotypes. Thanks to the supports from miRNA experts
@A_Carbonell_
,Peter and Jiawei.
Two BBSRC funded PhD student position available in my lab. RNA structure studies in plants! Open to international students as well. Application deadline 11/23.
Our first BioRxiv preprint reveals the in vivo existence of RNA G-quadruplex structures! Plants are so powerful! RNA G-quadruplex structures exist and function in vivo
New paper for the new year! Two years' struggling period for getting this one published. Hope it could contribute to the functionality of RNA structure.
@JohnInnesCentre
Polysome profiling and mRNA structure analysis in tetraploid durum wheat from
@XiaofeiYang14
,
@HaopengYu
,
@YiliangDing
, Zhang & co. mRNA structure has large impact on translation, with marked differences between the two subgenomes. Conserved ribSNitches
My hair style during the endless lockdown in Shanghai😂Many thanks to all the friends who worry about me and my family. So far, my family is fine. I have mastered every kind of apps for hunting food. And my lab members keep me happy via zoom meetings😄
Our collaborative work with Prof Huakun Zhang’s group on the first plant fine-scale chromatin architecture is finally out! Special thanks to Prof Chuan He
@UChiChemistry
for supporting us through the whole journey!
@JohnInnesCentre
Super nice to catch up with
@Jian_MinZhou
😁We met in 2009 MPMI when I was still a PhD student. Since then, he has given me many advice on career development 🙏 Also super big congratulations again to
@wenboEffector
!
A big thank to my team including two excellent postdocs and a PhD student, our head of commercialisation, and our collaborator
@A_Carbonell_
. Special thanks to
@simonelsasser
for helping me from the very beginning and providing me so many great advice! 🙏
FUNDING - Dr
@YiliangDing
and colleagues have been awarded
@ERC_Research
funding to develop innovative molecular solutions to combat a damaging sugar beet virus
#ERCPoC
After passing three-round COVID-19 tests , I have arrived in Shanghai safely. Now, I am in the 14-day hotel quarantine and 7-day home quarantine. Really grateful to so many volunteers in China who work days and nights to provide excellent support and keep us safe.
In the past several weeks, our colleagues and alumni of
@JohnInnesCentre
in China have been donating thousands of surgical masks and hundreds of N95. They were distributed to the institute staff and the N&NUH hospital next door. Together, we will
#BeatCOVID19
Fully funded PhD project in my lab in collaborations with Ben Miller
@biouea
, studying how to optimise protein production via altering RNA structure.
@NRPBIODTP
- apply by November 22nd
Explore the new function of RNA structure motif in plant response to stress! Check out the fully funded PhD project in my lab
@JohnInnesCentre
Super exciting project with
@DrZoeWaller
and
@ant_dodd
Great collaboration with
@DrZoeWaller
and Dr Ke Li in Exeter! Hope it will benefit the community 😊 iM-Seeker: a webserver for DNA i-motifs prediction and scoring via automated machine learning
RNA structure is super powerful! TAM structure in miRNA regulation. A nice 4-year work from 4 brilliant postdocs
@Minglei13
@Ilexpurpurea
@XiaofengFang1
and Hugh! "In vivo mRNA structure regulates miRNA cleavage in Arabidopsis"
Second BioRxiv paper from my lab. Changing the splicing fate by tuning the RNA structure features!
In vivo nuclear RNA structurome reveals RNA-structure regulation of mRNA processing in plants
"RNA G-quadruplex structures exist and function in vivo in plants" is finally out. Hope it will excite G4 community! Another nice collaborative work with
@kitkwok6
!
@GenomeBiology
@XiaofeiYang14
A large group of brilliant Chinese scientists from our CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS)
@CepamsGenius
come to Norwich and attend the annual meeting in
@JohnInnesCentre
Very exciting discussions!
Fully funded PhD project in my lab in collaborations with
@DrZoeWaller
and
@ant_dodd
, studying the role of RNA G-quadruplexes
#GQS
in plant response to stress
@NRPBIODTP
- apply by November 22nd
Lab party for reuniting with our lab alumni
@XiaofeiYang14
who is now a group leader in CAS, China and saying goodbye to our visiting scientist Qianqian Li
@Qianqia63190876
Very happy lab ❤️
Due to the visa and passport issues, I was not able to attend the meeting
#IPMB2024
.Thanks to my postdoc Jin for sharing our new technologies for studying RNA structure functionality in plants😀
@JinXu430240
@JohnInnesCentre
@DingLab_RNA
Congratulations to the worthy winners of this year’s JIC Director’s Awards 🏆🙌
We are so honoured and grateful to have you as part of the
#LifeAtJIC
community
We're seeking new insights into the mechanisms and functions of plant RNAs for an upcoming special issue. Submit your research by October 31st, 2021. Genome Biology | Call for papers: plant RNA biology
It has been very difficult to reveal the in vivo functionality of RNA structure motif. I did not expect that it is even more difficult to convince others how important RNA structure is. But the new era of RNA structure-dependent regulation of gene expression is coming!
RNA structure is super powerful! TAM structure in miRNA regulation. A nice 4-year work from 4 brilliant postdocs
@Minglei13
@Ilexpurpurea
@XiaofengFang1
and Hugh! "In vivo mRNA structure regulates miRNA cleavage in Arabidopsis"
We are hosting a FREE and open symposium on RNA structure. Flyer below. Schedule details to come in the coming days, but reserve June 24-25! Retweet!
@ywan_wan
@YiliangDing
@danny_incarnato
Registration:
Our UK-China institute CEPAMS
@CepamsGenius
group leaders gave excellent seminars during their visit before ASM! Our great collaborations towards feeding the world👍👍👍
@JohnInnesCentre
@UKRI_News
Members of our CAS-JIC Centre, CEPAMS
@CepamsGenius
had a successful visit in UK during JIC
@JohnInnesCentre
annual science meeting. Many collaborations have been established👍Looking forward to many exciting scientific breakthroughs between UK and China groups!!!
I am super lucky to have Giles as my PhD supervisor, my mentor and my role model. He taught me how to do science step by step. He also taught me how to respect, support and work with others. I am so proud of him.
#RoleModel
“ I know my experiences are not unique and are all too frequently those of women and minorities working in science. “
@gilesedoldroyd
❤️🌱🏳️🌈🌎🌍🌏🌱♥️💙💜🖤💛💚🧡
Super happy to be back to the symbiosis family! Just like the good old time 15 years ago ❤️ Great to see the
@ENSA_research
entering the third phase! Looking forward to more success in this super cool programme.