Meng Chen

Plants encounter high temperatures during the day. We report a multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Congratulations to all authors @DeFan1131790 @nan22791 @Xuemei_RNAlab -- nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢 Thermomorphogenesis community 📢 Excited to announce that we will have Josué Saiz-Pérez (@J_SaizPerez) presenting his preprint on the regulation of stomata in thermomorphogenesis. Don't miss out!

A Joanne Chory memorial symposium will take place on July 25-26 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, WI, right before the Plant Biology 2025 conference. Email [email protected] for Chory Symposium-only registration -- plantbiology.aspb.org/joanne-chory-m…

We are delighted to announce the publication of our manuscript " Temperature-driven changes in membrane fluidity differentially impact FILAMENTATION TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE H2-mediated photosystem II repair" as a Breakthrough Report in The Plant Cell.  academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

We're excited to welcome plant geneticist Detlef Weigel back to Salk as a Nonresident Fellow! Weigel served on our faculty before becoming a director at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. NRFs are a group of eminent scientific advisors who guide the Institute’s leadership.…

Happy to share the PhD work of @MaolinPeng who did a remarkable project tagging all the Arabidopsis HSFs and discovering their mode of activation by heat via prion-related domains. cell.com/molecular-plan…

Thrilled to announce our work in Science! 🧪 We reveal GAME15, a bifunctional protein critical for steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in plants, linking metabolism & defense. Great collaborative work! @AsaphAharoni @sayantanpanda @ScienceMagazine 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Excited to share our new review on plastid transcription and its regulation by anterograde signaling during chloroplast biogenesis. Congratulations to Nora Flynn @flynn_nora3920 and @Xuemei_RNAlab. --doi.org/10.1007/978-3-… or plasticgenome.org/wp-content/upl…

The Wall Street Journal honors Joanne Chory's lasting legacy -- "Joanne Chory (pronounced Cory), the third of six children in a family of Lebanese descent, was born on March 19, 1955, in Methuen, Mass...... The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia earlier this year awarded Chory…

We will miss you. watch.salk.edu/media/t/1_xd0r…

A big thank you to the amazing Wigge lab group members, past + present. Their breakthroughs continue to be cited and important to the temperature sensing community. This work is possible because of long-standing support from the European Research Council, Leibniz Assoc. and DFG.

Insightful work by @Xuemei_RNAlab and @HangRunlai shows the selective translation of nuclear-encoded photosynthesis genes via preferred Kozak motifs for chloroplast biogenesis -- doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Happy to share our new paper -- HOT3/eIF5B1 confers Kozak motif-dependent translational control of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes for chloroplast biogenesis. Congrats to all authors, @Xuemei_RNAlab @MengChen_Lab nature.com/articles/s4146…

My department is seeking an Assistant Professor of Plant Systems Biology or Biotechnology. We'll start reviewing applications in about a month. Come join a fantastic group of colleagues! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02016

🌿 Today, we remember Salk Professor Joanne Chory, a visionary plant biologist and a force for climate action. Her research revolutionized how we understand plant biology and inspired solutions to fight climate change. Joanne’s brilliant mind and passion will forever impact the…