Phil @wigge.bsky.social
@PhilWigge
Biologist studying how plants sense temperature. How is #ClimateChange affecting crops and wild plants? @UniPotsdam @IGZ_Leibniz #inclusive lab 👩🏾🔬 🏳️🌈
Have you noticed it’s getting chilly in the air? How are plants coping with this? Happy to share the remarkable work of David Guillaume-Schöpfer, who did his PhD in the group, and our amazing collaborators @alexwebblab @lab_costa @Fabrizio_Doc @Jaegerlab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Thrilled to share our latest work in Nature Plants studying temperature regulation of GI LLPS in plants. Beautiful collaborations with Pil Joon Seo (SNU) and Jong-Chan Lee (DGIST) groups. nature.com/articles/s4147…
What a fantastic session on "Temperature sensing in plants" this morning at #ICAR2025! 🌱🌡️ Grateful to all the amazing speakers and engaged audience for making it a great success. Exciting science, vibrant discussion, and lots of inspiration! #ClimateResilience #PlantBiology
Biomolecular condensates organize cellular contents. Most studies focus on passive phase separation, driven by salt, pH, or temperature. But what if intracellular movement also matters? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in a cellular context.
Great write-up by @RobertFService at @ScienceMagazine on this work. Quotes from Wei Wang, David Baker, and Andrew Bradbury check it out: science.org/content/articl…
Test-time scaling has arrived for biological design. Excited to share new work from Nabla Bio. By scaling test-time compute, we've achieved remarkable leaps in de novo antibody design against difficult drug targets.
We commemorate the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
So excited to finally see our CTPR-condensate work published!! Well done Chris, Mateo, Julia et al. @ChrisabcdeAoM @JuliaMaristany @LauraItzhaki @rcollepardo @KnowlesLabCamb @_korlekuor @EllisWilde @jerelleaj @UnivCamPharm @ChemicalScience pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…
Happy to be part of this amazing story! A natural gene on-off system confers field thermotolerance for grain quality and yield in rice: Cell cell.com/cell/abstract/…
Our work is finally out in volume 246:4 of New Phytologist! We are honored to have our work published alongside other excellent papers in this issue. We are also especially happy to be able to contribute to the cover with the beautiful Andean-Patagonian forests. 🌳🗻
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: High-altitude #forests of Nothofagus pumilio in North #Patagonia (Mirada del Doctor, Nahuel Huapi National Park, Rio Negro, Argentina). Image courtesy of Nicolás Bellora & @M_VeronicaArana. See Estravis-Barcala, et al.: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VT8HEIYH…
Take a look at our new pre-print: ELF3 controls trait heterogeneity in Arabidopsis and barley. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Here’s a paper that was many years in the making. The idea that the climate can affect the thermodynamic mechanism of binding due to the temperature dependence of the entropy term is interesting- we see gradual shift in binding mode along evo trajectory
You can't understand the damage done to Europe/US relations without watching the German Foreign Minister's speech today, essentially saying that the US has fallen to Russia.
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…
Great article (in which I am quoted) about biomolecular condensates—in my field of cellular stress responses, “the revolution we have been waiting for.” Many thanks to author Philip Ball for going deep. scientificamerican.com/article/myster…
I will be leading the session on biomolecular condensates that is open for all fields 🙌🌱🐭💁♀️not only for plant cells ☝️two days of fascinating LLPS! 😀 join us!!! @stress_granules @ThePlantJournal @MPlantPCom @AbioticStress @NatureComms
🚨 Registration is OPEN for the SEB Annual Conference 2025 in Antwerp! 📅 Join us from 8-11 July 2025. 💡 Submit your abstracts, explore exciting sessions, and save with Early Bird Registration (Deadline: 16 May 2025)! More information ⬇️ sebiology.org/resource/seb-a…
Glad to share our latest work (preprint)! FaRIF at the Core of Strawberry Fruit Ripening: Deciphering its Targets and Interaction Networks biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Excellent work by @CarmenMartinPi2, applying ChIP-seq and TurboID to decipher FaRIF 's GRN and interactors in 🍓
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Haven’t been on this platform for a long time for obvious reasons. You can find me as meristemania.bsky.social. See you over there!
Activation and memory of the heatshock response is mediated by Prion-like domains of sensory HSFs in Arabidopsis #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…
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…
The journalistic lesson from Germany’s history? You don’t ‘expose’ enemies of democracy by giving them a platform. You only normalise them.