Torii Lab

Our latest made to the cover @ScienceAdvances! The power of chemistry unveiled the signal specificity boundary bet/w development & immunity. Congrats, Arvid, Krishna @mohansepuri , Pengfei, all the collaborators, esp. @Itamilab 🥳⚗️🌱. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our latest! We reveal an atlas of ERECTA receptor kinase interactome/proximitome and identify new regulators of ERECTA dynamics. Excellent collaboration w/ @edward_marcotte Lab @ut_mbs @TexasScience & Takashi Ueda Lab @NIBB_Public 🌱🔬🧪 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Undruggable ‘disordered’ proteins become druggable with new AI techniques from David Baker. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Professor Keiko Torii, a principal investigator at ITbM, was awarded the IPGSA 2025 Silver Medal itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/news/2025/0…

New Article: "Wounding induces multilayered barrier formation in mature leaves via phytohormone signalling and ATML1-mediated epidermal specification" rdcu.be/eweVr With News & Views: "Heal the wound to make a better seal" rdcu.be/eweVU

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Truly honored and humbled to be the 2025 IPGSA (International Plant Growth Substance Association) Silver Medalist along w/ the eminent plant biologists, John Bowman and @jennyrussinova. Thank you. Plant peptides rock!! 🥰

Our latest! K63-polyUb of ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8th-10th September pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social @PPRM2025 #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci Abstract deadline 1st July. A thread 🧵 (1/n)

Invited speakers include: Keiko Torri @Stomata_Tweets The University of Texas at Austin molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/directory/keik… (4/n)

🔬📊 Comment: A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data @NatureCellBio nature.com/articles/s4155…

A recent review in @NatRevChem : "The role and structure of molecular glues in plant signalling networks" - auxin, JA, BR, ABA, GA, fusicoccin, small peptides. An interesting perspective on plant molecular mechanisms. rdcu.be/em9B2

Our editors write: - "Stomatal development: SCREAM to stop SPEECHLESS" rdcu.be/emPgM A highlight of this paper in @NewPhyt : nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

I will be delivering a Plenary Lecture at the joint 77th JSCB & JSDB Annual Conference. See y'all in Nagoya🏯 this summer! 日本細胞生物学会•日本発生学会の合同大会で基調講演します。日本での発表を楽しみにしています。 pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jscbj…

Our Molecular Bioscience @ut_mbs Professors getting ready for the UT Austin CNS @TexasScience Graduation Ceremony. Congratulations 🎉 to our graduating seniors🧑‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓🤘

I am deeply honored to join the NAS and to add my name to the book of President Abraham Lincoln. As an International Member, I aspire to strengthen the scientific ties between the USA and Japan, and to contribute to the progress of science in this complex global landscape.

Congratulations Keiko Torii of @TexasScience, newly inducted NAS international member! #NAS162 #NASmember #plantbiology

Thank you PNAS for the Bento Box 🍱. 何故かPNASからお弁当箱をもらう。ありがとうございます。

Our invention of synthetic orthogonal auxin and engineered receptor system (cvxIAA, picocvxIAA-ccvTIR1) is now covered by the US patent. Great collaboration w/ synthetic chemists at Nagoya ITbM. patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fe/ec/4c/bfff5…