Travis Lee
@TrALEE_Sci
Post doc in the Ecker lab @ The Salk Institute. PhD in the Bailey-Serres lab @ UCR. Also find me at bluesky: http://tralee-sci.bs
Our effort in the @JoeEcker lab (@nobolly @NatanellaE) to generate a single-nucleus atlas of seed-to-seed development in Arabidopsis, along ten developmental time points and a range of tissues is online! and browsable at arabidopsisdevatlas.salk.edu biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9
#PlantBio2025 I’ll be speaking in the final plenary—sharing the story behind this paper and some new, unpublished work from my lab at TSL. Hope people stick around till the end (though a few already warned me they’re leaving early 😅)!
New year, new paper! Now published in @Nature. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in @JoeEcker lab at @salkinstitute. nature.com/articles/s4158…
🌿 Meet PlantChatbot — your AI companion (ChatGPT-like tool) for plant biology! Built on a knowledge graph from 200,000+ papers and powered by LLMs. Try it now: plantchatbot.connectome.tools 🌱 #PlantScience #AI #KnowledgeGraph #Chatbot 1/3
Preprint alert: single-cell methylation signature of autism in collaboration with @GeschwindLab. Autism-mC signal is enriched in promoters and cell-type enhancers but uncorrelated with gene expression. Led by @GeschwindLab Postdoc Katie Eyring and grad student Cuining Liu.
A Single-Cell Atlas of DNA Methylation in Autism Spectrum Disorder Reveals Distinct Regulatory and Aging Signatures biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci
Terrific to see current and former eckerlab members recognized for their early and life long contributions to dissemination of knowledge! Congratulations Natanella, Anna and others!
I am humbled and honored to receive the Arabidopsis dissemination award. Thank you @NAASC_NA_ICAR for this recognition and I wish I could be there with you all! #ICAR2025 Thank you @JoeEcker for welcoming me into the Arabidopsis world! 🙏🏻🌱📖📕
I am humbled and honored to receive the Arabidopsis dissemination award. Thank you @NAASC_NA_ICAR for this recognition and I wish I could be there with you all! #ICAR2025 Thank you @JoeEcker for welcoming me into the Arabidopsis world! 🙏🏻🌱📖📕
NAASC is happy to announce the 2025 recipients of the Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards: 👏Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Salk Inst., USA 👏 Dawn Nagel, UCR, USA 👏 Nicholas Provart, Univ of Toronto, Canada 👏 Anna Stepanova, NCSU, USA
Graphical abstract of the year award goes to sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
So excited for this!!
📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Carnegie-Winslow Briggs Symposium Concurrent Session!🌱app.swapcard.com/widget/event/p… Learn more and register now!👉plantbiology.aspb.org/registration/ #plantscience
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…
Development of this new genetic tool was sparked by a spontaneous discussion at a scientific conference. One two-year NSF EAGER grant to jump-start the work and 5 more years of "side projects" by 18 talented scientists made EBSn possible. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: An experimental evolution project across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… All data available: grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @UCBerkeley @HHMINEWS 🧵👇
Excited to share my new Tansley Review @NewPhyt on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n] nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…
Happy to share a preprint describing my new method, Dam-IT (DamID-seq Incorporating Transcriptomics)! Dam-IT simultaneously captures TF-DNA binding, gene regulation, and chromatin accessibility from the same batch of plant cells. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
New work by Xiang Li @xiangli_evo ! Using single-cell genomics to explore transcriptional divergence and cis-regulatory dynamics of duplicated genes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Great work Rachel, Wei Tian @jksrtw Ecker lab and our long term collaborators Marga Behrens’s and Bing Ren’s groups
Why are older individuals more prone to neurodegenerative diseases? Very excited to share our new #bioRxiv from @JoeEcker. We study age-related epigenetic changes in the brain, highlighting on cell-type-specific transposon demethylation and TAD remodeling. We also present a deep…
Why are older individuals more prone to neurodegenerative diseases? Very excited to share our new #bioRxiv from @JoeEcker. We study age-related epigenetic changes in the brain, highlighting on cell-type-specific transposon demethylation and TAD remodeling. We also present a deep…
Grateful to share that our study on "The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize" is now published in @ScienceMagazine! Huge thank you to all co-authors and the 4 tough, but fair, reviewers who helped to improve the study 🌽🧬 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
I'm thrilled to share that our study is now published in Cell: Extensive N4 cytosine methylation is essential for Marchantia sperm function. cell.com/cell/fulltext/… This paper confirms our 4mC discovery in Marchantia sperm and takes it much further. A thread: 0/13
Elucidating tissue and sub-cellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
Thrilled to announce I have moved to RIKEN BioResource Research Center as Director of Experimental Plant Division ! I will lead Japanese core facility for Arabidopsis resource/Cultured plant cells and genes. By leveraging these resources, we aim to combat climate challenge.