Devin O'Connor
@oconnord
Scientist. Educator. Biotech. Crop Improvement. Developmental Biology. Gene Editing. Colorado State Biology @csubiology
WHAT A JOURNEY @UCBerkeley > @slcuplants >@PairwisePL > NOW @csubiology I’m officially back to the academic side and home to CO. Can’t wait to re-start my lab this fall at Colorado State Biology! Look out for positions soon. Let’s edit plant development and save the planet.
#LatestIssue cover: Vascular patterning phenotype of young barley roots with altered PIN activity. Radial cross sections were obtained by vibratome sectioning, cleared using the ClearSee method, and stained. Courtesy of Riccardo Fusi. 📖 See Fusi et al.: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…
Thanks to @CarnegiePlants and Kathy Barton for hosting me during the production of the root PIN imaging!
The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots Fusi et al. 📖 ow.ly/gpza50RoOiW
The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots Fusi et al. 📖 ow.ly/gpza50RoOiW
An effective and safe maize seed chipping protocol using clipping pliers with applications in small-scale genotyping and ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants
Paradoxes lingering around our lab ever since we started working on CLE peptide signaling finally resolved, genetically 🫛🫛🫛🥕: One type of CLE signaling must be dialed down so that another type can drive root phloem initiation and differentiation! ⚖️ nature.com/articles/s4147…
‼️ New Date for the 2025 FASEB SRC "Mechanisms of Plant Development". 📅August 24th - 29th 2025 📍Southbridge (MA) 🇺🇸 New! Contribute the image of the conference poster 😎🌿🌱 ❓Details and signup for updates ➡️mailchi.mp/1f0412e00ebe/v…… Plz retweet! 🙏🏼
The requisite “we are getting a new awesome instrument” post! Leica Stellaris 5 going in. Thanks to @csubiology and @CSUNaturalSci for this great resource, and to the CSU MAOI! moai.colostate.edu
It’s great to be back at @slcuplants to visit old friends, old seeds, and old buildings, but also to share some new data from @PairwisePL ! Let’s edit development!
Discovered miR396 as a barrier to shoot regeneration in tomato crops. Suppressing miR396 boosts regeneration rates, facilitating gene-editing in low-efficiency genotypes. #CropGeneticEngineering @OxfordJournals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…
Favorite genes wait in line!
Our new pre-print comes with a shiny app, the Tissue-level Resolution EXpression viewer for leaf scRNA-seq data, TREX.leaf -> Try it out to check your favorite gene! The app: psb.ugent.be/shiny/trex.lea… The manuscript: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
I'm hiring a lab manager/tech! Let's team up to connect plant development with the tools to engineer it with gene editing. Contact me for more info and apply below! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/145913 #PlantSciJobs #PlantSci #SciJobs
Semantic is important while writing manuscript. This @NaturePlants review article is a good resource for lab journal club. Guidelines for naming and studying plasma membrane domains in plants nature.com/articles/s4147…
As the next phase of commercializing our leafy greens in North America, we’re excited to enter into a licensing agreement with @Bayer4Crops to expand the CRISPR food market and carry our first consumer product forward! hubs.li/Q02yB0mG0
We are thrilled to share that we have developed the world's first seedless blackberry! Click through to learn more: hubs.li/Q02zr5_w0
A tasty red-fleshed #Apples that has high levels of expression of MYB10 gene #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics
An atlas of Brachypodium distachyon lateral root development biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants
MaizeCODE reveals bi-directionally expressed enhancers that harbor molecular signatures of maize domestication. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants