Hee-Kyung Ahn

An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Beautiful snowdrops and crocuses blooming at Kings Buildings. Spring is here!

Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), the pioneering Kenyan environmental activist, founder of the Green Belt Movement in 1977, and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work in sustainable development, democracy, and environmental conservation; through the movement, she empowered women to plant millions of trees to combat deforestation, soil erosion, and poverty while promoting community-led conservation across Africa. Split image, to the left is a color photograph shows her on the left, smiling warmly outdoors in a lush green setting, bending slightly; she wears a patterned brown and white dress with a matching headwrap, standing amid foliage and trees. On the right is the Green Belt Movement logo: a stylized outline of the African continent in tan with a prominent green acacia tree silhouette, accompanied by the text "the green belt movement" in green lettering above it. #environment #ClimateSky #Reforestation 🌱 🌳

Dr. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. #WorldNGODay

An environmental #conservation org using tree planting (51 million so far!) as an entry point to address issues like poverty, climate change & community empowerment, particularly for women/rural groups.

#WomenInSTEM #ecosky

Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants Abstract. Proteostasis relies on the coordinated control of protein synthesis, folding, modification and degradation, and an increasingly clear picture is

My review “Co-translational control of protein stability and quality in plants” is now online at @jxbotany.bsky.social, in which I describe how co-translational processing and ribosome-associated quality control together establish protein stability and fate early in synthesis. tinyurl.com/5dhhz9h6

Blog - Celebrating women in science | Molecular Plant Sciences | Biology International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrates the contribution and important roles of women and girls in STEM.

A new blog is out on our website! Go check it out! For International Women and Girls in STEM day (11.02) @hee-kyung-ahn.bsky.social reflects on the gender gap in science, highlighting achievements and remaining challenges. biology.ed.ac.uk/plant-scienc...

Single-molecule dynamics of the TRiC chaperonin system in vivo - Nature Single-particle tracking experiments in intact cells reveal dynamic co- and post-translational interactions of the TRiC–PFD chaperonin complex with client proteins during in vivo protein folding.

I’m excited to share my first-author paper, with co-first author @rongqinxiaoxiao.bsky.social, now out in @nature.com. We developed a live-cell single-particle tracking platform to see how TRiC & prefoldin engage proteins during co- and post-translational folding. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A manifesto for plant science education Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...

It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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New member at the Ahn Lab 🌱@danyoung03.bsky.social joined the group to work on RRS1/RPS4 NLR protein complexes for his Honours project.
Welcome Dan!

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New member at the Ahn Lab 🌱@danyoung03.bsky.social joined the group to work on RRS1/RPS4 NLR protein complexes for his Honours project.
Welcome Dan!

The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis A family of ZAT14-related transcription factors are salt-responsive and enhance cell death and regulate expansin genes to promote xylem differentiation and

The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis (Ming Feng , Amrit K Nanda , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Aberdeenshire fossil dating back 410 million years joins museum collection Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

Really exciting to get some press coverage on our Prototaxites paper @instmolplantsci.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploration.

Nature research paper: Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus

go.nature.com/4pA9hNZ

Structural basis for heat tolerance in plant NLR immune receptors. Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors sense pathogen molecules and oligomerize, initiating defense signaling. Some NLRs function poorly at elevated temperatures for unknown rea...

Happy to be involved in this work by Marta Grech-Baran

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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정현민 박사님, 축하드려요!!😊

Congratulations @abdelrahmanqutb.bsky.social !!

Congratulations!!

So lucky to be part of this wonderful community of plant scientists 🌱

It was my pleasure! Congrats again!!

Congratulations to Dr Newell! It was a lovely discussion about shade response and protein translation! Good luck with your postdoc journey in Norwich! @amy-newell.bsky.social

New pre-print from the team!

The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.

Have a read!

#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social

Details of the three PhD projects on offer: Primed for Protection: Cell Wall Modifications in Plant Defense and Long-Term Immunity, Engineering Stomata: How Shape Informs Function: and Signalling Complexes and Cell Wall Changes during Plant Reproduction

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plant development: Auxin diffusion controls moss shoot architecture The phytohormone auxin is a conserved inhibitor of shoot branching in plants. While directional, carrier-mediated transport is necessary for the proce…

Here is my @currentbiology.bsky.social dispatch on an excellent article by the @coudertlab.bsky.social. Re-visiting the shoot branching field (and learning many new things in the process!) brought back fond memories from my time at @slcuplants.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations!

Gene expression divergence following gene and genome duplications in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes After gene and genome duplications, expression divergence across cell types is not random, and it can be explained by a combination of gene age, gene funct

Our paper on the evolution (duplicated) gene expression divergence in spatially resolved plant transcriptomes is now out @theplantcell.bsky.social

w/ @yvdp.bsky.social

#PlantSci #Evolution

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Ahn Lab | Biology Hee-Kyung Ahn lab website

We have funded PhD studentship available on developing novel approach to identifying disease resistance gene(s).

Please check project description below from our group website and get in touch!

biology.ed.ac.uk/ahn-lab

Rewriting the code of plant immunity go.nature.com/475WgV7

Transcriptome analysis of the response of domesticated emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum) to single vs. mixed infections with Zymosptoria tritici and Puccinia graminis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682012v1