Chenxin Li, PhD

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PhD Plant Biology | Assistant Research Scientist @ UGA |
Decoding how genome, development, and environment shape (plant specialized) metabolism. |
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The Calmodulin-like proteins, CML13 and CML14 Function as Myosin Light Chains for the Class XI Myosins in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.11.603113v1

The Calmodulin-like proteins, CML13 and CML14 Function as Myosin Light Chains for the Class XI Myosins in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.11.603113v1 www.biorxiv.org Myosins are a crucial motor protein associated with the actin cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells. Stru

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Two PhD positions to investigate the elusive biochemistry of #terpene synthases part of the Marie Curie Doctoral program - #modbioterp. Both positions are based at Jean Monnet University modbioterp.univ-st-etienne.fr (soon to be active)

Catharanthus spotted outside

I am at ICAR. If you see me, say hi.

The sci-fi that I need: introduce transgene to tissue, get tons of stable integration events, and spontaneous regeneration without complex tissue medium.

Already 80 F at 4 am. Crazy.

Part of me actually believes I might be among the last several generations of human before climate change does our society in. Collectively we have a lot of potential for greatness, but more often than not our institutions are completely gridlocked for actions.

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THE RHETORIC, IT’S SO VIOLENT

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My lab is looking for a postdoctoral scholar. See image or t.co/bdIxT8eE6n If you're a plant geneticist or mol biologist and appreciate the wonders of evolution this is a position for you. We can teach dry lab or genomics so plz consider if you want to learn a new skill!

Getting up early (3 am early) to catch a early flight to San Diego to attend the Arabidopsis meeting.

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The annoying thing when (in retrospect) you probably would have designed the experiment different now than then, and the reviewer says this, and you acknowledge it, but there’s still valid results in the data and you have no money to do the thing again…and so it stays a preprint forever

My kitchen stove is a step from the apartment door. Last night I was cooking something with shrimp paste (it was good). While I was cooking I was like I hope people walking by don’t mind the smell!

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My group is recruiting a bioinformatician for genomic studies in maize. The position includes work on diverse projects and collaborations with the Maize Genetics and Genomics Database, the CERCA project, and others in the Hufford Lab. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Research Scientist IIisu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com Position Title: Research Scientist II Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of related experience Preferred Qualifications: PhD in Bio...

I will be attending ICAR 2024 next week and present my research. Come say hi!

Super stressed tomato that turned purple and plumeria flowers

Wrote 10 pages for a proposal (I started last Friday). Might have to trim some text later because page limit is 15 for NSF. Writing with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social is pretty awesome because feedback are very quick.

A fluorescently marked tobacco rattle virus spreading through an Arabidopsis plant

Quite an unholy alliance of model organism: Arabidopsis, Kalanchoe, and Catharanthus

Here is a gradient PCR for annealing temperature going from 55C to 68C. You can empirically see where the primers stopped working when the efficiency starts to drop.

Weirdly enough this tweet has a high bookmark to like ratio. Probably one of the highest among all my tweets.

new personal record for minesweeper: 77s!

Friends, any examples of cell type specific metabolism in fungus and insects? For example, in plants, cuticle wax biosynthesis is specific to the epidermis.

Catharanthus struggling in the heat being sold at grocery store

I used to like Times New Roman 12, but now I really like Arial 11 for writing. For figures I really like Helvetica, and for slides I used to like Calibri, but now I really like Aptos.

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And more rice! 🌾 In this #OpenAccess paper, Han et al. reveal that natural variation in MORE GRAINS 1 regulates grain number and weight in rice--important factors in crop yield. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... #PlantScience

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The pretense is always that learning about the history of racism will make (or is even MEANT to make) white kids feel guilty, which is just not how normal people react to things that happened before they were born. What they’re really afraid of is that it will make them feel outraged.

Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.

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Illumina $ILMN Acquires Fluent Bio. What does it mean for the likes of 10X Genomics $TXG? open.substack.com/pub/albertvi...

Illumina Acquires Fluent BioSciences Inc.open.substack.com What does it mean for the likes of 10X Genomics?

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Deletion of an evolutionarily conserved TAD boundary compromises spermatogenesis in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.08.602428v1

Deletion of an evolutionarily conserved TAD boundary compromises spermatogenesis in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.08.602428v1 www.biorxiv.org Spermatogenesis is a complex process that can be disrupted by genetic and epigenetic changes, potent

Just updated a bunch of my GitHub repositories to reflect that my title has changed from 'postdoc' to 'Assistant Research Scientist at Department of Crop & Soil Sciences' since May. Check out my GitHub page: github.com/cxli233 if you are interested in data visualization.

Sometimes I do like a good heatmap. Re-plotted from single cell metabolomics data from our paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). For R scripts underlying this heatmap, see my GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Simp...