Professor of Cell Biology @UCRiverside studying how plants adjust their growth and photosynthesis to adapt to particular light and temperature environments.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2019
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Excited to share our new @NatureComms paper! Using phytochrome B photobodies in Arabidopsis, we show that condensate number is controlled by graded nucleator states and nuclear seeding-site efficacy, and can be tuned by temperature and cell identity. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
I am recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at UC Riverside to study anterograde signaling and chloroplast biogenesis in Arabidopsis.
The project focuses on how nuclear light signaling regulates plastid transcription and chloroplast biogenesis.
Info: arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/vi…
Excited to share our review: “Twenty-Five Years of Photobodies: Formation, Composition, and Two-Compartment Phytochrome B Signaling Logic.” We synthesize how photobodies form, what’s inside, and how PB-nucleoplasm partitioning tunes phyB signaling dynamic range. doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiag0…
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My lab's very first manuscripts are out!!!
- We identified nearly 60 conserved #RNA structures in plastids
- We found that transcriptional response to warm temperatures in whole seedling is confounded by response at organ level #thermomorphogenesis
Link to both preprints below
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/s41467-0…
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📢 Thermomorphogenesis community 📢
Excited to announce that we will have Josué Saiz-Pérez (@J_SaizPerez) presenting his preprint on the regulation of stomata in thermomorphogenesis.
Don't miss out!
A Joanne Chory memorial symposium will take place on July 25-26 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, WI, right before the Plant Biology 2025 conference. Email [email protected] for Chory Symposium-only registration -- plantbiology.aspb.org/joanne…
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We are delighted to announce the publication of our manuscript " Temperature-driven changes in membrane fluidity differentially impact FILAMENTATION TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE H2-mediated photosystem II repair" as a Breakthrough Report in The Plant Cell.
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We're excited to welcome plant geneticist Detlef Weigel back to Salk as a Nonresident Fellow! Weigel served on our faculty before becoming a director at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. NRFs are a group of eminent scientific advisors who guide the Institute’s leadership.
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Happy to share the PhD work of @MaolinPeng who did a remarkable project tagging all the Arabidopsis HSFs and discovering their mode of activation by heat via prion-related domains. cell.com/molecular-plant/abs…
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Thrilled to announce our work in Science! 🧪
We reveal GAME15, a bifunctional protein critical for steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in plants, linking metabolism & defense.
Great collaborative work! @AsaphAharoni @sayantanpanda @ScienceMagazine
👉 doi.org/10.1126/science.adq5…
Excited to share our new review on plastid transcription and its regulation by anterograde signaling during chloroplast biogenesis. Congratulations to Nora Flynn @flynn_nora3920 and @Xuemei_RNAlab. --doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70… or
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The Wall Street Journal honors Joanne Chory's lasting legacy -- "Joanne Chory (pronounced Cory), the third of six children in a family of Lebanese descent, was born on March 19, 1955, in Methuen, Mass...... The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia earlier this year awarded Chory the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science for her work on plant genetics. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are among previous winners of Franklin medals..." wsj.com/science/environment/… via @WSJ
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We will miss you.
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Today, we remember the incredible life and legacy of HHMI Investigator and pioneering plant biologist Joanne Chory of the @salkinstitute. A devoted researcher, colleague & mentor, Joanne has had a profound impact on science and all of us who knew her.
Read more about Joanne’s legacy: hhmi.org/scientists/joanne-c…
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A big thank you to the amazing Wigge lab group members, past + present. Their breakthroughs continue to be cited and important to the temperature sensing community. This work is possible because of long-standing support from the European Research Council, Leibniz Assoc. and DFG.
Wir gratulieren Prof. Dr. @PhilWigge zur erneuten Aufnahme in die Liste der @Clarivate #HighlyCitedResearchers! 🌿
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. @PhilWigge for being recognized again as a @Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher! 🌿
#HighlyCited2024
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