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Torii Lab

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UT-Austin/HHMI & Nagoya ITbM — Tweets by Keiko Torii Lab members 🧪🌱 Dr. Torii’s personal account (mostly in JPN), @KeikoUTorii

 Austin, TX & Nagoya, JP
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Joined February 2013
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Torii lab's research featured by @hhmi_science. "Reading the Leaves: Decoding the Secret Cellular Language of Plants"🌱🧬🦠 hhmi.org/news/reading-leaves…
Reading the Leaves: Decoding the Secret Cellular Language of Plants | HHMI

Reading the Leaves: Decoding the Secret Cellular Language of Plants | HHMI

Early in her career, HHMI Investigator Keiko Torii figured out how plant cells talk to each other. Three decades later, she’s still listening — and uncovering exactly what they’re saying.

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Plenary Lecture at KSPB2026. プレナリー・レクチャー。プロの写真家が撮影し、すぐにQRコードを被写体本人に提供。カラー白黒ともにダウンロード可能。他の用途に使えそうな写真を沢山頂く。。日本の国際会議でも同じようなシステムが使えそう。参加証明にもなるし。
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2026 International Conference of Korean Society of Plant Biologists KSPBーmany exciting research talks & discussion - Many thanks to the organizers & my former postdoc, Prof. Soon-Ki Han, for the invitation. 国際植物生物学会KSPB. 韓国でPIとなった元ポスドクに招待してもらい大感激
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Welcome to the @ASPB International Committee, Rajarshi @rajarshi_sanyal! We are thrilled to have you! Promoting early career researchers and international collaborations are integral part of our mission☺️🪴🌷! More coming shortly. nitter.cf/rajarshi_sanyal/status…
Rajarshi Sanyal (@rajarshi_sanyal) profile pictureRajarshi Sanyal@rajarshi_sanyalOct 6
Honored to join the ASPB International Committee as an Early Career Representative! 🌱 Grateful to continue my @ASPB journey from @plantae_org to this new opportunity to contribute to global plant science. @NIPGRsocial @KeikoUTorii @frdanila @defolter_lab @HannahRaeThomas
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光合成する緑藻クラミドモナスは、眼点で光を感じて鞭毛を動かし、光に向かって(もしくは光を避けて)泳ぐ。その光受容体がチャネルロドプシン。医学から最も遠そうな単細胞植物の驚くべき仕組み。多種多様な生物の生存メカニズムを研究する意義がまさにここにある。Plants rock🪴! (So excited to see "botanists" winning the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine) nitter.cf/NobelPrize/status/2107…
The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) profile pictureThe Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 5
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑-𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🌱 Edited by @ADSteinbrenner @gdoblasveronica @Isabel_MonteG @ElwiraSmakowska 📖 Read the Editorial 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71135🔎 Explore the complete Special Issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Understanding and engineering receptor–ligand interactions

Understanding and engineering receptor–ligand interactions

Click on the article title to read more.

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Synthetic FLS2 receptor oligomer boosts plant innate immunity | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Synthetic FLS2 receptor oligomer boosts plant innate immunity

Synthetic FLS2 receptor oligomer boosts plant innate immunity

The gradual assembly and oligomerization of cell surface receptors are critical for regulating immune activation and turnover. Yet, how dynamic, spatiotemporally regulated assembly enables rapid and...

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Since the discovery of tomato Systemin in 1991, the world of plant peptides & receptors completely has changed the paradigm of plant cell-cell signaling. It is the true joy to witness the rise of this important research field throughout my career paths😍🌱. 2/2
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I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @PlantPhys🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/adva…
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Replying to @KeikoUTorii
@KeikoUTorii shared work investigating patterning & differentiation in stomata in her #SLS26 talk "The plant-specific ACTL domain determines bHLH transcription factor heterodimeric partner selectivity during stomatal development" More at: plant-stomata.org #PlantScience
Keiko Torii presenting at #SLS26

ALT Keiko Torii presenting at #SLS26

Graphic from Keiko Torii's first slide showing impact of stomata on plant life on land - taking in CO2 and producing O2 and H2O

ALT Graphic from Keiko Torii's first slide showing impact of stomata on plant life on land - taking in CO2 and producing O2 and H2O

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Plant geneticists #SLS26 having scientific discussion at The Eagle, Cambridge, where Watson and Crick announced their discovery of the double helix 🧬 in 1953.
Image from Prof. Keiko Torii (@KeikoUTorii)
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HHMI
@hhmi_scienceSep 22
Plant cells have their own language, & #HHMIInvestigator Keiko Torii has spent 30 yrs decoding it. Her team's new work on the signals guiding stomatal development — & how plants balance that with pathogen defense — could help develop more resilient crops: bit.ly/4hFvOIy
HHMI Investigator Keiko Torii in her lab, surrounded by plants

ALT HHMI Investigator Keiko Torii in her lab, surrounded by plants

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Fantastic moment to reunite with amazing plant biologists🌱, great meeting #PPRM2026 in a beautiful city of Freising🇩🇪🥂🍻—Vielen Dank!
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At Peptide Receptor Meeting #PPRM2026. A theme that came back twice is re-evaluation of old published results. We know about ABP1 and the systemin receptor, but there were two other examples today: WAK1 perception of OGs, and BSU1 Tyr dephosphorylation of BIN2 in BR signalling.
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New Letter: "An LRR co-receptor kinase essential for systemic nitrogen-demand signalling" rdcu.be/bePgscq8DY4a It is co-receptor for CEPR1, assigning a function to the last unknown clade of this receptor family. Key regulator of systemic N-demand signalling in plants.
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🫘Webinar Alert🥑 International Committee @ASPB announces @plantae_org Webinar "Crops of the Future: Revisiting Neglected & Underutilized Crops for Global Nutrition". Supported by @templeton_fdn Sept 1-2. Please register→ blog.aspb.org/crops-of-the-f…
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Amphibious plant, H. difformis, reprograms C3 to potential C4 photosynthesis underwater, highlighting its amazing plasticity of carbon assimilation machineries for aquatic environment. Congrats, Hongwei & the team🥳🌿🐸! academic.oup.com/hr/advance-…
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Bob Schmitz@Schmitz_LabAug 6
Here is a neat story led by Alex Tadros on the history of Arabidopsis laboratory stocks. They can be diverged by over 100 generations! Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the 1950s biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the...

Genetic and epigenetic divergence among Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 laboratory lineages since the...

The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been a workhorse of plant biology since the 1950s, when the Columbia-0 (Col-0) accession was widely adopted by the research community as a reference genotype....

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IN BRIEF: Better together: the transcription factor MUTE aggregates into nuclear condensates to regulate stomatal development in maize (Pablo González-Suárez) doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag0… @pablidopsis @ASPB #PlantSci
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If Flower Bioengineering & Breeding sparks your curiosity, explore more at openflower.bio/ 🌸🧬 Designed and built by me, with love, in @webflow
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This is a severely cool biology account🌸
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