PhD student studying wheat genetics/genomics at the John Innes Centre | University of Cambridge and WUR graduate | I love plants 🌿👩‍🔬🌾🌺 | she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3muovdkzw322uReally cool work from @maxljordan.bsky.social @s-lab.bsky.social out on bioRXiv today! Find out more about how engineering NLRs in bacteria can enhance the production of antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs 👇🧬🧫 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3muovdkzw322uhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3lsyjyea4u22qI'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾 It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social The key take-aways, a 🧵 [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jul 2025 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsyjyea4u22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3lptoxmat6s2mVery cool protocol development from Emilie in the Borrill Lab 🧪 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 May 2025 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptoxmat6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3lmbxol3o5k2qI’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf01608 Apr 2025 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmbxol3o5k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3lfiet4c74s2eIt was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at #PAG32 😄🌾🧬 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jan 2025 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfiet4c74s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/delfidorussen.bsky.social/post/3lf5niep5x22cSome cool research I was very happy to be a part of 🌱👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2025 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:vztchpqccyvw62cdft7trlsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5niep5x22c