Abhishesh Bajracharya: Plant Physiology First Author

Abhishesh Bajracharya, first author of “PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4/HEMERA-mediated thermosensory growth requires the Mediator subunit MED14” 

Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate (University of Mississippi)

Education: B.Tech in Biotechnology (Asian Institute of Technology and Management, Nepal)

Non-scientific Interests: Medieval Fantasy Novels, RTS games, Sketching

Brief bio: I am a student of Biology, driven by a curiosity about how life works. I joined Dr. Yongjian Qiu’s laboratory at the University of Mississippi in 2019 to study how environmental stimuli trigger large-scale transcriptomic changes in Arabidopsis, especially with an increase in temperature as the stimuli. In this paper, we unravel a few pixels in the whole picture of how plants cope with increase in ambient temperature on a molecular level. We show that PIF4, a central transcription factor responsible for thermosensory growth, triggers transcription of its target genes with the help of a Mediator tail component—MED14.

第一作者人物介绍

姓名：Abhishesh Bajracharya

目前职位：密西西比大学，博士研究生

教育经历：亚洲技术与管理研究院（尼泊尔），本科

兴趣爱好：中世纪奇幻小说，即时战略游戏，素描

个人简介：选择生物作为专业是因为我对生命运行的本质非常好奇。在2019年加入密西西比大学邱永剑课题组后，我开始研究环境因子（尤其是非极端高温）激发拟南芥内转录组变化的分子机制。在这片文章里，我们报导了植物热形态建成所需的一个重要转录因子—光敏色素结合蛋白4（PIF4）是如何通过结合中介体尾部组分MED14来招募中介体复合物，以激活下游与生长有关的靶基因表达。这项研究使得我们对温和高温促进植物生长的分子机制有了进一步了解。