Gauthier Weissbart
@gweissbart.bsky.social
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PhD graduated from MPIPZ. Biophysics | Self-organization | Plants. For science-society dialogue.
I spent days staring at cells… Their patterns, somewhere between order and disorder, were too beautiful not to create visual pieces from. Whether it was to escape or to see them through another lens. We need more
#sciart
! Exposed at
@figure1a.bsky.social
Our scientific story:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Why are leaf cells of so many different sizes? Our paper explores how giant cells form! We also provide automatic cell-type classification and perform statistical quantification of cell spatial organization. If interested, check it out in
@plosbiology.org
. Thanks Pau and
@roederlab.bsky.social
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Check out this highlight of our story on how cells control their size and form nonrandom patterns in leaves (and sepals)! 🍃
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about 2 months ago
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Yad Ghavi-Helm
3 months ago
Ever wondered what drives enhancer-promoter specificity? Why would an enhancer activate one gene rather than another neighboring one? Check our latest preprint, led by
@mmasoura.bsky.social
, to find out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Promoter-proximal gatekeepers restrict pleiotropic enhancer inputs to achieve tissue specificity
Developmental enhancers are central regulatory elements that can activate multiple genes, yet how they selectively regulate one gene over its neighbours remains unclear. Using the Drosophila twist E3 ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678065v2
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Roeder Lab
about 2 months ago
Excited to announce our paper is out! Congrats to
@pauformosa.bsky.social
,
@gweissbart.bsky.social
, Frances Clark, and Xihang Wang on this fun and beautiful story. We answered a question about the randomness of giant cell spacing that I have had for at least 15 years.
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During my PhD, I realized the hardest moments weren’t the work itself, but the psychological challenges. We see lots of productivity tips, but PhD students aren’t machines - they're complex human beings. 🫂 Glad to see well-being in
@nature.com
'career column 🍀
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD
Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00967-7
9 months ago
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Pau Formosa-Jordan
10 months ago
Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the
@roederlab.bsky.social
and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images!
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Pau Formosa-Jordan
over 1 year ago
Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors!
@ceplas.bsky.social
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