Multi-#kinesin clusters impart mechanical stress that reveals mechanisms of #microtubule breakage in cells. From Qi Geng, Kristen Verhey @kjverhey1.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Part of our #Microtubules collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #EESMicrotubules

Finally, here it is: after 12 years, and driven by the incredible hard work and innovation of two Ph.D. students, Bingyan Hu and Maria Prusicki, with biomathematical support from Katarina Stahlmann (UKE) — "A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis". academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

What is an edge? Why is this geometrical domain so crucial during plant morphogenesis? Read our review, co-written with Antoine Chevalier and @ckirchhelle.bsky.social to find out! authors.elsevier.com/c/1nAnf4tPF4...

New layer of plant immune system "membrane mechanosensing immunity (MSI), a third layer of cell surface immune signaling" is nicely demonstrated by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social group Cool finding! Congratulations!

Our new toolbox of plant membrane imaging probes: LipoTag. After CarboTag (cell wall probes), we have now developed a modular strategy to create non toxic, easy-to-use, and flexible probes for hassle-free live-cell imaging of plant membranes, and their tension, lipid order and oxidation. 🍀🔬

Very well deserved! An amazing scientist and terrific role model!

🥳 Excited to share our #diatom work out in @pnas.org. In a great collaboration with @nic-poulsen.bsky.social and @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social we show that diatoms modulate the curvature of their paths by dynamic switching of their cell–substrate contact sites. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506122123

🚀 Now in press at Bio-protocol! bio-protocol.org/e5634 Grounded in years of hands-on experience 👋, our protocol covers imaging cellulose synthases 🔬 from sample prep 🌱 to reproducible quantification 👩‍💻 — transferable to other fluorescent markers too ♻️. @unipotsdam.bsky.social @crc1644.bsky.social

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Our new preprint is live!🎉 Cytosolic factors govern vimentin network architecture and mechanics. Cytosolic components shape vimentin IF networks & mechanics - beyond minimal reconstitutions. On bioRxiv now! Congrats @dyuthisreekumar.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new webinar series is born - ''MechanoBioTalks - Mechanics, Materials and Living Matter", to bring together and inspire researchers interested in biomechanics, biophysics and biology across different kingdoms of life. Join us! For info and registration visit green-te.nl/activities/

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

A new chapter begins! From February, I’ll be joining the @tum.de as an Independent Group Leader in the Chair of Plant Systems Biology. Beyond excited for this next step, while feeling very grateful (and a little sad) to be leaving the @schaedellab.bsky.social 🔬🌱

Hey #plantsci, have your experiments led to a negative result? These important findings are worth publishing to push scientific knowledge forward! @plosone.org is focussed on scientific rigour rather than impact, and selfishly I would LOVE to see more #plantscience each day :D #PhDchat #ECRchat 🌿🧪🔬💚

Camelot: affordable precision tool for plant biomechanics👨‍🔧🗜️ doi.org/10.1186/s129... @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social @richardsmithlab.bsky.social

Out in @science.org this week: PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience #PlantSci

FX-Cell: a method for single-cell RNA sequencing on difficult-to-digest and cryopreserved plant samples www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BUT: restoring MER3 can partly rescue fertility. With DREAM’s role conserved from plants to animals, we’re excited to shed light on how reproduction is orchestrated across multicellular life! 🌱🔬✨ #Meiosis #Science #PlantBiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱 From PNAS: Meristem layers mutate at different rates, with the germline-forming L2 protected and the L1 evolving faster. (Kirk R. Amundson, Mohan P. A. Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Konsam Sarika, Isabelle J. DeMarco, Angelina Phan, Isabelle M. Henry, and Luca Comai) ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size? We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social

This sounds exciting! Mechanobiology across the tree of life www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬! academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have you ever wondered how microtubules withstand and respond to mechanical stress in cells? Here we show by in vitro reconstitution assays that MAP65-1 and PRC1 promote microtubule nucleation on existing lattices, especially on those with structural irregularities linked to mechanical stress.

Despite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fresh from the @schaedellab.bsky.social 🔬

@fritzlaylin.bsky.social et al. propose a simple way to highlight both experimental #reproducibility & cell-to-cell variation, while avoiding pitfalls common in analysis of cell biology data rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

Happy to share that our paper on Tau- Microtubule interaction is now published in Nature Physics!🥳 We show that Tau isn’t just a microtubule stabiliser - it promotes removal of defects in the microtubule lattice. Congratulations @subhambiswas.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Professorship Plant Genetics. Kiel, Germany. #plantscijobs #plantscijob www.academics.de/jobs/w-2-pro...

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's time to say bye after these thrilling 2 days of conference #EPCC2025 at @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social ✨️Thank you to all the participants 🤩✨️ And congrats to Mariana Romeiro Motta @marianattom.bsky.social for winning the best poster price 👏👏

First day at #EPCC2025 great science, good mood, french style @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

The Philippar group is looking for two PhD candidates to join the lab 🌱 Come join us on the green Saarland University campus. Happy to answer any informal questions about the university, please address specific questions about the position to Katrin

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

Absolutely beautiful!

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales'. www.biologists.com/workshops/fe... Application deadline: Friday 15 August 2025 #Imaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Research #Workshop #Plants #PlantPhysiology #PlantCells

Upcoming interdisciplinary meeting: Cell Physics 2025 When? October 7-9, 2025 Where? Saarbruecken, Germany Relevant dates? Early-bird deadline: June 30, regular registration by August 31 Several opportunities for short-talks selected from abstracts More info at: cell-physics.uni-saarland.de

🚨 Time to register ! The European Plant Cytoskeletal Club is an informal meeting, focusing on research on plant cytoskeleton 🍀🧪🧬🔬 Where: ENS de Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social, hosted by the RDP laboratory @rdplab.bsky.social When: the 4th and 5th of September 2025. 👇 epcc2025.sciencesconf.org

Our February Issue is here! 👉 https://buff.ly/4aI3csU The cover shows a 12× 3D-ExM 🔬 image of metaphase PtK2 cells stained for DNA, Hec1 & #microtubules, providing a high-resolution visualization of the #microtubule-#kinetochore interface. 📸 By Norman, Suzuki et al. https://buff.ly/4aFLGFM

More details on our recent pre-print: Alignments of stomata have been described in many species, here are 2 examples: Thym from my kitchen, and Leucadendron from a 1935 paper (Smith 1935 on the orientation of stomata) What is directing these alignments is unknown 1/12 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

🔬☘️ Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Video: Cortical microtubules in cambium stem cells from hypocotyl longitudinal sections

As a first post here, I would like to share with you my two biggest driving forces of my scientific research: live cell imaging and meiosis! For more, have a look at my PhD work: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Hello, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Saarland researching the role of microtubules and MAPs in plant development. Here's a welcome video from my latest publication coming from work at @schnittger-lab.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...