New Science paper out! 🚀 The @starmorph-syg.bsky.social team contributed to a Science paper revealing a completely new mechanism that plants use to develop vascular tissue. Amazing teamwork with colleagues from Cambridge, Helsinki & beyond. 🌱✨ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As part of the Night of Science (Tieteiden Yö) in Helsinki, we showed an artistic representation of single-cell transcriptomics to the public created by members of the PhDoc society of the Centre of Excellence in TreeBio and the Viikki Plant Science community. #CoETreeBio #ViPS #NightofScience.

We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: https://kgs.link/TreesAreDead

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Postdoc position available in my lab, please spread the news!

By combining molecular genetics with cell-ablation experiments, we found that vascular cambium stem cells and xylem-identity cells form an interchangeable unit, a stem cell niche. Meticulous work by @xixizhang9001.bsky.social, Ondrej Smetana, Jing Zhang & Xiaoyu Wang 1/x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Team Helsinki University at the #PVB2025 meeting in Osaka. Five days of great talks about plant vascular biology. #CoE_TreeBio

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's out! Detailed transcriptome atlas of mature Arabidopsis root undergoing secondary growth. Fantastic work by Munan Lyu and Hiroyuki Iida + other lab members, wonderful collab with @bertderybel.bsky.social lab on the scRNAseq analysis. @treebiocoe.bsky.social 1/x www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our latest work, we provide molecular insights into the age-dependent morphological changes occurring in the root meristem during phase change. Perseverance over many years by BaoJun Yang and Yanbiao Sun. Generous funding by ERC, FWO, VIB and UGent #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper on cambium stem cells is out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...