:-) We miss you!

🧪🌾PAPER – How do pavement cells get their puzzle-piece shape🔬 New research from the @srobertgroup.bsky.social group in collaboration with @cellwalldynamics.com reveals how a cell wall enzyme helps shape plant cells as they grow, improving our understanding of plant development. Read more👇

The latest paper of the group on pavement cell shape acquisition! Work from @sandeep18887.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @adrienheymans.bsky.social @petergrones.bsky.social in collaboration with @cellwalldynamics.com @umeaplantsciencecentre.se pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42381545/

🧪🌾 Ready to establish your own research group in plant science? Explore @umeauniversitet.bsky.social's new Northern Star Fellows programme and consider UPSC as the home for your future research. 📅 Deadline: 1 October Questions? Contact @johanneshanson.bsky.social 🔗 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

New OA Letter: "The progression of leaf senescence is gated by the cytosolic arginine pool" rdcu.be/frzky With Research Briefing: "The cytosolic arginine pool represses the progression of leaf senescence" rdcu.be/frzlA #PlantScience

umu.varbi.com/se/what:job/... New opportunities to join UPSC (UmU side) as a group leader! See below and circulate!

Such an honor to have been elected as an EMBO member and I am looking forward to contribute to the EMBO community! I got spoiled by my fantastic group today! @embo.org

🧪🌾NEWS - Scientists identify the “point of no return” in dying leaves 🍃 A new study from Olivier Keech's group, published in @natplants.nature.com, shows that plants use arginine levels to determine when leaf cells reach the point of no return. 🔗Read the full story: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Noisy season has started! Beware of the mummy seagulls! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Two versions of the same flowers in my office @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Nice! Congrats Claudia!!

ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for @maxplanck.de Director Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social! She receives 2.5 million euros to study how mobile small RNAs can impact adaptive functional traits in plants. Congratulations!

Great team effort & our 1st #chlamy pub. Thx to many nice colleagues e.g., @jandevries.bsky.social @mackinderlab.bsky.social @lmu.de @padovaf.bsky.social #plantscience #GoPMF Conserved and Lineage-Specific Roles of KEA-Mediated Ion Homeostasis in Chlamydomonas academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Congratulations!!

Thrilled and grateful to receive an ERC Adv Grant! 🎉 We will explore how the endoplasmic reticulum contributes to plant ☘️ cell-to-cell communication 📞. 🤝 Thanks to my team, collaborators, and @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social. More details 👇 www.aquitaine.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Celebration of paper acceptances!! Details will come later! @sandeep18887.bsky.social on the phone :-) @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Congrats AP!!! So well deserved. Looking forward to the amazing science!!

whoua!! Congrats!

🧪🌾 Shaping the future of plant science at UPSC 🌲 Research group leaders and members of our Scientific Advisory Board gathered in Granö for two days of scientific exchange and strategic discussions. Thank you to our Scientific Advisory Board members for their expertise and continued support.

Profile of Ikram Blilou nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a joy to celebrate Karin Ljung’s inspiring journey as a scientist, mentor, and role model! It was fantastic to welcome several generations of the Ljung crowd and share a memorable day together. @nowako76.bsky.social @ioannaantoniadi.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Beautiful!

Second May issue is live! link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Mateusz Majda @matmajda.bsky.social and Richard S Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social showing that puzzle cells transform cell geometry into a living record of how leaves grow. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🍀🔬 I absolutely enjoyed reading this paper! Excellent quantitative cell biology. Two-step, long-distance nuclear migration guided by distinct actin networks prior to plant root hair formation @pnasnexus.org academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

3/ Together, they used computational modelling to simulate biological situations that could not easily be created experimentally. Now, their interdisciplinary collaboration is preparing a study for submission to a major plant science journal.

Read more about Suvam and Barbora's collaboration here: www.umu.se/en/news/grad...

This is going to be so exciting! Reach out with ideas! And come find me at ICAR in Singapore to learn more.

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC

Congrats!

The visit of today is in the news: www.vk.se/2026-05-28/k...

Today we had the pleasure to listen to the lecture for King Carl XVI Gustaf professorship at SLU. The king visited Umea and we were ready! Ove Nilsson and @rootsofthenorth.bsky.social gave lectures in addition to James Kirchner. @umeaplantsciencecentre.se was well represented!

Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄 @leoserra.bsky.social & Euan Smithers from @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...

The one where @loupitgreg.bsky.social finds morels on campus!

Don’t miss the opportunity! This is a wonderful course. Being a good mentor should really be the top priority for every scientist. That’s the most important impact you can have as a scientist.

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪🌾NEWS - @laurabacete.bsky.social receives an Emerging Investigator Grant from the @novo-nordisk.bsky.social🔬 The project DYNAMO explores how chemical and mechanical changes in the plant cell wall help coordinate growth and stability. Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Thanks for the invite. I am loving my time here too!

Plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses! Turns out cells are generally better off with connections to their neighbours. This manuscript represents a decade-long team collaboration, with heroic effort from Estee Tee to lead it over the line! #PlantScience link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to have presented our work on the FATE project (funded by KAW) at the 11th International Symposium on Root Development, held in Italy from 4–7 May 2026. Grateful to Stéphanie, Peter, Stéphane, Ioannis, and Luciano for their support, collaboration, and contributions to this exciting work.

Our new berry boxes (v2) made by labstuce.com and @absolutemaverick.bsky.social !! Let's the fun begin!

Congratulations to all! And special congrats to Ludovic!

🌱 Big news! We received a Novo Nordisk Fonden Emerging Investigator Grant (DKK 12.5M – around €1.7M) for project DYNAMO. 5 years to understand how plant cell walls signal the growth to strength switch. So proud of the whole team. Let's go! 🧱⚡ Read more: www.cellwalldynamics.com/time-to-cele...

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

Our natural variation screen for endodermal suberization identified SUBER GENE1, a new regulator of suberin via its interaction with TOPPs. Congratulations @jian-pu.bsky.social !

😍

🧪🌾Two great days at the UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium 2026! We welcomed four postdoc candidates for talks, matchmaking, an MSCA workshop, lab tours & career discussions, ending with a pizza & ping-pong evening. 👏Thanks to all visitors and everyone at UPSC who helped make this happen!

The young scientists are so impressive! What a nice set up to hear about their data!

Now a highlight of our symposium: quick-fire presentations from UPSC PIs! 🎤 Hear from Totte Niittylä, @srobertgroup.bsky.social, @microproteins.bsky.social, Peter Kindgren, Nathaniel Street & Leonard Blaschek — six snapshots of the cutting-edge research happening right here at UPSC 🚀 #UPSCSymposium

So nice to meet the future of plant science!