Spotted from the road! Umeå has some beautiful winter days right now. The reindeers just bring the magic! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Exciting imaging ahead #Zeiss #microscopy @erc.europa.eu @starmorph-syg.bsky.social

🧪🌾 PAPER – How do trees know when winter is really over? Trees don’t just track long-term cold exposure. The Bhalerao group and collaborators show they also count short warm spells when assessing winter progression. Read more in @natcomms.nature.com:👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was such a pleasure to have Edwige Moyroud from @slcuplants.bsky.social visiting @umeaplantsciencecentre.se She acted as external evaluator for @absolutemaverick.bsky.social Hemamshu Ratnakaram half time seminar and we could enjoyed her fascinating research overview. Thanks Edwige!

Entering 2026 with the latest group picture. @loupitgreg.bsky.social is missing. We had two great bachelor students for a few weeks Jule Braha and Mélio Dagnaud-Adam! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social

Ice bath before Julbord, enjoying the sun when it is still out! Perfect end of the week with this fantastic group! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to @cathbell62.bsky.social! 🎉 She has been awarded the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany for her research on plant roots and carbon allocation, and for promoting international collaboration in science, especially the #INUPRAG collaboration.🧪🌾 Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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/...

#OnThisDay, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was born: Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Today, the MSCActions 🇪🇺 fellowship carries her name, supporting young scientists in their research.  Together, we’re building a brighter future for generations to come.

@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Having fun with the group for Sandeep Farewell! @sharmavinod.bsky.social @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

STARMORPH kick off went smoothly! Nice group of young scientists to work together with! Fantastic couple of days! @xanderjones.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @nowako76.bsky.social @srobertgroup.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Summer vibes! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social @adrienheymans.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social Lorinda, Lin and Hemamshu! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Escape game in the city of Umeå! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se

REVIEW - What is the mechanistic link between auxin signaling and cell wall dynamics in shaping plant cells? Vinod Kumar et al from the @srobertgroup.bsky.social explore this link in their recent review published last week in @pplplantarum.bsky.social. Follow the below link 👇 to find the article!

🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪 Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl.... #PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics

SLU leadership course in the south! Alnarp campus hits differently 💚💚💚💚

After a long and very successful career our plant cell wall expert Professor Ewa Mellerowicz is retiring. Ewa mentored & inspired many young scientists and her contributions to wood biology research are invaluable. Thank you for everything, Ewa, and all the best for the next chapter in your life!👏

Spontaneous group day, swimming in the sea! Very nice day, only @siamsadoyle.bsky.social and @adrienheymans.bsky.social were missing! @sharmavinod.bsky.social @sandeep18887.bsky.social Lorinda, Hemamshu, Grégoire and Lin!

🧫Does anyone know of database for 2D plant anatomical data? I’m especially thinking of datasets from: CellSeT, Icy (.xml) or .zip ImageJ ROIs (e.g., via Celer, PaCeQuant, Cellpose, etc.) Something like what’s being done with ggPlantMap would be amazing! #PlantScience #OpenScience

New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab! 🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬 #PlantSci #CellBiology

It was really great to host UK Plant Biomechanics today. Big thanks to @instituteofphysics.bsky.social and Viv especially for all their help!!! A photo from today!

Tonight show was insane! Just in time for our UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists 2025 @umeaplantscicentre.bsky.social www.upsc.se/calendar/227...

SLU makes collages of their research images to use for marketing and decoration. Our image has been featured – can you spot it? To the left of the collage you can see stomata, mesophyll and pavement cells of a leaf from one of our research images taken by @siamsadoyle.bsky.social