🔬 MSc/PhD/postdoc position available - An exciting and innovative research opportunity! 🌱 Our lab at the Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Institute (ARO), is seeking an outstanding MSc, PhD, or Postdoc to join a cutting-edge research project on plant development and environmental responses.

Very proud of our stellar postdoc @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social to have secured a MSCA postdoc fellowship! Very happy to have you an extra two years in the lab and accompany you on your journey to become a scientific leader and role model!

🌄 The #RigiWorkshop 2026 is in full swing - once again bringing together early-career #researchers! 🧪 A big thank you to the organisers @caroreymond.bsky.social, @dudinlab.bsky.social & @michaelraissig.bsky.social 🙏

What a fun meeting! The future of Swiss science is bright ⭐️ Thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social @michaelraissig.bsky.social for the invite! Wonderful to see old friends @annikaguse.bsky.social @lsaunders.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social and new

Today is the last day of the Rigi Workshop 2026 organised by @dudinlab.bsky.social @michaelraissig.bsky.social and @scnat.ch.Thanks to the participants and the fantastic speakers: Gautam Dey, Edwige Moyroud, Annika Guse, Susana Coelho, Lauren Saunders and Jan deVries. #SwissSocietyofPlantBiology

If you're interested in #PlantScience R&D work at a plant breeding company: @kwsgroup.bsky.social is hosting its annual R&D TalentCampus here in Einbeck on May 29th. More info here: www.kws.com/corp/en/care...

10 more days to apply - wonderful place and wonderful people (even though I might be slightly biased...)

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

Look at this remarkable preprint by @lbmountain.bsky.social, presenting a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing Brachypodium distachyon leaf. What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾

🙏 Anybody knows from where I can download a raster map with the different ecoregion of Europe?

1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧 #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Last but not least, I want to thank Sharon Kessler and @stanfordstomata.bsky.social . Your continuous support throughout my career, your encouragement to keep going even if my career path was far from straightforward, means a lot!

@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social,Sara Simonini,Edwige Moyroud,@anneroulin.bsky.social,Aurélia Emonet,Charlotte Delesalle,@pejullien.bsky.social,@matthiaserb.bsky.social, @rodrigoreislab.com,Rubén Manzenado Delgado,@joopvermeer.bsky.social,Sergio Acebron, @lmueller.bsky.social,Pep Vilarrasa-Blasi

I want to thank Uta Paszkowski @paszkowskilab.bsky.social, whom I met during the Brachy conference in summer, and who boosted my self-esteem tremendously. Having successful mothers in science role models means the world to me.

Thank you to our PhD student Ari (not on Bluesky, why??). Without Ari’s help, this proposal would not have been possible. I am beyond excited to continue our path together and teach and learn new things all at the same time.

🌵 So proud of my fav scientist in the world 🌵 Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis! Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Last chance to apply! Join us for the Rigi Workshop and take a journey into the beautiful diversity of cell and developmental biology!

Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.pb... 🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾 Congrats to @lbmountain.bsky.social on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

🧪 Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob W2-Professorship: Plant Genetics @uni-kiel.de Deadline: 19 October 2025 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Please spread the announcement👇 ☀️ Rigi Workshop is for biologist (PhD or Post-doc) interested in bridging the gap between non-model systems and novel technologies. With @dudinlab.bsky.social and @michaelraissig.bsky.social and a list of fantastic experts in an amazing place: Rigi Kulm!Don't miss it!

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself! We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵

Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben! Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵 👉 unibe.ch/ndf #ndfunibern

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery! Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes! The scale of this study is really amazing! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V @radinbio.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

Job for data scientists: Cluster of excellence Future Forests searching for a full-time permanent data steward associated with the Central Data Facility @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

We are looking for a new colleague! If you do exciting microbial work (from various fields and approaches), please consider applying. (Yes, I am talking to you, postdocs ;) ) :) uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html

Open Team Leader position @embl.org to head & reshape our Genomics Core facility. Interested in providing & developing state-of-the art omics tech to a wide community? A very vibrant, dynamic place to work with fantastic colleagues. Closing Sept 30th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

🌱 come join our lab 😀 🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo) 🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo) Apply 👇 PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS

Join us for a unique workshop that will give many diverse perspectives on how to approach experimental cell and developmental biology in the 21st century.

Registrations are Open for the Rigi Workshop 2026, which I'm happy to co-organise with @michaelraissig.bsky.social "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" This is primarily intended for PhDs & Postdocs. Only 30 spots available! So think fast ! #Cell #Biology #ProtistsOnSky LINK: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/aa...

What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us. 🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾 Grazie mille - Thank you so much Forza Brachy - Go Brachy

I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

We ordered a double (due!) 🌈 for #IBRC2025

This #FluorescenceFriday our featured image is from by @lbmountain.bsky.social (@michaelraissig.bsky.social lab). It shows mature epidermal cell types in a grass leaf of Brachypodium distachyon. Check out our post to learn more the image & Lea’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/04/f...

IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 is about to start on Monte Verità 🌾 I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️ www.brachypodium2025.org

Congratulations on this amazing image @lbmountain.bsky.social 🌾🔬

🥳Congratulations, Dr. Cheng!🥳 PhD student #4, who pioneered work with the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora in our lab 🌵🔬 See Xin's #preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I don't think I will ever get used to mentees leaving the lab. Best of luck, Xin, you will be missed 💚

"Associate Senior Lecturer in plant physiology with focus on plant embryo development Umea Plant Science Centre and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden *Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2025" Read more here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #PlantSciJobs

Check out this collaborative paper where we identified two new alleles of a myosin XI that reduce growth and branching and have strong asymmetric division defects. Making the mutant version of the protein is worse than no protein — first author @zebosi.bsky.social 🌽🎉

We have been tracking sequenced plant genomes for many years now not least for our @denbi.bsky.social activities at www.plabipd.de/pubplant_mai.... We have now with about 2000 species finally published this resource doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

Fantastic opportunity for a plant evo-devo person to launch an independent group - amazing facilities, wonderful colleagues and likely the most interesting and welcoming city in Germany!