The winners of rising stars in plant sciences 2025 #Editorial #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

UKRIO @ukrio.bsky.social is introducing an Authorship Integrity Toolkit: a set of practical, adaptable resources designed to support both individual researcher contributors in their day-to-day practice and organisations in developing policies and managing projects. ukrio.org/resources/th...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” www.reuters.com/business/env...

Don't forget to register for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held in TWO WEEKS on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? The inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

Some magic happened in Andes mountains 9 mln years ago so we can eat fries now :D www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congrats to all co-winners! ☺️

If you want to gain skills and experience in #plantsciences and #bioengineering take a look at our 12-month #Internship in the Earlham #Biofoundry:

Modern strawberries are a hybrid between two wild species that were intentionally crossed 300 years ago. But the history of strawberries stretches back much further than that and is a lot more complicated. 🍓 Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/uf-s... 🍓 Study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Time for another paper from our lab! This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Sneap peak #DataVisAgainstFascism #physiologicalirrelevantconference #woodstockofbiology CU in June 💜 ☮️ 🌈 📊

If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social. Next deadline: 6 June 2025 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... #Training

We are hiring at Phytoform Labs! Seeking two Senior Scientist roles (sponsorship options) and one technician. Check out the job descriptions/application at the link below. If you're interested or know someone who might be a great fit, please apply or share the word! www.phytoformlabs.com/careers

Register for the #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium in June! With keynotes, invited speakers, and plenty of time to discuss and share the latest research and applications across microbial, plant, animal, and human health and disease. 📆 Registration closes 04 May! @biouea.bsky.social

Surprising discovery in world’s most studied plant can make seeds bigger | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Seeing is believing: Whole-cell electron tomography models of vacuole morphology and formation in the early-stage root cortex of Arabidopsis (Yong Cui, Jiayang Gao, Yanbin Li, Hai Zhang, et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Back-to-back manuscripts from the Jacobsen and Law labs revealing TFs that direct RdDM! Genetics controlling epigenetics. Reminiscent of KRAB ZFs... shorturl.at/TE4PH shorturl.at/QEHDU

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

InferPloidy: A fast ploidy inference tool accurately classifies cells with abnormal CNVs in large single-cell RNA-seq datasets #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643178v1

Any1 is a phospholipid scramblase involved in #endosome biogenesis, say Jieqiong Gao, Christian Ungermann and colleagues (Osnabrück University): rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Membrane #lipid #Organelles #Biochemistry

#Sorghum develops aerial roots and (like maize) produces abundant carb-rich mucilage after rain. @rev7.bsky.social @jeanmichelane.bsky.social &co show that diazotrophic #bacteria in the aerial roots can fix nitrogen, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3EYPZjK

🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social

For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.

Go sterols! : )

It was great to be a part of Plant 2030 meeting in Potsdam! Great talks by keynote speakers - Nicole van Dam @nmvandam.bsky.social and Eske Willerslev - and fantastic update about the incredible science happening in Germany! #Plant2030

In our last work that is just out in @newphyt.bsky.social we use a transcription inhibitor to improve the detection of mild drought stress responses in scRNA-seq. Browsable dataset on www.single-cell.be/plant/leaf-drought . Thanks to Ruben Tenorio Berrio and collaborators for the exciting collab!

Flash Talk about @nfdi4plants.bsky.social at the #Plant2030 status meeting. Organize and store your plant research data for free as part of the German #NFDI. Check it out www.nfdi4plants.org free as in beer and open source.

Intracellular #bacteria could play a role in the pathology and progression of various #diseases. Our new FocuSCOPE 16s kit detects host cell transcriptome AND intercellular bacteria #16S from same #singlecells. Contact us at [email protected] to find out more!

Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science by John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin - if you’re not going to read the book that highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability then read this book review 🧪 #WomeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...

THE POTATO LAB Here it is at last, the story of Mi-Kyeong a passionate potato researcher…👩‍🔬 🥔 🧬 💪 🇰🇷 youtu.be/eGXxozmh7ug?...

It's not just PubMed. All NCBI services are down. This includes: - RefSeq - NCBI Gene Database - NCBI BLAST Server - NCBI Entrez If this becomes permanent (or if servers slow down), this is a debilitating blow to genome and genomics research.

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🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾 Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice! 📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected] RT & share! 🌱 #Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch

Come join us in making agriculture sustainable at Phytoform! We are looking for an R&D scientist with a background in CRISPR gene-editing optimization as well as a Plant genome engineer. Check out the description at the link. If you think this could be, please apply! www.phytoformlabs.com/careers

Join the @longtrec.bsky.social doctoral network for a summer school in #longread bioinformatics, introducing masters’ students, doctoral candidates and early career fellows into the world of long-reads.

Tomatoes lose their bitterness and toxicity as they ripen thanks to DNA demethylation, the hormone ethylene, and key transcription factors, finds a new #ScienceAdvances study. scim.ag/4bfdr8u

Great collaboration with @yvonjaillais.bsky.social 🌱 Plants use membrane contact sites (MCS) for cell-to-cell signaling! ➡️ MCTP tethers & PI4P regulate ER-PM contacts in plasmodesmata, impacting trafficking. ➡️ MCS roles span intra- and intercellular communication. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Egg white protein (ovalbumin) produced in transgenic potatoes. Stored in tubers, straightforward to harvest and extract. Scalable. rdcu.be/d9XLg

“I’ve spent over five decades as a scientist in academia & the federal government, including as director of the National Institutes of Health. Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration” #AcademicSky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

Registration & abstract submission is now open for #EISingleCell25! Join us in June to hear from leading experts, explore innovative applications, and network with peers across the #singlecell and #spatial #genomics field. 🧪

🆕 Expression of interest is now open for our #Singlecell #RNAseq workshop, from lab to data anaylsis. This five-day course offers a comprehensive overview of the single-cell workflow, with theory lectures and hands-on sessions, including best practices and tips from Earlham Institute's faculty.

📣 We're excited to share our invited speakers for the 2025 Norwich #SingleCell and #Spatial symposium! Abstract submission is open for PhD and Early-Career researchers to present a short talk or poster during the symposium. buff.ly/3WPzXyJ