New preprint on ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts! A story led by @josepmercadal.bsky.social together with Susan Tremblay, @leoniekraska.bsky.social, Martin Hutten. Check the thread below! @mpipz.bsky.social Link: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to see this out! We describe a patterning mechanism underlying rhizoid specification in Marchantia. Contrary to classic patterning mechanisms (e.g., Turing), rhizoid specification depends on both randomness and lateral inhibition, involves subcritical bifurcations, and occurs at criticality!

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths? Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026 Deadline: 23 January 2026 plant-ecr-networking.eu

Interested in doing a PhD on Plant Sciences? Check the program run by @ceplas.bsky.social !

Wondering about the dynamics during a developmental transition? Check out our preprint “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis”, a very exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab @mpipz.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

Press release on our new work about inferring Spatial Ploidy (iSPy), a collaboration with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox Lab, with @nickrussell31.bsky.social being the first author @mpipz.bsky.social @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social www.mpipz.mpg.de/5771290/pr-f...

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar! Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards @plantevolution.bsky.social

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!

So glad that the new suberin work from @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 's lab is out now 🙂 Thanks Tonni for giving us the chance to work on it too! Congrats to all co-authors and especially @leoniekraska.bsky.social and Tonni. See below Tonni's post!

Very excited to participate tomorrow Friday the 23rd May at the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social webinar on 'AI in Plant Biological Sciences Research', looking forward to it!

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

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/...

⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩. It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m! Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.

Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

Nice to see the MPIPZ Community here on Bluesky growing, but we still need a lot more people from the Institute to join. More importantly, it's time the actual MPIPZ moves its account here. go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn @maxplanck.de #PlantScience

📢 Deadline approaching Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February! 👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353 #PlantScience

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root, in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, at the MPIPZ in Cologne? Just a few weeks left to apply!

Please consider registering & submitting an abstract for the first ever Plant Chronobiology meeting happening in Leuven next summer! Thanks to support from the FWO, we can offer accommodation coverage for international early career presenters! #plantscience plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

We have moved to this new location as we prepare to launch a new edition of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintya-2025. This course began more than 25 years ago, and we are excited to bring together an excellent lineup of faculty and students for this latest edition

Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!

I am happy to share the link to video and pdf of 2nd lecture at College de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity and specificity. tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v

Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story at Nature Communications. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at MPIPZ with the Coupland group! @ceplas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors! @ceplas.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There is the "go-nuclear" GitHub repository accompanying our just submitted paper on robust and widely applicable 3D nuclear segmentation. Lot's of background and methodology. github.com/kreshuklab/g... bit.ly/3uG2Brd #PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo

Very important opportunity, please share. How do we make a more equitable scientific community? What values and practices should we embrace? Your voice is needed, please join us Feb 21. Info: rootandshoot.org/listening-se... Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...