Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Thermostable ancestors enabled evolutionary diversification of promiscuous chemical defence enzymes Elizabeth Gillam and coworkers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

I am excited to announce that we have two open positions on our recently funded MYBstery M-WEAVE (NWO-DFG) project! 1) Postdoc in my team at Utrecht University (NL). www.uu.nl/en/organisat... 2) PhD in the team of @lauraragni.bsky.social at University of Freiburg (DE). (See thread)

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

Pour tous ceux intéressés par les problématiques de la recherche académique, je recommande cette conversation sur le thème « Payer pour lire, payer pour publier… la science est-elle malade de ses revues ? » @theconversation.com C'est aujourd'hui à 18h30, en direct 👇 www.youtube.com/live/hmkP-n0...

Earthworms: The Invisible Gardeners of Tropical Bryophytes www.botany.one/earthworms-t... A new study shows that earthworms can carry viable bryophyte propagules through their guts, helping mosses and liverworts spread across tropical soils. #Botany #PlantScience

⚠️⚠️ @jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting. As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes. It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th. Registration 🔽 nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

🔬 A study led by AM Duchêne and published in @pnas.org uncovers a central role for FMT in organizing mRNA localization and translation near mitochondria. A key mechanism linking gene expression and energy metabolism. 🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2521483123

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

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Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

PhDs apply to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science. 1 month of hands-on training with leading experts. A unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge plant science methods and build your network. 🌱 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Un marquage des ARN messagers essentiel à la maturation des graines ✍️ Hélène Zuber 🤝 @hzuber67.bsky.social @cnrs-alsace.bsky.social @unistra.fr @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social 📕 buff.ly/3IwKSmc

Two papers on apoplastic pH visualisation coming out together – a nice double pack from @aroessling.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis! Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...

📢 One week to go! Still time to apply for a doctoral fellowship in Gen-Q! @unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @kit.edu @unistra.fr @kitinformatik.bsky.social @nanoscience.ch

New biosensor alert! 🧪 mStayGold(J)-based calcium ion and pH biosensors are now on bioRxiv. Excited to see how they fare in real applications! Reach out if you'd like to give them a whirl. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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REVIEW from @moritznowack.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

I am saddened to learn that Ralph Quatrano has passed away. He was a great inspiration to many young moss researchers. We will miss him. engineering.washu.edu/news/2026/Ra...

🔬 Student experience at IBMP 💬 “Exploring metabolic responses to heat & drought stress using UPLC-QQQ-MS and GC-TOF-MS was at the heart of my work in the Kliwiresse project.” — Dennisse Beltran More about her experience 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @interreg.eu

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱 We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share! #PlantScience #PlantSciJob

Interested in plant biology and super-resolution microscopy? This EMBL workshop is for you! You will learn how efficient tau-STED Xtend is in Arabidopsis root tip. With Christel Poujol @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social and Magali Grison from our Lab, register before April 6th! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg) Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached 📅 Apply by March 30, 2026 📩 [email protected] Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin

Bird activity is ramping up! 🐦

Vendredi dernier, l’IBMP a accueilli des lycéennes dans le cadre de l’initiative « Sciences, un métier de femmes ! » (Grand Est 2026). Merci à P. Debie, H. Zuber, S. Koechler et A.S. Brussorio pour leurs témoignages, et à L. Herrgott pour l’organisation ! 🌱🔬 #SciencesAuFéminin #FemmesEnScience

Mechanical coordination of counter-gradient growth maintains organ curvature in the apical hook www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plantscience

We also have a starter pack of journals here. go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C

Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!

Super cool work! 👏

We are inviting applications for a joint appointment: Director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Full Professor (W3) at MLU Apply by April, 24 via: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de Join us in advancing innovative research at the interface of chemistry and bioactive natural products.

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Last day to apply!

📢 New publication 'MarpolBase: #genome database for #Marchantia polymorpha featuring high quality reference genome sequences' by Yasuhiro Tanizawa et al. in Plant and Cell Physiology 🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #liverwort

Hey #Physco sphere! What's your favorite protocol for purifying total RNA (or mRNA) from moss gametophores?

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

Please check out: Functional characterisation of Target of Rapamycin (TOR) signalling in #Physcomitrella We found a remarkable evolutionary conservation of this central #signalling hub, but also specific differences, esp. in RAPTOR. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts. Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

Interesting! Unravelling the processes controlling #pollen formation and functions with cross-species comparative analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 We are halfway through the 2nd call. Still time to apply for a doctoral fellowship in Gen-Q! @unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @kit.edu @unistra.fr @kitinformatik.bsky.social @nanoscience.ch

Spiral phyllotaxis in the moss Physcomitrium patens emerges from simple division rules of the apical cell: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #plantscience