EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis 📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026 A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics. ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026 🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr... 📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl

Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome! Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins. bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected! 1/n 🧵

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Happy to share this preprint, we describe how the membrane could shape the ROS nanoenvironment in plant responses to osmotic signals. Led by @arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing colleagues @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , @jbfiche.bsky.social , A Meyer, and J Ugalde. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #plantscijobs #plantscience

Were you considering applying to the 2026 GRC on Salt and Water Stress? Do you want to give an oral presentation? We are over 60% full, so apply soon! Consideration for oral presentations from submitted abstracts will occur on March 9, 2026. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please re-post!

We made it to the cover!🤩🌱⏳️ Really proud of this work and of our PhD candidate @Asif! 🥹 The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my group, featured in the cover of the December 2025 issue of @theplantcell.bsky.social! Yay!🎉💪🏾✨️🙌🏾 #plantresearch #seedresearch #seedmaturation #evolution

👀 In very close collaboration with Rishi Bhalerao's group , check out our latest work how plasmodesmata act as integrators of temperature cues to prevent premature dormancy break bud tree ➡️ with imaging and data analysis support from the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social. rdcu.be/eY1Cv

Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social @maurazimmermann.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @akankshi.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social

🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

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...

🌱 From Earth System Science Data: A new global database links leaf spectroscopy with photosynthetic traits across hundreds of species, enabling better models for plant function and climate research. (Troy Magney) ▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) … Root cell wall plasticity in iron homeostasis: An overlooked frontier in plant nutrition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉 The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩 Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️ academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students and postdocs! 🌱 Sign-up👇

Very excited to share my first solo Tansley Insight. An integrated view on the hydraulics of aboveground plant meristems, and the framework of my future work as part of this community #PlantScience @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again. They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️ Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱 @plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

Plants "bleed" too, but through gases! When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge! #plantscience

Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚

📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

🎉🆕📰🎉: Leaf Na+ effects and multi-trait GWAS point to salt exclusion as the key mechanism for reproductive stage salinity tolerance in rice doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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...

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3) tinyurl.com/DudinO

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now! 🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck. 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change. The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.

🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱 🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3] We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting. Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a bsky.app/profile/fase...

Valuable advance in correlative #cryoCLEM - #CryoET imaging - especially applied to a challenging plant tissue! Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱 Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts! #plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging

This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature. But what if intracellular movement also matters? Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds - Diao et al. - Plant, Cell & Environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

New paper alert! Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible. Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #plantscience

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release ! Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What started as a 'funky' observation back in 2017 while visiting the lab of @labcosta.bsky.social, and after skilfull execution of Dominic Kuang, Shanna Romand, and many more, now found a home in Current Biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌱 New discovery in plant-fungi symbiosis: @carogutj.bsky.social and team have identified the Gene Activator Complex that promotes the exchange of nutrients between plants & fungi. 📖 Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

And just a heads-up: we're recruiting a PhD candidate to work on this very project! Join us at Wageningen University & Research! 🔬 📅 Application deadline: 19th May, 2025 Link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...