Are you a professor / group leader looking for a course to teach that would be extremely welcomed by graduate students & postdocs? Come train with us in how to teach the tools of the creative scientific process in our European train the trainer event in Heidelberg. night-science.org/train-the-tr...

Our latest review on the evolution of molecular networks involved in the development of plant conducting tissues is now out in @jxbotany.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Wanted: Outstanding plant scientist and fantastic colleague. If your science combines fundamental discovery with future applications, we would love to hear from you @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

The RTS (Swiss TV) visited our lab and talked about our recent work on natural variation for suberin in the News yesterday evening! (In French)

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📢 Thermomorphogenesis community📢 Next week we will have Danhua Jiang presenting his paper on drought inhibition of thermomorphogenesis! Don't miss out!

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

🥳 Happy (belated) 8th Birthday to the Stomatal Biology group @unibe.ch🌾🌵 This is also the first birthday of the "Functional Anatomy of Succulents" group led by my partner-in-crime, best friend and eternal ally @heikelindner.bsky.social. Here's to many more years of adventures and joys together!

New Article: "GWAS reveal SUBER GENE1-mediated suberization via type one phosphatases" rdcu.be/fgVkV A genetic screen across Arabidopsis accessions identifies SBG1 as a regulator of root abscisic acid response and endodermal suberin deposition via type 1 phosphatases. #PlantScience

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

🔬The Swiss Science Council (SSC) embodies an independent and long-term vision of the #ERI system. This expertise is essential to the competitiveness of Swiss #research. This is why the SNSF opposes its dissolution. Read more ➡️ sohub.io/lag9

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

Pleased to share our latest paper, out today in Molecular Cell: “Multi-site DMS probing reveals higher-order structure of RNA-protein complexes in living cells” www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Our former PhD student Xin Cheng was highlighted by New Phytologist. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... She won the poster prize at the 46th New Phytologist Symposium (Kaifeng, China, 2024) and just recently published her main work! doi.org/10.1126/scia... Congrats, Xin, we miss you!

This kind of reviewer's comment should not be acceptable by whomever is handling them. And, what a stupid worldview this reviewer has anyway...

Big congratulations to my postdoc Ran on receiving Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! Well done 👍 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Nitrosylation in thermomorphogenesis! Interesting preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you planning on attending ICAR2026 in Singapore in June? Do you have any cool bioinformatics tools or analyses that you'd like to share with the community? We're still looking for a few speakers in our Arabidopsis Bioinformatics session - let me know by the end of April if possible via DM!

🚨📢 Excited to share our back-to-back publications in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧬🌡️ In a fantastic collaboration between @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social, we’ve showed how plants "re-tune" the auxin pathway to regulate growth in response to warmth. 🌡️🌱 🧵 rdcu.be/fayYC, rdcu.be/fay0X

Our first Kalanchoë laxiflora story found its perfect home @Science Advances with a beautiful cover image of Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaves. I am grateful that I can continue working with this incredible new model to learn more about succulent development 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Calling all Master students! We have two PhD positions open, one in molecular plant science on robustness, and one in plant cell biology of light signaling. For more details see: www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/light-sig...

Securing two group leader positions at the same institute is no small feat.  From IMP postdocs to group leaders: Laura Lorenzo-Orts and Ulrich Hohmann started their labs at IMB Mainz this year:

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of @greenrobust.de backend.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/documents...

I’m excited to announce that Dan (Danna) Zhang will present her paper on ER stress and Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) in thermomorphogenesis regulation in our next JC.

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Preprint going commercial under Wiley. What a disgrace newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

PlantGraph from the Mao Lab is a new AI assistant for Arabidopsis. You can ask any complex question in natural language and will get deep, multi-hop, fully traceable answers with a claimed zero percent hallucination rate. Try it at: plantgraph.se. Send feedback to [email protected]!

🌱 🚨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

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result

Plant P-Bodies in Post-Transcriptional Control: Composition, Dynamics, and Context-Dependent Roles #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’ Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu Please check out the website and apply there Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

Re-upping this post: I took this color palette from an anime "Bocchi the Rock". The colors look nice, and the set is red/green colorblind friendly. Hex = c("#F2C9D5", "#B43E44", "#FADF92" , "#496496", "#282828", "#904869")

There is still much to learn about HASTY! 🌿 In our latest study in Plant Communications, we identify HASTY as a key regulator of systemic immunity in Arabidopsis. #PlantImmunity #miRNA #Arabidopsis #RNAbiolog @mplantpcom.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Proud, grateful & still in disbelief to share that I got a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellowship on my first try at @unibe.ch! Couldn’t have done it without @michaelraissig.bsky.social & @heikelindner.bsky.social support and trust 😚 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-aw...

Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? I’ve got an open PhD position www.photobodies.com/about-6 in the framework of the AGILE Marie Curie Doctoral Network cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026. #phd #job

Important initiative to help plant science be a better place for everyone. academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Preprint: Here we report a glass bead-based system suitable for the *simultaneous monitoring* of Arabidopsis root exudate and root microbiome dynamics. Teaser: some link between glucosinolates ~ SynCom composition. Happy reading. Credits to Charlotte Joller et al.! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Thermomorphogenesis community 📣 Excited to announce that Ritesh Raipuria will present his preprint on hydrogen peroxide and thermomorphogenesis regulation in our next JC. Don't miss out!!

Happy to share my group's thoughts on RNA structure conservation in plants. Hope it'll inspire and guide future efforts in the field! @dollymehta.bsky.social @jingminhua.bsky.social @chenxiao654.bsky.social @lazaraasimoes.bsky.social @unibe.ch www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow, we received 10 times more applications than places for the ECR Network Meeting! The applications are fantastic and we’re already very much looking forward to the event. We’ll screen applications as quickly as possible. Thanks to everyone who applied!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polyamines in the regulation of splicing (and potentially transciption dynamics) From Carracedo lab. Really cool to see this. Time to figure out polyamines control molecular homeostasis, especially in the context of aging