Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

Plant Com Sep 2025 issue online🎉Cover story: Coumarin-facilitated iron transport: An IRT1-independent strategy for iron acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana (Robe et al., 2025). Images by Kevin robe. cell.com/plant-commun...

Today’s Department seminar by @luciastrader.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social on auxin transcription factors.

The lab is moving to the Salk Institute! We are thrilled to join an inspiring community where we will continue to explore plant growth and development. Deep gratitude for the years of support and collaboration at Duke/NCSU/UNC. www.salk.edu/news-release...

🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations. #PlantScience #CellBiology #Arabidopsis @camilagoldy.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌱 come join our lab 😀 🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo) 🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo) Apply 👇 PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers! Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social . 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/4 #PlantScience

Happy to see Kevin Robe’s work on ZIP transporters published. We found evidences that ZIP2 and ZIP8 are involved in Cu and Fe acquisition respectively and confirmed the role of ZIP3 and ZIP5 in Zn acquisition. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course! Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬 📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social 💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens: 🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Having a great time at PVB2025 in Osaka. Perfect meeting if you want to learn more about phloem, xylem and of course about Plasmodesmata!

New paper out showcasing the ALFA tag/ALFA nanobody technology for plant protein tagging. www.cell.com/plant-commun... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!

We are recruiting! A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

🌱Congratulations to Ines Hadj Bachir for receiving an @embo.org postdoctoral fellowship! 🎉 Her project on suberin regulation will be hosted in our lab at the University of Geneva. We’re excited to support her in this next chapter!

📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots 🧑‍🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment

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...

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

🚨Job alert! Please share 📢 🌾Curious how plants cope with and adapt to abiotic stress?🧂 🔬🧬Interested to learn new technologies and push the boundaries? Come join us and explore the answer to these questions! More details 👇 ramakrishna.ch Apply soon! #plantscience #plantscijobs #hiring

Check out our new preprint where we explore natural variation, leading to the identification of SUBER GENE1, a novel regulator of suberization. Excited to share the first manuscript from a project I conceptualized 10 years ago!

Delighted to share one piece of my postdoc work in preprint: Through forward genetic screening for suberin deposition in root endodermis, we identified SUBER GENE 1 (SBG1) by GWAS as a novel regulator for suberization by interacting with Type One Protein Phosphatase. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Our paper is out! If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales? I am thrilled to say that we have 4 open positions (2 #PhD, 2 #postdocs) @UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT. More: drooght.github.io

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience

Time to expand your vision! 👀🌱 Our latest work on ExM in plants is out Back-to-back with the Danzl 's lab (@ISTAustria) led by Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social with @monica-bic.bsky.social and @gmaucort.bsky.social from the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social . academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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/...

Tired of struggling with different tags to generate transgenic plants expressing your favorite protein ? Check out our latest preprint about ALFA technology and its MANY applications for plant biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Please share widely: I have a 3-year PhD position to work on self-incompatibility in petunia and decipher the molecular bases of non-self recognition across evolution. Come work with us in the Evo-Eco-Paleo lab in Lille! Don't listen to what you heard, it almost never rains. #Plantscience

From the Annual Review of Plant Biology: Root cell wall thickenings vary across species, aiding water transport, strength & stress response. Understanding their genetics may boost resilience. (Alex Cantó-Pastor, Concepcion Manzano and Siobhán M. Brady) ▶️ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

For all of you who cannot access pubmed, here is a good alternative: europepmc.org

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

Very nice presentation on piRNA biosynthesis and RNA modifications from Ramesh Pillai in our GeLS PI seminar series.

Exited to announce our study on ER-Golgi Intermediate Compartment (ERGIC) in plants!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Amazing and innovative work from @louisefougere.bsky.social and Magali Grison from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social, #SuperResolution, @naturecellbiology.bsky.social

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...

1/6 Super excited to share with you our work on Marchantia intra-specific diversity and pan-genomics, just out @naturegenet.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Everything on the discoveries in the thread by @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social I want to emphasize 5 additional points:

Feel lucky to have participated in this story with @adrienheymans.bsky.social from Cecilia Rodriguez Furlan's group sbs.wsu.edu/cecilia-rodr...

Happy to see that our Cell wall integrity #CWI & #ATG8ylation #preprint found a home @natureplants www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats Jose, Peng, Alessia & everyone involved. Stay tuned for exciting updates on this story…

Temperature-dependent polar lignification of a seed coat suberin layer promoting dormancy in Arabidopsis. Beautiful work from Lena Hyvärinen, Luis Lopez-Molina et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Deadline is approaching fast (31 /01) for the J. monod Conference on membrane dynamics ! don't miss it 👇 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

One more week to register for the #LausanneGenomicsDays2025 !