A question of death ☠️ and life 🧬 Yesterday we hosted @moritznowack.bsky.social (from Ghent University and @viblifesciences.bsky.social), their research on root caps uncovers the gene regulatory and molecular mechanisms coordinating differentiation with developmentally programmed cell death.

A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

Please retweet: Julius-von-Sachs Institute, University of Würzburg is hiring: Prof. For Plant Genetics, Chair Botany III. Please apply until Oct 13th www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ueber-die-fa... #plantscience

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with: 1- @ataly.bsky.social for molecular dynamics 2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me : [email protected]. Deadline 15 sept.

Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025 🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...

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...

We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab): www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs please re-share RT #ERC

VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

Less than a week left to apply! 🌱💚

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

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...

🌱 #NZT - Die Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz begrüssen das Ziel einer differenzierten und risikobasierten Regulierung von #Pflanzen aus neuen #Züchtungstechnologien, sehen den Gesetzesentwurf aber kritisch. Zur Stellungnahme ➡️ scnat.ch/de/id/pDqQq

🌱 #NTS - Les Académies suisses des sciences saluent l'idée d'une réglementation différenciée et basée sur les risques des #plantes issues des nouvelles #technologies de sélection, mais sont toutefois critiques à l'égard de ce projet de loi. Vers la prise de position ➡️ scnat.ch/fr/id/pDqQq

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

Our latest newsletter is out today! Proudly featuring... 🌱Fresh starts - as we say goodbye to Carol & welcome Jordan to the AAB team 📆 Upcoming events 👩‍🔬Our Community - hear what our members have to say about #ICAR2025 and Parliamentary Links Day Read it all here >> tinyurl.com/AABNews-July25

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...

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open PhD position in plant regeneration 🌱 www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture. If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures! ‪@cerealcell.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/32a74xpd

Plese consider signing this open letter to remind EU leadership of the importance of ring-fencing the budget for ERC, Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships and other basic research essential for innovation. www.petitions.com/open_letter_...

“We conclude that the proposed cut-offs under which an NGT plant is considered equivalent to conventional plants do not align with what is observed in nature, conventional breeding and mutagenesis” 👇

📣📣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

Thanks Kew! The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finally plants for #3DThursday!🌽 A maize root tip, imaged using #microCT, from the Topp Roots Lab. 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM 🥼: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social 🏛️: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social 📝: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... 🎬: syGlass.io #syGlass

Are you in Germany in September (25th-27th) and ready to present your science? no further hesitation and register for the 15th GfE School on "Lineages: Revealing how Cells make Embryos and Tissues" at Schloss Reisensburg: www.vbio.de/gfe-entwickl... all #devbio enthusiasts and interested welcome!

Protecting seagrasses could prevent billions of dollars in damages Study predicts that protecting at-risk seagrass meadows could avert climate damages equivalent to removing the annual carbon footprint of 100 million U.S. homes.  buff.ly/Lc8SaWb via @fiu.bsky.social #PlantScience

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

Always a pleasure to engage with the many brilliant 🤩 #earlycareer researchers presenting their work at #ICAR2025 Here’s just two of them: 🤩Ann-Kathrin Rößling @uni-freiburg.de 🤩Álvaro Daniel Fernández-Fernández @ethz.ch #plantsignaling #plantimmunity #plantreceptors

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...

🤩 BEAUTIFULL highlight of our work by Sabine Muller now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Lázaro Centanin (@cosheidelberg.bsky.social‬) Martin Bayer (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social‬) Moritz Nowack (@moritznowack.bsky.social‬) René Schneider (@schneiderlab.bsky.social‬) "joint young scientist workshop" with the JSDB 🇯🇵 ...and you! register here: forms.gle/8PgeAfMYqjxK... deadline July 11th!

🌽 A dream maize seed phenotype—finally real❗ Two KIL TFs trigger lytic cell death in endosperm (EAS) ➡️ boosting embryo growth! @theplantcell.bsky.social‬ Huge credit to @moritznowack.bsky.social & N. Doll for leading this work 🙌 Fantastic collaboration 🤝 📖 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

An amazing #ICAR2025 ended - was so great to catch up with old friends and to find new ones! so many highlights! Great science, people and an awesome place 🤗 see you in Singapur #ICAR2026

All the good stuff comes to an end... It's time to head back to @rdplab.bsky.social after a fantastic week at #ICAR2025

Matyas Fendyrch introduces his auxin work #ICAR2025 A reminder AAB are organising Auxin2026 and the logo design competition is OPEN…. a free registration for the successful designer! 🤩 @diorkelley.bsky.social @larsostergaard.bsky.social auxin2026.info

And last but not least at #ICAR2025, the Marc Van Montagu Prize for Sustainable Agricultural Systems ipbo.vib-ugent.be/en goes to Cecilia Adhiambo Shinda from the lab of Steven Runo spas.ku.ac.ke/department-o... at Kenyatta University for her work on Striga resistance in Sorghum. Congratulations !!

#ICAR2025 Poster Prize winners are @aroessling.bsky.social from @elkebarbez.bsky.social lab @uni-freiburg.de, Wouter Smagge from @dejaegerlab.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @universiteitgent.bsky.social and Alexis Lebecq from @stanfordstomata.bsky.social @stanford.edu ! Congratulations!!

And just like that #ICAR2025 is over! With our prize winners, a special appearance from the legendary Marc Van Montagu & a thank you to our hosts Tom Beeckman & @moritznowack.bsky.social, we can now hand over the baton to Singapore for #ICAR2026! See you all there for more excellent #plantscience!