FATE annual in person meeting! This time in Umeå! Nice day of interdisciplinary science! @stephanevrg.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @uu.se @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @liu.se

It was a great pleasure to host with @marhava.bsky.social, an excellent scientists and our former mentors at #KAUST, #BESE @frimllab.bsky.social and Eva Benkova from #IST-Austria. Truly inspiring talks discussions and a wonderful time reconnecting!

Very proud of my PhD student Julie Ducla, who was awarded Best Presentation at the SPPS PhD Conference 🎉👏 Congratulations Julie — an outstanding achievement and so well deserved!

A big thanks to all the speakers of the session on cell-to-cell communication #ICAR2025👏👏👏 @pdchristine.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @matiasgleason.bsky.social @rebeccaburkart.bsky.social Dimitra Valadourou 🙏Many thanks to my co-chairs @yvonjaillais.bsky.social and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy

Excellent plenary talk by Matyas Fendrych on the role of #auxin and pH in root growth, kick-starting day 3 of #ICAR2025 Read more on the effects of pH in root growth👇By Diaz-Ardila & @christianhardtke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #plantscience #rootbiology

Second plenary session starts with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social who will talk about brassinosteroid homeostasis #ICAR2025

🧪🌾PAPER - What happens on the molecular and cellular level when plants are wounded? 🔬 Xuemin Ma et al from @pmarhavy.bsky.social's group studied early responses of Ca2+ and plant hormones and the interactions between them after wounding. Read more in @emboreports.org: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

🧪🌾 INTERVIEW - Becoming a docent: our group leaders Peter Kindgren & Peter Marhavý @pmarhavy.bsky.social have fulfilled the final requirement this week. What motivated them to continue in academia and what do they enjoy about their work? Read more here👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

"Sequencing a new genome is the ultimate thrill because you then have this immense challenge of working out what it is in that #genome that creates the variety of life." In #Profile: Nathaniel Street 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

We have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE for TRAVEL AWARD APPLICATIONS UNTIL APRIL 8TH

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/

A little bit more than a week left to apply! Come do your PhD with us! 🌲🌳🧫🔬 @pmarhavy.bsky.social @clydecia2020.bsky.social

PAPER - Do pollen grains contain specifically tuned mitochondria to support the energy-demanding pollen germination and tube growth? 🌾🧪🦾⚖️ According to the results from Boussardon et al from Olivier Keech's group YES! Read more in @currentbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #plantscience

Happy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our work lead by Di Fino in great collaboration with @Panosmoschou,@Hamann_lab, @GreenMechanobio, @RichardSmithLab published @Dev_Cell: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Still open!! Please spread the word.

Please spread the word, 2-year-postdoc position in my group to understand fate determination. www.upsc.se/jobs/6548-po...

So nice to have Jenny Russinova and Qian Ma around! Nice dinner with @pmarhavy.bsky.social