Join us at the Salt and Water Stress GRC 2026 in beautiful Switzerland! The conference setting provides numerous opportunities for interactions with peers and high-profile researchers from diverse research fields. Registration: www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩

Look at this remarkable preprint by @lbmountain.bsky.social, presenting a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing Brachypodium distachyon leaf. What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾

Former COS scientist @heikelindner.bsky.social secures an SNSF starting grant to study the role of succulent anatomy in CAM photosynthesis. Congratulations!

🌵 So proud of my fav scientist in the world 🌵 Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis! Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

@lbmountain.bsky.social is on a roll! Beautiful review about stomatal development and patterning in the grass leaf 🤩🌾

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

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...

On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself! We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵

🌱 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

Join us for a unique workshop that will give many diverse perspectives on how to approach experimental cell and developmental biology in the 21st century.

My PhD paper is out! 🎉 We've uncovered the physiological and genetic basis that makes the rice landrace Wazuhophek incredibly efficient at using phosphate. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🧪 The #RigiWorkshop is back - Apply now for 3 days of cell #biology in the Swiss Alps! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. Details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

Such an amazing meeting with wonderful talks, incredibly friendly and open-minded people and inspirational discussions. I hope many collaborations will flourish to keep this community going. Thank you for having me 🌾

What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us. 🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾 Grazie mille - Thank you so much Forza Brachy - Go Brachy

🔥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!

IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 is about to start on Monte Verità 🌾 I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️ www.brachypodium2025.org

Congratulations Xin! Establishing a new developmental model system in a lab takes bravery, patience and lots of trial and error. Your pioneering work has enabled team Kalanchoë to become strong and has made the impossible possible: Michael‘s love for Brachy had to expand to another model 🌾🌱🌵

Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to [email protected]

Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud Jan 25-27 2026 biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...

An excellent summary of Christelle's work at our institute @unibe.ch. She is an outstanding scientist, teacher, mentor, and role model. I am fortunate to have her just around the corner. 💪👩‍🔬👩‍💻🌾

I'm #hiring! Thrilled to announce a fully-funded 4-year Chemical Ecology #PhD position in my group at @tcddublin.bsky.social The project will explore the dynamic interplay between insect behaviour and plant chemistry 🐛🧪🌱 Follow the link below to apply👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy Birthday to us! And thank you to all the amazing scientists and people in our group! We are incredibly lucky and privileged being able to accompany you on the science journey and making memories for life. 🌾🌱

Happy Birthday, Stomatal Biology group @unibe.ch 🥳 Hard to believe it's been 7 years already. This year, a big shout out to our group members joining us from around the world and doing amazing science on our favorite models, the grass B. distachyon 🌾 and leaf succulent K. laxiflora🌵. Thank you!

🌾 One week until registration deadline 🌾 Join us in stunning Monte Verità in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland for what will be a great meeting on grass biology. Fantastic line-up www.brachypodium2025.org/speaker2 & a great community Register until May 5 www.brachypodium2025.org/registration

🧪🌱💡 #joboffer #plantscijob #postdoc Exciting opportunity to join our #ERC funded #DROOGHT project at the UCLouvain in #Belgium We are looking for a 2-year #postdoc to work on the development of a new #multiscale #root #modelling pipeline. #wheat #drought #root ➡️ bit.ly/postdoc_droo...

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

Hallo Bluesky, ich brauche mal wieder Eure/Ihre Hilfe. An welchen deutschen Hochschulen oder Forschungseinrichtungen sind US-Fragebögen zu Diversitätsmaßnahmen etc. eingegangen? Bitte nur direktes Wissen. Wenn lieber persönlich, gern an: [email protected] Gern reposten und weiterleiten. Danke!

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/

Registration is open for the International Brachypodium Research Conference 2025 (IBRC2025) #Brachy2025 July 6 - 10, 2025 in Monte Verità, Switzerland www.brachypodium2025.org/registration Registration deadline is May 5 🌾 Join us if you love grass biology 🌾

Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE, Geneva, Switzerland - Applications are invited for a postdoc position to study UV-B perception and signalling in plants. Please apply, forward to suitable candidates, and/or repost; many thanks! Deadline February 24, 2025. See www.ulm-lab.ch for more information.

Happy Friday, Utopians! Take a gander at our neat paper just published in PCE! 🌱🐛💨 Herbivory on larger leaves = higher plant-level volatile emissions. Generalist herbivores preferentially feed on larger leaves. Interesting implications for environmental signalling! doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience

Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great paper revealing how Glutathion is important for root regeneration #rootdevelopment www.cell.com/developmenta...

This story was only possible through true team effort. Team Kalanchoë with Xin at the forefront. @jameshartwell.bsky.social, the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to see this work out on bioRxiv: We applied a synthetic GRF-GIF chimera for tomato plant transformation and found that it reliably enhances regeneration, increases the number of transgenics and shortens the time for genome editing experiments in tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Apply for this position! Lena is an inspiring scientist and an amazing role model for women im science 💪

Plant root hairs for #FluorescenceFriday. Red signal from #Microtubules that are deposited right under the #PlantCellWalls, so stain the cell outline. I briefly added green cell wall fragments, which were incorporated at the base of hairs. But then the hairs continued to grow, so the tips are red.

Come join us in beautiful Ticino, Switzerland for the Brachypodium conference 2025! Amazing speakers, a beautiful location and an incredibly friendly science community 🌾

Finally made it to the bluer side on the first snowy day of the year ❄️