#Recherche en #Biologie

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

And the This year’s winner of the Reinhold-von-Sengbusch prize for best Talk are: - Susanne Mühlbauer - LMU Munich - Jakob Weber Böhlen - RWTH Aachen University - Jan Multhoff – University Münster #MBP2026

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants read positional cues? 🌿 ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptide cues, integrating receptor activation, signaling dynamics, trafficking, and non-canonical pathways. ✍️ Bai and @keikoutorii.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70793

That‘s one cool paper from the Schier lab …. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

It's officially out 🥳🥳🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #MorphoGraphX #MorphoDynamX #Physcomitrella #Phyllotaxis @roederlab.bsky.social @richardsmithlab.bsky.social

Our preprint on sex determination in Cannabis - now updated with a strata analysis and new gene expression data. Great collaboration with @tatianagiraud.bsky.social and her team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our recent paper is explained here in a more accessible way! "We often think of the emergence of order as arising from self-organization or cell–cell interactions, but here, order emerges from random cell fate decisions amplified by the geometry of tissue growth." www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-formosa-2...

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Samplify – automated quantification of seed abortion Bente et al. @hebente.bsky.social @claudiakohler11.bsky.social @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to share our preprint on how responses to closely related peptides are shaped by SERKs

🧬 From Nature Plants: Plants send mobile small RNAs from maternal tissues to pollen, enabling essential gene control for normal male fertility. (Blake C. Meyers) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantScience #PlantBiology

With this throwback to the #northernlights at our Weihenstephan #campus last month, we want to wish you the best of luck for your exams and a wonderful #semesterbreak! 🍀🤩 Thanks to Julia Keberle for the campus #photoofthemonth for January.

This is how you can adjust the plot size in #tidyplots 🔥 All measures are in mm. #rstats #dataviz #phd

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

Out First Release in @science.org this week: A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

👩‍🔬La @segenetica.bsky.social ha elegido como "Artículo del mes" en su boletín de enero el trabajo de @tank-silvia.bsky.social, investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC, publicado en 'Nature Communications'. 👏👏👏 🔗Boletín: segenetica.es/newsletter/e... 🔗Más info: www.irnasa.csic.es/una-investig...

New tidyplots.org version 0.4.0 now on CRAN 🚀 🪓 Split plots by one or two variables 🤓 Custom `axis.titles` in multiplot layouts 🌈 Custom background and foreground colors 🦇 Dark themes using `paper` and `ink` #tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

You don’t need a brain to benefit from a good night of sleep. Despite lacking a central nervous system, jellyfish and sea anemones have sleep patterns remarkably similar to those of humans, researchers report. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ

It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy

Just in time for Christmas a new paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social by @joannakacprzyk.bsky.social and myself. We asked 421 plant scientists why they study plants! Check it out and also check @plantmemories.bsky.social where we post lovely survey responses.

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1. Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

🧪 This will blow your mind

Last one of the year: CRK2 controls the localisation of other RLKs to plasmodesmata. Great collaboration with @grandpahiro.bsky.social @rople.bsky.social and Ivan Kulich - thank you for the help and great collaboration!

Of ga meteen naar het artikel: Kerstens, M., et al.,(2026), PLETHORAs shape Arabidopsis phyllotaxis through modulation of patterning robustness and accelerated inflorescence development. New Phytol, 249: 495-511. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantScience

@science.org 🧬🔬 A vision of #chromosome organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @vram142.bsky.social et al.

Oh Wow! Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Historic day! 🌾 The #EU agrees on new rules for genomic techniques, paving the way for crops that better resist climate change and pests, deliver higher yields, and need fewer fertilisers & pesticides. A big step towards a more sustainable food system. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Big thanks to all who contributed @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

FX-Cell: a method for single-cell RNA sequencing on difficult-to-digest and cryopreserved plant samples www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 3D Amphioxus Brain Atlas Illuminates the Blueprint of the Ancestral Chordate Brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.27.690639v1

Oft wird als wichtigstes Erfolgskriterium nur die Publikation von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen angesehen, am besten in renommierten Fachzeitschriften, die es in die main stream Medien schaffen. Gemessen daran, war unser Labor die letzten 12 Monate recht unerfolgreich. Aber das hat Gründe.

Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever. "We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research." elifesciences.org/articles/102...

The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested! tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

Deadline Nov 15 (in 2 days!). Join us in Geneva in the fantastic Dpt. of Molecular and Cellular Biology - great opportunity! mocel.unige.ch/news-events/...

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️

Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!

Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...