A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

Our latest story with soon-to-be published results at #2025ISMPMI !

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...

Inspiring work and a conceptually beautiful model!

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...

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Well deserved! Congratulations!

ICAR2025 kicks off with a brief history of plant biotechnology (started in Ghent in the early 1980s). Intro by Tom Beeckman, with an accompanying string quartet!

#Nokings San Diego

Please consider signing this petition, which emphasizes the importance of ring-fencing EU funds for ERC, Marie-Curie fellowships and other collaborative basic research. www.petitions.com/open_letter_...

Great work from the Andersen lab about the formation and identity of passage cells! A widely conserved, yet very elusive cell type. Beautiful visualization of transporter expression!

Check out our latest work, featuring beautiful, first-of-their-kind cryo-tomograms of crucial plant cell wall modifications, Casparian strips, suberin lamellae, lignified xylem walls and more! From our Electron Microscopy Facility led by @chgenoud.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱 🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3] We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting. Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a bsky.app/profile/fase...

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

An amazing opportunity - great, young mentor, fantastic research environment and research tools that are unique in the world!

A new gene regulating zuberization - found through a GWAS screen by direct, microscopical scoring of seedling root suberin. Amazing work!

Great initiative!

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

Plant anatomy for the 21st century - I love it! Congratulations to all involved!

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/...

#PlantScience in this week's @science.org: A link between the Casparian and establishment of bacterial nodules for N fixation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social

I am indeed stunned by the silence of the leaders of American universities and research institutes. If not now, when will they ever speak up?

Preprint alert: We investigated how maize root bacteria - alone vs in community - tolerate and metabolise antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. The capacity to metabolise such a toxin impacted community size, structure and importantly, fitness. Happy reading... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#standupforscience2025 with my colleague @jlawlab.bsky.social at UCSD!

Hope to see many of my colleagues on Friday. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... Science is for everyone. For everyone to do, and for everyone to benefit from. Weather forecast has also improved for Friday, but waterproof your posters just in case.

🌱 Excited about plant biology? Apply for the CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course! Hands-on training, world-class instructors, and cutting-edge research. 🧬🔬 📅 Application deadline: March 15 Details & apply here 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... #PlantScience #CSHL

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...

Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). 1/2

Great article from Harold Varmus - what’s really scary is the silence from industry and congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Can we hope Switzerland is run by people with vision, not accountants?

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…

Interesting, sad read. Paul Krugman was a big reason why I am subscribed to The NY Times. And I think as scientists we all feel that the low value assigned to true expertise which he describes rings true.

IS-MPMI 2025 abstract submission is open! You can now submit your fascinating science to the "Local and Inter-organ Signaling in Immunity and Mutualistic Interactions" 🌱🦠 Due date : MARCH 11th, 2025. See you in Cologne 🌈🧪

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.

Very proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪

Such an elegant story from the Soyk lab. Congratulations to all involved!

🌱 early-career scientists: don't miss Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science at CSHL, June 26–July 17, 2025. 🗓 Apply by March 15, 2025 This immersive course covers cutting-edge topics & methods in plant biology. 🌾 Hands-on labs + expert talks await! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o... Don’t agree with everything, but it’s a really interesting read.

Great news. I am looking forward to many mind-bending discoveries! Another exceptional scientist at the COS.

Endodermis - exodermis, less related than their names suggest…great story from the Brady lab! Congratulations to all involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really interesting pre-print from the Dangl lab about how bacterial efflux pumps can influence both organ and species specificity of commensals www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...