Great GRC conference in the Swiss alps! www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...

Read the full article & preview all pieces in Issue 09: www.asimov.press/p/nature

At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year. So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

Have you ever wondered how new DNA methylation patterns are established? Paradigm shift ahead! We discovered a new mode of DNA methylation targeting in plants that relies on transcription factors and sequence motifs rather than chromatin modifications to regulate the methylome. rdcu.be/eQ6L5 1/8

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026! eps.sites.uu.nl

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

A really nice telling of the rise of Arabidopsis - mentioning so many of my heroes! We should be grateful for their vision and persistence.

This going to be a superb talk at #PMS2025, @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social (@unil.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social group) on localized glutamine leakage drives microbial colonization patterns on roots See their recent @science.org paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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!