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...

We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazing talk by @wigge.bsky.social at #ICAR2025! Plant have genetically encoded thermometers using phase separation 🌡️! Interest in ROS and condensates? See my talk on Friday morning at Concertzaal! @igzleibniz.bsky.social #heatstress #plantscience #consensates #thermomorphogenesis #arabidopsis

Now Phil Wiggle is talking about the ongoing global experiment about how plants sense and respond to stress, illustrated by the rapid acceleration of flowering in Japanese cherry trees. #ICAR2025 @wigge.bsky.social

Christa Testerink discussing how salt profoundly influences root growth! #halotropism #auxin #ICAR2025

Great talk by Julia Bailey-Serres : combining fundamental research in plant biology with breeding to create crops resilient to climate change. #ICAR2025

First up on day 2 of #ICAR2025 is Julia Bailey-Serres, speaking on plants "Hanging tight: fight or flight under stress. She says, Don't call plants sessile, they are movers and shakers when it comes to stress!

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌿 Excited to chair a session on "Temperature sensing in plants" at #ICAR2025 in Ghent, Belgium!🌡️🌱 🗓️ June 20, 2025 🕘 9 AM Don't miss talks from amazing speakers on how plants perceive & adapt to temperature. #ICAR2025 #PlantBiology #TemperatureSensing #ClimateResilience

📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science 🧑‍🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

Plant roots adapt to their environment including to soil conditions. Using single-cell transcriptomics, @nature authors report on the rice root responses and adaptations to soil-related stresses at individual cell level. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The transcription factor MYB30 promotes iron homeostasis by maintaining the stability of the FIT transcription factor academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #plantscience

Early Flowering 3 (ELF3) inhibits hypocotyl phototropism in light-grown Arabidopsis seedlings. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647958v1

“To me, slashing funding and people from science in the United States is like burning your seed corn. It’s not even eating your seed corn. It’s just destroying it,” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Congratulations Mohan!! 🎊🎉👏

The DOMPS #PlantScience Paper of the Year 2024 was awarded to Sharma et al., from Thomas Laux's group. Congratulations! 🥂 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Now with the #plantscience #epigenetics hashtags 😅 Excited to see our work led by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social & @djgibbs.bsky.social out in Developmental Cell. 🌱 We show that VRN2-PRC2 in meristematic hypoxic niches epigenetically limits growth through PIF targets. www.cell.com/developmenta...

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Really interesting paper on the trade off between enthalpy and entropy for TF binding in response to climate breakdown www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The pandemic may be over but we’ve so much to learn from how it unfolded, how we responded and how to prepare for the next one. Why oh why do we fail to appreciate that examining the past holds the keys to a better future (not to mention long COVID) #MedSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re excited to share our new preprint on wheat spike development! We used spatial transcriptomics and scRNA-seq to take a closer look at the different cell types and expression domains during key developmental stages of the wheat spike. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org

Does chromatin accessibility explain the dynamics of shade-regulated gene expression. Are PIF binding sites accessible prior to a shade treatment? What regulates changes in chromatin accessibility? Check what we found here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @unil.bsky.social congrats to all authors!

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Hey fellow #plantscience Have we found an solid answer to the mechanism of thermotropism? My quick research shows a lot of conflicting arguments.

Our latest @pnas.org! Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of the plant receptor kinase ERECTA. Its unique C-terminal alpha-helix domain inhibits the receptor active state. Congrats, all!🌱🥰 www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Temperature sensor as a molecular tool www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's about time we have a conversation about the role of structured protein domains in form and function of bimolecular condensates. Proud of graduate student Nate Hess for taking the lead on synthesizing these ideas and identifying important gaps in the field!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello #Bluesky! A sunny day with the Coen and Smith labs talking #plantscience #development and #modelling @johninnescentre.bsky.social

New preprint: Chloroplast and mitochondrial #pangenome of #Arabidopsis thaliana! Work led by wenfeixian.bsky.social #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔥 Most studies on condensates focus on their formation—but what about their maturation? Our research reveals PARP13 binds poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) to drive stress granule maturation. Mutate the binding sites? Granules fragment like crazy! Read the full story here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very insightful paper on HSFs by the group of @wigge.bsky.social - congratulations! Looking forward to reading it in detail! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Happy to share the PhD work of Maolin Peng who did a tour de force tagging and ChIP-seqing all the HSFs in Arabidopsis with the lab. Arabidopsis HSFA1 TFs have a modular PrD structure that enables activation and DNA looping to enhance heat shock gene expression www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

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Having listened to @wigge.bsky.social 's lecture in Freiburg yesterday I just had the need to create this. I think a lot of biologists (especially Synthetic Biologists) are sleeping on the advances plant people make. Amazing lecture and has reassured me that I went for the correct field!

Protein-wiggle, this is how plants sense elevated temperature based on @wigge.bsky.social's engaging lecture today at the @cibss.bsky.social Seminar Series. It was great to see the results from the collaboration with @plantphotobiology.bsky.social and @corneliaklose.bsky.social .

Fantastic talk by @wigge.bsky.social at our @dompsfr.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social seminar series on how plant sense temperature 🌱🌡️Thanks for the discussions Phil

Very excited to finally visit Freiburg University and see so many of my scientific heroes and collaborators 🧬🌱

Some like it hot: temperature sensing in plants We were delighted to invite @wigge.bsky.social to be a speaker for the CIBSS seminar series. Phil is one of the leading scientists in the field of temperature sensing in plants. See you tomorrow at 12 PM in the Biology I Lecture Hall

So animals aren’t so different from bacteria when it comes to stress induced (random) mutagenesis (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/22939). What about plants or fungi?

I am honored and excited to be part of the EMBO YIP!

Remarkable structural insights from Carl Wu lab: SWR1 complex has a mechanism for sensing open DNA regions to insert H2A.Z-nucleosomes. CryoEM is transforming structural biology: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Next week @wigge.bsky.social will be hosted by @cibss.bsky.social here at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . If you want to meet a thermomorphogenesis expert, don't forget to sign up for a meeting with him! We are looking forward to his seminar on Tuesday, more info on our internal mailing list.

I can see the thermomorphogenesis community is slowly growing here, so here's a Starter Pack to help with that! Please let me know below who else to include in this list. go.bsky.app/4afLeaR

I have started to create a plant epigenetics starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added or if you want to suggest someone! go.bsky.app/HyTwdc2

I put together a starter pack of people studying plant evolution! I have no doubt missed some folks that should be included, so please reply or message me to be added! #PlantEvolution #Botany go.bsky.app/6FPMYnJ