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Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. Plant developmental geneticist, loves auxin and roots
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Lars Østergaard
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👉
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join us and be part of shaping the future of
#plantscience
at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building
lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home
(recognised for its potential to change the World
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...
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@biology.ox.ac.uk
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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Satyaki PRV
3 months ago
Some cool stuff from the Comai lab.
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Sterility and structural variation in an arabidopsis pedigree carrying a ring minichromosome - Chromosome Research
Circular minichromosomes could be useful tools for plant biotechnology, yet their long-term structural stability, heritability, and effects on phenotype remain poorly understood. In this study, we rep...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10577-025-09776-0#Abs1
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Not a delight when it ruins all your pollinations 🫠😱 Iowa humor 🌽😂
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
3 months ago
🌱
aspbofficial.bsky.social
presented
@kcox-bioguy.bsky.social
Kevin Cox, PhD, the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award in recognition of his contributions to plant pathology and spatial biology research & commitment to meaningful outreach and service. Congrats Kevin!
loom.ly/jIIgq2o
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
3 months ago
Before this
#PlantBio2025
thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31
plantae.org/2026fellowsa...
2.
@theplantcell.bsky.social
Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15.
blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
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AUXIN 2026 logo competition! Please re-post. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday July 15th. Prize is free registration worth €500+ Auxin2026:
auxin2026.info
Send submissions to
[email protected]
@larsostergaard.bsky.social
@luciastrader.bsky.social
@dolfweijers.bsky.social
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Vandepoele lab
4 months ago
We are hiring! If you have experience in plant genomics + AI, or promoter engineering + synthetic biology, check out our two open postdoc positions (computational + wetlab):
www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs
please re-share RT
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Jobs | Vandepoele Lab
https://www.vandepoelelab.be/Jobs
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Field of dreams 🌽
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Iowa Soybean Research Center announces leadership transition
On July 1, 2025, Iowa State University Associate Professor of Agronomy Mark Licht and Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology Steve Whitham will join the Iowa Soybean Research Center...
https://www.cals.iastate.edu/news/2025/iowa-soybean-research-center-announces-leadership-transition
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Iowa State students, Atlantic residents to unveil new mural on former YMCA building at July 2 ribbon-cutting event – College of Design
Iowa State University College of Design
https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/new-atlantic-iowa-mural/
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Journal of Experimental Botany
5 months ago
🚨 1 month left! #JXB75 abstract submission and travel grant deadlines are fast approaching! 📅 Deadline: July 22 🌍 Join us in September in lovely Edinburgh 🏰 for a celebration of 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany! 🔗
bit.ly/JXB75?utm_sou...
#JXB75
#PlantScience
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@sebiology.bsky.social
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Dinner was delicious 🐟 🦪 🍷
#keepswimmingupstream
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The Plant Cell
5 months ago
📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link:
blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
#plantscience
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
5 months ago
Remember, tomorrow (Thursday) at 2pm, join us in the anatomical theatre for a great discussion about "Building a diverse community through effective teaching & mentoring"
#ICAR2025
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FASEB
5 months ago
Last chance to save $150 and get the latest in protein kinases and phosphorylation at
#PrPSRC
. Join us in Scottsdale at a gorgeous resort overlooking the mountains. Save your space and register:
buff.ly/BvsZmQm
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Association of Applied Biologists
5 months ago
Matyas Fendyrch introduces his auxin work
#ICAR2025
A reminder AAB are organising Auxin2026 and the logo design competition is OPEN…. a free registration for the successful designer! 🤩
@diorkelley.bsky.social
@larsostergaard.bsky.social
auxin2026.info
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Ben Sheldon
5 months ago
Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
5 months ago
We have no boxes, no banners, but we have Pablo! Come by the
@theplantcell.bsky.social
booth (back of the main reception hall on the right ) today (Tuesday) at 6pm to meet Pablo Manavella, our new Editor in Chief 🌱
#ProTip
it's always a good idea to meet the editor!
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
5 months ago
We will be at ICAR 2025 presenting the latest updates in the Arabidopsis Informatics Session, June 19 from 1400-1530 in the Concerthall. Swing by our booth for some special swag.
#TAIR
#ICAR2025
#arabidopsis
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
5 months ago
#ICAR2025
attendees! Stop by
@theplantcell.bsky.social
booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program
blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...
6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!
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The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today
Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.
https://blog.aspb.org/the-plant-cell-is-accepting-applications-for-assistant-features-editors/
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Suayb Üstün
5 months ago
It‘s about to start - such an amazing venue for
#ICAR2025
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Association of Applied Biologists
5 months ago
Our second logo design competition of the week is now live! 🌱Auxin-artistes: Enter a logo for
#Auxin2026
and the winner will receive free registration for our conference in Portugal next October! 🗓️Submission deadline: 15th July >
auxin2026.info
#plantscience
#sciart
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Journal of Experimental Botany
5 months ago
📜 75 years on since our very first issue, JXB continues to publish cutting-edge photosynthesis research ☀️🌱 ☀️🌱 Start exploring the new Photosynthesis Virtual Issue on now ⬇️ 🔗
academic.oup.com/jxb...
#JXB75
#PlantScience
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@sebiology.bsky.social
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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Journal of Experimental Botany
5 months ago
And speaking of 75 years... 🎉 don’t miss
#JXB75
! We’re celebrating 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany with a special symposium in Edinburgh, Sept 17-19 🏛️🌿 There may even be birthday cake... 🎂👀 Stellar speakers & travel grants 👉 🔗
bit.ly/JXB75
#PlantScience
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@sebiology.bsky.social
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Lucia Strader
6 months ago
Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature. But what if intracellular movement also matters? Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Active transport enables protein condensation in cells
The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
6 months ago
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students. Source: Economist, 2025
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Danve Castroverde
6 months ago
The human proteome with direct physical access to DNA
@cellpress.bsky.social
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The human proteome with direct physical access to DNA
Zero-distance photo-crosslinking reveals direct protein-DNA interactions in living cells, enabling quantitative analysis of the DNA-interacting proteome on a timescale of minutes with single-amino-aci...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00507-0
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The Company of Biologists
6 months ago
Getting involved as an organiser of one of our Workshops is easy. We focus on the logistics, so you can focus solely on the science. Watch this video to hear from previous organisers.
youtu.be/eShrxWQbx3Q
The deadline to propose a topic for our 2027 Workshops is Friday 30 May.
bit.ly/42GXN0G
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Why propose a topic for one of our Workshops?
YouTube video by The Company of Biologists
https://youtu.be/eShrxWQbx3Q
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American Society of Plant Biologists
6 months ago
📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Vegetative & Reproductive Development Concurrent Session!🌱 Learn more and register now!👉https://buff.ly/k7oIzj8
#plantscience
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Journal of Experimental Botany
6 months ago
⚠️🌽 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌽⚠️ How does auxin mediate the growth–stress trade-off in maize? Gonzales & Kelley unpack auxin’s role in abiotic stress responses, from drought to heavy metals 🌡️🚰 📖 Read:
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
@cfgonzales.bsky.social @diorkelley.bsky.social
#PlantScience
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The semester is over, I got my MIRA submitted, and it’s Friday!! 🥳
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Keith Matthews
6 months ago
Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
This project will seek to understand the basis of increased virulence after long term coinfection by a combination of genomic, transcriptomic and laboratory manipulation of the selected parasite lines...
https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/12490
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Ronnie de Jonge
6 months ago
🌱 We're hiring! Join our team as a PhD candidate to explore plant–microbiota host specificity. Plant biology/microbiology background needed; bioinformatics skills a big plus💻! Apply by mid-June.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#uubeta
#plantmicrobiome
#microbiota
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PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI
Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-on-decoding-plant-microbiota-host-specificity-using-ai
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Marie-Cécile Caillaud
6 months ago
So nice ! 😍😍😍 Sabine Muller's group paper is out! 🍀🧪🧬🔬 Livanos et al., showed that POK2 arrives at the PPB utilizing a secondary Mt-binding site. POK2 tethering to the plasma membrane is achieved through non-specific electrostatic interactions with phospholipids 🤩 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kinesin-12 POK2 polarization is a prerequisite for a fully functional division site and aids cell plate positioning - Nature Communications
Livanos et al. provide mechanistic insight into the recruitment and maintenance of kinesin-12 POK2, a central component of the division site in plants that is required for cell plate positioning durin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58852-w
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About to hood my second PhD student!! 🧑🎓
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Fletcher Lab
6 months ago
Great to see this out. A story that spanned continents, cities and budget codes…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thanks to all the teams involved!
@clausenlab.bsky.social
@e3chembio.bsky.social
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ATP functions as a pathogen-associated molecular pattern to activate the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF213 - Nature Communications
RNF213 is an E3 ligase with ATPase activity. Here, the authors show that RNF213 is activated by ATP binding and senses cellular energy states, and reveal a transthiolation mechanism induced by immune ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59444-4
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Journal of Experimental Botany
6 months ago
*NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT* 🌱 Plant Hormones 🌱 🌸 Discover the intricate hormonal networks that mediate growth–defence trade-offs🛡️ Issue edited by Paula McSteen and Norman Best 📖
academic.oup.com/jxb...
📸 Cover image by Janlo Robil
#JXBspecialissues
#PlantScience
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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa
6 months ago
Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀
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Botanical Society of America
6 months ago
NSF Terminates Funding for Successful Workforce and Leadership Program in the Botanical Sciences
botany.org/home/awards/...
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#plantscience
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Sebastian Schornack
6 months ago
If you are member of the IS-MPMI society, you will have received the option to vote for the next president and members of the board of directors. This is an encouragement to vote. Also, I am running for one of the two director positions.
www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...
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Helene Robert Boisivon (Lab)
6 months ago
@ceitec.eu
MU has an opening for a junior research group leader. We would love to get a new PI in our plant research department!
www.ceitec.eu/junior-resea...
#plantsciencejobs
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JUNIOR RESEARCH GROUP LEADER IN LIFE SCIENCES | CEITEC - výzkumné centrum
Central European Institute of Technology of the Masaryk University (CEITEC MU), Brno, Czech Republic CEITEC MU is the Czech Republic´s flagship bio-medical research institution renowned for its cutti...
https://www.ceitec.eu/junior-research-group-leader-in-life-sciences/j613
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Vinay Shukla
6 months ago
48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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48-Hour and 24-Hour Time-lapse Single-nucleus Transcriptomics Reveal Cell-type specific Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
This study employs time-lapse single-nucleus RNA sequencing in Arabidopsis seedlings, revealing distinct circadian rhythms in specific cell types and identifying ABF1 as a regulator that shortens the ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59424-8#Sec2
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
6 months ago
Divergence of root system traits in soybean between breeding and diversity lines
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.651701v1
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New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications
Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59280-6
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Arthur Gessler
6 months ago
Tree root nutrient uptake kinetics vary with nutrient availability, environmental conditions, and root traits: a global analysis
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Tree root nutrient uptake kinetics vary with nutrient availability, environmental conditions, and root traits: a global analysis
Root nutrient uptake by trees is a critical process that couples carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. Yet, root nutrient uptake traits are poorly constrained, and the dynamics of this p...
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70140
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Rita Strack
6 months ago
I had some absolutely incredible papers come online this week, and I need to take a minute to post about each of them. First, let me tell you about the CarboTag probes for imaging plant cell walls! From the Sprakel lab (a short thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
6 months ago
Congratulations to Hailing Jin, who was elected to
@nasonline.org
. Interkingdom RNAi is one of the most fascinating discoveries in biology in the last decades.
profiles.ucr.edu/hailing.jin
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Carl Zimmer
6 months ago
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them.
@colincarlson.bsky.social
says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
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Brady Lab
6 months ago
I'm so very excited to see this out - a single cell and spatial transcriptomic analysis in the rice root reveals mechanisms by which roots can respond to different below-ground growth conditions - including compaction. Congratulations to everyone for persisting in difficult times.
rdcu.be/ej8Ui
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Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress
Nature - Single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomic approaches reveal major expression changes in outer root cell types when grown in soil versus gel conditions, and also uncover how...
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the Node
6 months ago
In this new
#SciArt
profile, we meet Margot Smit
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
, a plant developmental biologists
@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
. Margot enjoys linocut printmaking. Her designs are often inspired by images from the lab and scenes from nature 🌱
thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...
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