Dorota Kawa
@dorotakawa.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @UU_Plants | roots, monocots, stress resilience, magic microbes
PhD position open in my team
@uuplants.bsky.social
! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details:
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Please share!
3 days ago
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Delighted to be awarded NWO VIDI grant! We will study how microbes shape root cells to enhance plant stress resilience - so exciting!!!!
www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...
Fantastic to see several plant projects granted🌽🌱
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149 Vidi applications granted to talented researchers | NWO
NWO has granted a maximum of 850.000 euros to 149 scientists from the domain Science (ENW), Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domains, as well as Health, Research and Development (ZonMw). With the help of the Vidi grant, the talented scientists can start their own line of research and further develop their talent.
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-vidi-applications-granted-to-talented-researchers
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We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium!
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Research Technician Root Barriers
Join us in investigating the role of maize root barriers in soil stresses!
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/research-technician-root-barriers
8 months ago
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Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue - Plant and Soil
Background The root cortex in Poaceae is a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable composite layer of tissue. Early in plant growth, the cortex in Poaceae roots primarily consists of parenchyma cells. Howev...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-025-07498-0
9 months ago
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Monica L Garcia Gomez
10 months ago
It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and
@yvonnestahl.bsky.social
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www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Kaisa Kajala
11 months ago
These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type. So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here:
padlet.com/nolan84/what...
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What is a plant cell type?
Made with Padlet
https://padlet.com/nolan84/what-is-a-plant-cell-type-vu72bcp669n2jjce
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A little balloon came our way☺️ It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience.
www.nwo.nl/en/news/gran...
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Grants for 28 projects within Open Competition ENW-XS | NWO
The NWO Domain Board Science has awarded 28 projects in the Open Competition Domain Science – XS round 24-4. The next ENW-XS deadline is 18 February 2025.
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/grants-for-28-projects-within-open-competition-enw-xs
11 months ago
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Chris Thorogood
12 months ago
Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.
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Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Kaisa Kajala
about 1 year ago
Fun
#MicroscopyMonday
content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in
@dorotakawa.bsky.social
lab.
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Brady Lab
about 1 year ago
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers.
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