I'm very happy to announce that starting February 2026, I'm joining Utrecht University as an Assistant Professor!!!

Today we celebrated the "graduation" of our UU_plants Rclub 2024! We hope to keep empowering young researchers to improve their R skills! Special highlight for the great cake made by PhD candidate Dani (bottom left)! #Rstudio #tidyverse

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on pptx/ai/inkspace and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!

Very happy to share this review with @mnodine1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here, we describe what is known (or unknown) about the mechanisms of chromatin reprogramming during the early embryogenesis in plants. A lot of exciting questions that still need to be explored. #plantbiology

Our course Plant Development & Environment 🌱 was the highest rated level 3 in BSc Biology! I love the enthusiastic 🤩 students & the excellent teachers 🙏@daanweits @leonardojo.bsky.social @andruromanowski.bsky.social @dkawa.bsky.social @rsasidharan.bsky.social @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social

[Beta test] ggPlantmap + shinyapp. Seeking help from the community: I created a function that allows users to create interactive shiny apps to navigate through multiple values (ex: genes) on top of their #ggPlantmap.

OMG! My great mentor John Harada is the recipient of the @aspbofficial.bsky.social Stephen Hales award 2024! This is HUUUGE! He just entered the plant biology hall of fame! Im so happy for him!

The EPS best mentor award goes tooooo.. @kaisakajala.bsky.social !! I'm a bit biased but I believe it was really well deserved!!! 🤣

The final version of the ggPlantmap is out at @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... Come for the information, stay for the beautiful figures! We hope it can encourage people to create their own eFP-viewer!

The final version of the ggPlantmap is out at @JXBot academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... Come for the information, stay for the beautiful figures! We hope it can encourage people to create their own eFP-viewer!

Everything makes sense now... #chickpea #plantbio

ggPlantmap github.com/leonardojo/g... Convert Icy-traced Plant images into ggPlot Integrable with bulk or sc-RNAseq data Generate .svg for Plant eFP viewer @jxbotany.bsky.social 2024 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

aRt: Building a root barrier. Built using: ggPlantmap and rayshader #plantbio #bioart

I’m happy to finally submit the final chapter of my PhD dissertation. Here we studied a very known TF in the field of seed lipid content - WRINKLED1. To our surprise, this was the first comprehensive study of genome-wide binding pattern of WRI1. #plantbio #seeds #lipids

Note: ggPlantmap small update (v1.1). ggPlantmap.to.SVG() converts your ggPlantmap into a SVG file that is compatible with an ePlant EFP pipeline or any graphic software (like powerpoint). The polygons will be grouped based on an assigned column.

Our latest preprint: postdoc Pierre Gautrat devoted his EMBO fellowship to resolving how nutrient and light cues interact to control shade avoidance. With @andruromanowski.bsky.social. The answer is PIF-dependent regulation of cytokinin response regulators. Read all about it in this preprint.

If you use the background_image() function from ggpubr (rpkgs.datanovia.com/ggpubr/refer...), you can display your ggPlantmap on top of a image. There is a small y-axis offset, but it can do the trick. I will work on implementing this function whenever I have some free time. #ggPlantmap

You are welcome chatgpt.

Contrary to my previous belief, root size doesn't seem to determine the number of xylem poles. Legume roots of different "thickness" can display 3 or 4 xylem poles. What could be the genetic basis (evo-devo) of different xylem pole numbers? #rootbiology #plantbiology

Our ggPlantmap manuscript is out at biorxiv. A bit awkward writing it honestly, but we made it! At the same time, I've seen some people using it and creating nice maps! I hope it empowers people to find new ways to explore their data!

Great work by bachelor student Martijn Posthumus during his 10-week internship. He built tagged versions of GFP that are transported to different cellular compartments. We will use it to study protein sub-cellular localization in plants. #plantbiology #protoplasts #GFP

Are you excited about molecular biology of plant-light interactions? We have good news! We have extended the deadline for application to our tenure track position @WUR to 27 November. #plantscijobs

Root protoplasts (+ fluorescein diacetate) #ROOTS #protoplasts #plantbio

Minas Tirith - root cells version #aRt

We recorded the ggPlantmap seminar given at the @UU_Plants seminar series. I give a brief overview of the package and I speak a bit about how Rclubs can help students learn R more effectively. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5m...

Just a friendly reminder that I will be giving a brief overview of ggPlantmap this Thursday at 2PM (CEST). I will also discuss ways we can build a supportive community so that everyone can develop skills in R. DM if you would like to receive the link!