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🍀🔬 Excited to see my friend Vivek's manuscript in preprint! N-terminal phosphorylation inhibits Arabidopsis katanin and affects vegetative and reproductive development in opposite ways @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This was a fun project for which Mattie @mschwall95.bsky.social visited our lab to try root live imaging. Of course the roots wouldn't grow during the week she was here until the last day, but she got it to work when she got back. Cool results.

Hi people! I again asked the talented @kerrigilbert.bsky.social at the Danforth if she would help me design a conference logo for 2027. This is the favorite of the organizers and the Madison locals. If you’ve ever attended ICAR at Madison, you’ll like recognize the iconic terrace chairs. Thoughts?

Steve Long - truly a giant in science. He was hugely influential on my thinking and career - I definitely was one who benefitted from his encouragement 1/ 🌱 🪴🌾 #PlantScience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Awesome talk today from @husbandslab.bsky.social about transcription factor binding specificity and activity. He’s an assistant professor at UPenn and UCR alum ! 🌱🧪

Along with microscopy, lab folks are too much into the "meme". Now, we have a "meme" channel on lab Slack and physical "meme wall" at the entrance. Contribution and curation credit go to awesome lab members!

New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal? Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear: 1/10

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX... Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

My grad student, @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia, and I wrote this editorial highlight @mplantpcom.bsky.social on Weibing Yang lab's recent article @science.org Science. Research article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Editorial highlight: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

📣 Check out JXB's newest Special Issue 📣 📜 Issue 3 of 2026 📜 🔬 Plasmodesmata: Current perspectives on plant intercellular communication and signalling 🔬 📘 Guest edited by Jake Brunkard & Tessa Burch-Smith 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

Successful Predictive Modeling of Pollen Fitness Phenotypes Is Enabled by Measures of Expression Specificity By Sebastian A.F. Mueller, Zuzana Vejlupkova, Molly Megraw, John E. Fowler doi.org/10.64898/202... via bioRxiv #PlantScience

🎙️☘️🔬 New episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast of this year! I had a wonderful discussion with Heather about her Cell Reports paper. Podcast: tinyurl.com/a9vcteru Article: tinyurl.com/4dhxuye2

My grad student @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia gave a guest lecture on "root barrier" in the Plant Development (BIOL 352) course today. She showed bunch of really cool movies 🌽🌾🔬

Please forward this REU opportunity (paid summer internship) to undergraduates interested in plant biology and related fields etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o...

🔬🌽 Julia @juliazheku.bsky.social made some microscopic slides for @kamdiehl.bsky.social Kamryn's TA class (BIOL 200 | Cell Biology). The goal is to push some plant cell biology samples as a teaching tool. Corn 🌽 root cross section under the scope.

Grad students in my lab are very creative. Here is a recent example.

Another example of o2 controlling endosperm starch. Endosperm starch _also_ modifies o2 mutant hardness in flint corn. Replicated across many labs and decades: the physical interplay between storage structures determines kernel structural properties. Beautiful endosperm always a joy.

🎉 Congratulations @szintri.bsky.social Beyond excited to see my guru, James Schnable, University of Nebraska, awarded the NAS Prize in Food and Agricultural Sciences!! www.nasonline.org/award/nas-pr...

Wishing you all a very Happy Holidays! In case you missed our previous post, we would truly appreciate your support by making a donation to the PlantPostdocs GoFundMe this Holiday Season. Every donation counts! gofund.me/b069c04c2 #PlantPostdocs

My grad student Julia @juliazheku.bsky.social is doing something which I never did before! She is studying spatial-temporal polar barrier in wheat and maize root. Julia had her first sneak peak of what she is doing at #Zeavolution today Long way to go 🔬🔬🔬

Conversations that started with science, somehow leading to people management, careers, friendship, mangoes & everything under the sun🥭 Conversations like this are worth at least a few college degrees. So grateful for these #mentors & #moments @szintri.bsky.social @rebeccaroston.bsky.social #PAG33

My grad student sent this to me

Check out our work on peroxisome motility and actin bundling. Many thanks to our collaborators in the Hu Lab at MSU.

🔬🔬🔬 A mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

PhD position open with an excellent supervisor and in a very warm, fun research group! Highly recommended! #plantscience #suberinteresting

Big news for our lab - a new grant on root hairs, based on our previous two publications in Plant Physiology, is approved today. 🎉🥂😃

A new chapter begins! From February, I’ll be joining the @tum.de as an Independent Group Leader in the Chair of Plant Systems Biology. Beyond excited for this next step, while feeling very grateful (and a little sad) to be leaving the @schaedellab.bsky.social 🔬🌱

Nominate for Arabidopsis Community Award by 🔥January 31🔥 in these categories: 1- PN Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement 2- Arabidopsis Community Impact 3- Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge 🔥Early Career awards also for 2&3🔥 www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/nominations-...

Register for this free webinar on January 28! Interactome & PTM Discovery: Profiling withe LC-MS Proteomics. Featuring Dr. Lin Xi (Univ. Hohenheim) and Dr. Zhi Li (Iowa State Univ.) tinyurl.com/PMEXJan2026 Organized by PMEX, @plantpostdocs.bsky.social, supported by NAASC @mingyuanzhu.bsky.social

Introducing @kamdiehl.bsky.social Kamryn as a new graduate student in the lab Kamryn did her undergrad at UBC in a combined major in physics, computer science, and biology, and did her MSc with Geoff Wasteneys working on plant cell biology Welcome to the gang! www.ashraflab.com/team.html

I finally started to feel like an actual professor! 🍀 Started teaching "Plant Development" this semester and absolutely love teaching this course. 🔬 Lab has now 3 grad students, 3 undergrads, and 1 visiting grad student this semester! All lab benches are occupied.

Rachel Shahan’s team used a scRNAseq atlas to track root cells in 12-hour increments ove 10 days. They found that MADS-box TFs, the same ones that control flowering time, also regulate the root's transition from juvenile to adult in arabidopsis! #PlantScience #Roots #Aging #Genetics #PAG2026 #PAG33

I'm looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of molecular biology, comparative genomics & single-cell data science, a great opportunity to lead projects on regulatory evolution and cell-type-specific stress responses. Find me at PAG or reach out kenchanmanelab.com #SingleCell #PostdocPosition

Heading to #PAG33 to present 'regulation of environment responses' in 'Plant Epigenetics for Crop Improvement' session on Mon, 01/12. Shout-out to Yuvraj & Minnie for driving comparative genomics, epigenomics & single-cell work! We are also looking for a postdoc to join our group! Details below 👇

🔬🔬🔬 Genetic switch between unicellularity and multicellularity in marine yeasts @nature.com from Goshima sensei's lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41... BTW, Gohta Goshima sensei is an amazing plant cell biologist as well.

Ye olde massive teosinte

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d

OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact: www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact Program: lnkd.in/eavfNu7e Please re-post.

Discrete and cell-specific hypoxic responses in Arabidopsis roots resolved by single-nuclei transcriptomics Hill et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Findings in Science demonstrate that successful mitosis may draw on more mechanisms than commonly assumed. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4axnAiA

Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Plantscience

From MBoC… Strong cell attachments are critical in early development. Guy Tanentzapf (University of British Columbia) shows that inside–out integrin activation helps cells survive and proliferate during early mammalian embryogenesis. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

Happy New Year 2026 from the Kenchanmane-Raju Lab🎊 @ucriverside.bsky.social Wishing everyone peace, prosperity, and plenty of exciting discoveries ahead🌽🖥️🌱 Huge thanks to our incredible team for making 2025 an unforgettable year! #Plant #Science #Discoveries #HappyNewYear2026

In domesticated barley, grains with low levels of dormancy can sprout before harvest in the field after exposure to dew, mist, or rain. Preharvest sprouting in barley and other cereals reduces the quality of mature grain and jeopardizes its end-use value. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3KVkV86

Ending this year by submitting reference letters for two awesome undergrads, Joh & Jessica, in the lab for their grad applications. Luckily, they are applying to UBC to work with me. Among many challenges, this is a win for the lab! Happy New Year ☺️

It was so much fun talking to you and sharing the backstory !!! Thank you for doing this @aribidopsis.bsky.social

✨New Original work!✨ Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating Southern frog fruit. Acrylic on 8x10 canvas board. Available! Prints coming soon on my website! ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com 🐡🎨🪳🪲🐝 #bsnm #invertefest