We are pleased to announce that @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social has won the Young Investigator Award by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. The award ceremony and the recipient's lecture will take place at the next Tokyo Annual Meeting on 14 March 2026. buff.ly/pemelQu

Also happy to say that Arabidopsis epidermal cells make the cover of @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the issue with our paper, showing that nitrate availability impacts pectin metabolism and cell wall mechanics for growth 🌱 Check the work here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Our new review in Science @science.org is out with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social and @nvukas.bsky.social. We discuss how precise modulation of brassinosteroid signaling can enable more targeted, predictable improvements in plant growth and resilience. science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9798

Check out this new paper on the Arabidopsis MLS8 channel and its importance for oscillatory growth and cell wall dynamics in pollen tubes! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I love finding a paper published years ago (5, 10, 15, 20) that isn't famous or field changing or has a ton of citations but when you read it is just awesome. Like, beautifully designed & executed & written. Best part is that there are so many papers like that lurking in the literature.

Just under a month left—apply by December 5 through the link on my website!

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Watch the Community Impact Awards Presentations! Times: 5:20-15:06: Jose Dinneny. 19:35-30:07: Jade Bleau. 33:30-15:06: Joanna Friesner. 46:40-1:01: Q&A by Mary Gehring @jadebleau.bsky.social @jfriesner.bsky.social @josedinneny.bsky.social @stanfordstomata.bsky.social @spoel-lab.bsky.social

My stellar MSc student John Hubensky fabulously defended his thesis! 🎉 His research taught us about TPPs & their role in drought tolerance, & genetics of spike development. Thanks @NSERC_CRSNG @SaskWheat @mb_cropalliance for the funding & @westerngrains for scholarship to John.

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

Dam, Moreno, Brownlow, @longchrom.bsky.social et al. @igbmc.bsky.social identify Srs2 as a key mediator of abscission inhibition in yeast and show that its human paralog PARI regulates abscission-associated events. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytokinesis

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

New update from the lab

🔬🍀 Rab5 GTPases mediate the targeting of ROP signalling to establish polarity for pollen germination @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs! Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

UBC Science is hiring a Digital Communications Specialist to enhance our online presence and reputation by creating inspirational web and other digital content, and support the development and operation of the Faculty’s digital communication initiatives and channels. bit.ly/4hwWZn2

Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State: oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u... #devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy

Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My PhD work is up on bioRxiv! Read all about the #actin and #microtubule #cytoskeleton of the Rhizarian #amoeba Filoreta ramosa here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The one year anniversary of my arrival at UBC flew by a month ago. Thanks to fellow newPI and former grad school pal @mattolm.bsky.social for reminding me of one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned this past year: *make* time to reflect! Here are some reflections on my first year as a PI & prof… 🧵

had an amazing time at IFMB in Wuhan. Met with old colleagues, made lots of new connections and won the best presentation award! Science is at its best when we can foster international cooperation!

It was really wonderful for us to host @penlindsay.bsky.social Penelope today. One of the BEST Fridays from the lab to remember for a long time. Thanks for making your time to visit us 🌽🔬😊

We are excited to welcome Isabella Byrne, an @science.ubc.ca undergrad, in the lab this week! She will contribute and combine force on our current project of finding new cell division plane determinant factors 🍀🌽🔬 www.ashraflab.com/team.html

Check out the ToC of our latest Special Issue about auxin in plant development. https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social

Dendritic atoh1a+ cells serve as Merkel cell precursors during skin development and regeneration Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Evan Craig, Jeremy Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social and colleagues at @uwbiology.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

David Jackson closing the first international forum on maize biology, which he and I chaired. 70 institutions from 10 countries represented. Looking forward to 2027 IFMB in Chengdu!

🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬 Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

(1/5) What's happening in the lab? We have a major addition this week. We printed an image/illustration from each folks to put outside of the lab. Here is @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia with her Figure 1 printed from Current Opinion of Plant Biology article.

Yesterday I gave a talk in the Botany Department at UBC, Canada. I can’t quite remember what I was doing with my hands, but they got the gist. Thanks to @aribidopsis.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my work.

Looking to host a fellow to explore regulation of duplicate genes in plant development & adaptation using single-cell & spatial transcriptomics. Ideal for candidates with backgrounds in genomics, evolution, or computational science moving to Plant Biology. Reach out if interested and eligible!

Grateful to see one my #superresolution #pollen images won 2nd place at the 2025 @bioimagingna.bsky.social image contest! www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/image-contes... #microscopy #confocal #botany #plantscience #allergies #bioimaging

🔬🍀 Mind blowing live cell imaging by Vivek Look at these beautifully radiating Hechtian Strands, visualized using GFP: RabA2b. Novel insights into RabA2b intracellular localization suggest a role in plasmodesmatal function @frontiersin.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

It's Thanksgiving in Canada today! Every year, I ask myself same question, what I am thankful for? I am thankful for having a bench in the lab and doing some experiments everyday. Here are positive plants (attached picture) from my screening.

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🍀🔬 E69K mutation in β-tubulin 2 blocks cell wall integrity signaling during plant cell elongation @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Great work by julien Spielmann now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The new issue of #CYTOSKELETON is now out! You can check out the issues here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19493592... #microscopymonday

I'm frequently asked if we can use XRM imaging to study Arabidopsis, and the answer is absolutely yes. The pollen grains were segmented using basic grayscale thresholding. This scan used the 4X lens, stayed tuned for results from the 20X. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Using cell wall immunostainings, Alex found differential staining of LM6, which stains arabinans. B. distachyon showed strong staining in subsidiary cells, and this staining was absent in B. stacei.

Anna therefore looked at the subcellular features of these stomatal complexes using TEM and found no striking differences between B. stacei and B. distachyon. Nonetheless, Anna saw the huge symplastic connections between the grass guard cells and shared vacuoles (a feature specific to grass stomata)

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.pb... 🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾 Congrats to @lbmountain.bsky.social on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!

Massive news for the lab 🎉🎉🎉 We received Canada Foundation for Innovation - CFI's JELF (John R. Evans Leaders Fund) grant! Thanks to the team, office of research @science.ubc.ca, and colleagues @ubcbotany.bsky.social for the generous help and support. www.innovation.ca/news/jelf-cf...

🌿 Calling All Plant Enthusiasts! 🌺 Join us at the Sussex Symposium this Friday for a day dedicated to plant biology! 🌳 🎙️ Don't miss the keynote by Dr. Ken Birnbaum! 🗓️ 9 AM - 5 PM 📍 Jones Auditorium, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Breeding better #seabuckthorn! At AAFC, we identified 4 standout genotypes with longer fruit stalks (easier to harvest), larger, sweeter berries, and richer nutrition. Weather played a key role too. doi.org/10.1139/cjps...

....and a 3i customer visiting Heidelberg from Australia kindly sent me this photo of Nicole and @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social busy talking about microscopy with a handful of visitors to our booth.