Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

Ok, hear me out, here's the plan:

Really tried to get to the root of our problem during the lab meeting today. But then I realized that we work on mosses, and roots are exclusive to euphyllophytes, so it's kind of alright.

Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k... #otd

In case you were interested how worm people get their groove on

📢Save the date and register! The European Plant Cytoskeletal Club 2025 will be held at the ENS de Lyon @rdplab.bsky.social (France) on June 12 and 13, 2025. The registration is now open: 👇 epcc2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

"We found an arabidopsis mutant developing stomata on the roots!" Not buying it? Eggcellent! What you actually see is a horn of the hornwort Anthoceros agrestis (and what you read was probably my favorite 1st April joke we did in the lab).

Convergent evolution of mutations in LOG cytokinin synthesis genes leads to loss of prickles across flowering plants. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1663 Perspective: doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2473 (26/34)

A: We Are Evo-Devo!

moss stomata ❤️‍

What doing a PhD feels like

Super excited to be guest editing a Journal of Cell Science 🌟special 🌟 issue on our favourite organelles #cilia & #flagella with awesome Lotte Pedersen. Reach out to discuss your ideas- we want to hear from you! 🫵 🗓️Submission deadline: 01/03/2025 Read more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...

Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, according to new research. cnn.it/3AGrshr

Freudian slip dictionary for scientific grant reports: "Sourprise"

Emilie-Kate’s paper on CRISPR in Ceratodon is out! She used the endogenous APT selection system to test native Ceratodon U6 snRNA promotors, and used homology directed repair to insert GFP driven by a new Ceratodon RPS5A promotor in a new landing site onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tomorrow at #SEBconference I will have a talk about the evolution of a famous protein TANGLED! So, if you like polar proteins, cell division – or at least mosses – don’t hesitate, 12:15, Virgo Room.

SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)

With enough citations, any scientist can develop an citoskeleton.

TimTom for biologists please

- What music are plants listening to? - I don't know about the rest of plant, but stomata surely listen to ABA a lot...

'And don`t forget to take a calyptra on your sporophyte. Days are short and it`s cold outside.' Typical moss grandma

Our paper engineering yeast to be phototrophic (gaining energy from light) by chucking a rhodopsin into the vacuole is out in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Fun fact: If Hogwarts had been built in a plant seed, one of the founders probably would have been Chalazal Slytherin.

Marchantia biologists being like: Can you gemmae some of your published material?