Introducing a new metabolic cycle - the McG cycle - into Arabidopsis to convert 3PG to acetyl coA. This then feeds into endogenous lipid synthesis increasing plant lipids, seed yield and biomass. Out this week in @science.org! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

Our latest work on how chloroplasts contribute to immunity: Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Super proud of @zoeweeks.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this work. We were honoured to be selected as a research highlight - see our interview here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

@tinaschreier.bsky.social has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for research into the cell biology of C4 photosynthesis 🌱 Tina’s project will explore the cell biology that leads to the formation of specialised bundle sheath cells in C4 plants 👇 bit.ly/4mWFGhh

I'm beyond thrilled to receive an ERC Starting grant for our CELL4 project, to dive into the fascinating cell biology of bundle sheath cells in the C4 grass Sorghum!! 🌱 @erc.europa.eu @biology.ox.ac.uk Image credit to my talented PhD student Kornelija Aleksejeva

New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM

Paper 🚨!! Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Congratulations @jmhibberd.bsky.social on being elected to EMBO!

Remarkable paper explaining how sea slugs maintain chloroplasts obtained by kleptoplasty active for many month & eventually digest them for resources www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations, Julian - so very well deserved!! 🥳

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher! Join the Ma Lab in exploring the the intricate interplay between plant development and defense signaling. Link below. #jobs #research #plantbiology #vienna

Hi everyone! I’m a #NewPI just starting my lab and would love to hear your advice on lab management and building the lab culture. Any tips, lessons learned, or resources you’ve found helpful are very welcome! Feel free to reply, message me, or email me at rcastellsg(at)cnio.es thanks a lot!! 🤗

Please share. 🙏 I'm searching for an RA to join my group this fall. 1-year fixed term, with the possibility for extension depending on funding. Suitable to a post-bacc or masters interested in plant genomes, epigenetics, or reproductive biology. DM, email, or comment with questions.

At #EISingleCell25, we're bringing together researchers who are curious about applying #singlecell and #spatial technologies, with leading experts working across a range of systems. 📆 Register to join by 18 May: buff.ly/7e7XXsG @biouea.bsky.social

Exciting postdoc opportunity in #plantscience! 🌾 Join the fantastic @lluginbuehl.bsky.social group to work at the cutting edge of plant-fungal symbioses research in a brilliant department @camplantsci.bsky.social

An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience

📜 Glucosinolates can act as signals to modulate intercellular trafficking via plasmodesmata 🧑‍🔬 Jessica C. Fernandez, Mohammad F. Azim, Tessa M. Burch-Smith, et al. 📔 @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Plasmodesmata #Glucosinolates #PlantMetabolites

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience

Cool paper by He Zhang et.al. Polarized pectin accumulation regulates differential hypocotyl elongation at the dark-to-light transition: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Time to expand your vision! 👀🌱 Our latest work on ExM in plants is out Back-to-back with the Danzl 's lab (@ISTAustria) led by Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social with @monica-bic.bsky.social and @gmaucort.bsky.social from the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social . academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

🌱 🔬 🚨 There is a 2-year postdoc position available in my group in Neuchâtel 🚨 Please share! Details here: www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

If you want to find out why metabolism may look different to what you were taught, and why this matters, dip into to our review 'Non-canonical plant metabolism' www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureplants.bsky.social #PlantScience

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to join us at GMI as a permanent group leader! I am especially reaching out to all the incredible women who have made their mark in the field of plant biology, are outstanding community members and care about mentoring their junior colleagues. 1/2

In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

WE’RE HIRING! Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽 The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition. Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/

Super excited to be launching NimbusImage.com! Cloud-based image analysis to democratize machine learning! Documentation here! docs.nimbusimage.com

Nicola Patron, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. Her group use synthetic biology approaches to investigate plant gene expression & metabolism. Of Trinidadian descent, Nicola was born and educated in the U.K. Full profile: buff.ly/3EWYWKs

In this interview, Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social talks about her research in stomatal development, her role as an Editor at Development, and how her passion for comparative biology has influenced her career: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204667

Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉 Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT. Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...

free access to the article authors.elsevier.com/a/1keMA_278y...

We are thrilled to announce RIPE’s new leadership duo! Lisa Ainsworth is our Director & Elizabete Carmo-Silva is our Deputy Director! Both Lisa & Elizabete have been with the project for years & we look forward to what we can accomplish under their guidance. Full announcement here: bit.ly/42UuCtW

Shocking and appalling Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A curious, modest man with an encyclopaedic knowledge. No ego but a quiet self-confidence that inspired many. No doubt many publications in the coming years will report innovative ideas that he thought of decades ago….

PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org

Applications are open for our Independent Research Fellowship Mentorship Programme! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. If you’re looking to make the move, full details are on our website👇 bit.ly/BioIRF

I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plasmodesmata Editors: Tessa Burch-Smith & Jake Brunkard Deadline: 1st Feb 2025 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🔗 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @pdchristine.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social (1/2)

1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Applications are currently open for UNIQ 2025. UNIQ helps support UK state-school students from underrepresented backgrounds prepare for university, with support through the application process to help take those first steps to university life. www.uniq.ox.ac.uk

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

www.n8research.org.uk/seeing-someo thank you for the kind profile N8 partnership, @blackinplantsci.bsky.social we continue working to create more inclusive research environments

You know a talk will be good if the title slide features a kangaroo. 👌 MPIPZ #WednesdaySeminar with @pdchristine.bsky.social. A visual guide through ways of short- & long-distance plant cell-cell-communication. Turns out it's not all #Plasmodesmata -mediated 😱. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you work in #DevBio and want to introduce the fascinating world of developmental biology to your family and friends? You can show them this science documentary, produced by the British Society for Developmental Biology, The Company of Biologists and Cambridge Filmworks! 📽️ youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?...