Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

How moss makes a spiral of leaves through a rotating asymmetric division of the apical cell meristem--our paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social today! @soestrauss.bsky.social Richard Smith, Joe Cammarata www.cell.com/current-biol...

⚙️Technical Advance How are plasmodesmata distributed across tissues? 🌱 Davis et al. developed a 3D quantitative imaging pipeline to map pit fields at cell-type resolution in Arabidopsis roots. They’re developmentally reallocated and spatially patterned by BR signaling. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70726

Happy to share this preprint, we describe how the membrane could shape the ROS nanoenvironment in plant responses to osmotic signals. Led by @arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing colleagues @yvonjaillais.bsky.social , @jbfiche.bsky.social , A Meyer, and J Ugalde. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Don't miss the early-bird deadline for our Imaging Cell Dynamics meeting taking place in Catalonia, Spain in May. Early-bird deadline: Friday 16 January View the preliminary programme here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u... #JCSImaging

Hot off the press in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social! In (Un)intended Consequences, we conduct a #socsci stocktake of 10 years of research on #AMR interventions, highlight the need for more contextual #antimicrobial governance & make recommendations #GAP'26! #IDSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi Here is a brief description of our research interests: www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_... #PlantSciences

We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to have this finally published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... lots of new data since the #preprint. If you are into selective #autophagy, #evolution, #proteostasis Please have a look!

Check out our story in @plosbiology.org about how a nonrandom, clustered giant cell pattern forms in the sepal and leaf epidermis! It has been a great journey with @gweissbart.bsky.social, Frances Clark, Xihang Wang, @roederlab.bsky.social and co-authors. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems #TansleyInsight by Juan Alonso-Serra @jalonsos.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates Rho-GTPase recruitment to nanodomains for signal activation in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686946v1

Nanoclustering of a plant transcription factor enables strong yet specific DNA binding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686732v1

In new study from Ryken, Bezanilla et al., analysis of PIIB-type calcium pump localization and function elucidates one of the molecular mechanisms that maintains the strength of the calcium gradient during polarized growth. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #PlantBiology #Cytoskeleton #Trafficking

Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

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. 👇

Amazing news!! Congratulations!

Delighted to announce a new project on the roots of the #symbiosis concept! "Symbiotic Synergies: How the Body Became a Chimera" is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Award & will be led by Maureen O'Malley, Nic Rasmussen & myself! Stay tuned for news & opportunities! #microbiome

This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.

My new obsession: brown algae!

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science! (1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Enjoy reading it!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus Guest edited by Abby Buchwalter and JCS Editor Megan King. Submission deadline: 3 November Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu... #CellBiology #Nucelus #Cells #Biology #Academia #Research

🌿Join us for the Webinar Series 2025 – Road to The 11th International Plant Biomechanics Conference 2026 🌍 📅 Webinar #1: Sept 25, 2025 | [Register: ugm.id/PBMweb1] 📅Webinar #2: Oct 9, 2025 | [Register: ugm.id/PBMweb2]

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Edges!!

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delighted to present our Tansley Insight on what we know about the potential of different root cortex layers to do develop into different things! 👩‍🔬 @dorotakawa.bsky.social @hannahschneider.bsky.social 📗 @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to share our latest story on the ERAD machinery and how it controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

New OA Article: "Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development" rdcu.be/eHcg2 The G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLETHORA with the RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED pathway.

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Avec les Visites insolites du @cnrs.fr, plongez dans les coulisses de la recherche ! 🔬 Venez visiter noter laboratoire @rdplab.bsky.social Tentez votre chance au tirage au sort et vivez l’exceptionnel 9/10 visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch... 10/10 visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-ch...

Despite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Always proud of my team but the last month was incredible - poster/presentation prizes for both @zoenv.bsky.social and @nathan-german.bsky.social !! 🥳

🌱 3 plant biology institutes, 2 great days! 🌿 PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne! 👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥

Really looking forward to this panel discussion on Tuesday - getting to discuss in depth why it is important to define plant cell types and states! #PlantScience 🌱

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Don't forget to register for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images! This workshop will be held in TWO WEEKS on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET. Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

Honoured & excited that ‘Breathing Underground’ has been funded by the ERC! This will let me explore one of the most fundamental questions of plant life: how roots breathe underground? @erc.europa.eu

It's time to say bye after these thrilling 2 days of conference #EPCC2025 at @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social ✨️Thank you to all the participants 🤩✨️ And congrats to Mariana Romeiro Motta @marianattom.bsky.social for winning the best poster price 👏👏

First day at #EPCC2025 great science, good mood, french style @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

Forcing Golgi - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...