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Plant cell/developmental biologist @RDP Lyon, loves cell edges, mechanics, and lateral roots
pinned post!
Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks
@zoenv.bsky.social
,
@nathan-german.bsky.social
and the other coauthors for all the hard work!
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Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme
During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1
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Daan Weits
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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...
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about 10 hours ago
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Roeder Lab
about 15 hours ago
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
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Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Sandy Hetherington
2 days ago
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
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Decay stages of Jurassic wood debris from Scotland: evidence for the coevolution of fungal rot, arthropods and the nurse log strategy
A key feature of extant conifer forests is the high percentage of seeds that germinate and establish on dead wood; in some forests, this can exceed 90%. This deadwood can act as an ideal nursery for...
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70515
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Kaisa Kajala
4 days ago
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
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Coordination of cortex modifications in time, space, and under stress
In roots, cell-type-specific differentiation enables specialized responses to environmental stress. The cortex, located between the vasculature and epidermis, is a key site for stress-responsive modi....
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70581
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
KleineVehnLab
3 days ago
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/...
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ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx5027
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Kierzkowski Lab
6 days ago
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...
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Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852
A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12844852/assistant-professor-in-plant-molecular-genetics/
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Nature Plants
4 days ago
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.
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
6 days ago
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...
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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=en%5fUS&career_job_req_id=22484&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=kX%2flqloffOMPUSNmJBKig4RwtuZbfADI8MRbx13TBC8%3d
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Yasin Dagdas
6 days ago
This looks like a great opportunity:
#Tenure-track
assistant
#professor
position at University of Lausanne on
#MPMI
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=en%5fUS&career_job_req_id=22484&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=3aZ%2fVJf2vaTE5AVEFAi%2fmej4q%2fk%2byTvkWWy4eTxauuo%3d
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
RDP lab
7 days ago
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
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De chercheur à "maker" : comment bricoler son propre robot pour mesurer ses plantes ? - Visites insolites du CNRS
Mesurer précisément l’architecture des plantes, c’est crucial pour comprendre les mécanismes génétiques, cellulaires et développementaux qui opèrent lorsqu’un plante...
https://visitesinsolites.cnrs.fr/visite/de-chercheur-a-maker-comment-bricoler-son-propre-robot-pour-mesurer-ses-plantes/
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Shweta Nandakumar
9 days ago
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)
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Always proud of my team but the last month was incredible - poster/presentation prizes for both
@zoenv.bsky.social
and
@nathan-german.bsky.social
!! 🥳
10 days ago
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
RDP lab
10 days ago
🌱 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! 🏆💥
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Kaisa Kajala
11 days ago
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
🌱
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
12 days ago
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
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Plant Cell Atlas
13 days ago
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
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
GeminiTeamLab
14 days ago
📢 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!
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Gabriella Mosca
16 days ago
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!
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Vinay Shukla
19 days ago
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
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Marie-Cécile Caillaud
18 days ago
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 👏👏
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Marie-Cécile Caillaud
18 days ago
First day at
#EPCC2025
great science, good mood, french style
@ensdelyon.bsky.social
@rdplab.bsky.social
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Rashmi Sasidharan
20 days ago
🚨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!!
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Robert Arkowitz
20 days ago
Forcing Golgi -
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Mechanical forces stimulate Golgi export
Human cells face a wide range of external mechanical stimuli that vary with cell type, state, and pathological conditions. The rapidly growing field of mechanobiology investigates how cells sense and ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673725v1
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
FocalPlane
25 days ago
📢Last few days to apply for this round of our
#microscopy
training grants with
@jcellsci.bsky.social
Available to ECRs working on
#cellbio
to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course. Apply by 5 September
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Katja Röper
27 days ago
Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab
@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social
@pdncambridge.bsky.social
and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Dolf Weijers
22 days ago
We are happy to present the magnum opus of Sjoerd Woudenberg, at the close of his PhD – Transgenerational inheritance of the polarity axis in a fern embryo…a thread (1/17)
tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
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Transgenerational polarity axis inheritance during Ceratopteris embryogenesis
For sexually reproducing organisms to pass on their genetic information, progeny must successfully establish. Various life history strategies have evolved, using either dispersal of large numbers of p...
https://tinyurl.com/4y53xekv
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Yasin Dagdas
22 days ago
😺 to see this one out
@jcellsci.bsky.social
& have a 🌲 planted for it):
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
am sure more creative people will make better use of this resource 1/2
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Dolf Weijers
6 months ago
Previously on
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
now online
@currentbiology.bsky.social
: auxin responses in the streptophyte alga Penium turn out to be highly similar to tryptophan response…PhD work from the amazing
@poletc.bsky.social
and with
@jorgehg.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Auxin and tryptophan trigger common responses in the streptophyte alga Penium margaritaceum
Auxin is a signaling molecule that regulates multiple processes in the growth and development of land plants. Research gathered from model species, pa…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225003537
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz
23 days ago
Our
#research
on
#drought
#recovery
, now published with
@springernature.com
in
@natcomms.nature.com
: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation - Nature Communications
Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63467-2
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Amir Porat
25 days ago
New preprint! "Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱 with
@merozlab.bsky.social
and
@routierlab.bsky.social
👉
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
The Plant Cell
26 days ago
Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light (Kasper van Gelderen , Kyra van der Velde , Chia-kai Kang , Jessy Hollander , Alicia Koppenol , Orfeas Petropoulos , Putri Prasetyaningrum , Tuğba Akyüz , Ronald Pierik)
doi.org/10.1093/plce...
#PlantScience
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Kay Schneitz
25 days ago
3D digital plant organs? What for? Curious? Have a look at our review. Nice work by Tejasvinee Mody and Ratula Ray from our lab.
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Journal of Cell Science
26 days ago
Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by
@abbybuch.bsky.social
alongside JCS Editor Megan King
@luskinglab.bsky.social
. Deadline: 3 November
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Roeder Lab
26 days ago
We learned a lot about plant cell wall mechanics by stretching the Arabidopsis epidermis. Now published in @natcomms.nature.com Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
bioRxiv Plant Bio
27 days ago
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1
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Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks
@zoenv.bsky.social
,
@nathan-german.bsky.social
and the other coauthors for all the hard work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth control programme
During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells acquire distinct identities that meet specific functional requirements. Epidermal identity is widely considered essential for plant morphogenesis du...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672229v1
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Umeå Plant Science Centre
27 days ago
🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬
@srobertgroup.bsky.social
& collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin. Read more about the story published in
@pnas.org
here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Gozde Demirer
28 days ago
1️⃣ Extracellular contractile injection systems for high efficiency protein delivery to plants: We adapted bacterial PVC nanomachines to deliver proteins (Cre recombinase) to plants with 40% efficiency. DNA-free genome engineering with potential for cell-type specific targeting.
tinyurl.com/mrx4d878
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Extracellular contractile injection systems for high efficiency protein delivery to plants
Efficient delivery of functional proteins into plant cells remains a major barrier in plant biotechnology. Extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs) are phage tail-like nanomachines evolved ...
https://tinyurl.com/mrx4d878
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Schnittger Lab
29 days ago
Six more years—plus a lot of blood, sweat, and tears—later, we are thrilled to finally share it: a cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis!
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A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis
Female and male meiosis often differ in many aspects, such as their duration and the frequency as well as the positioning of crossovers. However, studying female meiosis is often very challenging and ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671760v1
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Marie-Cécile Caillaud
29 days ago
🌱✂️ How do plant cells decide where to divide? Our work shows that actin can override the geometric rules—guiding cells to divide in alternative orientations.
#PlantScience
#CellBiology
#Arabidopsis
@camilagoldy.bsky.social
@rdplab.bsky.social
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Lars Østergaard
29 days ago
👉
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Join us and be part of shaping the future of
#plantscience
at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building
lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home
(recognised for its potential to change the World
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...
)
@biology.ox.ac.uk
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=180329
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Travis Lee
about 1 month ago
Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n
@natanellae.bsky.social
@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
@joeecker.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Camila Goldy🌱🔬🧉
30 days ago
Take a look at part of my work with
@mc-caillaud.bsky.social
at
@rdplab.bsky.social
about the role of actin cytoskeleton to maintain cytokinesis against cellular geometry 🌱🔬
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
about 1 month ago
Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.
@mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025:
jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
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Head of Service Unit Proteomics
https://jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/86ca31f4445d169e6857c08d1b57032ea5d3a2580?ref=homepage
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Suayb Üstün
about 1 month ago
Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for
#ECRs
working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details!
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...
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W1TTW2 Professorship in Membrane Biology (m/f/d)
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/ff10d2bfa479beb58d64ddf644d5b26c3263baa40?ref=homepage
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Journal of Cell Science
about 1 month ago
Did you know that JCS publishes Short Reports? These articles (of up to 3000 words and 4 display items) report a significant finding that furthers our understanding of cell biology and provides the foundation for further studies. Find out more:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ar...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz
about 1 month ago
From a gene’s single cell expression–through spatial localization–to novel function, and beyond! Now out
@natplants.nature.com
We built a comprehensive spatial-transcriptomic atlas of Arabidopsis, revealing cell-type identities across organs in unprecedented detail
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle - Nature Plants
This study presents an extensive single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle that represents ten distinct developmental time points inclusive of six diverse organs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02072-z
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
Emmanuelle Bayer
about 2 months ago
We have two open Post-Doc positions in my group at the interface with: 1-
@ataly.bsky.social
for molecular dynamics 2- Bruno Guillotin from protein mobility Apply by sending CV, two ref letters and a short motivation letter to me :
[email protected]
. Deadline 15 sept.
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Charlotte Kirchhelle
The Plant Cell
4 months ago
🚨 Did you know? Publishing in The Plant Cell doesn’t just advance your career—it supports the entire field of plant biology. We're published by ASPB @aspbofficial.bsky.social, a nonprofit devoted to advancing plant science 🌿
#PlantScience
#NonprofitPublishing
#PublishWithPurpose
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