Some Impressions of the FASEB Mechanism of Plant Development - 110 attendees, two keynotes, 46 Talks & 83 posters but one passion: understand plant development 🌱🧪🔬🧑‍💻 #PDevSRC

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🍀🔬 Split-YFP-coupled interaction–dependent TurboID identifies new functions of basal cell polarity in Arabidopsis @pnas.org from Juan Dong's lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Final Program announced for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA).: tinyurl.com/2cfa8keo

5 dynamical systems concepts every developmental biologist needs to know! This came out of the 2023 Morphogenesis Program. @pauformosa.bsky.social ‪@perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

New KITP Program! #MORPHO26 Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants Dates: 7/20/2026 - 8/20/2026

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 tidyplots.org/getstarted #rstats #dataviz #phd

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱 It will be an exciting meeting! FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

Are you in Germany in September (25th-27th) and ready to present your science? no further hesitation and register for the 15th GfE School on "Lineages: Revealing how Cells make Embryos and Tissues" at Schloss Reisensburg: www.vbio.de/gfe-entwickl... all #devbio enthusiasts and interested welcome!

Deadline for abstract submission for the FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is extended until July 13th! 🌱 Submit! It will be a fantastic meeting. 🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

The @maizel-lab.org & @schumacherlab.bsky.social are hiring! Part-time lab manager position available immediately! Apply by June 30th 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 ➡️ adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

The GreenRobust cluster of Excellence is now live on Bluesky @greenrobust.de Follow to be informed of the great things coming up 🌱

🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱 🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3] We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting. Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a bsky.app/profile/fase...

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

Same verdict: it will be huge academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

This is going to be huge 😅https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/37/4/koaf050/8109904

Whaouhouh! @yohannboutte.bsky.social @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social Magalie Grison!!! academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔬🌿 PhD Opportunity – TRM Proteins & Xylem Formation Exciting PhD position available in plant cell biology, jointly hosted by Uni Potsdam (Germany) & INRAE Versailles (France)! 📍 Start Oct 1 📅 Apply by March 25 📨 Contact: [email protected] | [email protected]

Great theory paper by @hadrienoliveri.bsky.social & I. Cheddadi: a Hydromechanical field theory of plant growth treating tissue as a growing poroelastic medium. It's a nice bridge from cell biophysics to tissue-scale growth. arxiv.org/abs/2409.02775 & tinyurl.com/22n9ykdo

To clarify and better planning: meeting starts on Aug 24th late afternoon and concludes on Aug 28th, morning.

This website showcases #tidyplots use cases, complete with data and code 🔥 tidyplots.org/use-cases/ #rstats #dataviz #phd

Congratulations Jazmin!!

Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social rdcu.be/eaDiX

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Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

1 unread email out of 9.10^18 messages in my inbox 😱 - even if Apple Mail obviously has a counting problem interacting w/ an Exchange server, I guess my stats are the upper tier of most PIs. #FarFarAwayFromInboxZero 🤣

Of interest for all Actin affcionados

Chop your Marchantia thalli then transform with Agrobacterium

If you are a graduate student in the verge to transition to post-doc, this is a Fantastic environment & great opportunity!

A Method Capturing membrane proteins in their context for subsequent analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new imaging technique reveals the multiple facet of salt accumulation pattern in plants and the actual role of SOS1 in salt adaptation: to sequester sodium into vacuoles of meristematic cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A suite of pre-assembled, pET28b-based Golden Gate vectors for efficient protein engineering and expression by Matthew Wohlever and team www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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!

Interesting. This study hooked DNA origamis to proximity labelling enzymes to determine how close those labelled: TbID/BioID appear to be largely contact labelling.

"We show that PaperQA2, ..., matches or exceeds subject matter expert performance on three realistic literature research tasks ... results demonstrate that language model agents are now capable of exceeding domain experts across meaningful tasks on scientific literature." 😲 arxiv.org/abs/2409.137...

A online environment for playing interactively with reaction-diffusion systems from Karl Sims karlsims.com/rdtool.html

3D print files to build plant and animal cells for teaching and demonstration: www.printables.com/model/51034-...

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

And one more great R package from @jbengler.de to ease up the creation of high-quality plots in R: tidyheatmaps jbengler.github.io/tidyheatmaps/

Call is open for The Arabidopsis Community Awards! 🌱 Three categories: Lifetime Achievements / Disseminating Knowledge / Support in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Worldwide nominations! More details → www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/community-aw... @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social

Found the perfect conditions to work in December: sun, 30deg and… Mate. Nano sabbatical in Rosario 🇦🇷 with Javier Palatnik (soon on Bluesky). Science is always more fun with friends and done in shorts & t-shirt.

Want to 3D print a pipette holder for Gilson and Eppendorf pipettes? New design by #IanKercher. www.printables.com/model/109822...

Data viz: stumbled upon Tidyplots to streamline the creation of publication-ready plots for scientific papers with R. Intuitive syntax. Should further reduce any anxiety about using R for plotting! jbengler.github.io/tidyplots/

A worth considering alternative to BioRender by the NIH. More than 2000 hi quality vector drawing. A bit poor on plants but will hopefully improve. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

We warmly welcome Harshita Singh who just joined the lab as a postdoc. Harshita comes from Jodhpur 🇮🇳 where she worked on crown root development in 🌾 at with Shri Ram Yadav at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Really looking forward to this meeting 🌿🌱🔬If you thought you were too late, ⬇️ is a good news x.com/PlantMorphoDyn…

Hurry up, only a few days left to register! x.com/PlantMorphoDyn…

Today’s group workout: Took the opportunity of a forced shutdown of our plant growth room to give it a thorough scrub & disinfection. Ready for fresh plants🚫🦟➡️🌱😀@COSHeidelberg