Now, you can find our single-cell transcriptomic dataset of the developing grass leaf in The Plant Cell (academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...). You can also screen for the expression of your genes of interest (shiny.ips.unibe.ch). Congrats to all authors, especially the brilliant @lbmountain.bsky.social

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🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch

#EED2026 in Glasgow was my first but surely not last EED conference.What a welcoming and inspiring crowd combining plant and animal Evo-Devo,I learned so many new things.Our group went strong with great talks by @michaelraissig.bsky.social and @aemonet.bsky.social and Lidia winning the poster prize!

Back from #EED2026 in Glasgow. What a wonderful, curiosity-driven, supportive community. @unibe.ch's plant development and genetics group surely made an impression with wonderful talks by @heikelindner.bsky.social and @aemonet.bsky.social and the poster prize for PhD student Lidia Hoffmann 🧬🌾🔬🌵

📣📣Paper alert! Excited to share a new paper @pnas.org from the Tsiantis lab @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues on how enhancer evolution shapes leaf diversity. 🌱🌿Congratulations! 👏🥳 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4583PdR #plantsci #evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolution of repressive sequences within an enhancer contributed to morphological diversity in crucifer plants | PNAS

Cis-regulatory sequences, such as enhancers, play a crucial role in morphological evolution, but how their diversification leads to evolution of no...

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Registrations are open for PADiBa2026!

@mariebarberon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Congratulations! Nine young researchers from #unibern receive @snf-fns.ch Starting Grants. Projects from a variety of disciplines will be funded with over 15 million Swiss francs. Find out more: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas... #Research #Innovation #SNSF

Nine SNSF Starting Grants for researchers at the University of Bern

Nine awarded research projects: Of the 425 applications submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation's (SNSF) call for proposals for its SNSF Starting Grants 2025, nine from the University of…

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Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers - Utrecht PhD Summer School 2026! eps.sites.uu.nl

EPS Summer School | Universiteit Utrecht

We would like to invite you to join the PhD Summer School that has an attractive program with many expert speakers in the field of environmental signaling in plants. In addition to the invited speaker...

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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!

I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)@snsf.ch · 9mo ago

✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀 ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26

We have an open Post Doc position in plant-volatile interactions, starting April 2026. Ideal if you love to use molecular tools to understand the natural world and improve agriculture. Interested? Send your CV, grades, motivation letter and refs (single pdf!) to vera.ogi@unibe.ch. Please share.

During my PhD, I realized the hardest moments weren’t the work itself, but the psychological challenges. We see lots of productivity tips, but PhD students aren’t machines - they're complex human beings. 🫂 Glad to see well-being in @nature.com 'career column 🍀 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD

Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart.

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Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

ONE WEEK AWAY! The final segment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, The Open Panel Discussion is Sept. 16, 2025. To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

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🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱 The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!