It's a pleasure to work on my podcast, No Time To Read, for past several years. It gave me the opportunities to talk to some amazing plant biologists about their recent research articles. I just wrapped up Season 4. Thanks for your kind support. Podcast: tinyurl.com/3abx6khm

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

Angiosperm seed formation requires the coordinated development of the products of double fertilization—the embryo and the endosperm. The endosperm mediates efficient nutrient transfer from surrounding...

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Woohoo! 🎉🌱 Another paper from our lab is out in Nature Plants! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge congratulations to Hongliang, my wonderful colleague, fellow postdoc, and friend in the Wang lab!

Interested in the molecular basis how the plant cell adapts to changes in cell wall biochemistry? Check out the recent paper in Nat Plants by two former truly gifted Ph.D. students Rodion Boikine, Ajeet Chaudhary (@ajeetchaudhary.bsky.social) and collaborators. Cool stuff if I may say so.

We’re thrilled to announce that our new preprint is now live! In this study, we uncover a previously unrecognized molecular framework underlying radial cell polarity in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Lateral Protein Cluster as a Key Component of Plant Cell Polarity

Cell polarity is an ancient organizing principle across kingdoms. As in animal epithelial cells, plant cells asymmetrically distribute proteins to establish functionally distinct membrane domains. In ...

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Happy to see this story is finally out in @natplants.nature.com ! 🌱 It has special place in my heart. I started it in my PhD but could not solve the puzzle. Shoutout to very talented Rodion who uncover the intriguing mechanism of CBI signaling. Huge congrats! @kschneitz.bsky.social & collaborators

A STRUBBELIG–NHL3 cell surface receptor complex mediates the response to cellulose deficiency in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants

This study shows that signalling by the multifunctional receptor kinase SUB in cell wall integrity involves two functionally distinct cell surface complexes whose activities are attenuated by sequenti...

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Alas, the everyday conundrum of developmental biologists: same parts, wildly different fates. 🧬😂 gems are hidden in comments!!!

MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · last mo.

Re: developmental biology 🧪

Less than two weeks to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in plant biology in the amazing Biology Department at Penn State! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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1/9 🧵New preprint from the lab! A midpoint in a long journey to understand specificity among bHLH transcription factors in plants. Part IV: how does an accessory domain guide specificity of heterodimerizing bHLHs? #PlantSci #TranscriptionFactors #stomata www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Programmable design of synthetic plant immune receptors for pathogen protein recognition

The limited diversity and recognition scope of natural plant immune receptors impede resistance breeding against rapidly evolving pathogens. Here we report programmable design of synthetic plant immun...

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Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great video by Full Disclosure, where Loveena Kamath investigates how bad research enters legitimate systems. She even calls a paper mill to buy a scientific paper! With Achal Agrawal, PhD, and myself. "World’s Easiest Fraud, Apparently!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTk...

Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! It was a wonderful discussion with @kirkamundson.bsky.social Kirk about his recent @science.org article. Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2JVy... Article: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Hi fam! Join our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Leadership Team rep BeKa @aspbofficial.bsky.social #PB2026 Leadership Workshop alongside Drs. Rebecca Roston (MSU), Laura Wayne (Corteva) and Peta Bonham-Smith (U. of Saskatchewan) on 21st July, Tuesday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

Interested in the Future Faculty Academy program? Feel free to reach out with any questions. I'd be happy to share my experience and chat about the program

plantpostdocs.bsky.social@plantpostdocs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hi Fam 🌱 Thinking about applying to the @plantpostdocs.bsky.social Future Faculty Academy? Meet Dr Ajeet Chaudhary (2024 recipient) 🏆 He called the experience "a great learning experience" that sharpened his job market prep. Fell free to connect with Dr Ajeet @ajeetchaudhary.bsky.social

I love these funky basal epithelial cells in axolotl. Looks just like plant pavement cells

Just added a couple more job apps (thanks Rachel and Arun!) but if you've gotten a job in industry, academia (R1, PUI, whatever!) in the last 5 years or so, please consider submitting your job app materials to help other folks! github.com/RILAB/statem...

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients

Plant tropisms enable roots to navigate complex soils by responding to directional environmental cues. Biological decay, although central to nutrient cycling, also creates microbially active and poten...

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Thrilled to see our FERONIA story recognized among the Best Papers of 2025 in @MPlantPCom This work was truly a team effort, and I am deeply grateful to all the co-authors, collaborators and colleagues whose contribution made it possible.

I am a candidate for the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Secretary-Elect and would greatly appreciate your support. My candidate statement is attached & cast your vote here: tinyurl.com/ycshbzxj Polls close on June 19, 2026. Thank you! #ASPB

This is going to be so exciting! Reach out with ideas! And come find me at ICAR in Singapore to learn more.

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

Very interesting and groundbreaking work by our neighbor @Dinnenylab Plant cell wall-plasma membrane attachments mediate stress resilience ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance

Climate warming poses increasing thermal challenges to plants, yet how plasma membrane biophysics contributes to heat adaptation remains poorly understood. In this work, we showed that the malectin-li...

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CARD1 cryo structure now on Nature Comm. Well done, Nobu and Anu! rdcu.be/fjrIq

Raf-like protein kinase heterocomplexes directly regulate the plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Raf-like protein kinase heterocomplexes directly regulate the plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase

The plasma membrane proton pump [PM H+-adenosine triphosphatase (PM H+-ATPase)] is essential in plants. C-terminal phosphorylation events regulate proton pump activity, such as Thr881 phosphorylation ...

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Final week to apply! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to join the RO2T Respiration lab at University of Nottingham working on root oxygen biology, as part of our ERC-funded Breathing Underground programme. Closes 20 May. #plantscijobs

Vinay Shukla@vinayshukla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're hiring! 🌱 The RO2T Respiration Group is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to work on root oxygen biology! Please spread the word! #plantscijobs

Our latest review on Single Cell Proteomics is out. Honored that it is a Feature Review in the @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social special series: TIBS at 50 - Foundations and Frontiers. #Proteomics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mass spectrometry-based single-cell proteomics technologies, trends, and biological insights

Single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a transformative approach for characterizing cellular heterogeneity at the protein level. Recent advances …

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A single-cell screening platform accelerates functional genetics in plants - Nature Biotechnology

A pooled, cell-based, genetic screening platform in plants is used for the functional analysis of cytokinin signaling proteins.

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Been training for this moment my whole life.