Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached
Ari Pekka Mähönen
@apmahonen.bsky.social
Plant Developmental Biologist, Professor at University of Helsinki. Funded by #ERCCoG & #Treebio CoE Website: https://t.co/oFteNQ3WuH
Happy to share our combined views on the opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology; collaborative work now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social : track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Decoding plants cell by cell: opportunities and challenges in single-cell and spatial biology
Single-cell and spatial biology techniques present new opportunities for plant research, but also come with methodological considerations, technical limita
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@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...
Scientific Director (f/m/x)
OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea
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Does anyone have a 3xFlag tag in the pGreengate system and would be willing to share a bit? 🙏 Please RT to claim your virtual belly rub opportunity:
Online at @cellcellpress.bsky.social today: everything you always wanted (???) to know about Auxin Signaling and never dared to ask. From Jiashu, Aaron and Martijn in our team, with @luciastrader.bsky.social and Tongda Xu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In an heoric endeavor, Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, characterized the dynamics and topology of the cell division machinery during cambium stem cell divisions. Super fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/nph....
The preprophase band is dispensable for robust cell division orientation in wood‐forming cambium stem cells
Characterization of periclinal and anticlinal cell divisions in dividing cambium stem cells (CSCs). (a) Scheme indicating periclinal and anticlinal cell divisions in CSCs in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl...
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Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!
Maria Stager@mstager.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Time for another preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social and @defengshen.bsky.social. We found some surprising secrets that connect and uncouple root barrier formation with systemic nitrogen signaling in shoots. see the thread below for more details
A tunable receptor separates root barrier formation from nutrient signaling through ligand-perception states
In roots, the endodermis controls nutrient entry by forming a barrier known as the Casparian strip. Yet how barrier-associated processes interface with systemic signaling remains unclear. Here, we sho...
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PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social BBSRC competition. Please RT👇 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership
What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…
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Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!
CLAVATA3 peptide signaling from stem cells integrates vascular organization and stem cell maintenance in Arabidopsis shoots https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734304v1
Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 11 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! They join a community of more than 2,200 leading scientists. 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/seventy-one-leading-scientists-elected-to-the-embo-membership/ #EMBOMembers2026
🕸️ DARWIN REVIEW 🕸️ Robil & Scarpella show that vein patterns are more diverse than commonly thought, and identification of vein precursor cells is arbitrary and inconsistent across species, thus challenging current understanding of vein patterns 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
My Peer Review of The 1%
I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.
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#PlantScienceClassics #6: The T-DNA. In a 1977 paper, Mary-Dell Chilton & colleagues identify the Transferred DNA (T-DNA), the bit of DNA that Agrobacterium tumefaciens inserts into the plant genome, to kick off the race toward the first transgenic plant. doi.org/10.1016/0092...
Exciting paper by Laura and Sandy on phloem evolution. Those Rhynie chert fossils rock (also, very literally)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am incredibly excited and grateful to have received an ERC Advanced Grant for my project, WOODIER: What Makes Trees Woody! 🌳 This award feels like the culmination of many years of work carried out in our research group, and the biggest thanks go to my lab members. bsky.app/profile/erc.... 1/x
European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.The results of the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 buff.ly/uiU9x5K #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch
We are looking for a PhD researcher to work for the “ClimatePine” -project, conducted in collaboration among Natural Resources Institute Finland, Metsähallitus Forestry Ltd and University of Helsinki. More info: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...
Research Scientist, doctoral researcher, forest breeding - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Research Scientist, doctoral researcher, forest breeding, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
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Fantastic work from the Etchells lab! And a great 🧵 too!
Peter Etchells@peteretchells.bsky.social · last mo.Really pleased to see Qing He’s work out in its final form (www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....). My group had previously shown that PXY-mediated regulation of cambium development had an ERECTA-mediated influence, but we didn’t understand the mechanism. 🧵
Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-nucleus transcriptomics resolves multiple fate dynamics between inflorescence meristem and primary stem
snRNA-seq reveals shoot stem cell heterogeneity and traces their differentiation into primary stem cell types.
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New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Plants: Practical guidelines for multiplexing, label-free imaging and data analysis by Thomas Ott and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob #PlantScience W3 Professorship: Plant Biotechnology 📍 @uni-freiburg.de succeeding Prof. @reskilab.bsky.social Start: 1 April 2027 Application deadline: 10 July 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
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#single insert transformation. The problem of multiple inserts lies in your T-DNA 😳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Rational design of T-DNA vectors enables predictable, single-copy integration in Arabidopsis thaliana
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is the dominant method for plant transgenesis, yet it frequently produces multi-copy, structurally complex T-DNA insertions associated with transgene silencing, u...
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The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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Funded, four-year Doctoral Researchers positions open in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, including my laboratory! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Doctoral Researchers (30 positions) in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Doctoral Researchers (30 positions) in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, Finland
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