Daniel Van Damme
@danielvandamme.bsky.social
Plant Cell Biologist with an interest in the structural aspects of membrane trafficking.
Do you have a discovery ready to bloom? Great ideas deserve room to grow, and #PlantResearch26 is where they can take root. The clock is ticking: your research could be the seed that sparks one of our selected talks. Submit your abstract by midnight: vibbio.tech/4obX8Qi #VIBConf
Don’t forget to submit your abstract by June 25! ⚠️That is two days away ⚠️4/4 🧵 More information at vibbio.tech/PlantResearc... @psb-vib.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @vibtrainconf.bsky.social
At the forefront of plant research (4th edition)
17-18 September 2026 - Ghent, Belgium
vibbio.tech
If you ever wondered about the history and current state of plant Clathrin-mediated endocytosis....here is a review just for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Was really fun to write this with awesome co-authors! ⚽️🌱🔬
Clathrin‐Mediated Endocytosis in Plants: Historical to Modern Advances
Ultrastructural studies by Bonnett and Newcomb in 1966 revealed the existence of coated vesicles budding from the plant cell plasma membrane. This review introduces this discovery and early questions...
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I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my team to work on the interplay between endocytosis and autophagy. The 3-year project runs in collaboration with the Dagdas lab @plantophagy.bsky.social and can start asap. Interested candidates can apply via the link below. jobs.vib.be/apply/134365
In our new pre-print, we established massive single-cell RNA-sequencing for diatoms to investigate key cell fate transitions. Notably, we discovered that the diploid-to-haploid transition is regulated by Myb TFs, a process that is actively ongoing across the Global Ocean! 🌊
🌱Save the date! It’s time to plant the seeds of discovery at our 4th edition of #PlantResearch26. From roots to results, explore breakthroughs in genetics, sustainability, crop innovation, and future food systems. Let’s grow ideas together, in Ghent, 17-18 September: vibbio.tech/4s31Pg5 #VIBConf
Dear ENPER community, We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in my country Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026 in Sofia. Save the Date!🌱🌱🌱
#new_paper: A combined biochemical and computational approach provides evidence for membrane remodelling by the structural scaffold of the endocytic TPLATE complex DOI: 10.1038/s41477-025-02146-y @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 New preprint by @cate-giannini.bsky.social🚨 We uncover an unexpected link between auxin signalling, transcription, and autophagy — revealing how plants coordinate gene expression and cytoplasmic renewal to drive developmental reprogramming. 🌱✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Another PhD from the lab! Many congratulations, Dr. Andreas De Meyer!
Great work by julien Spielmann now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Canonical tyrosine‐based motifs are required for constitutive endocytosis and polarity of IRT1 and contribute to metal uptake
Control of IRT1 cell surface levels is critical for plant iron uptake from the soil and was previously shown to be regulated by ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis upon non-iron metal excess. Here, we she...
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🚨 Time to register ! The European Plant Cytoskeletal Club is an informal meeting, focusing on research on plant cytoskeleton 🍀🧪🧬🔬 Where: ENS de Lyon @ensdelyon.bsky.social, hosted by the RDP laboratory @rdplab.bsky.social When: the 4th and 5th of September 2025. 👇 epcc2025.sciencesconf.org
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
New Online! Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development
Mechanisms of auxin action in plant growth and development
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 19 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00851-2The phytohormone auxin coordinates plant growth by forming local maxima and gradients through cell-to-cell transport and metabolic control. Recent research has identified novel signalling mechanisms involving extracellular auxin perception and auxin-mediated cyclic AMP production.
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Tired of struggling with different tags to generate transgenic plants expressing your favorite protein ? Check out our latest preprint about ALFA technology and its MANY applications for plant biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
Broad application of plant protein tagging with ALFA tag for nanobody-based imaging and biochemical approaches
Epitope tags are broadly used for detecting, modifying or purifying proteins of interest, but their breadth of application is often rather poor. Recently, the rationally designed ALFA tag and its ALFA...
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🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
Yesterday, we celebrated the PhD of Julia Michaela Kraus. Many congratulations on a stellar performance!
This year’s edition of our internal PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social symposium #PSBmeets25 in full swing. Off to 2 days of seminars, poster sessions, discussions, and party!
Abstract submission open for #ICAR2025 Come join an outstanding selection of Plenary, Concurrent and Workshop speakers. We expect ~50 speakers selected from submitted abstracts… and of course plenty of posters! Www.icar2025.com #plantscience
On-site planning meeting for #ICAR2025, it’s shaping up nicely! Early bird deadline is only on April 20th, but as the meeting is filling up fast, and we’re expecting a full house, don’t wait too long to subscribe icar2025.com ! Looking forward to seeing you in 4 months‘ time in summerly Ghent!
We are delighted to bring #ICAR2025 to Gent in Belgium! Abstract submission OPEN! icar2025.com @aabiologists.bsky.social @moritznowack.bsky.social @hildenelissen.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social
Interested to learn more about Plant Biotechnology? Enroll in our one-year Subsequent Master program and enjoy a training at Europe's largest Agro-biotech campus: masterplantbiotechnology.ugent.be
