Alex Martiniere

@alexmartiniere.bsky.social

Plant cell biologist, PI @ IPSIM, Montpellier France

📢 Two postdoc positions available in @mc-caillaud.bsky.social's group (RDP lab, ENS de Lyon), part of an ERC Consolidator. Project: how plant cells orient their division, combining cell biology, molecular genetics, and mechanical modelling. 📅 Deadline: 1 Oct 26 | Start: Nov 26 onwards Details 🧵👇

Recruitment flyer for two postdoc-funded positions in Marie-Cécile Caillaud's group (RDP laboratory, ENS de Lyon, France). Across the top run six scientific images: a line drawing of an Arabidopsis seedling with roots; a 3D digital reconstruction of a shoot apical meristem with orange and purple sectors marking cell lineages; a confocal microscopy image of plant tissue with green cell outlines and red/orange fluorescent nuclei; two paired 3D cell models in orange/green and yellow/purple showing division plane geometry; and a fluorescence microscopy image of a dividing cell with yellow microtubule-like structures and cyan nuclei on a dark background. Below, the title reads "Two Postdoc-funded positions" with an ERC logo, followed by "Deadline: 1st of Oct 2026" and "Starting date: Nov 2026 and onwards" in a bordered box. The body text is organised into sections: PROJECT (describing research into how plant cells orient their division, combining cell biology, molecular genetics, and multiscale mechanical modelling, with a link to the team website), CANDIDATE (looking for motivated candidates with a strong publication record, prior expertise in plant cell biology or biophysics as a plus, working language English), ENVIRONMENT (describing the ERC Consolidator project, the RDP laboratory hosted at ENS de Lyon, an international and gender-balanced working environment, and the city of Lyon), and RECENT PUBLICATIONS (three pinned references: Goldy et al. 2026 in Science Advances, Gascon et al. 2025 in Current Biology, and Lebecq et al. 2023 in Science Advances). An envelope icon box at the bottom right gives instructions to send a single PDF (cover letter, short summary of previous research, CV with publications, and contact details for two to three referees) to marie-cecile.caillaud@ens-lyon.fr.

Such an honor to have been elected as an EMBO member and I am looking forward to contribute to the EMBO community! I got spoiled by my fantastic group today! @embo.org

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🧪🌾NEWS - Congratulations to @srobertgroup.bsky.social on being elected an EMBO Member!🎉 "I want to share this recognition with the many fantastic members of my research group at UPSC over the years," says Stéphanie Robert. Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n... #EMBOMembers2026 @embo.org

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[ #VeilleESR #LPPR ] Durcissement des règles d'attribution pour l'appel à projets générique ANR. Notamment : réduction du nombre de dépôts et augmentation du délais de carence. L'argumentaire est : plus les scientifiques ont besoin de l'ANR, moins il faut que les scientifiques sollicitent l'ANR.

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🔎𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 🌱 Plant metabolism depends not only on what organelles do, but also on where they are Find it here👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70987 ✍️ AR Fernie, G Decros, J Multhoff, J Sippel, JO Niemeier, P Barreto, A Sampathkumar, U Sonnewald, and M Schwarzländer

PERSPECTIVE: organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance

Understanding how plant cells coordinate metabolism remains a major challenge, particularly at the level of intracellular organization. This perspective proposes that dynamic organelle positioning ac...

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Congratulations to Gwennogan Dubois, Marija Smokvarska, and Jessica Perez Sancho, who were honored at the French Academy of Sciences during the “Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie” event! 👏 A source of great pride for the lab, alongside their research directors Emmanuelle Bayer & Yvon Jaillais.

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