Bharathan, Kowalczyk et al. provide the first comprehensive description of the 3D desmosome in A431 epidermoid carcinoma, human mammary epithelial cells, and airway epithelia in volume electron microscopy datasets. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #StructuralBiology

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

A new PNAS Science Sessions podcast explores discoveries from an 8,000-year-old archaeological site in Georgia that reshape our understanding of wheat domestication and early agriculture. Listen now: https://ow.ly/zOoS50ZwaOX

The July 2026 issue of The Plant Cell from ASPB @aspbofficial and Oxford University Press is COMPLETE! academic.oup.com/plcell/issue... #PlantScience

Volume 38 Issue 7 | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic

The Plant Cell publishes novel research of special significance in plant biology, especially in the areas of cellular biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, development, and evolution.

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The July 2026 issue of Plant Physiology from ASPB @aspbofficial and Oxford University Press is now COMPLETE! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/plphys/issue... #PlantSci

I'm stoked to inform you that as of today I have joined the Department of Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University! Our lab will continue to study how and what animals communicate - and their vulnarability to our actions - and what we can do for sustainability. More exciting posts will follow

Can’t believe it’s been 7 years! 🌱🎉 I still remember the conversation with @aribidopsis.bsky.social over lunch that helped spark this idea. So rewarding to watch it keep growing year after year, with an incredible leadership team, mentors, and advisory board plantpostdocs.com/leadership-t...

Joh's paper is available with the video now @ JoVE! www.jove.com/v/71307/quan... Joh has 3 articles (Co-author in New Phytologist, First author in JoVE, and co-author in another recent preprint) as an undergrad and is going to start the grad program with me from next month. Fly High & Far, Joh!

Arif Ashraf@aribidopsis.bsky.social · 2w ago

(6/8) Joh is also going to have their JoVE video available soon. Here is a sneak peak from the upcoming video.

"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!

Jenn Coughlan@jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 3d ago

So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We hope everyone is recovering from an exciting week at #PlantBio2026 in Ottawa last month. The celebrations are keeping going here as we recognize the #CSPB #SCBV student presentation award winners. Our student members certainly made it hard on our judges!

Congratulations to the Canadian Science Publishing student award winners at #PlantBio2026 this past month. Awards were presented by Botany Editor Dr Shelley Hepworth! #CSPB #SCBV is looking forwarding to growing our partnership with @cdnsciencepub.com @botanyjournal.bsky.social

One of the many things I love about @ascbiology.bsky.social ,my favorite scientific society, is that it recognizes there are many ways to contribute to science, including mentoring, education, outreach and advocacy. This year's Fellows represent that. 1/n www.ascb.org/society-news...

I am honored. So many of my scientific heroes are ASCB fellows. Thanks to my nominators, my mentors, and to UC Davis ASCB fellows Mark Winey, Jon Scholey, and Jodi Nunnari. But thanks most to all those who have done science with me, @gwgl.bsky.social and all the graduate students and postdocs

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Fellows! ASCB is proud to recognize 15 scientists whose careers have advanced cell biology through outstanding research, leadership, mentorship & service. Meet the 2026 Fellows: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/

A really lovely paper, combining microscopy, modeling and manipulations to achieve a better understanding of root hair growth. thanks to the authors for the experiments & writeup!

IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes@ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌱 Using live imaging & microfluidics, researchers mapped how root hairs grow in 3 stages, revealing crosstalk between cytoskeleton, nucleus & cell mechanics that drives polar growth in plants. 🔬 @theplantcell.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag165

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Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Stockbridge Sch of Agriculture Work Lo...

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On August 14th at 10 AM CT, join us to explore plant biology graduate program types and the funding sources behind them, with Dr. BeKa Leuschen-Kohl (KU) and Dr. Taymee Brandon (Princeton)! Registration link is on our linktree. #gradschool #plantgrads

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Honorific Award Winners! ASCB is proud to recognize scientists whose research, mentorship, education & leadership are helping shape the future of cell biology. See all the awardees: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

Hi Fam! Re-introducing our Co-founder Dr Sunil Kenchanmane Raju @kenchanmane.bsky.social Since founding @plantpostdocs.bsky.social in 2019, Sunil spent 7 years shaping the community and is now leading his lab @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌱Our leadership team is expanding! Join us 🔗 in bio!🌸

🍀🔬 Preprint: EC1 body controls sperm cell reception via gamete pit formation @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌽🌽🌽 Beautiful cover image! Congratulations, @erinsparks.bsky.social Erin and the team!

Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 3d ago

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social The cover image highlights the work by Pierce, Hostetler, & @erinsparks.bsky.social, who describe a protocol for quantifying individual root mechanics in maize using a three-point bend test 🌽 ⬇️Links below

Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

A pangenome of tetraploid wheat reveals the genetic architecture underlying domestication and genomic diversity for breeding @natgenet.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I received a very nice and inspiring letter from the Dean of Science for teaching (Plant Development in Spring 2026 semester). Among all the tasks, I always felt least confident in teaching. The teaching evaluation and this letter were helpful for me to be confident. I will keep doing my BEST!

A conserved role of EIN3 in the development of rooting structures in land plants (Dongdong Kong , Jie Meng , Yidong Wang , Jiao Liu , Wenxiu Cui , Legong Li , Chuanli Ju) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

A conserved role of EIN3 in the development of rooting structures in land plants

The ethylene signaling transcription factor EIN3 regulates rooting structure development in a conserved manner in land plants.

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A RSL4-CPKs feedback loop integrates auxin and ethylene signals to regulate root hair growth in Arabidopsis @theplantjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...

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We are delighted to share this Work in Norwich feature of our group leader @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social, who moved to Norwich two years ago to start his group at TSL. We are very happy that Tatsuya is finding Norwich a great place to live, both scientifically and personally. buff.ly/jdhHLW2

Tatsuya Nobori: The Sainsbury Laboratory - Work in Norwich

Learn why world-leading scientist Dr Tatsuya Nobori chose Norwich, joining The Sainsbury Laboratory to conduct internationally recognised plant science research.

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🔬🔬🔬 CLASP-dependent microtubule stabilization generates microtubule-based protrusive forces during Drosophila epithelial morphogenesis @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

My grad student, @juliazheku.bsky.social Julia, presented in several conferences this summer, but I didn't have the chance to see her presenting. This week, she had a poster presentation at #IAPB2026 in Saskatchewan and I had the opportunity to see her presenting as well. Fly High & Far, Julia!