A huge thank you to everyone who attended #SLS26 & our concluding keynote speaker @apmahonen.bsky.social for a fascinating talk and exciting new insights into how stem cell fate decisions are regulated in the vascular cambium. Read more about his team's work: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Keynote by @luciastrader.bsky.social from Salk Institute opens #SLS26 with 'Transcription in plants' & invites the audience to Choose Your Own Adventure! Condensates won!

@mc-caillaud.bsky.social's talk at #SLS26 suggests actin-mediated regulation allows flexible implementation of a shared core strategy, favouring division perpendicular to the growth axis and symmetric partitioning, while avoiding lateral wall anchoring. www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/signalis...

New OA Article: "PAX-regulated self-organizing polarity drives procambial strand formation" rdcu.be/fCz7y The polarly localized protein kinase converts auxin cues into coordinated cell polarity, propagating polarity between neighbouring cells to form connected veins. #PlantScience

📣 Job alert! PhD position on Regulation of Pattern Scaling in Plant Stem Cell Niches in Marja Timmermans's lab and co-supervised by @cecilialaram.bsky.social The project is part of the @cerealcell.bsky.social consortium. The position is available from October 1st Apply now or share it! #PlantSciJob

I had missed this simply beautiful story from the lab of Michael Lenhard: Supergene control of chiral development in mirror-image flowers | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Supergene control of chiral development in mirror-image flowers

How genes determine the development of chiral structures is a fascinating question. The reciprocal placement of female and male organs on opposite sides of mirror-image flowers promotes efficient cros...

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🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

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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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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...

Can't resist to post this one: Summer retreat of the radial plant growth lab! What a great day with an exceptionally nice bunch of human beings.

Awesome Symposium coming up @cosheidelberg.bsky.social in September! Check it out - registration is free. www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/cos-sympo...

COS Symposium 2026 - Centre for Organismal Studies

Venue: Lecture hallCentre for Organismal Studies – Heidelberg UniversityIm Neuenheimer Feld 230

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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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How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plant stem cell systems: Robust by design

Plants maintain active stem cell populations throughout their lives, yet these systems are remarkably resilient to genetic, environmental, and mechani…

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Super nice story of the Nimchuk lab! CLV signaling represses vascular development in the shoot apical meristem: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

CLAVATA3 peptide signaling from stem cells integrates vascular organization and stem cell maintenance in Arabidopsis shoots

Terrestrial plant biomass relies on the formation of vascular bundles (VBs) comprising xylem, cambial, and phloem cells that drive secondary growth and wood formation. How VB formation and organizatio...

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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...

WIR STELLEN EIN: Stabsstelle #Exzellenzstrategie an der #UniversitätHeidelberg Referent*in, 100% E13, entfristet, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt Gerne weiterverteilen! #Heidelberg #Stellenausschreibung adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

New paper from the Yasin Dagdas (@plantophagy.bsky.social) group, this time in @science.org, on how plant cells cope with viral infection and how selective autophagy delays cell death to give plants a chance to survive. Chapeau and congratulations to all the authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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Tropaeolum tuberosum is a tuber-forming crop native to the Andes, but remains an underutilized and little-known species - Ruiz-Mateus et al. now assemble a highly complete genome of this species as a foundational resource. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag115 📷 Pascal Hunziker #genome #evolution

New OA Resource: "A transcriptional atlas of early Arabidopsis seed development suggests mechanisms for inter-tissue coordination" rdcu.be/fj8H2 Single-nucleus RNAseq profiling of early Arabidopsis seed development. #PlantScience

'Scientific advancement depends on freedom, openness, and truth - the very values fascism eventually destroys. Our collective response will shape the future.'

Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo ago

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Super stimulating talk by Olivier Hamant from @rdplab.bsky.social on the tradeoff between efficiency and systemic robustness in biology and beyond. And on how we define societal progress.

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Absolutely ❤️ this slide from Olivier Hamant about the role of inefficiency in biological robustness. Thx @maizel-lab.org for bringing him to @cosheidelberg.bsky.social

The 4th congress on strigolactone research will take place 5-8 October this year in beautiful Paris! Early bird registration extended until April 30. So, just go for it! ics2026.sciencesconf.org

After years of preparation, Artemis II has launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen on humanity’s first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in over 50 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2C...

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

Universität Heidelberg verteidigt Status als Exzellenzuniversität – Rektorin Frauke Melchior: „Großartige Gemeinschaftsleistung hat zum Erfolg geführt“ www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra

Anni Zhang (from @thomasgreb.bsky.social lab) takes us to the green side of development by investigating how "Transcriptional repression of auxin signaling by SMXL5 ensures robust phloem cell fate specification" in arabidopsis #GfE2026

Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!

Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥 @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Abstract submissions for #SEBconference Florence 2026 are officially open! 🎉 Deadline: 6 March 2026. Submit today and be part of cutting-edge biology in Florence. More information www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim

Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

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Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).