If you're looking to really get into the weeds of #cryoET in plant tissue 🌿❄️🔬, our detailed protocol is now out in @bio-protocol.bsky.social 🔗 bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
Charlotte Kirchhelle
@ckirchhelle.bsky.social
Plant cell/developmental biologist @RDP Lyon, loves cell edges, mechanics, and lateral roots
Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Three tenure track assistant/associate professors in life science, HiLIFE
Three tenure track assistant/associate professors in life science, HiLIFE
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The 2027 Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference is now open for applications! Learn more about this event and apply to attend here: www.grc.org/single-cell-...
IN BRIEF: Going out with a bang: CESA7 and microtubules are required for patterning of secondary cell walls in explosive fruit (Nataliia Konstantinova) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Going out with a bang: CESA7 and microtubules are required for patterning of secondary cell walls in explosive fruit
Explosive seed dispersal is one of the most visually striking methods to spread seeds. Hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta) is a species that employs this techni
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Happy to share our latest work showing that fungal cell fusion not only requires local cell wall digestion but also inhibition of cell wall repair! PAK-family kinases promote cell fusion irreversibility by preventing cell-wall repair doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Led by @juliacoronasserna.bsky.social
16 h of actin imaging. One root tip. Never left the frame. PlantScope keeps the root upright & automatically tracks the tip. #AUXIN2026 @the.3i.social @aabiologists.bsky.social Data: Fendrych lab @plantmorpho.bsky.social @iebcas.bsky.social 3i PlantScope: www.intelligent-imaging.com/plantscope
🌱🔬 We're hiring! 2-year Senior Technician in the McKenna Lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social. Plant cell biology meets proteomics. We want someone enthusiastic to help drive our research forward. Interested? DM or email for an informal chat. workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY... #PlantScience #Jobs
Senior Research Technician
Senior Research Technician
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Call for papers - Plant and Algae Development We are welcoming submissions for our 2027 special issue on plant and algae development, edited by @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and Susana Coelho. Submit your manuscript by 2 November 2026. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...
🧪🌾NEWS: Aspen leaf cells change shape during drought Cells on an aspen leaf surface look like a jigsaw puzzle under the microscope.🔬 @srobertgroup.bsky.social identified a gene controlling this shape and found that drought affects both its activity and cell shape. 🔗 www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Jin-Mo Gu, Andreas Nebenführ and colleagues discover that accelerated organelle movements can indirectly affect the motility of other organelles in plant cells. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Yesterday I gave a talk about "How Generative AI impacts [BioImage] Data Science" @ensdelyon.bsky.social , slides #openaccess. Thanks again to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social and @rdplab.bsky.social for the fantastic discussions and for having me! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Cutting corn-ers: @stephanieemartinez.bsky.social and @carolynplants.bsky.social discover that KATANIN p60 guides asymmetric division plane positioning in maize. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Super cool seminar today @rdplab.bsky.social from @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social, a must-hear perspective on AI in image analysis!
Our second special issue for 2027 will focus on the topic of membrane dynamics and repair. We invite you to submit your latest research to this issue, which will be coordinated by our Guest Editors @jezcarlton.bsky.social and @pihanson.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/me...
I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑-𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🌱 Edited by @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social 📖 Read the Editorial 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71135 🔎 Explore the complete Special Issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Understanding and engineering receptor–ligand interactions
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How do plant organs stay smooth—or become wrinkled? 🌱 Our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social shows how coordinated growth direction and mechanical properties across cell layers determine whether Arabidopsis sepals remain smooth or buckle. cell.com/current-biol...
🌱We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics @irbv.bsky.social If you are passionate about genetics, molecular biology, or imaging, this is your chance to join a community of researchers working on plant development, cell biology, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity. 👇
Careers
Through your undergraduate and graduate-level teaching, and your research activities, you will contribute to the faculty’s pursuit of excellence. Furthermore, you will promote your discipline and actively participate in the daily activities of a renowned institution. As such, you will:
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Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...
Applications are now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution, organised by Snezhana Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social & Cunqi Ye. Find out more and apply www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...
And if this looks like fun research that you would like to be involved in, @mc-caillaud.bsky.social has 2 postdoc positions. Applications close: 1 November 2026
@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...
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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🌱🪩 Optical illusions in plants? New paper @pnas.org: Nonlinear distributed sensing of light patterns leads to perceptual distortions in plants, or any distributed system tinyurl.com/5x79sxaj 📽️ opposing lights cancel, plant grows toward weaker light 🤩 R Kempinski, @amirporat.bsky.social, M Rivière
Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Cell Geometry and Junction Arrangement Define the Mechanical Robustness of Plant Tissues https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.07.749888v1
🌱 Our new paper about growth-derived mechanical conflicts in gynoecium and fruit morphogenesis is now out @currentbiology.bsky.social 🎉Congrats to Binghan Wang and all authors. 📄https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01086-9 @irbv.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social
The crowd ! #INTERFACE2026 First edition of the french "plant membrane interface" meeting here at @ensdelyon.bsky.social hosted by @rdplab.bsky.social sponsored by @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
2 years postdoc position open in Liam Elliott's team @liamelliottplants.bsky.social at @lbmcinlyon.bsky.social Nice people, good place, excellent science ! #interface2026 meeting @ensdelyon.bsky.social @rdplab.bsky.social
PhD position available (start 2027) in my group at TUM! We study how mechanical stress controls cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal dynamics in plants, combining cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. CV + cover letter to mariana.romeiro-motta@tum.de. RTs welcome! #PlantSciJobs