PhD position available on modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration. A great opportunity to join the plant mechanobiology community in GreenTE! More info can be found here: green-te.nl/job/open-phd... @green-te.bsky.social @roelandmerks.bsky.social

Open PhD position: Modeling the mechanical regulation of plant development and regeneration - GreenTE

The opening is for a PhD research position within the field of mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics, applied mathematics […]

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Ink found larger brother 😀 (Eiger on right) 🇨🇭

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress

Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

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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...

Bucket list item unlocked: listening to YYZ at YYZ 😀

The role of plant actin in mechanical responses available now on bioRxiv! Congratulations to @jasper-lamers.bsky.social, Anna Daamen @jorissprakel.bsky.social and to everyone involved! 🌱💻

@jasper-lamers.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our work on the mechanoresponsiveness of actin is out! While plant microtubules have been extensively studied for their role in mechanobiology, actin has very much been ignored. Here we show that actin responds to cellular deformations within minutes and observed it in Marchantia and Arabidopsis!

Plant actin networks are rapid mechano-adaptive scaffolds www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We had the pleasure of hosting @plantophagy.bsky.social for a seminar at our @bic-wur.bsky.social department yesterday and hear about his team’s super original and cool approaches to study and understand autophagy in all its colors. Thanks for the inspiring science!!!

On 24 June at 2 PM CET, the MechnoBioTalks webinar series will continue with Benoit Landrein. His research focuses on how tissue mechanics regulate plant organ growth trough mechanical signaling. Subscribe to get a link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... For more information see our website.

Do you enjoy the thrill of discovery? Does this photo give you good vibes? Then you might be the right person to join our lab! Current projects range from chloroplast transcription to thylakoid membrane remodeling & we would be happy to welcome bright and motivated people at all career stages!

For liverwort mavens, I've needed to shift our Marchantia resources to a new website (I've reached retirement from academia in Cambridge) - and the plant synthetic biology stuff has moved to https://www.haseloff-lab.info (Now have more time for DIY builds! Updates to come)

Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !

Cool special issue on plant evolution just dropped at @currentbiology.bsky.social our 2 cents: Fruits of tons of fun discussions with the one and only Susana Coelho: www.cell.com/current-biol... Reflections on evolution of auxin response with @jorgehg.bsky.social : www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is going to be so exciting! Reach out with ideas! And come find me at ICAR in Singapore to learn more.

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

2nd annual meeting of our @green-te.bsky.social Gravitation program is about to start. So wonderful to see the ideas transform into a vibrant community studying Plant Mechanobiology 🤩

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out this cool analysis by @jasper-lamers.bsky.social and Joris Sprakel!!! Much to learn about Actins in 🌱

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The evolution of plant actins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.22.720131v1

Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

PostDoc position available! (links in post below) Feel free to share!

Interested in signaling? Evolution? Microfluidics? Phosphoproteomics? Imaging? Green organisms? Consider joining the awesome Jan De Vries team for this 5-year (!) post-doc and come collaborate with Joris Sprakel and me!

MAdLand@watertoland.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

Previously on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social now in final published version: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

Boris Martinac is the next speaker of the MechanoBioTalk webinar series! He is head of the Mechanobiolgy Laboratory and his research focuses on the structure and function of mechanosensitive ion channels. Don't forget to register!

High resolution, proteome-wide mapping of subcellular protein localization in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708449v1

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Have you already nominated a colleague for our IASPRR Awards?🏅 If not, you sre still on time! 🔸Extended deadline: 15th March! More info?👇👇👇

International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research@iasprr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are pleased to open the call for IASPRR Award nominations for: 🏅Early Career Research Award in Plant Reproduction. 🏅Plant Reproduction Medal. 🔸🔸ONLY IASPRR individual or lifetime members can nominate🔸🔸 More information?👉 www.iasprr.org/index.php?br...

Highly recommended! I had the pleasure to speak at an earlier edition and found it an amazing gathering!

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology@gmivienna.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Registration is now open! The 4th edition of the Mendel Early Career Symposium will take place on 21-22 May at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. This two-day event brings together researchers across career stages to discuss the latest research in all areas of plant science.

Masters of perception: phosphorylation-dependent signaling in plants #TansleyInsight by Roosjen et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...