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Elwira Smakowska-Luzan

@elwirasmakowska.bsky.social

Plant biologist passionate about signalling mechanisms, protein biochemistry, proteomics, and diversity in all forms :) Assistant Professor at Wageningen University

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Cecilia Borassi@ceciborassi.bsky.social · 7h ago

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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Elwira Smakowska-Luzan@elwirasmakowska.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our lates preprint!💃 Kudos to Jente and Judith for going above and beyond with CRK's biochemical and biophysical characterisation! Tour the collaborative effort! Fruitful and fun 🙏🙏🙏 Take a look if you want to know what it takes and what it means to make a dimmer! 🤝

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 6d ago

Structural and functional insights into the role of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinase 18 (CRK18) in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741491v1

The EMBO Journal@embojournal.org · 6d ago

Role of membrane-organizing SPFH proteins in plants: @hannah-web.bsky.social, Alexandra Ehinger, @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social et al define how Arabidopsis HIR2 forms higher-order assemblies and organizes receptor signaling domains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and plasma membrane organization - The EMBO Journal

Plant plasma membrane proteins are organized into distinct domains; however, the principles that govern this spatial organization are not fully understood. HYPERSENSITIVE-INDUCED REACTION (HIR) protei...

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Charlotte Kirchhelle@ckirchhelle.bsky.social · last wk.

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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KleineVehnLab@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 Here @sophiezoe.bsky.social reveals an early developmental time window determining initial growth direction of lateral roots. Wonderful collaboration with @wabniklab.bsky.social and @matesf.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cibss.bsky.social

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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@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!

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

Plant actin networks are rapid mechano-adaptive scaffolds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738884v1

Sadaf Shadan@sshadan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ESCRT machinery mediates repair of damaged lysosomal membranes. But how does it recognise damage? Authors @nature report LASER, a fast-forming protein assembly that detects Ca2+-leakage from sites of lysosomal injury and recruits ESCRTs there. shorturl.at/T9zM6

LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair - Nature

ATG8 conjugation on damaged lysosomes triggers rapid assembly of a protein complex containing TFG, which directs lysosomal membrane repair by recruiting ESCRT proteins to sites of damage.

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Şuayb Üstün@suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a fantastic study by @thevirusmc.bsky.social, @plantophagy.bsky.social & co. how autophagy fine-tunes immune responses during viral infection by degrading EDS1! Stay tuned - we will soon lift the mystery around why autophagy acts as a "pro-death" pathway during bacterial infection ☠️ 🤓

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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Adam Steinbrenner@adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now out in Science Advances. Inceptin Receptor helps attract predatory wasps in two years of field experiments. Next steps: can we tune both receptor recognition and volatile blend traits in crops + companion plants?

Adam Steinbrenner@adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · last yr.

How do predatory wasps find their caterpillar prey? In our new preprint on Biorxiv we show that the host plant's immune system detects herbivory to sound the alarm. 🌱🐛 See thread from @nataliagupa.bsky.social -- a surprising role for a plant PRR in indirect defense against herbivores.

Sadaf Shadan@sshadan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Water is essential to life; so how do cells sense and respond to the stress associated with changes in water levels? Work @nature shows that when water is scarce, the plant protein SAM8 forms condensates, trapping RNA-processing factors and so reprogramming translation. shorturl.at/4VZQf

Cellular water-potential sensing through biomolecular condensation - Nature

Plants sense water deficiency through SAM8 protein condensation, which responds to reduced hydration and triggers stress adaptation by altering RNA export and gene translation.

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Sadaf Shadan@sshadan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@nature, researchers describe an RNA-RNA-mediated arm-race between fungal pathogens and their plant hosts. Specifically, they show that a fungal lncRNA weakens host immunity by sequestering a protective rice miRNA. shorturl.at/mIuvy

A pathogen lncRNA secreted into rice sequesters a host miRNA for virulence - Nature

A fungal long non-coding RNA from Magnaporthe oryzae translocates into rice cells to sequester a host microRNA that normally represses PKR1, a negative immunity regulator, thereby facilitating infection and revealing a widespread RNA-based pathogen–host interaction mechanism.

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