Our recent work was featured in @Cornell chronicle! news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Wrinkled or smooth? Cell growth mechanics determine shape of plant organs | Cornell Chronicle

This discovery could help engineer living materials into different forms, such as the custom of growing bridges from roots in India, and breeding kale so it’s smooth instead of crinkly.

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Avilash Singh Yadav@morpholosophist.bsky.social · last wk.

Very happy to share that our work "Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle" is now out @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Special thanks to my postdoctoral mentor @roederlab.bsky.social and all the authors!

A perspective in @natmethods.nature.com on Why forces are fundamental to understanding how life comes into being - by us, @campaslab.bsky.social @yanlanmao.bsky.social @sarawickstrom.bsky.social Miguel Concha, Alba Diz-Muñoz and @streichan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The physics of sculpting a living creature - Nature Methods

Cell biologists have long known that mechanical forces, such as tension and compression, influence tissue differentiation. Now, advanced methods are letting them observe and manipulate these forces in...

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On the cover of our #LatestIssue: A hand-knitted wire sculpture of stomata on the epidermis of wheat, made by scientist and artist Dr Jodie Armand from a 3D confocal image of the wheat epidermis. Image courtesy of Dr Jodie Armand (University of Sheffield). #PlantScience

New publication from the lab! Winter cold doesn't just make plants flower. Long cold also primes them to regenerate🌱❄️. We show cold-induced CBFs recruit HAG1 to switch on key regeneration genes like WOX5. Many congrats to @fu-yu-h.bsky.social! www.cell.com/developmenta...

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...

Excited to share our latest! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This was a highly collaborative endeavor– the best way to do science. We asked how a developing tissue achieves the right shape despite all the variability along the way. Short answer: Hydrostatic pressure. Read on for the long answer!

Took me a while, but we finally have a new lab website: ydagdas-lab.github.io/Lab-Website/ I will do my best to keep this one up to date.

Dagdas Lab — Evolutionary Cell Biology

How cells clean house across the eukaryotic tree of life. Autophagy & cellular quality control at Heidelberg University.

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Our foray into single cell and spatial transcriptomics led by Byron Rusnak in GenomeBiology. We found that DRMY1 is required for proper brassinosteroid-mediated coordination of sepal elongation, ensuring balanced growth between inner and outer sepals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Strongly recommended read for plant stem cell enthusiasts!

Jan Lohmann@meristemania.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in how plant stem cells can strive in the harshest environments? Read @thomasgreb.bsky.social and my review of plant stem cell robustness: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

Essays, written on the same occasion but a decade apart, by two lovers of genetics ❤️ @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

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!

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage

Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...

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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...

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 !

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)

Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantsci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Funded, four-year Doctoral Researchers positions open in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, including my laboratory! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Doctoral Researchers (30 positions) in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Doctoral Researchers (30 positions) in various disciplines at the University of Helsinki, Finland

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25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.

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 · 3mo 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...

Direct link to our paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Growth under pressure: The pros and cons of polyploidy induced by stress | PNAS

In native environments, organisms are faced with an array of acute or chronic stresses. These stresses include toxins, pathogens, and physical inju...

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One of my role models in academia, combining brilliance with humility-Noboru Mizushima, & I like him even more now ❤️ “If I was given the chance to repeat my research career, I think I would choose to study plant biology.” journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interview with Noboru Mizushima – President of the Japan Society for Cell Biology

Noboru Mizushima is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he runs a laboratory studying the mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy and o...

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Good morning, from #Heidelberg

Good morning, # Tübingen

Similar work some years back shows cell-cell telomeric DNA transfer between immune cells enhances T cell lifespan...horizontal gene transfer has no copyright Next step would be to find out if the transferred gene loci are random or targeted...exciting times ahead! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An intercellular transfer of telomeres rescues T cells from senescence and promotes long-term immunological memory - Nature Cell Biology

Lanna and colleagues discover extracellular vesicle-mediated transfer of telomeres from antigen-presenting cells to T cells, which enables elongation of chromosomes, protection against replicative sen...

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Peter Ly@peterlylab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How do different clonal layers interact to make a leaf flat? How do they integrate genetic and mechanical cues to achieve this remarkable feat? That is precisely what we answered through our work! Special thanks to all contributors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 🤩

Would you like to learn 2D and 3D segmentation with #MorphoGraphX? Have a look at the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar led by @routierlab.bsky.social and Amelie Bauer👇

Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska@routierlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interested in 3D biological image analysis with #MorphoGraphX? We created a beginner-friendly online workshop with step-by-step YouTube tutorial and accompanying training datasets: zenodo.org/records/1982...

LLMs are making me a better reviewer. After I write my review, I often ask an LLM whether there are things that I might have overlooked, both in the narrative and evaluation criteria. The typical outcome is that my review becomes more positive. I seem to be good enough at spotting flaws. 😎