PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

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

Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

🍀🔬 Control of plant organ growth linked to cell division orientation in inner tissues @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

PhD project on Blast Fungus host pentration open in my #Proteomics group at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social for an October 2026 entry. Collaborative project with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social. Deadline: 30th July. Open to Home Fee status applicants. biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/inv...

Investigating host penetration by the rice blast fungus (MENKE_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership

MENKE_S26DTP3

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Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

Now, you can find our single-cell transcriptomic dataset of the developing grass leaf in The Plant Cell (academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...). You can also screen for the expression of your genes of interest (shiny.ips.unibe.ch). Congrats to all authors, especially the brilliant @lbmountain.bsky.social

Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · last mo.

🌾 Grass leaves are the photosynthetic powerhouses of human civilisation. @lbmountain.bsky.social's transcriptomic atlas of nearly 70,000 cells from shoot apex to mature leaf follows the genetic programs that form a grass leaf 🧬 paper doi.org/10.1093/plce... expression browser shiny.ips.unibe.ch

Latest publication form the group and first paper on poplar! GWAS and discovery of a MYB TF involved in cell shape acquisition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Thanks to @erc.europa.eu @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Kempe fondation

A drought stress‐induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in leaves of European aspen (Populus tremula)

MYB305a promoter expression increases in pavement cells as they grow and acquire their complex shape.

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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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Nature Communications is looking for a plant biology editor: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate/ Senior Editor

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor Locations: Pune, Shanghai, Beijing Application Deadline: 15th July'26 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the wo...

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Please repost! 🌿 Postdoctoral position available in the Yadav Lab at UMass Amherst! 🌿 Apply by September 25, 2026. See the advertisement below. drive.google.com/file/d/1W9QU... We are seeking a #postdoc to investigate the genetic, and biomechanical principles underlying the leaf morphogenesis.

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

Looking forward to present our work on epigenetic flooding stress memory in plants at #SEBconference (unfortunately as a virtual participant)! I'll talk about our recent #plantscience #epigenetics preprint and more 🌱🌊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An oxygen-sensing Polycomb-group protein encodes flooding stress memory in plants

Most organisms, including plants, can encode stress memories that improve resilience to repeated environmental challenges. Flooding events expose plants to recurrent hypoxia, yet whether plants establ...

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SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · last mo.

The #SEBconference in Florence is just one week away! Want a preview of the science, ideas and discussions awaiting you? Explore the Spring 2026 SEB Magazine, now available on demand. Read now: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb...

1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

@planteditors.bsky.social blog post on #accessible color schemes updated with a discussion of this paper (in Resources, at the end). #SciCom planteditors.com/figures-in-f...

Figures in focus: Accessible color schemes - Plant Editors

Using color in data visualization can help the reader understand your data…except when it doesn’t. Indeed, a 2012 meta-analysis found that roughly 8% of Caucasian men and 4% to 6.5% of Chinese and Jap...

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Jennifer Mach (she/they)@jennifermach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ah wait, thanks to the author for a ReadCube link!! bsky.app/profile/hele...

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ERC Now Requires Rejected Applicants To Grow Oak Tree From Acorn Before Resubmission

BRUSSELS—In an effort to ensure that rejected applicants have undergone “sufficient personal and scientific growth” before resubmitting, the European Research Council announced Tuesday that scientists...

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New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity

The type II secretion (T2S) system is conserved across the Xanthomonas lineage, yet its contributions to pathogenicity and secreted protein repertoires are poorly defined. We demonstrate that T2S syst...

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Really pleased to see Qing He’s work out in its final form (www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....). My group had previously shown that PXY-mediated regulation of cambium development had an ERECTA-mediated influence, but we didn’t understand the mechanism. 🧵

Plant cell sculptures, hand-woven by @jodiearmand.bsky.social These are some of the coolest bio-inspired and bio-accurate works I've seen. Go check out her work!!

🍃 Growing a flat leaf 🍃 Check out our new review to learn how plants generate, maintain, and modulate flatness. A pleasure to put this together with Alexis De Carufel, Elvis Branchini, in collaboration with Marja Timmermans 🙏 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The elephant in the room: impact factor

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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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!

Tune in this coming Monday on zoom! I'll be presenting work from my PhD @slcuplants.bsky.social on how plants regulate their shoot branching architecture via auxin, strigolactone, and BRC1.

Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series@cammorphoseries.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next Monday, 15 June at 2:30 PM (UK time), we are excited to welcome Zoe Nahas @zoenahas.bsky.social and Toby Andrews @tobyandrews.bsky.social! This seminar will be online and will be the last one of the term. We hope to see many of you there and finish the term with great science and discussion!

I'm thrilled to see our recent paper out in @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here we look into the transition from cell division to differentiation in the late stomatal lineage and identify regulators of guard cell morphology and function doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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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Margot Smit@likeyoda1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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/...

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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Out now! “Finding your way into scientific publishing: from peer review to editorial roles” with panelists Nancy Hofmann, Rory Osborne, Andrea Gomez-Felipe, and William Teale. www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

We have an open PhD position in our Mol. Biochemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions Lab Saurlab.com. Please see details below, share and consider applying. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...