Our single-cell atlas paper made the cover 🎉 image by @lbmountain.bsky.social, showing the mature Brachy epidermis in all its beauty. #GoBrachy: yellow is lignin, and blue is cell wall autofluorescence.

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

🌾 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

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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🌾 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

A new publication by our RU members Michael Raissig and Lea Berg from Switzerland 🇨🇭 has been published online. 🌾Congratulations! 👏

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

Hurrah, it’s now official: the RU CSCS is moving into its second funding phase! 🥂 Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this success.🎉

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last mo.

Förderentscheidungen zu #Forschungsgruppen durch den DFG-Hauptausschuss im Rahmen der Jahresversammlung: 5 Neueinrichtungen, 5 Verlängerungen. Die neuen Forschungsgruppen erhalten insges. rund 27 Mio. € für die erste Förderperiode. Mehr zu den Themen und Institutionen: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Are you attending the #SEBconference in person? Come join @katherinedenby.bsky.social, @thepallavisingh.bsky.social and myself for @theplantjournal.bsky.social fellows session. We will discuss about career development, postdoc-to-PI transition and publishing! Today at 13:00 in the Onice room 🌱👩‍🎓👩‍🔬👩‍💻

I had a blast talking to @aribidopsis.bsky.social about my recent @newphyt.bsky.social paper! If you're eating corn this fourth of July weekend and having deep thoughts about how it grows, give our discussion a listen!

Arif Ashraf@aribidopsis.bsky.social · last mo.

Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! I had a fantastic conversation with @penlindsay.bsky.social Penelope about her recently published paper @newphyt.bsky.social (also made it to the cover). Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/34XW... Article: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🌾 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

Plant microscopy was well represented at the Research Day of the Microscopy Imaging Centre @unibe.ch - fantastic talk by @ncyberwitch.bsky.social and 3rd prize for best MIC image of the year for @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social Congratulations! I'm very happy to have you both on the team 🔬🌾

Finally, being a plant biologist will pay off big!!

Yasin Dagdas@plantophagy.bsky.social · last mo.

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#EED2026 in Glasgow was my first but surely not last EED conference.What a welcoming and inspiring crowd combining plant and animal Evo-Devo,I learned so many new things.Our group went strong with great talks by @michaelraissig.bsky.social and @aemonet.bsky.social and Lidia winning the poster prize!

Back from #EED2026 in Glasgow. What a wonderful, curiosity-driven, supportive community. @unibe.ch's plant development and genetics group surely made an impression with wonderful talks by @heikelindner.bsky.social and @aemonet.bsky.social and the poster prize for PhD student Lidia Hoffmann 🧬🌾🔬🌵

Just published in The Plant Journal: dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Jess Pritchard produced stable transgenic lines of Kalanchoë laxiflora that luminesce with circadian rhythms of luciferase activity, revealing new insights into the circadian clock control of CAM genes.

A PROMOTER::LUCIFERASE reporter system reveals key elements of the circadian regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in Kalanchoë laxiflora Baker

Circadian rhythms of firefly luciferase in the Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species Kalanchoë laxiflora were driven by both CAM and non-CAM gene promoters, revealing valuable new insights into ...

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On the cover: Maximum projection confocal micrograph of a developing maize ear primordium expressing PIP2-CFP membrane marker (cyan) and developmental receptor BAM1D-YFP (yellow). Image is courtesy of Penelope Lindsay. 📖 See Jackson et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to announce that I have started my own research group at the MPIPZ and that I am looking for a postdoc who would like to investigate Marchantia prothallus development with me! Please spread the word and/or apply if interested :)

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research@mpipz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking for a #postdoc? 📣We are #hiring📣 Join the Wallner Group @mpipz.bsky.social to work on tissue patterning, polarity & body axes formation with the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.🌿 Apply now! #plantsci 👉https://jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/54b1ba6d403b8a106f2595c1ef1171f8d729bb720?ref=homepage

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Thanks so much for the write-up, Montserrat López-Coria and @plantaeofficial.bsky.social - very much appreciated!! 🌵

Plantae.org@plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Arabidopsis is not always enough: What a succulent taught us about stomata development (Science Advances) @michaelraissig.bsky.social @heikelindner.bsky.social @jameshartwell.bsky.social (Summary by Montserrat López-Coria) buff.ly/FNCQT5C #PlantaePSRW

🥳 Happy (belated) 8th Birthday to the Stomatal Biology group @unibe.ch🌾🌵 This is also the first birthday of the "Functional Anatomy of Succulents" group led by my partner-in-crime, best friend and eternal ally @heikelindner.bsky.social. Here's to many more years of adventures and joys together!

Thank you for a wonderful day at @slcuplants.bsky.social - what a fantastic institute and community in a town buzzing with scientific energy both historic and modern. A special shout-out to my amazing host, friend and role model Edwige Moyroud (may the apple fall on our head as well)

This story is truly amazing! What I appreciate most is the raw phenomenon-driven approach to figure out how and why some plants make both underground and aerial fruit. Clearly, now is the time to venture beyond classical model systems 🪷🪻🎋🫛🍁🌳🌵🌱🌴 congratulations @aemonet.bsky.social

Aurélia Emonet@aemonet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to share the third chapter of my postdoctoral adventure at @mpipz.bsky.social ➡️doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.20.719616 We used C. chenopodiifolia's ability to produce explosive aerial fruit and non-explosive underground fruit to identify REVOLUTA's role in cell fate and wall patterning🌿💥 ⬇️🧵

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study the evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genomics, genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3u73csma

Our former PhD student Xin Cheng was highlighted by New Phytologist. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... She won the poster prize at the 46th New Phytologist Symposium (Kaifeng, China, 2024) and just recently published her main work! doi.org/10.1126/scia... Congrats, Xin, we miss you!

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers! We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG 📅 Deadline - April 26 Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Many thanks to @michaelraissig.bsky.social @heikelindner.bsky.social for this brilliant collaboration. They did the elegant and innovative developmental biology and we provided resources and training for the Kalanchoë laxiflora diploid model species: Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

MUTE drives asymmetric divisions to form stomatal subsidiary cells in Crassulaceae succulents

Crassulaceae MUTE guides asymmetric divisions to form stomatal subsidiary cells in succulents.

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Nice to see the story about Kalanchoë laxiflora MUTE regulating stomatal subsidiary cell development from the labs of @heikelindner.bsky.social @michaelraissig.bsky.social being picked up by wider news outlets: phys.org/news/2026-03...

Succulents as role models: How they balance photosynthesis and water loss so efficiently

A research team led by the University of Bern has decoded a mechanism by which an inconspicuous succulent regulates the uptake of carbon dioxide via the leaf surface so finely that it receives enough ...

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Published! From a proteomic atlas of the ERECTA signaling network, we show that receptor kinase endocytosis is essential for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, Pengfei, @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @texasscience.bsky.social & co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development

Proteomic mapping uncovers endocytosis adaptors that drive receptor internalization for robust stomatal development.

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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

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌵Preprint alert 🌵 5y in the works & extremely proud of this one. Xin Cheng & @heikelindner.bsky.social established the eudicot leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora as a dev model. Like in grasses, MUTE makes Kalanchoë’s stomatal subsidiary cells! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... BSKY-tutorial 👇