@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.

We then had modeling experts @pauformosa.bsky.social and @nickrussell31.bsky.social edit to make sure everything was sufficiently accurate while still (hopefully) remaining accessible to biologists.

Then @morpholosophist.bsky.social had a lot of work to do integrating everything together. This did take some substantial unification around the same example in a few cases.

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.

Interested in a faculty career in biomedical engineering #BME? Apply for the Rising Stars in Engineering in Health workshop for postdocs and PhD students interested in engineering, medicine & health: be.engineering.upenn.edu/home/rising-... Applications are open until July 31, 2026. Please share!

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.

NAASC member Tomo Kawashima announces ICAR2027-Madison and the Keynote Speakers: @roederlab.bsky.social Adrienne Roeder, Keith Slotkin, Cyril Zipfel, and Doris Wagner. 🌱🌱🌱🌱 Sign up for updates here www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar2027

Last talk of this morning’s plenary session: Is there "temperature signalling" in plants? Sureshkumar Balasubramanian Monash University #icar2026

Now with the very useful Supplementary Material! "Reimagining plant science training in the era of generative artificial intelligence: a global perspective" academic.oup.com/plcell/artic... Although AI has many, many problems, there are some uses for it that can enhance plant science education.

I made a webpage to try SpliceCraft out directly in your browser in a little sandbox. No download or install needed to try it. Gonna make a tutorial mode to walk people through the features soon. Enjoy! splicecraft.bio

⏰ASPB's 2026 Elections Voting Closing Next Week: Cast Your Vote Soon!🌱 #WeAreASPB #PlantScience #PlantSci

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🚨ASPB members: The 2026 ASPB election is open! Help select the society’s next leaders and vote now for President-Elect and elected members.🌱 👉The deadline is June 19, 2026. buff.ly/OaJagUd. #plantscience #plantsci

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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🔬🍀 My undergrad Joh's chromatin dynamics manuscript is published at JoVE now! Congratulations, Joh 🎉👏🔬🍀😊 Quantitative Live Cell Imaging of Nuclear Shape and Chromatin Dynamics During Development and Environmental Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana Root www.jove.com/t/71307/quan...

Excited to see the groundbreaking research that will come from Avilash's new lab!

Avilash Singh Yadav@morpholosophist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social in Fall 2026! My lab will study how genetics and tissue mechanics influence one another over space and time to drive the leaf morphogenesis.

I will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social in Fall 2026! My lab will study how genetics and tissue mechanics influence one another over space and time to drive the leaf morphogenesis.

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FERONIA orchestrates plasma membrane nanoclusters for plant thermotolerance

Climate warming poses increasing thermal challenges to plants, yet how plasma membrane biophysics contributes to heat adaptation remains poorly understood. In this work, we showed that the malectin-li...

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Great start to the Cornell Mechanobiology Hub Symposium hosted by the @weillinstitute.bsky.social, with keynote speaker Amy Shyer and over 180 participants from more than 15 institutions. #Mechanobiology thrives in Ithaca and the region, including Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Binghamton.

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary #plantscience

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary

Biological processes are complex. Their behavior cannot be understood from the sum of their parts. Modeling, which allows for articulating hypotheses as equations and rules, has become indispensable for studying biological complexities. When written as computer code, mathematical models can be evaluated to test multiple potential outcomes. Modeling is useful for identifying essential system components and revealing new interactions. However, implementing models in biological research requires a solid understanding of computational and mathematical vocabulary, which typically requires formal training. Furthermore, communication barriers often hinder collaborations with computational modelers. To address this, we present an annotated glossary of terms associated with modeling gene regulatory networks. Aimed at biologists, we explain common computational modeling terms and frameworks using examples from published studies.

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🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST. For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️

Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales webinar series - FocalPlane

Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales webinar series

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