Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

Just discovered this wonderful adaptation of our maize moving map (figshare.com/articles/fig...) by @andikur.bsky.social .

This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.

Mary Williams @PlantTeaching@plantteaching.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Since I started as Features Editor at ASPB, I have mentored over 500 early-career plant scientists! (Conviron Scholars, Plantae Fellows, and Assistant Features Editors). I'm so happy to have had this opportunity and to watch the plant community thrive. You're all in my little green heart 💚

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

For #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing my ongoing series of women in science through history. I’m now at 79. Here’s to the day a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field. Since last year I have added these 12 #linocut prints. 🧪🐡👩‍🔬🧮🔭🎢🔬

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · last yr.

For #InternationalWomensDay a thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field! #IWD #IWD2025 #histsci #linocut #printmaking 🧵🧪👩‍🔬

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

🌱𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Explore different aspects of plant receptors in this 3rd webinar in collaboration with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social 🗓️ 10th March 2026 🕗 18:00 am CET Register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Receptor signalling - function, dynamics and evolution . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

This webinar is the 3rd in a series together with "The Plant Journal" Join us for a webinar hosted as a collaboration between The Global Plant Council and the "The Plant Journal". Plant receptors d...

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The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join our 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 in collaboration with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social 🌱𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🗓️ 10th March 2026 🕗 18:00 am CET Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Speakers and topics 👇🧵

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants

Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

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Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers. Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in native Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709013v1

🚨Job Alert – Please RT! We’re looking for bright minds to join our community! We are looking for 12 postdocs and 7 PhD students! Details on all projects and application: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-... @leibnizipk.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social

Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense #Salt and #Drought www.cell.com/molecular-pl... #PlantScience #SciComm @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social @linjieshu.bsky.social @jipb.bsky.social @jia-jintegragri.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social

Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense Salt and Drought

We discuss recent breakthroughs in plant osmotic stress sensing, including molecular crowding and phosphorylation pathways. Based on non-plant systems, we formulate new hypotheses for how roots sense ...

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15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’ Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu Please check out the website and apply there Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology Join our community & shape the future of research journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape

Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

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tinyurl.com/Root-map tinyurl.com/Seedling-map tinyurl.com/Marpol-map tinyurl.com/BFA-maps tinyurl.com/gnom-maps (8/9)

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Very happy about this nice piece of work by @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social on developmentally controlled cell death in plants @dev-journal.bsky.social‬ ! Special thanks also to @ingridtsang.bsky.social for a terrific editorial job bringing out the best of this manuscript!! doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🌱🔬 Imaging and microscopy people 👇 #plantscience #lifescience #microscopy

Alex Johnson@ajcellbio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you like plants and microscopy (optical, spectroscopic, and/or electron based), George Littlejohn and I are charing the plant session at #IMC21: Abstract submission is open, so come join us in Liverpool! 🌱🔬😎 www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abs...

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA - Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴 Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Salinity tunes mode of multicellularity in a tidepool choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature

The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental condi...

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It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #forscientists #notforprofit

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Thanks for highlighting our work on combining AI-based organelle dynamics detection in phase contrast with fluorescence! www.nature.com/ncomms/edito... @natcomms.nature.com and Nelio Rodriguez. Spearheaded by @wl-stepp.bsky.social with collaborators @jclandoni.bsky.social @maweigert.bsky.social

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗ CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress

Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

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🚨Last chance to submit your abstract for a GRS talk! Deadline: Feb 15, 2026. Apply soon! General application deadline (poster presentations only): April 25, 2026. #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

Priya Ramakrishna@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌱📢Join us at the 𝐆𝐑𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 23-24, 2026 in 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝! 💡Specially encourage ECRs to apply to present your work! Its a great forum to connect with peers and mentors in the field. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲👉 www.grc.org/salt-and-wat... Please repost! #plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs