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Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Stockbridge Sch of Agriculture Work Lo...

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@weillinstitute.bsky.social Trainee Spotlight: @havingfern.bsky.social, PhD candidate in @roederlab.bsky.social. Michelle's research investigates the sophisticated communication networks that allow plants to sense and adapt to their surroundings. wicmb.cornell.edu/learning-to-...

Thrilled to see Michelle Heeney (@havingfern.bsky.social) featured in this story about her research journey and her quest to understand the hidden language of plants. 🌱 Excited to see where her curiosity and discoveries lead next! wicmb.cornell.edu/learning-to-... #PlantBiology #Cornell

One of our recent papers describing techniques to identify root barriers to parasitic plant infection. Plus we show that lignin in the cortex can block branched broomrape infection of tomato.

Plant & Cell Physiology@plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hairy link... Gouran et al. @bradylabs.bsky.social @plantdevo.bsky.social provide an integrated experimental framework that enables holistic analysis of broomrape parasitism, which may be applied at scale to accelerate resistance gene discovery in #tomato & other hosts 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

NAASC is happy to announce the 2026 recipients of the Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awards! Read more about their diverse and important contributions to the community. RSVP to attend the fall webinar with these awardees! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/rsvp-awards-sessions

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...

Ever stretch a plastic bag until it wrinkled? Keeping a thin sheet flat while it rapidly expands is surprisingly difficult. So how do growing plant leaves remain flat as they rapidly grow? Check out our new @currentbiology.bsky.social review, How to Grow a Flat Leaf www.cell.com/current-biol...

How to grow a flat leaf

Peng et al. review mechanisms driving lamina expansion, including gene expression, auxin-mediated proliferation, and microtubule-directed growth, linking disrupted coordination to morphological defect...

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NAASC is thrilled to announce the 20206 recipients of the Arabidopsis Community Impact Awards! All three are well-deserving of this honor. We thank the community for submitting the nominations. RSVP to attend the fall webinar with these awardees! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/rsvp-awards-sessions

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.

Great opportunity to for cutting-edge research in an exciting new lab!

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

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 is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2026 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awards! Read more about them: Mary Lou Guerinot, USA Julian Schroeder, USA Caroline Dean, UK Nominate by 31 Oct 2026 for the 2027 cycle! www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/...

🌱 The CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course has just kicked off! 14 students, 24 international lecturers, 3 weeks of intensive plant biology at Cold Spring Harbor. Thrilled to co-instruct alongside Aman Husbands & Sharon Kessler! 🌿 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-PLAN

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

I am having a great time at #ICAR2026 in Singapore! It's already the penultimate day of the meeting and @roederlab.bsky.social opened the @dev-journal.bsky.social-sponsored session on vegetative development. I am here until tomorrow - feel free to come by for a quick chat about #DevSIPlantAlgae.

If life builds order from heterogeneity while never completely eliminating it, is heterogeneity merely a byproduct or could it be part of the means by which biological order is generated? Check out Lanxi Hu's review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

Check out our paper in the @PNASNews Special Feature: bit.ly/PNASpoly. We explore how stress induces polyploidy across fungi, plants, and animals, reshaping genomes, cells, and tissues through cell cycle alterations. Great collaboration with Don Fox and @annaselmecki.bsky.social.

Thanks to coauthor Adrienne Roeder for making/sending this cool poster of the Arabidopsis timeline we made for our Plant Cell publication! ❤️🌱 @aribidopsis.bsky.social @roederlab.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Celebrating Elliot Meyerowitz‘ 75th birthday! @caltech.edu

"Senior Staff Scientist in Bioinformatics at Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden" Read more here: https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/senior-staff-scientist-in-bioinformatics_926815/ #PlantSciJobs

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc

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

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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Camelot: affordable precision tool for plant biomechanics👨‍🔧🗜️ doi.org/10.1186/s129... @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social @richardsmithlab.bsky.social

Happy to see this out! Big congratulations to @nicolatrozzi.bsky.social and all involved! doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Thank you for highlighting our paper and explaining the significance so clearly!

Nicola Trozzi@nicolatrozzi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out our Insight on the beautiful work by Clark et al. 🌱 How can stochastic giant-cell fate lead to non-random epidermal patterns? Cell fate, endoreduplication, and growth all matter. cup.org/3QYjVm0 @roederlab.bsky.social @pauformosa.bsky.social @matmajda.bsky.social

Interested in #Mechanobiology? Join us for the Mechanobiology Symposium, hosted by the new Cornell Mechanobiology Hub @weillinstitute.bsky.social in Ithaca, NY, this summer. More information at mechanobiology.wicmb.cornell.edu/events-progr... Deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2026

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations

American Society of Plant Biologists@aspbofficial.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Join us for the upcoming ASPB Member webinar on Thursday, April 9, at 2 pm Eastern time, organized by ASPB’s Women in Plant Biology Committee. 👉 Learn more and register at buff.ly/J4OKsTV. #PlantScience

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

I’ve been part of @weillinstitute.bsky.social for nearly a decade and have seen firsthand the innovative, impactful science happening behind our laboratory doors. It’s a privilege to support these research leaders and trainees. Please consider making a gift March 12! tinyurl.com/WICMBEllenTM...

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis! Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...