"Assistant Professor – Plant Responses to Environmental Changes at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 9/30/2026" Read more here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 #PlantSciJobs
Ronald Pierik
@ronaldpierik.bsky.social
Professor at Wageningen University NL, with a love for plant developmental plasticity, growth and light. Editor Plant Physiology. plantphotobiology.com
Plant Biologists- I could use a little help. I have a manuscript I'm handling about graft transmissibility of miRNA to control a pathogen. Hard to find reviewers, and those I found have not delivered. I'm sad for the authors. If you can review fast, send a note. @aspbofficial.bsky.social
Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program
Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...
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New higher ed job alert: tenure-track Molecular Biologist in the Biology Dept at Bucknell University. Come be a part of our PUI teacher-scholar tradition! Application review begins 29 Sep 2026. 1/2 #STEMeducation #undergradresearch #higheredjobs bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Tenure Track Faculty Position in Molecular Biology
Position Title: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Molecular Biology Position Type: Full time Location: Robert L Rooke Science Center - Biology Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: The De...
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Plant movements: navigating the light environment (Sanne E A Matton , Lisa Oskam , Ronald Pierik) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
Plant movements: navigating the light environment
Abstract. Plants use light both as a resource for photosynthesis and as a signal about their environment. In response to light cues, plants can move their
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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
I've got something to "TORC" about! 😅 After 4 years building this project at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, I'm so excited to share that my first independent preprint is now online! ✨ I hope you like it: doi.org/10.64898/202... A short thread... 🧵 #PlantSci #PlantScience
The TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR) kinase controls shade-mediated hypocotyl elongation responses in Arabidopsis.
Plants perceive neighboring vegetation through an enrichment of far-red light (shade) in the environment. These changes in light quality trigger molecular and physiological responses aimed at outgrowi...
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While at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social a few months ago to give a seminar, @elkebarbez.bsky.social suggested a cool experiment for our work on hyponasty (upward leaf bending). Our excellent postdoc @lisaoskam.bsky.social put it to the test today using our imaging setup (doi.org/10.1093/plph...).
🧪🌾VACANCY - How do cell-wall properties shape plant growth?🔬 Join Laura Bacete's group @cellwalldynamics.com as a postdoc and combine plant cell wall biology, biophysics and spatial transcriptomics. Apply by Aug 31👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in Plant Cell Wall Biology, Biophysics, and Spatial Transcriptomics
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John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2mo agoVACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes Closing date: 1 September 2026 Salary: competitive Contract: six-year tenure track or direct appointment, depending on experience Apply now: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
We're hiring a PhD candidate! 🔬 Are you fascinated by cytoplasmic genetics and eager to uncover the mechanisms underlying maternal inheritance of plastids and mitochondria? If so, join our group and contribute to our ERC-funded research "CytoInP"!🌟 Application link: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD position: Manipulating plastid and mitochondrial inheritance in plants
Our group investigates the maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondrial genomes in plants, with the goal of uncovering the mechanisms that govern this process.
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Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🔜Two postdoc positions are available in Rouached Lab for a creative individual to lead a project that will explore a new dimension in the field of plant nutrition. Please contact me if you are interested in TOR signaling, epigenetic and/or plant development rouached@msu.edu
W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Apply if you’d like to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
University of Freiburg
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Its hard for me to critically evaluate this paper because its conclusions align so tightly with my world view: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What leads to administrative bloat? A dynamic model of administrative cost and waste | PNAS
The functioning of complex systems depends on the coordination of diverse components, often supported by regulatory structures that incur costs. In...
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#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply! due: 7 June
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Plant Molecular (and Cell) Biology
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Plant Molecular (and Cell) Biology
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Required reading for any student of genetics. A lucid and thoughtful piece on term that is far from unambiguous. I encourage sharing widely.
Tobias Warnecke@tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 4mo agoacademic.oup.com/genetics/adv... Also thanks to Lyndall & @psarkies.bsky.social, @ahocher.bsky.social, and members of the lab for their comments and Francis Barr @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social for encouraging me to write down my thoughts. 2/2
PhD opening Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress. Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
University of Freiburg
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🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring: 1. Postdoc 2.PhD (UK applicants only) Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development. More info here- sites.google.com/view/root-re... #plantscijobs #plantscience
My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.
Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light
Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.
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Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe. Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...
Plant cells are totipotent, meaning individual cells have the potential to develop into a full organism, a property unique to the zygote for animals. However, in most species for most cells, plant cells are not spontaneously totipotent, since they must be treated with specific hormone combinations to unlock their totipotency. Species within the Kalanchoe genus is unique as they spontaneously develop foliar embryos that are fully realized plantlets with shoot and root from notches along the edges of leaves. We speculate that the progenitor cells that give rise to these foliar embryos are totipotent, and we are using single cell techniques to identify & characterize them. In addition to being a fundamental process for plant biology, we foresee unlocking totipotency has many biotechnological applications, such as faciliating genetic transformation and the development of synthetic organs of biomanufacturing.
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Turning down the heat: A photoreceptor-based repression of plant thermotolerance (Plant Comms.) (Summary by Nathaniel Oragbon) buff.ly/8QTklpZ #PlantaePSRW
Turning down the heat: A photoreceptor-based repression of plant thermotolerance | Plantae
Plants use several photoreceptors to perceive light including the cryptochromes (CRYs), which are implicated in blue-light reception and coordinate developmental processes including…
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Our latest paper with great work by @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social, Kyra vd Velde and others from our labs on how photoreceptor signals in the shoot can regulate root development. Lovely microscopy and hormone micro-manipulations by Kyra and Kasper!
Ronald Pierik@ronaldpierik.bsky.social · 12mo agoNew paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
New paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
New paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not light-exposed but still respond to light quality changes. We think that not only the precursor GA12, but also bioactive GA4 is shoot-to-root mobile. The work was led by former postdoc…
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Here's another resource––the editing/writing company @planteditors.bsky.social (I'm one of the owners) has a starter pack with plant science journals, institutions, and societies that are on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C
Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...
Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and Diversity
The successful applicant will be expected to build an independent research group to study plant development and/or its natural variation.
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This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚