We are updating our Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM) website with : - Protocols tips to help you get started - Examples of applications across different biological systems. - work in progress - an antibody database 👉 mocel.unige.ch/research-gro...

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Juliet Coates@julietccoates.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are crowdfunding for a bench in a peaceful spot at Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in memory of Philippa Borrill. Please share widely. Please email me or @drelunadiez.bsky.social for more details. 💚🌾🌿🌳 If you would like to contribute, the link is below ⬇️.

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Juliet Coates@julietccoates.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are crowdfunding for a bench in a peaceful spot at Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in memory of Philippa Borrill. Please share widely. Please email me or @drelunadiez.bsky.social for more details. 💚🌾🌿🌳 If you would like to contribute, the link is below ⬇️.

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...

Thank you for organising this fantastic meeting! The quality of the science and the discussions at #SLS26 was superb, and the organizers did an excellent job.

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social · 3w ago

@vinayshukla.bsky.social presented at #SLS26 a model in which O2 functions as a diffusible developmental signal rather than simply a metabolic resource or stress cue. Read more from the Root Respiration Group: sites.google.com/view/root-re...

Looking forward to hearing the latest plant #proteostasis research next month in Strasbourg! 🌱 plantscience

plantproteostasis.bsky.social@plantproteostasis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hello, Proteostasis Community!🌱 We’re excited to finally share with you the final program of our conference!🎉 Join us in the charming city of Strasbourg from October 14th to 16th for three days of exciting science and inspiring discussions! 🧬 🧪 Stay tuned for more updates!

PhD position available (start 2027) in my group at TUM! We study how mechanical stress controls cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal dynamics in plants, combining cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. CV + cover letter to mariana.romeiro-motta@tum.de. RTs welcome! #PlantSciJobs

Our work, Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis, is now out in Science Advances! We found that developing leaves oxygenate from tip to base, strikingly mirroring their developmental axis, and this drives leaf dev. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef2430 #plantscience

Happy to see this one finally in print! A fantastic story led by Daan and the team. Congrats to everyone involved! #plantscience

Daan Weits@daanweits.bsky.social · last mo.

Our work, Progressive oxygenation of developing leaves directs morphogenesis, is now out in Science Advances! We found that developing leaves oxygenate from tip to base, strikingly mirroring their developmental axis, and this drives leaf dev. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef2430 #plantscience

Congratulations to Susanne, Henning @kunzlab.bsky.social and the team on this exciting new publication in @pnas.org 🎉🌱 Insightful work connecting plastid ion channels, Ca+ signalling, hormone biology, and plant immunity! 👏 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

PLASTID ENVELOPE ION CHANNELS (PEC1/2) link Ca2+ and jasmonic acid signaling in plant cells | PNAS

Plants constantly encounter adverse environmental interactions. One organelle is particularly specialized in stress signaling and phytohormone synt...

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Protein synthesis is dynamically responsive to the environment, but how do cells ensure that their protein quality control mechanisms are appropriately scaled to changing translational demand? We address this question in our new study in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great honour to present this new twist on the ETT-auxin relationship www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2612105123 As always, a wonderful collaboration with @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social and colleagues, especially the brilliant @jeonghwan-ibcas.bsky.social

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

The post-fertilization archegonium gene network of seedless plants contributed to the origin of seeds - Nature Communications

The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this netwo...

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Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social the improved version of our paper! I am very proud of this work with @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social, Annamaria Kiss, @moritznowack.bsky.social and others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

During morphogenesis of multicellular organs, cells in distinct positions need to meet specific functional requirements to form the appropriate tissue…

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📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 28 at 9:00 am Eastern, hosted by the 2026 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/iV7wTBJ #PlantScience

How do transcription factors bind DNA strongly, and in a switch like manner, while remaining sequence specific? Our new paper on a canonical plant TF suggests the answer is a previously underappreciated assembly state: transcription factor nanoclusters. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nanoclustering of a plant transcription factor enables strong yet specific DNA binding

Transcription factor nanoclusters balance the DNA binding trade-off between weakly binding oligomers and nonspecific condensates.

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Read our new review: The life and legacy of the root endodermis: A spatiotemporal view of function and development - a very nice piece by @swatimahiwal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 Here @sophiezoe.bsky.social reveals an early developmental time window determining initial growth direction of lateral roots. Wonderful collaboration with @wabniklab.bsky.social and @matesf.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cibss.bsky.social

SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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New in JBC press| Rational engineering of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant cysteine oxidase 4 active site can reduce biochemical activity and improve submergence tolerance. Learn more: www.jbc.org/article/... #JBiolChem

Happy to share our latest work exploring the impact of transgenesis on the Camelina seed proteome, out today in @plantbiotechj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... Short 🧵

Assessing the Impact of Multigene Engineering on the Proteome: Omega‐3 Camelina as a Case Study

Click on the article title to read more.

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Latest publication form the group and first paper on poplar! GWAS and discovery of a MYB TF involved in cell shape acquisition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Thanks to @erc.europa.eu @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Kempe fondation

A drought stress‐induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in leaves of European aspen (Populus tremula)

MYB305a promoter expression increases in pavement cells as they grow and acquire their complex shape.

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Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

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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Congratulation @transitionalform.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the next chapter of your thesis @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Great work showing that the two fundamental vascular tissues - xylem and phloem evolved asynchronously. Read Laura's thread for more details 👇👇

Laura Cooper@transitionalform.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assembly of two functionally-distinct protein import complexes in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts - Nature Communications

Chloroplasts import thousands of nucleus-encoded proteins via multiprotein translocons. The authors elucidate the assembly and molecular architecture of the outer-membrane TOC translocon (the import “...

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Jarvis Lab@pauljarvislab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new study characterises the assembly of two functionally distinct chloroplast protein import complexes (TOC-P and TOC-N) in the outer membrane of plant chloroplasts. Huge thanks to @Ivan Ahel's lab and @sykhalid.bsky.social's lab, for a fantastic collaboration! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plantscience #hypoxia

Ribosome stalling position, spacing, and A-site occupancy impact translation and co-translational mRNA decay in plants

Rate limitation in translational elongation causes ribosomes to pause as they decode an open reading frame (ORF). The triggers and outcomes of these events are poorly understood in plants. Here, we si...

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