🧪🌾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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Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Single-nucleus transcriptomics resolves multiple fate dynamics between inflorescence meristem and primary stem

snRNA-seq reveals shoot stem cell heterogeneity and traces their differentiation into primary stem cell types.

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We had an amazing day #Morpho5🖐️ last Friday! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic day of science, discussion, and community!!| We're currently gathering and preparing the photos from the symposium. Stay tuned! 📸

In a collaboration between the Crick and @embl.org, researchers used a mix of experimental work in zebrafish and theoretical modelling to discover a feedback loop between an embryo’s changing material properties, such as its rigidity, and the signalling molecules that guide patterning.

The physical properties behind an embryo’s body plan

How rigid a tissue is coordinates a crucial period of cell patterning, ensuring that embryos develop the right shape and organise their cell layers correctly at the same time.

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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

🔬 One more year! BioImage Computing has been accepted to @eccv.bsky.social 🎉 Show us your work at the intersection of computer vision, ML & biology! Check out our speaker lineup: @arratemunoz.bsky.social, @jakobtroidl.bsky.social & Juliette Griffié 👏 ⏳ Deadline: 13 July ℹ️ www.bioimagecomputing.com

BioImage Computing

a truly interdisciplinary workshop

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How can we learn tissue mechanics directly from cell patterns and images? In our new preprint, we introduce VertAX, a differentiable vertex-model framework in JAX for simulating epithelia, inferring parameters, and designing target tissue behaviors. shorturl.at/PUzT0 1/5

Interested in stochastic tissue morphodynamics in development and disease? Join us at HT @humantechnopole.bsky.social We are recruiting a postdoc for a project combining image analysis, morphometrics, and modelling in collaboration with experimentalists. More information: tinyurl.com/3kc7s4rz

New #Sci #Job ! Together with six other PI’s based at the Universities of Tübingen - Heidelberg - Hohenheim and the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, we are looking for two PhD students and a Postdoc for our LEAP project, which is part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de

New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7

Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations

Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Perspective, Maizels and Briscoe discuss the limitations of current models of gene regulatory networks and outline solutions to harness data abundance without...

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📢We are excited to announce the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium - a full day event at SLCU @slcuplants.bsky.social (and virtually) on 5 June 2026! 🎉Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the seminar series! 🚩Register & submit abstracts by 3 April! Check out the details: t.ly/YYM3u Please repost!🙏

Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis! Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form 📅 22–24 Sept 2026 In-person + livestream Limited fee waivers www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls #plantsi

PhD position in my team at @pasteur.fr ! The selected canddiate will work on the development of new methods combining biophysicial and machine learning modelling for single-cell multi-omics spatiotemporal data. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back! 🎉 Check out the flyer for a great lineup of speakers for Lent Term 2026! Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list to get all the information, including the Zoom link. We are excited to see you again soon 👋

We have an open PhD position here in Marseille - please spread the word :) Deadline for application is 28th of January!

Paul Villoutreix@paulvilloutreix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are you passionate about the mathematics of data science, computational geometry and topology and want to apply your skills to a beautiful biological question? Come do a PhD with us! You will help us understand of how boundaries are established and maintained in early heart development.

The new ShapeEmbed deep learning method helps quantify shapes in bioimages 🔬 It learns to encode 2D object outlines into descriptors that are invariant to several geometric transformations. Great for robust cell shape analysis, classification & exploring phenotypes. neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

Good to see the peer reviewed version of this published A chemo-optogenetic system for spatiotemporal control of gene expression We use it to: - Reconstruct SHH mediated neural tube patterning in vitro - Measure extracellular half-life of Shh www.cell.com/developmenta...

Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production

Benzinger et al. develop a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production in vitro. Using light-controlled Sonic hedgehog expression, they recapitulate neural tube...

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Interested in doing an interdisciplinary PhD to elucidate signalling centres that orchestrates limb regeneration? Come to work with the amazing @canaztekin.bsky.social and myself!!

@canaztekin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

Congratulations Elise Laruelle & @robinsonsci.bsky.social on your @acceleratescience.bsky.social - @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded project "Plant automatic cell lineage reconstruction" More info www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/plant-a... Illustration by Elise Laruelle & leaf images by @sainikumud.bsky.social

Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery@acceleratescience.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Accelerate – @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded projects! 🎉 Projects will catalyse discoveries to accelerate scientific progress & create AI tools capable of delivering benefits for science & society. Find out more: bit.ly/4rpvSiy

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jaxley: differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics - Nature Methods

Jaxley is a versatile platform for biophysical modeling in neuroscience. It allows efficiently simulating large-scale biophysical models on CPUs, GPUs and TPUs. Model parameters can be optimized with ...

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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

How can we organize current theoretical approaches for developmental biology - from information to dynamical systems & GRNs - into a common framework? We propose to think along Marr's 3 levels: computational problem, algorithm, implementation Check out our review: arxiv.org/abs/2510.24536

The Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series is back this Michaelmas Term 2025! Join us for an exciting lineup of talks exploring the many facets of tissue morphogenesis. Check out the flyer for the full list of speakers!

The program for the #CBIAS2025 is now live – space is limited, so register now to secure your spot! 24th-25th Nov, Wellcome Trust, London (UK) - see you there! 🔗⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

New preprint! "Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs" 🌱 with @merozlab.bsky.social and @routierlab.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Understanding Shape and Residual Stress Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672092v1

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics). Please share!

🌿💻 Plant Models and Morphology 💻🌿 The 9th International Plant Computational Biology Workshop @slcuplants.bsky.social brought together mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and biologists exploring plant development through models and simulations. Huge thanks to organisers and speakers!👏

Very happy to share MODIS - a new Multi-Omics Data Integration method for Small and unpaired datasets! We solve a long-standing problem in the field: how to perform data integration for small unpaired datasets Our solution: learning with class imbalance on both reference and target datasets!

Amazing illustration @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social 🌺! I wish we had something like this to illustrate the dynamics of our model! Paper (including model, not animated sadly!) ➡️ doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Nick Desnoyer@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Friday Flower 004: Hibiscus trionum 🌺✨ Hibiscus trionum displays a dark bullseye in the center that acts as a landing pad for pollinators 🎯 The bullseye is made by a developmental boundary delineating distinct cell shapes and pigments.