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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Registration for the International PhD School Plant Development 2026 is up and running, half the places have been already booked! So don't wait until the deadline to register raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... ! Cost: €350.- for conference, accommodation, meals, and a wine tasting in a local winery 🍷

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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....

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Confocal image showing a nucleus of a maize endosperm cell expressing proNAC130:NL-mCherry counterstained with DAPI.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

And last but not least at #ICAR2025, the Marc Van Montagu Prize for Sustainable Agricultural Systems ipbo.vib-ugent.be/en goes to Cecilia Adhiambo Shinda from the lab of Steven Runo spas.ku.ac.ke/department-o... at Kenyatta University for her work on Striga resistance in Sorghum. Congratulations !!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Closing Keynote of #ICAR2025 by Jiří Friml taking us on a journey through the saga of auxin signalling

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#ICAR2025 Plenary 6: Translational Research, last talk by Anna Stepanova, North Carolina State University, on synthetic ethylene promoter-reporter sensors in Arabidopsis and their application in crops

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The morning after: 1st up in the #ICAR2025 #PTM session is Ari Sadanandom, talking on #SUMO in plant development & adaptation to the environment - visualised by a detailed SUMO cell atlas in Arabidopsis bar.utoronto.ca/-nprovart/SUMO

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Now in Workshop 6: „Single-Cell Transcriptome and Spatial Biology“ set up by @smukhtarlab.bsky.social and Ceyhun Kayihan with Leonie Luginbuehl @lluginbuehl.bsky.social Univ. of Cambridge, UK, on single cell analysis to investigate cell-type specific transcriptional control of C4 photosynthesis !

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#ICAR2025 Workshop 8: „Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring“ led by Andrea Paterlini apaterlini.bsky.social and Mary Williams @plantteaching.bsky.social with @yoselin.bsky.social @mehta-lab.com, Sophie Goormachtig, & Agnes Uhereczky from @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#ICAR2025 Day 4 Plenary 5 on Quantitative Biology with Daphne Ezer, University of York, UK; Kirsten ten Tusscher, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; and Keiji Nakajima, NAIST, Japan.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#ICAR2025 Plenary 4 on biotic interactions with excellent talks by Hailing Jin, University of California Riverside, USA; Jyothilakshmi Vadassery, NIPGR, Delhi, India; and Yu-hang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Now at #ICAR2025 Javier Botto, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the control of shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis by BBX transcription factors and hormonal signals, and on how this knowledge can be transferred to potatoes to increase yield!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Next up is Gwyneth Ingram from ENS Lyon @rdplab.bsky.social on communication between embryo and endosperm to coordinate seed growth and development.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#ICAR2025 day 3 starts with Matyáš Fendrych from Prague speaking about different auxin signaling pathways controlling root growth in Arabidopsis.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Classical poster presentation atmosphere at #ICAR2025 - here in the Kabinet of the former Anatomical Institute

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Off to the #ICAR2025 Concurrent Sessions! Concurrent 3 in the former Bijloke Abbey refectory on Arabidopsis relatives, started by Polina Novikova from @raphmercier.bsky.social department @mpipz.bsky.social who’s reporting on her research on natural variations of polyploidy in Arabidopsis species.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Last talk of the morning session by Haodong Chen, Tsinghua University, about the functions and regulation of LAZY proteins in gravity sensing #ICAR2025

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Next up in #ICAR2025 is @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social on plant signalling specificity, focus of her postdoc work with @nikogeldner.bsky.social, and her new work on insect galls on plants (using Arabidopsis as a model!) as independent PI @gmivienna.bsky.social !

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

@wigge.bsky.social and @christatesterink.bsky.social on heat and salt stress, two of the major challenges for plants, i.e. for agriculture, i.e. for humanity. #ICAR2025

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Starting day 2 of #ICAR2025 with Julia Bailey-Serres from UC Riverside on plant fight or flight (!) responses upon water logging stress.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Starting the scientific program of #ICAR2025 with an amazing keynote by Jane Parker @parkergroup.bsky.social on the structural basis of plant immunity! Looking forward to 5 days of fantastic Arabidopsis and plant science at the #Bijlokesite in Ghent!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release ! Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Back-to-back on bioRxiv by @plantophagy.bsky.social and @moritznowack.bsky.social Cell-type specific upregulation of autophagy in Arabidopsis root hair cells promotes 1) root hair lifespan by suppressing cell death 2) plant salt stress resilience by ion sequestration See links to 2 papers below!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Abstract submission deadline for oral contributions to #ICAR2025 is Monday, March 17! Thansk to everyone who has already submitted - over 100 abstracts received so far! If you haven’t submitted yet, visit icar2025.com and submit by Monday. We can’t wait to welcome exciting science to Ghent!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Exciting: The #ICAR2025 Preliminary Meeting Schedule has just been put online icar2025.com ! Early bird registration only ends April 20, but more than half the tickets are gone already!! So please register early to secure your place! Abstracts can be submitted later, see icar2025.com Please RT!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On-site planning meeting for #ICAR2025, it’s shaping up nicely! Early bird deadline is only on April 20th, but as the meeting is filling up fast, and we’re expecting a full house, don’t wait too long to subscribe icar2025.com ! Looking forward to seeing you in 4 months‘ time in summerly Ghent!

@psb-vib.bsky.social
@aabiologists.bsky.social
#plantscience

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This year’s edition of our internal PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social symposium #PSBmeets25 in full swing. Off to 2 days of seminars, poster sessions, discussions, and party!

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In just 5 month’s time we’ll be raising the curtain @debijloke in Ghent www.bijloke.be for Arabidopsis and much much more #ICAR2025 ! Registration is now OPEN, submit abstracts for oral presentations until March 17th, early bird registration runs until April 20th. More info on www.icar2025.com !

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

First bsky post to highlight our recent collaboration with @algazuccaro.bsky.social in elife! We show that rapid corpse clearance after root cap cell death is paramount to control microbial colonization of the Arabidopsis root. Kudos to Nyasha Charura & all involved! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Arabidopsis wild type (WT) root top versus a root tip of a smb-3 mutant controlling root cap cell death. Proteostat staining highlighting protein aggregation in root cells, WGA-AF 488 staining visualizing hyphae of Serendipita indica.

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