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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab

@cellwalldynamics.com
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We study how plants and algae actively percieve and use their cell walls to grow, adapt, and respond to stress. Based at Umeå Plant Science Centre 🇸🇪 and NTNU 🇳🇴. Read more about our projects: www.cellwalldynamics.com

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆
Photo of a woman with long dark wavy hair, smiling at the camera and holding an award certificate titled “SPPS Early Career Award 2026.” She wears a lavender suit and stands in a tall wall alcove above a dark green leather sofa, in a room with beige walls and two vertical wall sconces.
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COST Action PlantWallK @plantwallk.org · 21/07/2026
🔬 Postdoc opportunity: how do plant cells sense and respond to changes in their cell walls? Join the @cellwalldynamics.com lab @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, integrating Brillouin, O-PTIR & spatial transcriptomics on the Arabidopsis root. Deadline 31 Aug 2026 🔗 buff.ly/cPFemXd #PlantScience #Postdoc
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 31/07/2026
Our lab fits into one mug... but only because it is a map! ☕🌍 The Cell Wall Dynamics team spans more than half of the Northern Hemisphere. Thanks to Simina, one of our undergraduate students, for this lovely reminder that science is built on people, ideas, and friendships that cross borders.
A white mug printed with a map of the Northern Hemisphere, showing Europe, North Africa and Asia. Small portraits mark the home countries of members of the Cell Wall Dynamics team, spanning from Spain to Iran. The mug holds a colourful bouquet of large handmade crepe paper flowers in shades of pink, lilac, blue and orange, sitting on a laboratory table.
People and countries here: 
· Laura - Spain
· Bastien - France
· Demetrio - Italy
· Klaudia - Poland
· Simina - Romania
· Nasrin - IranA white mug printed with a map of the Northern Hemisphere, showing Europe, North Africa and Asia. Small portraits mark the home countries of members of the Cell Wall Dynamics team, spanning from Nepal to Japan. The mug holds a colourful bouquet of large handmade crepe paper flowers in shades of pink, lilac, blue and orange, sitting on a laboratory table.
People and countries here:
· Manju - Nepal
· Sehyeon - South Korea
· Kaito - Japan
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 29/06/2026
🧪VACANCY: Computational biologist, modeller or biophysicist? Join Laura Bacete @cellwalldynamics.com and Christiane Funk in an interdisciplinary @icelabumu.bsky.social postdoctoral project exploring cell wall sensing in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris. Apply by 17 Sept👇 www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Three multidisciplinary postdoctoral scholarships (2 years)
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Just presented at #ICAR2026 in Singapore: What if plants use nanoscale vibrations to communicate cell wall states? Exciting to share our latest thinking and hear what the community makes of it 🌱. Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity!
Laura Bacete presenting at ICAR 2026, Singapore. She is holding a microphone and smiling, wearing a floral skirt. Behind her, the slide shows a schematic titled “Towards a 4D map of wall mechanochemical states”, combining Brillouin microscopy (stiffness), OPTIR (composition), and RNAseq to build a spatially resolved picture of cell wall states in Arabidopsis roots.
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 24/06/2026
🧪🌾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...
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Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in Plant Cell Wall Biology, Biophysics, and Spatial Transcriptomics
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 23/06/2026
Heading to the #ICAR2026 poster session today 18:00–19:00? Make sure to visit @manju-mhj.bsky.social at #A095! Find out how we are using cutting-edge tools like Brillouin microscopy and O-PTIR to capture the earliest stages of plant cell wall integrity 🌿🔬 (Catch her Thursday at the same time too!)
Manju Maharjan, with long dark hair and glasses, smiles warmly while gesturing toward her scientific poster at the ICAR 2026 conference. The poster is titled "Watchers on the Wall: Decoding the Early Stages of Plant Cell Wall Integrity" and displays research from Umeå University and UPSC, showcasing methods like Brillouin Microscopy and Optical Photothermal InfraRed Spectroscopy to study plant cell wall mechanics.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 23/06/2026
And just right of center in this picture, we have our very own @manju-mhj.bsky.social on her way to some super-interesting keynotes! Catch up with her at poster A095, or with @laurabacete.bsky.social tomorrow in Concurrent Session 16, for the latest updates from our group #icar2026
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 18/06/2026
Poster session today 15:45–16:15 at #CellWall2026. come find our very own Klaudia Ordyniak at PO9_11! Mild stress or real damage? Find out how ZAT11 and ZAT18 help plants tell the difference 🌿
Klaudia Ordyniak standing beside poster PO9_11 at the XVII Plant Cell Wall Meeting, Porto. The poster is titled “Mild Stress or Real Damage? The Role of ZAT11 and ZAT18 in Cell Wall Defense” and presents data on transcription factor responses to cell wall integrity signalling, including Brillouin microscopy and THE1 expression analyses. Klaudia is smiling and pointing to the poster.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 07/06/2026
Congratulations Manju, a PhD student at Cell Wall Dynamics lab and the team Umeå for securing the first position at the EC2U Science Contest 2026 in Turku🏆🎉 The science contest is a part of EC2U forum that brings researchers from several fields to showcasing science through teamwork and creativity.
Manju Maharjan (on the left) presenting a 3D printed Arabidopsis root in a science contest as her personal item. For her, it is special because Arabidopsis root is her study material for the PhD project and it is also the result of collaboration between the research team in Heinrich-Heine University in Germany and Microscopy Platform at UPSC.Team Umeå celebrating after winning the first place at the Science Contest.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 21/05/2026
Another highlight this week in the Cell Wall Dynamics Lab: our PhD student Klaudia Ordyniak nailed her half-time seminar today at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Presenting her work on transcriptional regulation of Cell Wall Integrity signalling, so proud! 🎉 (1/2)
Klaudia Ordyniak stands beside a projected title slide for her Half-Time Seminar, dated 21st May 2026, Umeå. The slide shows a partially visible title about transcriptional regulation of Cell Wall Integrity signalling, with the Umeå University and Umeå Plant Science Centre logos. She holds a laptop and wears a white jacket.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 20/05/2026
Very busy day in the Cell Wall Dynamics lab today! We started with our master’s student Sehyeon Kim defending a brilliant Master’s thesis at @umeaplantsciencecentre.se. Congratulations Sehyeon! 🎉
Sehyeon Kim stands beside a projected “Thank you all!” slide showing group photos of the lab team, with the Umeå Plant Science Centre and SLU logos visible. He is smiling, hands clasped, in a light denim jacket.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 06/05/2026
🌱 Big news! We received a Novo Nordisk Fonden Emerging Investigator Grant (DKK 12.5M – around €1.7M) for project DYNAMO. 5 years to understand how plant cell walls signal the growth to strength switch. So proud of the whole team. Let's go! 🧱⚡ Read more: www.cellwalldynamics.com/time-to-cele...
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Time to celebrate: The Cell Wall Dynamics group gets major grant! | Green cell wall dynamics lab
The Novo Nordisk Foundation invests DKK 12.5 million in five years of research on plant cell wall signals at Umeå University
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 04/02/2026
We asked Demetrio and Bastien, the first authors of our recent study on RLKs in green algae, about the motivation, bioinformatic advances, and open questions behind the work—and what this means for algal sensing and evolution. Read more in our blog post: www.cellwalldynamics.com/new-paper-re...
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[NEW PAPER] Receptor-like kinases in green algae: a hidden diversity revealed by modern bioinformatics | Green cell wall dynamics lab
Our group investigated the conservation of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) in algae species and recently published a paper on this topic
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 02/01/2026
New year, new paper, and a lab milestone: our first original research article is finally out. We explored how green algae sense what happens outside the cell and asked a simple question: how much of the plant #CellWallIntegrity receptor toolkit already exists in green algae?🧵 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
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A Comparative Analysis of Receptor‐Like Kinases in Chlorophyta Reveals the Presence of Putative Cell Wall Integrity Sensors
Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) detect external and internal signals, triggering responses essential for growth and adaptation. Among internal cues, cell wall integrity (CWI) sensing plays a key role, a...
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 24/12/2025
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 16/12/2025
Last weekend we celebrated the winter holidays with a Christmas Potluck. From shared experiments to shared meals, gratitude for the teamwork that binds us, and hope for discoveries ahead. Grateful for our team in Umeå and Trondheim 🎄🔬 Our blog entry: www.cellwalldynamics.com/a-christmas-...
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A Christmas Potluck: Where Science Meets Spice | Green cell wall dynamics lab
The Cell Wall Dynamics Lab at Umeå celebrated the winter holidays with a Christmas Potluck, where the team's global diversity came together through shared dishes. It was a moment to pause and apprecia...
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 11/09/2025
🎉 Proud moment for our lab! PhD student Klaudia Ordyniak won the Best Poster Award at the #SPPSPhD2025 conference for her work on transcription factors ZAT11 & ZAT18 in cell wall integrity 🌿👏 Also cheers to another UPSC colleague, Julie Ducla, for winning Best Presentation! bit.ly/46xCUZZ
Klaudia and Julie after receiving their awards.Klaudia with her poster. Klaudia’s poster, “Stress-Proofing Plants: The Role of ZAT11 & ZAT18 in Cell Wall Defense”, told the story of two transcription factors, ZAT11 and ZAT18, as central players in the cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway. Her work revealed that these transcription factors do not act in isolation: they regulate each other’s expression and influence the activity of the CWI receptor THESEUS1, a key node in translating wall damage into cellular responses. By combining RNA-seq data, mutant analysis, and stress assays, she showed how ZAT11 and ZAT18 respond differently to stresses such as salt and cellulose inhibition, offering new insight into how plants fine-tune their defences while maintaining growth.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 15/08/2025
🌱 Meet Manju, our new PhD student in the Cell Wall Dynamics team! From the Newah Indigenous community in Nepal🇳🇵 to Umeå, she’ll work on the VR-funded Watchers on the Wall project, using advanced tools to study how plant cell walls sense and respond to stress. 🔗 Read her interview: bit.ly/3JAsZK7
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Meet Manju, the PhD student in the Cell Wall Dynamics team | Green cell wall dynamics lab
A short interview with Manju on her background, interests, and plans for exploring how plants sense changes in their cell walls in the
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 08/07/2025
Starting now!
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025
Attending the 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology at UBC? Don’t miss the next session—I’ll be presenting my team member Nancy Soni’s work on the link between the cell wall and the cell cycle. Hope to see you there!
A laptop on a wooden bench at the University of British Columbia, showing a presentation slide titled “From Integrity to Division: How cell wall status controls the cell cycle in plants” by Laura Bacete and team member Nancy Soni. In the background, the UBC water fountain and the words “University of British Columbia” are visible, with people and trees around under a clear blue sky.
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 26/06/2025
🧪🌾Are you at Plant Biology Europe #PBE2025 in Budapest and interested in cell walls? Don't miss the talks of Nanci Soni (Cell Biology) and Demtrio Marcianò (Phytohormones & Other Transmitters) tomorrow!
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 24/06/2025
Nasrin Sabooni presented her poster at #ICAR2025 in Ghent🇧🇪 on transcription factors shaping cell wall integrity in Arabidopsis & cotton🌿🧵 From evolution to stress & fibre development—she’s got it covered! 🔗 www.cellwalldynamics.com/nasrin-saboo... #PlantScience #StressResilience #Cotton #Arabidopsis
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Nasrin Sabooni Presents Poster at ICAR2025 in Ghent (Belgium) | Green cell wall dynamics lab
Exploring evolutionary insights into transcription factors with potential for sustainable fibre production
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 12/06/2025
Our PI Laura Bacete has been elected to the Young Academy of Sweden! 🎉 She’ll contribute to research policy, outreach, and interdisciplinary collaboration—bringing plant cell & molecular biology into broader discussions 🌱🧪 More here: www.cellwalldynamics.com/laura-bacete...
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Laura Bacete Cano joins the Young Academy of Sweden | Green cell wall dynamics lab
Strengthening the voice of plant science in national research policy and interdisciplinary collaboration
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 28/03/2025
And continuing with conference news—postdoc Bastien Dauphin just gave a great talk at the UK Plant Biomechanics Conference 2025 🎤🌿 He’s using chemo-optogenetics to trigger local changes in the plant cell wall. New tools, new insights! #PlantBiomechanics #CellWallDynamics #Optogenetics
Bastien Dauphin during his presentation at the UK Plant Biomechanics Conference 2025. Thanks Yoselin Benitez Alfonso for the picture :)
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 28/03/2025
🎉 Big news! Our very own Nancy Soni and Demetrio Marcianò will be speaking at Plant Biology Europe 2025! #PBE2025 🧬🌱 🧪 Two talks, one big theme: how cell walls talk to the rest of the cell. Read more on our web page! 👇 www.cellwalldynamics.com/nancy-soni-a...
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Nancy Soni and Demetrio Marcianò to Present at Plant Biology Europe 2025 | Green cell wall dynamics lab
This event, organised by the Federation of the European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB), will take place from 25 to 28 June 2025 at the Budapest Congress Center in Hungary.
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 24/02/2025
🌱🔬 Ever wondered how plants know when their cell walls need fixing? At the Green Cell Wall Dynamics Lab (Umeå University), we study how plants and algae sense and maintain their cell walls—key to growth, stress responses, and survival! 🧵👇
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 24/02/2025
[NEWS FROM THE LAB] – A Week of Science and Fun: Lab Get-Together in Umeå: www.cellwalldynamics.com/a-week-of-sc...
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A Week of Science and Fun: Lab Get-Together in Umeå | Green cell wall dynamics lab
A week-long visit from Trondheim team member Nancy energised the Umeå lab, bringing fresh perspectives to our research and strengthening team bonds. After months of virtual meetings, the in-person col...
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Plant Cell Wall Dynamics Lab @cellwalldynamics.com · 17/12/2024
Hello world!🌱 Our lab at Umeå Plant Science Centre (Sweden) and NTNU (Norway) explores how plants and algae actively perceive and adapt through their cell walls. Growth, defence, and resilience all start here! Follow us for updates on our research #PlantScience #CellWalls #PlantCellWall #AcademicSky
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