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Charles Melnyk

@charlesmelnyk.bsky.social
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Plant biologist studying grafting, tissue regeneration and parasitic plants at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: www.melnyklab.com

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Claudia Martinho @cssmartinho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369
Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59
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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 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
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Claudia Köhler @claudiakohler11.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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!
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Česká společnost experimentální biologie rostlin (ČSEBR) @csebr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@zeineradam.bsky.social et al. proposed CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASE2 as negative regulator of CALS1 and CALS3 regulating source to sink transport, which impacts plant growth and development. @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social @rople.bsky.social @mwrzaczek.bsky.social #CSEBR
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CYSTEINE-RICH RLK2 regulates development via callose synthase-dependent symplastic transport in Arabidopsis
Abstract. CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASEs (CRKs) play an important role in plant development and stress responses. One of the best described me
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Damage limitation... van Wüllen et al. @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social explore the role of #phytohormones during the various stages of parasitism, expose knowledge gaps in the field, & propose novel strategies to help limit agricultural damage by parasitic plants doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience
schematic illustration of the role of plant hormones during infection by a parasitic plant resulting in formation of a root lateral haustorium. Image taken from Figure 1 of Anna K van Wüllen, Martina Leso, Brikti Ferede Hailu, Kirsten Krause, Charles W Melnyk, The role of hormones in parasitic plant infection, Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 67, Issue 4, April 2026, Pages 414–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf132
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Momoko Ikeuchi @prunus-persica123.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am organizing a concurrent session “Cellular reprogramming and organ regeneration” at #ICAR2026 together with @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social! Submit your abstract by Feb 22 (for oral) and share your exciting science with us🌿 icar2026.sg
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Plants are constantly under attack in nature But what determines whether they choose to defend themselves or heal their tissue? Charles Melnyk is conducting groundbreaking molecular research to understand their strategies #research #science #plantscience @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social shorturl.at/1jZ5W
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Fight or heal – how do plants know what is best for them? | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Plants are constantly under attack in nature. But what determines whether they choose to defend themselves or heal their tissue? Charles Melnyk is conducting groundbreaking molecular research to under...
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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Wound repair in plants guided by cell geometry
Mathew et al. show that growth conflicts reshape cells after injury, forming rhomboidal geometries that trigger diagonal divisions. This reorients cell files to restore tapered morphology. A two-step ...
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Plant Science Research Weekly -- The hidden power of water in plant regeneration (Nature Plants) @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/9quikax #PlantaePSRW
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The hidden power of water in plant regeneration | Plantae
Plants are renowned for their remarkable ability to regenerate tissues and organs. Two typical regeneration pathways—de novo root regeneration (DNRR) and wound-induced callus (WIC) formation—enable…
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Plant Science Research Weekly: July 18, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (3/3) The hidden power of water in plant regeneration; ; Unusual cell death pathway in maize endosperm; Herbivore bites promote plant growth in the succeeding year. @matthiaserb.bsky.social @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social
Following herbivory, a plant releases volatiles that trigger jasmonate signaling in nearby plants. This leads to a change in the soil bacteria, which subsequently promotes growth, defense and yield in subsequent plants.
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...
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Umeå Plant Science Centre - Associate Senior Lecturer in plant physiology with focus on plant embryo development
Umeå Plant Science Centre - A centre of excellence for experimental plant biology in Umeå Sweden. ©UPSC
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How do plants decide the fate of a wound and what to regenerate? Water availability! Abdul Kareem and colleagues show that regeneration outcomes after tissue cutting are controlled by water. A 🧵/n 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Water availability positions auxin response maxima to determine plant regeneration fates - Nature Plants
This study reveals that water availability at the wound determines plant regeneration outcomes. High water availability induces root regeneration whereas low water availability triggers callus formati...
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Beautiful work showing opposing gradients of gases activates regeneration in wounded Arabidopsis roots. Congrats to all authors! Some interesting future questions raised regarding aerial tissues and non-Arabidopsis. How do they activate regeneration? Next big questions for the field.
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Congratulations to all winners and finalists for their amazing science and excellent talks! I'm very pleased to be part of this group of scientists, and thankful to @mplantpcom.bsky.social for this award!
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just like in Fashion - trends are also returning in #PlantScience. ATM, Grafting is coming back! Two recent reviews were dedicated to it: First, Augstein & @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Then, @fritz-kragler.bsky.social & Bock: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus
Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...
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Frank Hochholdinger @hochholdingerf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great paper by the group of lab alumnus Changzheng Xu on auxin regulation of fiber development in poplar. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The auxin–PLETHORA 5 module regulates wood fibre development in Populus tomentosa - Nature Plants
The study reveals that PLETHORA 5, a transcription factor activated by auxin signalling in the vascular cambium, regulates cell expansion and cell wall thickening of fibres by directly repressing SND1...
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Thomas Spallek @thomas-spallek.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Please check out our Commentary on the recent PNAS paper from the @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social lab about systemic signals in Phtheirospermum japonicum: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A PhD position is available in my group @_SLU. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden to work on plant regeneration and graft hybrid formation! Details below. Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience
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Jenny Russinova @jennyrussinova.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
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Peter Etchells @peteretchells.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigation of genes regulating the intercalary meristem in barley at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Joop Vermeer @joopvermeer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/
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Jobs - Laboratory of cell and molecular biology
Join Our Team – Open Positions at the LBMC, Vermeer Lab.   We are excited to announce two open positions, please get in touch with Prof. Dr. Joop Vermeer: josephus.vermeer@unine.ch Applications open f...
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"A long-distance inhibitory system regulates haustoria numbers in parasitic plants", our work is now out in @pnas.org. We propose that parasitic plants count their infection numbers, and dynamically regulate new infections in response. Read all about it: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Our review on using grafting to engineer plants is out! Have a look in Plant Journal 👇
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Seeking 4 Postdocs & 1 PhD to join €10 million multi-institution ERC Research #RESYDE project. Help unravel the complex processes of symmetry breaking in plant development using flowers as a model system. ℹ️ www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/ Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience
3D image of a flower meristem. Text overlay: Join the RESYDE project. 4 postdoc and 1 PhD. Research jobs and PhD studentships available at each institution are now open. Institutions are Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Cambridge, Umeå University and University of Sydney.
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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Very proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪
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Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation - Nature
This study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or trace elemen...
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last chance to apply for an Associate Professor position in our Plant Biology Department at SLU. Deadline Jan 20th. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Now out, our work describing a long-distance inhibitory system regulating haustoria numbers in parasitic plants. @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social A thread... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cartoon showing systemic regulation of haustoria in parasitic plants
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I just published: How to hire the best people Steve Jobs was obsessed with hiring “the best people.” You should be too. link.medium.com/SAqkMnHlnPb
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Please spread the word, 2-year-postdoc position in my group to understand fate determination. www.upsc.se/jobs/6548-po...
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Umeå Plant Science Centre - Postdoc fellowship to work on plant cell fate determination
Umeå Plant Science Centre - A centre of excellence for experimental plant biology in Umeå Sweden. ©UPSC
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José Dinneny @josedinneny.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Proud to share our new @plantphys.bsky.social review exploring the anatomical and molecular basis for root adaptations to the environment. Prashanth Ramachandran and Andrea Ramirez detail cell types and pathways that help plants stay resilient in a changing world. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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Rooting for survival: how plants tackle a challenging environment through a diversity of root forms and functions
Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul
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Thomas Greb @thomasgreb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Did you ever wonder how mechanics may influence the behavior of cambium stem cells? We did. Driven by modelling done in the group of Karen Alim, we checked whether mechanical stress can explain the regularity of cell divisions during radial plant growth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Robust regulation of cell division is central to the formation of complex multi-cellular organisms and is a hallmark of stem cell activity. In plants,…
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Bert De Rybel @bertderybel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In our latest work, we provide molecular insights into the age-dependent morphological changes occurring in the root meristem during phase change. Perseverance over many years by BaoJun Yang and Yanbiao Sun. Generous funding by ERC, FWO, VIB and UGent #plantscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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SPL13 controls a root apical meristem phase change by triggering oriented cell divisions
Oriented cell divisions are crucial for determining the overall morphology and size of plants, but what controls the onset and duration of this process remains largely unknown. Here, we identified a s...
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor position is available in the Plant Biology Department at SLU, related to how plants grow, develop & interact with their environment. Come join us in a welcoming and dynamic department in Uppsala, Sweden! More info below: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
A PhD position is available in my group at SLU. Come join us in Sweden to work on plant regeneration and grafting, supported by Wallenberg Foundation. Details below. Please RT! #plantscijobs #plantscience
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