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Dorota Kawa

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Assistant Professor @UU_Plants | roots, monocots, stress resilience, magic microbes

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UU Plants @uuplants.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🌱 Then, let us know through this link if you share the same opinions as the researchers in the exhibition: fopd-utrecht.nl/en/form/ 🌱 Could our work matter more? Or more diversely? Let us know!
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The posters in this exhibition present the perspectives of 9 researchers (from MSc students to Professors) on science communication related to their own fields of study within plant sciences.
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UU Plants @uuplants.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Fascination of Plants celebration is here! 🌱 Check out all 8 posters of our exhibition through this website. fopd-utrecht.nl/en/exhibitio... 🌱 Can plant research also have other purposes? See what UU Plant researchers honestly think! #plantscience
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In Utrecht we celebrate #FascinationOfPlantsDay for the entire month! Our fantastic 🌸Mariana Vega Blanes🌸 made an exhibition about various ways how plant research impacts society 🌽🌱🌾. We will conclude on June 12 with an event for the UU Botanic Gardens visitors. www.uu.nl/en/events/fa...
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Leonardo Jo @leonardojo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm very excited to announce that the Jo Lab is hiring our FIRST EVER PhD candidate! f you're eager to drive discovery in plants, join us at UU Plants! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Lab website: thejolab.org #Plantbiology #Phd #Job
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Daan Weits @daanweits.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
One week left to apply! Join our team for a PhD -it's gonna be fun!
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
PhD position open in my team @uuplants.bsky.social ! Join us to investigate how sorghum roots interact with recently discovered Suberin-Inducing Microbes! More details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Delighted to be awarded NWO VIDI grant! We will study how microbes shape root cells to enhance plant stress resilience - so exciting!!!! www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-... Fantastic to see several plant projects granted🌽🌱
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149 Vidi applications granted to talented researchers | NWO
NWO has granted a maximum of 850.000 euros to 149 scientists from the domain Science (ENW), Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domains, as well as Health, Research and Development (ZonMw). With the help of the Vidi grant, the talented scientists can start their own line of research and further develop their talent.
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Research Technician Root Barriers
Join us in investigating the role of maize root barriers in soil stresses!
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue - Plant and Soil
Background The root cortex in Poaceae is a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable composite layer of tissue. Early in plant growth, the cortex in Poaceae roots primarily consists of parenchyma cells. Howev...
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Monica L Garcia Gomez @moneralee.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and @yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type. So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here: padlet.com/nolan84/what...
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What is a plant cell type?
Made with Padlet
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A little balloon came our way☺️ It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience. www.nwo.nl/en/news/gran...
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Grants for 28 projects within Open Competition ENW-XS | NWO
The NWO Domain Board Science has awarded 28 projects in the Open Competition Domain Science – XS round 24-4. The next ENW-XS deadline is 18 February 2025.
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Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.
Vicia lunata, a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey.
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Dorota Kawa @dorotakawa.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!
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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fun #MicroscopyMonday content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in @dorotakawa.bsky.social lab.
Orchid sitting on a windowRoot section of an aerial root: tiny vascular bundle in the middle, lots of cortex, some velamen.Highlight to exodermis and velamen cells staining with Fluorol Yellow (suberin)Page from a plant anatomy textbook showing velamen, exodermis and other cell types.
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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
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