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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And even if it cannot be excluded (and in modularity and diversity is the beauty of EXO70s), when there is evidence of EXO70.2 subfamily members cooperating with the complex, I would probably not buy it as it`s ancestral state.

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Seen this, very nice study! At the same time I personally would rather be careful about "complex escape" interpretations, since absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Agreed, it generates robustness which you can trust and build on. Hard to say without mutants, but MpEXO70.2 OE ripped epidermis phenotype resembles OE of FER/MRIR240C doi.org/10.1242/dev.... and ropgap/ren doi.org/10.1242/dev...., so maybe something with cell wall integrity/recycling?

ripped thallus surface of Marchantia over-expressing MpEXO70.2

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thanks! Yes, we made an independent attempt to interpret plant exocyst evolutionary dynamics (also by using DNA from algae!) I would say both papers are worth reading, maybe even side-by-side #PlantScience

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thank you, I am glad you liked it! It`s never easy to find oneself (even if only partially) being "scooped":D Have been working on it since 2019, but after not being able to get KO mutants in MpEXO70s, I decided try perhaps slightly more avant-garde approach presented in preprint

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Thomas Greb @thomasgreb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In an heoric endeavor, Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, characterized the dynamics and topology of the cell division machinery during cambium stem cell divisions. Super fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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The preprophase band is dispensable for robust cell division orientation in wood‐forming cambium stem cells

Characterization of periclinal and anticlinal cell divisions in dividing cambium stem cells (CSCs). (a) Scheme indicating periclinal and anticlinal cell divisions in CSCs in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl...

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Altrough I do agree, couldn't it be in the end just pragmatical? For publishing in "non-profit" society journals you pay circa the same price (without transparency where the money goes to) for lower IF (important for your further evaluations)?

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Based on your comments, you were already on the right track. Cheers!

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Have been keeping whole sporangias in a freezer on -20 without notable germination problems so far. Possibly two issues: spores were not matured (you harvested it too soon), or they were not properly dehydrated (air-dry them after collecting and/or add a few silica gel beads for some time).

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Preprint with nice phyllid developmental maps of physco

Higher mammal pointing sabre on the lower mammal shouting: Auxin is the key plant morphogen! Lower mammal does not seem interested and would probably rather be spared of CNS auxin shenanigans.

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thank you, this looks like a lot of work! If I may ask, why you named it "Evolution" and not "Morphogenesis"? Based on the title, I was expecting slightly different content - not too much is known about the evolution of phyllids (and the preprint is not touching it also)

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What works for me best in those cases: go to the primers they used, blast it against genome/transcriptome of the plant - uala, you have got the protein

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Great idea to try! Were there some visible abnormalities in mutant phyllids? Can't find it anywhere

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Jenny Russinova @jennyrussinova.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Dear ENPER community, We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in my country Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026 in Sofia. Save the Date!🌱🌱🌱

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Rory Craig @rorycraig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

(1/6) First and foremost, Auxenochlorella spp. are oily green algae that can be readily transformed by homologous recombination, enabling efficient site-specific transformation of the nuclear genome. This is a first for chlorophytes, and we hope that it will facilitate lots of interesting research

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Really tried to get to the root of our problem during the lab meeting today. But then I realized that we work on mosses, and roots are exclusive to euphyllophytes, so it's kind of alright.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k... #otd

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

In case you were interested how worm people get their groove on

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Looks interesting and cool topic too! What I kind of don't understand is how this is PPB-independent? If trm678 have more 4WJ, there is direct effect on avoidance phenomenon, no?

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Soo the actin-depleted zone during the cell division is not a thing anymore?

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thank you, definitely putting to my must read list! Have you also tried to put this collinearity test outside of Bryopsida (let's say Takakia, Sphagnum, or Marchantia)?

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Greetings, soo here is the hood where the Saint Francis cuts with AsiSI?

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"We found an arabidopsis mutant developing stomata on the roots!" Not buying it? Eggcellent! What you actually see is a horn of the hornwort Anthoceros agrestis (and what you read was probably my favorite 1st April joke we did in the lab).

Z-stack photo of an Anthoceros agrestis sporophyte with stomata all along the structure.

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Molecular biologist even when the cup is literally empty: There will be still plenty, just need to spin it down

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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Convergent evolution of mutations in LOG cytokinin synthesis genes leads to loss of prickles across flowering plants. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/science.ado1663 Perspective: doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2473 (26/34)

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Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time

An enduring question in evolutionary biology concerns the degree to which episodes of convergent trait evolution depend on the same genetic programs, particularly over long timescales. In this work, w...

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Just stopping by to say that Peter Klucik is Slovak illustrator. Glad you came across his work, which I think is super cool!

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Explaining this to the Gymnosperms all the time. They are the group that took this higher vs lower plants competition too much seriously

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Super excited to be guest editing a Journal of Cell Science 🌟special 🌟 issue on our favourite organelles #cilia & #flagella with awesome Lotte Pedersen. Reach out to discuss your ideas- we want to hear from you! 🫵 🗓️Submission deadline: 01/03/2025 Read more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/ci...

Flyer for the JCS special edition with a confocal image of wild-type mouse tracheal epithelial cells marked by cilia (magenta), centrioles (yellow) and cell boundaries (cyan).

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CNN @cnn.com · 26/08/2024

Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, according to new research. cnn.it/3AGrshr

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Tell me about the horrors! Today I dreamed about ordering pizza in a restaurant and it have never arrived

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Example: "I know, that there were supposed to be some money left for antibodies, but unfortunately, we spend most of it for this quite expensive payper."

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Meaning: Scientists are doing their investigative work, which should ideally resault in a publication. Strangely enough, when journals want to publish their work, scientists will gather quite large sum of money and pay the journal instead, probably as a sign of appreciation.

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Your personal involvement and pain is meritorious, but will your grant grant agency be so benevolent about your mischief?😵‍💫

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Example: "We have had a mutant in ABP1 protein with promising phenotype, but sourprisingly, we were not able to complement it."

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Meaning: You need to break up with your very promissing idea from preliminary data and was a part of the former proposal/report and now you need to painfully abandon it for lack of evidence supporting it.

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Freudian slip dictionary for scientific grant reports: "Sourprise"

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Yes, that's right. Just wanted to try to pinpoint sometimes quite unnecessary workload accompanying the neutral locus game (in this case you would need to perform ca 10x more transformations to proove the same point). Anyway, thank you for the insights!

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

So able to get it to the plant, it's working, but not enough to pick ones integrated correctly. Now you are in the situation, where you are able to show things, but becouse neutral locus fetish (I think that it wouldn't be much different if they would be integrated correctly), it's unpublishable

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

This is fine and I agree with that. But for example, now I do have a double mutant with a severe phenotype and wanted to put things to the neutral locus. The mutant transformation efficiency is super low (ca 3 transformants per dish).

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

But that's actually the thing, no? In randomly integrated KI lines, you will pick few of them which are performing the best. And they are proving your point, becouse of the randomness (and still are most probably in undefined 'neutral locuses' becouse there will be thousands of them in the genome)

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Yes! This is what I am successfuly emplying now, I call it knock-knock system, since at first you knockout gene by HR from start to stop, and then you just replace the resistance in plasmid, insert the CDS and resistance and use it for knockin. Works great for single copy genes

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