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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Too much water can be a challenge for plants, too! 🌱💧 Our new Spotlight in Molecular Plant explores how COSR channels link hypoosmotic stress to Ca²⁺ signaling. Happy to share this piece with Matteo Grenzi and Yang Zhao! doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's finally out! Another piece of the puzzle of wound-induced long-distance signaling in Arabidopsis 🧩 Thanks to @jyothivadassery.bsky.social for this great collaboration! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am truly honored to be featured in a New Phytologist Profile. My sincere thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for this opportunity and for highlighting my scientific journey! 🌱 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Huge congratulations to Carlo @cpasini.bsky.social on your fantastic PhD defence at @ethz.ch! It was a brilliant presentation followed by a truly engaging discussion. Wishing you every success in your exciting new adventure in science!

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Many congratulations to Bianca on the successful defence of her PhD thesis! 🎉. And many thanks to @botanicaljim.bsky.social for being part of the committee and contributing to this important milestone.

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There is still time to register for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Calcium Signaling 2026! Dive into cutting-edge research on Ca²⁺ signaling in plants 🌿 Primosten, Croatia | 20–24 Sept 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-cal... Travel grants are available embo.org/funding/lect...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

With MAPPI, we can design simple fluorescent experiments for long-term Ca²⁺ imaging — 16 hours in this video — tracking signals (if any) during growth or dynamic movements 📷 @ScienceAdvances @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Plants "talk" internally — and now we can watch it happen. MAPPI lets us track shoot-to-root Ca²⁺ signals in real time 🌱⚡ @ScienceAdvance! @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

@ScienceAdvances @science.org Using MAPPI for real-time whole-plant imaging, we reveal the earliest flooding response — a Ca²⁺ signal, expected, yet now directly visualised and strongest in young leaves...🔬📷 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We thank Jon K. Pittman for his thoughtful and inspiring commentary nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... published in @newphyt.bsky.social on our recent work (Grenzi et al. 2025) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🔥 Spodoptera littoralis feeding doesn’t just spike cytosolic Ca²⁺ — it also unleashes a surge of apoplastic glutamate in Nicotiana benthamiana @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Registration is now OPEN for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Calcium Signaling 2026! Dive into cutting-edge research on Ca²⁺ signaling in plants 🌿 📍 Primosten, Croatia | 🗓️ 20–24 September 2026 meetings.embo.org/event/26-cal...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The MAPPI setup we @AndreaBassi78 @labcosta.bsky.social published in @ScienceAdvances shows its versatility, enabling us to design amazing experiments that we never thought could be possible... science.org/doi/10.1126/... So, now guess what this video is showing❔❔

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@labcosta.bsky.social Out now in ScienceAdvances our new work with @AndreaBassi78 MAcro Plant Projection Imaging (MAPPI): An open, scalable platform for whole-plant fluorescence real-time imaging | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚀 New Review out by @elenist.bsky.social @labcosta.bsky.social Bioelectronics for basic plant science and precision agriculture 🌱⚡️ A deep dive into how bioelectronic tools are transforming plant research & farming... Published in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Huge thanks to @Nikon for an unforgettable Christmas present 🎁 Feeling truly privileged to receive such a unique microscope 🔬

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from @labcosta.bsky.social! 🎄✨ Thanks to all our collaborators, colleagues, and friends for a great year together.

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

...we can infer that, in the presence of CPA, the ER behaves like anengine without fuel, incapable of sustaining the mechanism required to maintain the [Ca²⁺]cyt oscillations... doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Blue light decreases ER Ca²⁺ in stomatal guard cells, with refilling in the dark. Our new @newphyt.bsky.social study shows how ER Ca²⁺ shapes cytosolic Ca²⁺ dynamics doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Farewell party for Matteo! After 8 successful years in my lab, he is now ready to begin a new adventure in Sierla’s lab at @helsinki.fi. Wishing him the best of luck!

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🍕 Pizza day for @lab_costa with our new guests from Spain — Jorge Morello (Miguel Botella lab, Malaga) and Pavel Brito-Gutiérrez (Maite Sanmartín lab, Valencia). Great way to kick things off!

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Differential regulation of calcium-activated plant kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 A fascinating insight into how plants decode Ca²⁺ signals through CPKs — revealing specificity in calcium signaling. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thrilled to share that Stefano Buratti has been awarded the Fratelli Confalonieri Postdoctoral Fellowship! He'll be joining my lab @LaStatale to develop innovative tools for exploring plant–environment interactions. Congratulations, Stefano!

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Interested in plant Ca2+ imaging? If you have (or are about to earn) a PhD, consider joining our team at La Statale (UNIMI) as a Postdoc. A great opportunity to grow your expertise in a vibrant research environment! Feel free to contact me to discuss applications to the MSCA

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Quantifying Plant Biology with Fluorescent Biosensors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40153610/ A very nice Review from Jones' lab www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/alexa...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from @labcosta.bsky.social! Wishing you joy, success, and good luck for an amazing 2025!

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Honored to celebrate 6 years of collaborating with @PlantCellEnvir as an Associate Editor! Over 130 handled works later, I’m thrilled to receive this certificate of appreciation. Huge thanks to the team and contributors who made this journey so rewarding! 🌱📜

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

An old video of calcium waves in Arabidopsis that still looks stunning... 🌱✨ #PlantScience #CalciumWaves"

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

NEWS & VIEWS: Follow the calcium road: Conserved mechanisms of growth and development in Marchantia polymorpha (Jiawen Chen, Erin Cullen) doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I am thrilled to have contributed to this publication with Prof. Kohchi Takayuki's lab! 🎉 First author Megumi Iwano @KyotoU_News MID1-COMPLEMENTING ACTIVITY regulates cell proliferation & development via Ca²⁺ signaling in Marchantia polymorpha. 🌱 academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

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Alex Costa @labcosta.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hello dear...I am also here...let's start with this: Check out this timelapse of growing Arabidopsis leaves expressing a Calcium sensor. Nature's signal in motion! 🌱 #PlantScience #CalciumSignaling #Arabidopsis"

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