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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#TansleyReview: Navigating shoot apical meristem plasticity for plant adaptation Zhu, Han & Yang 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Fig. 1 Key molecular signalling pathways regulating stem cell activity in the shoot apical meristem (SAM).

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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LASDB Students/Postdocs/Early Investigators Seminar Series Friday October 2nd, 2026 9.00 AM Mexico 10.00 AM Colombia, Ecuador, Perú 11.00 AM USA (EST), Bolivia 12.00 PM Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile uchile.zoom.us/j/9339767270...

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Marie Monniaux @mariemonniaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have written a review on MADS-box genes expression in developing floral organs, which has been under-explored as compared to their early role to specify floral organ identity. Congrats to Emma Désert for her first review article as a PhD student! #proudPI @rdplab.bsky.social

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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @plantphys.bsky.social 🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...

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Quantifying Waddington's Landscape | Briscoe Lab

I have written before about how two conceptual frameworks have shaped our thinking about cell fate, Waddington's epigenetic landscape and Davidson's gene...

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Martina De Angelis @martinadeangelis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So many inspiring talks today at #SLS26! It was great to present my and @tadseymour.bsky.social work on carpel development and have many interesting chats. Thank you so much, looking forward to tomorrow!

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Tara M Finegan @tarafinegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The International Dev Mech Seminar Series Returns Thursday! Ricardo Barrientos, UCL “The contribution of basement membrane turnover and stress relaxation on cell shape during tissue growth” & Marina Marchenko, TU Dresden “Synthetic lumen rounding directs neural progenitor division mode”

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Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska @routierlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Spectacular buckling during morphogenesis! Check out the latest work by the labs of @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Últimos días para aplicar a nuestro programa de mentoría bilingüe de la Universidad de California Berkeley Estás pensando en un doctorado en biología? Te gustaría hacer preguntas a profesores y doctorandos? Flyer: tinyurl.com/flyerpreview... Más información: tinyurl.com/previewdocto...

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Arvid Herrmann 🍃 @arvidhema.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very happy to see this work out as a preprint! 🌽🌱 How are shoot stem cells specified in the maize embryo? We uncover a small RNA-driven morphogenic circuit linking positional information with auxin, cell wall mechanics & cell division patterning. Check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Specification of embryonic shoot stem cells via a small RNA-driven morphogenic circuit

The specification of embryonic stem cells capable of self-renewing and differentiation into virtually any cell type, is one of the most consequential events in the development of a multicellular organ...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Navigating shoot apical meristem plasticity for plant adaptation #TansleyReview by Zhu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Key molecular signalling pathways regulating stem cell activity in the shoot apical meristem.

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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Please share! We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5

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Nobori Lab | The Sainsbury Laboratory

Decoding the molecular and cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions. Single-cell and spatial omics of plant immunity. Led by Tatsuya Nobori at TSL, Norwich, UK.

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Rituparna Goswami @rituparnagoswami.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It was super nice to catch up with the community and present my work. I had a wonderful time. #thermomorphogenesis #plantscience #heatstress

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚨 Did you know? Publishing in The Plant Cell doesn’t just advance your career—it supports the entire field of plant biology. We're published by ASPB ‪@aspbofficial.bsky.social‬, a nonprofit devoted to advancing plant science 🌿 #PlantScience #NonprofitPublishing #PublishWithPurpose

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Avilash Singh Yadav @morpholosophist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very happy to share that our work "Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle" is now out @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Special thanks to my postdoctoral mentor @roederlab.bsky.social and all the authors!

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Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle

Nature exhibits organs of various shapes and forms, ranging from smooth to undulated morphologies. How cells coordinate their growth to produce smooth…

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 30/08/2026

Dynamical systems theory can be used for cell state mapping during cell fate decisions. This study by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social &co presents a Dynamic Landscape Analysis, revealing how morphogen signals orchestrate #cellFate decisions during #neuralTube development. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4wPoVsn

An expanded detail of the dynamical landscape of cell fate decisions for ventral neural tube progenitors illustrating the circular topology of differentiation trajectories that leads to p3 neurons.
(CC BY 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Our article “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis” is now published in @natcomms.nature.com. Link: rdcu.be/fBZ3S. What an exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab! @mpipz.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social #PlantDevelopment #criticality

Top: Waddington/quasi-potential landscape cartoon illustrating a bistable transition. Bottom: Scheme of a simplified regulatory network underlying floral transition at the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Adapted from Rodríguez-Maroto, Wang et al. (2026). Link: https://rdcu.be/fBZ3S

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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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Cecilia Lara Mondragón @cecilialaram.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Come join us for a pretty exciting project! 🌱🌽 Please share 🫶

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

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The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new director

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Jose M. Estevez @estevezjosem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Finally out!! Beatifull work leaded by Arezo Rahimi and Salma Balazadeh group at University of Göttingen and colaborators showing the power of root hairs induced by Flavo98 to enhance drought tolerence in plants!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Endophytic Flavobacterium promotes root hair development and enhances drought tolerance via an ERF–CEP5 hormonal regulatory module - Nature Plants

Flavobacterium sp. 98 promotes root hair development and enhances plant drought tolerance via a novel signalling pathway, highlighting the role of plant–microorganism interactions for improving crop r...

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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Our latest preprint! A deep learning framework that maps suberin, lignin and aerenchyma in both monocots and dicots! We present a collection of 1,695 fluorescent images. One surprise-the model works best when trained on both monocots + dicots! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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RADIX: a deep learning framework that maps root barriers across species and reveals genetic and environmental contributions

Root anatomical barriers, including the suberized and lignified walls of the endodermis and exodermis, and cortical aerenchyma, regulate water and nutrient transport, gas exchange, and rhizosphere int...

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There's still time to join us for the 2026 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium on 22-24 September (#SLS26)! This year's Symposium theme is Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis and is coordinated by Sarah Robinson and Neha Bhatia. www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la...

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An eclipse in a tree's shade. The tiny gaps between leaves act as pinhole lenses, projecting crescent shaped images of the eclipsed sun onto the world below. Original post

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our new Review is online! Nutrients can act as spatial signals that organise plant-microbe interactions. We discuss emerging tools and propose a cell-state framework linking plant and microbial cell states through local nutrient landscapes. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 11/08/2026

As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌾 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Stomatal Biology group in beautiful Bern @unibe.ch How do grass leaves spatially coordinate development of veins & stomatal rows? 2 years (plus possible extension), funded by @snsf.ch @dfg.de within @cerealcell.bsky.social RU5325 jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

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Shicheng Guo @shihcheng.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

RegVelo integrates splicing kinetics with gene regulatory interactions, enhancing RNA velocity models. This breakthrough offers deeper insight into cell fate transitions and dynamics. PMID:42119563, Cell 2026, @Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-86… #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA 🧪

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Teva Vernoux @tevavernoux.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached

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Josep Mercadal @josepmercadal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Our work on pattern formation in fossil and extant liverworts is out! @dev-journal.bsky.social Check it out if you are interested in fossils, evo-devo, and how mathematical modeling can help us understand the evolution of developmental processes! 🌿🧪 Thread ⬇️

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Lateral inhibition governs ancestral cellular patterning in fossil and extant liverworts

Highlighted Article: Comparative and mathematical analyses reveal that oil body cell patterning in fossil and extant liverworts is consistent with a local activation-lateral inhibition mechanism, poin...

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COST Action PlantWallK @plantwallk.org · 20/07/2026

📢 Two postdoc positions available in @mc-caillaud.bsky.social's group (RDP lab, ENS de Lyon), part of an ERC Consolidator. Project: how plant cells orient their division, combining cell biology, molecular genetics, and mechanical modelling. 📅 Deadline: 1 Oct 26 | Start: Nov 26 onwards Details 🧵👇

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#plantbio2026 Come see me at my poster tonight 000-018 and learn about the Assistant Features Editor program of @theplantcell.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social 💚

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"The best thing that ever happened to me"

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jasper-lamers.bsky.social @jasper-lamers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our work on the mechanoresponsiveness of actin is out! While plant microtubules have been extensively studied for their role in mechanobiology, actin has very much been ignored. Here we show that actin responds to cellular deformations within minutes and observed it in Marchantia and Arabidopsis!

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Following today’s news, check out this timely letter by Luis Larrondo @lflarrondo. Published in one of Chile’s leading national newspapers: what is the cost of not supporting science? 🇨🇱🧫 (English translation below) www.latercera.com/cartas-al-di...

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Ciencia: gasto y costo - La Tercera

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#PlantScience Res Weekly(2/2) plantae.org/plant-scienc... What’s up with stromules? Single-cell stem cell dynamics; Not all arbuscules pull the same weight; Long non-coding RNA in rice blast disease; Retrotransposons ➡️site-specific genome editing @sebamorenor.bsky.social @jenmcgaley.bsky.social

Diagram showing how the pathogen-produced long non-coding RNA interacts and sequesters a rice miRNA that normally promotes disease resistance. By interfering with this miRNA, the viral lncRNA enhances its pathogenicity.

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Adrienne Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ever stretch a plastic bag until it wrinkled? Keeping a thin sheet flat while it rapidly expands is surprisingly difficult. So how do growing plant leaves remain flat as they rapidly grow? Check out our new @currentbiology.bsky.social review, How to Grow a Flat Leaf www.cell.com/current-biol...

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How to grow a flat leaf

Peng et al. review mechanisms driving lamina expansion, including gene expression, auxin-mediated proliferation, and microtubule-directed growth, linking disrupted coordination to morphological defect...

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Jan Lohmann @meristemania.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Interested in how plant stem cells can strive in the harshest environments? Read @thomasgreb.bsky.social and my review of plant stem cell robustness: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You should apply to this fantastic course !!! New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! biodesarrollo.unab.cl

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Jake Harris @c-jake-harris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

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