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Rüdiger Simon

@simonrdg.bsky.social
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Professor for Developmental Genetics at Heinrich Heine University (@hhu.bsky.social) in Düsseldorf, Germany, www.devgen.hhu.de Working on plant development, born 318 ppm

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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In 2021, we published an article in eLife on the role of CLE40 in Arabidopsis shoot meristem development ( see here: elifesciences.org/articles/70934 ). We recently found that one of the Arabidopsis lines used in that publication.....
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yayoi Kusama in Cologne
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Reiche kettet uns an Öl und Gas – auf Jahrzehnte! Am 18. April demonstrieren wir um 12 Uhr am Heumarkt in Köln: für saubere Energie, gegen fossile Politik. Sei dabei. erneuerbare-energien-verteidigen.de/koeln/
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Demo in Köln: Jetzt Energiewende verteidigen!
Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche (CDU) will die Energiewende abwürgen und uns für Jahrzehnte an Öl und Gas binden. Das trifft uns alle: an der Zapfsäule, bei der Stromrechnung, beim nächsten Extremwetter....
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We recently published a first story on combining spatial and single cell transcriptomics in barley (see here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Lets go for the next level now, i.e. understanding gene networks and barley meristem development in 4D!
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Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants
Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗ CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
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CEPLAS: Call 2026
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
CEPLAS, the cluster of excellence on plants sciences, is looking for PhD candidates for a number of exciting projects. See below for more info on the topics and on the recruiting process, and here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @hhu.de · 29/01/2026
Dr. Götz Hensel erklärt im Rahmen der Bürgeruni im Haus der Universität die Grundlagen der Technologie, während die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin Susanne Vollmer Einblicke in ihre aktuelle Forschung gibt. Wann? 5. Februar 2026, 19 Uhr Wo? Haus der Universität oder im Livestream: t1p.de/n1fnq ^lb 3/3
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HHU - Forschung im Fokus: Nutzung von molekularen Genscheren in Pflanzen – Potential und Anwendungen
Molekulare Genscheren, auch unter CRISPR/Cas-Technologie bekannt, haben die Grundlagen und angewandte Forschung in Medizin und Pflanzenforschung stark beschleunigt. Sie ermöglichen die gezielte Änderu...
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany. Sept 23rd-25th, 2026 ~€350 all inclusive Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon. For more info, see raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS
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Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG @gensocuknonseed.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Exciting opportunities to join @justingoodrich.bsky.social group in Edinburgh as either a Postdoc or Research Assistant. See the link for further details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to characterise genes controlling cell death and breakdown of the embryo-surrounding maternal tissues of the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha...
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📢📢 We are hiring!! We are looking for a coordinator for science communication and a project manager! www.ceplas.eu/de/nachwuchs...
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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
New preprint: In situ Architecture of #Plasmodesmata. Using #cryoET, #AlphaFold & proteomics, we uncover the native organization of plant intercellular nanopores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🧵1/n #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM
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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
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Scientist - Plant Single Cell / Spatial Analysis
The Institute IBG-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich is a key partner in the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), one of Germany’s leading plant science research networks. The group of Prof. D...
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Jörg @realkachelmann.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Gute Nacht, Timeline. (c) Waechter
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters) Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors. #ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
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Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a verifiable and citable record of your work. It also protects you from bad actors — the evidence will be…
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion - Nature
A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Cereal Stem Cell Systems Consortium published a comprehensive review in Plant Cell on how meristems shape cereal architecture. If you are not a fan of cereals except for breakfast, your teaching will still benefit from the amazing figures! ‪@cerealcell.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/32a74xpd
Scheme of meristem development in maize embryos, highlighting the expression domains of key regulatory genes.
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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#RootingForScience www.instagram.com/reel/DLR1cgQ...
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
If you are interested in plant stem cell systems, meristems and development of cereals: We are organising an international symposium on "Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems", see attached announcement. www.cscs2025.de for more details
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇
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Jenny Russinova @jennyrussinova.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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PhD student position in brassinosteroid hormone research - VIB
The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB) is a world-leading plant science institute located at the heart of a renowned Plant Biotech campus in Ghent, Belgium. Its mission is to integrate g...
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now..... tinyurl.com/38c3mf5d
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📜 CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot meristem and rachilla 🧑‍🔬 @isaiavardanega.bsky.social, @simonrdg.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Barley #PlantStemCells
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CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot meristem and rachilla - Nature Communications
Grasses have evolved a wide variety of inflorescence architectures. Here Vardanega et. al show how the barley CLV1 receptor and FCP1 peptide signal interact to control meristem shape, organ formation ...
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Isaia Vardanega @isaiavardanega.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to see our work finally out! 🌾🏴‍☠️ We show how HvCLV1 and HvFCP1 shape barley inflorescence using innovative techniques and some cool microscopy. Huge thanks to everyone involved in this study! t.co/ofButB3fRo
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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ich war heute im KZ Buchenwald, um zum 80. Tag der Befreiung zu sprechen. Eine schwierige Aufgabe. Hier ist, was ich gesagt habe: marinaweisband.de/rede-zum-80-...
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Rede zum 80. Befreiungstag des KZ Buchenwald - Marina Weisband
Rede als Video ansehen Sehr geehrte Menschen,   es war eine sehr schwere Aufgabe, eine Rede für heute zu schreiben. Weil ich keine Überlebende bin. Weil ich eine Nachfahrin der Überlebenden bin. Weil ...
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kbuerstenbinder.bsky.social @kbuerstenbinder.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great meeting for PhDs and Master students to meet peers and share your love and passion for science at a truly beautiful venue. Make sure to Mark your calendar.
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#HHU
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Dr Zoch kütt!
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is this as good as it sounds? youtube.com/watch?v=G8EC...
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Marcel Dickmanns | 🌿❄️🔬 @madic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Our methods paper made it to bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Full #cryoET workflows for #plant tissues. Plus some general tricks and tweaks on serial Lift-Out and cryo-FLM. 🧪🧵1/5 #teamtomo #PlantScience #Physcomitrium #Arabidopsis #cryoEM #CLEM
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There!
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MolPlantSci @molplantsci.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🌿🏆 Congratulations to Marc Somssich! 🏆🌿 @somssich.bsky.social He receives the 2025 SciComm Award for outstanding social media contributions bringing scientific discoveries and plant scientists to life through engaging storytelling and historical context. Well deserved! 👏 #SciComm #PlantSci #MBP2025
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences @ceplas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Congratulations!!
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cologne against AFD!
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Köln stellt sich quer!
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @hhu.de · 22/01/2025
Neujahrsempfang | #HHU Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck zum Ausstieg von X, der Rolle der Wissenschaft und der Bürgeruniversität: „In einer Zeit, in der schlichte Unwahrheiten zu ‚alternativen Fakten' erklärt und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse als ‚Fake News' herabgewürdigt werden, [...] 1/2
Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck
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cerealcell.bsky.social @cerealcell.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Follow our research unit CSCS (Cereal Stem Cell Systems) on Insta and Bluesky! We're 10 research groups in Germany and Switzerland dedicated to plant meristems.
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
If you are interested in plant stem cell systems, meristems and development of cereals: We are organising an international symposium on "Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems", see attached announcement. www.cscs2025.de for more details
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
@zolke.bsky.social Die HHU webpages haben unten noch einen link zu X....
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @hhu.de · 20/12/2024
Demokratische Werte und Wissenschaft dürfen nicht länger für algorithmische Machtspiele missbraucht werden. Wer X mit eigenem Content füttert – egal wie gut gemeint – hilft einer vom CEO manipulierten Plattform, die den Rechtspopulismus feiert. #NoMorelnteraction #eXit #Twitter 2/2
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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Exciting talk by Martin Reich about the prospects of using microbes to face the challenges of Climate Change.
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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
An international team led by IPK reports a #pangenome of #barley comprising long-read sequence assemblies of 76 wild and domesticated genomes and short-read sequence data of 1,315 genotypes. Out now in Nature! #PlantScience 🗞️ www.ipk-gatersleben.de/pressemittei... 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural variation in the pangenome of wild and domesticated barley - Nature
A pangenome analysis of 76 wild and domesticated barley accessions in combination with short-read sequence data of 1,315 barley genotypes indicates that allelic diversity at structurally complex loci ...
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Finally out! We identified the stem cell factors (CAILs) of the vascular cambium, and a mechanism involving a ligand sequestration to position the stem cells. This work is a result of fruitful collaboration with @peteretchells.bsky.social and Tusscher labs. 🧵 1/x www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Identification of cambium stem cell factors and their positioning mechanism
Wood constitutes the largest reservoir of terrestrial biomass. Composed of xylem, it arises from one side of the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche that also produces phloem on the opposing ...
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Alexandra Braun @rainbraun.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sehr viel Liebe.
Liste der Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages, die einen Antrag auf Entscheidung über die Einladung eines Verfahrens zur Feststellung der Verfassungswidrigkeit der AfD eingereicht haben.
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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Everyone who is into (plant) cell types and their identity, development, evolution... the Plant Cell Atlas has an exciting webinar series on how to define cell types, starting today (6pm CET)! 🌱🔬🧬 Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar. The sessions will be recorded too.
Plant Cell Identity Webinar schedule:

Dennis Stevenson Topic: Cell identity across species New York Botanical Gardens November 12, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Rachel Shahan & Geoff Schiebinger Topic: Aquisition of cell identities University of California Los Angeles & University of British Columbia December 10, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Ken Birnbaum & Kaisa Kajala Topic: Evolution/comparative cell identity New York University & Utrecht University February 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT

Keiko Torii & Justin Walley Topic: Cell states during cell development, proteomic approaches to defining cell types and states University of Texas & Iowa State University March 11, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Jazz Dickenson & Nemanja Vukasinovic Topic: The chemistry of cell types and states: live imaging reveals new cell states in root meristems University of California San Diego & Ghent University April 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Elliot Meyerowitz & Alex Marand Topic: 1 cell, many functions - Single-cell organisms (algae), Epigenomics Caltech & University of Michigan May 5, 2024 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT 

Marina Oliva & Alex Cantó-Pastor Topic: Environmentally responsive cell states University of Western Australia & Yale University June 10, 2025 - 4pm PST/7pm EST/7am WA

Open Panel Discussion The Plant Cell Atlas Community July 8, 2025 - 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT

Register for the series today! bit.ly/PCAPCI_WebinarPlant Cell Identity Webinar Series - next speaker advert

Speaker: Dennis Stevenson, PhD Senior Curator Emeritus of the New York Botanical Garden November 12, 2024 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT By Zoom only “Cell identity across species” Moderators: Natanella Illouz-Eliaz and Trevor Nolan Register for the series today! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webina
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