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STARMORPH_ERC SYG @starmorph-syg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The last day of #auxin2026 featured more of the STARMORPH crowd. @nowako76.bsky.social referred to one of our mentors Karin Ljung @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and Sophie Zoe Farkas from the @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

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STARMORPH_ERC SYG @starmorph-syg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day two of the #auxin2026 was a blast with more STARMORPH members on stage! @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

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STARMORPH_ERC SYG @starmorph-syg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

STARMORPH groups are all at the #auxin2026 meeting in Portugal! First day @srobertgroup.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social were giving invited lectures and Markéta Budérova gave her first (ever) flash talk!

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The @uni-freiburg.de is once again a University of Excellence!✨ This is a tremendous success for the entire University! At CIBSS, we are proud to have helped lay the foundations for this achievement together with #FutureForests. But something important has already emerged along the way:

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Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See you soon at our Photosynthesis Webinar, I'll be one of your hosts today! 👀

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Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📈 Our blog post with @shakunthalan.bsky.social and Kavita Joshi covers a very important topic in research, that we don't talk about enough. Statistics. 📊 You can read my thoughts under "Inappropriate statistical application: the treacherous tightrope". 📉

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#JustIn on Plantae — From Data to Discovery: The Power of Statistics in Research. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Sophie Zoe Farkas, Kavita Joshi, and Shakunthala Natarajan highlight the power and impact of statistics in research. buff.ly/CqFL7BM #PlantScience #PlantSci

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📣 Join us for the upcoming ASPB member-only Plantae webinar on October 2 at 12:00 pm Eastern, hosted by the 2026 Plantae Fellows. 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/xFI8MnV. #PlantScience #PlantSci

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Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Could plants make Mars habitable? 🌱🔴 Take a look at our blog post exploring the possibilities (and challenges) of terraforming Mars with plants. #PlantScience #PlantaeFellow (I also made the sketch for the blog post.)

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌱 Plant roots decide which way to grow much earlier than expected. #CIBSS researchers revealed how the SGR9 protein helps young lateral roots sense gravity & set their growth angle at a surprisingly early phase of development. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/yi3a #PlantScience #RootArchitecture

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#JustIn on Plantae - Terraforming with Plants: Can Green Life Make Mars Habitable? In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Sophie Zoe F., Jordan H.-M., and Ruth N. highlight the current state of research on growing plants on Mars, and explain why this research is important for Earth. buff.ly/KDPsXYB

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Terraforming with Plants: Can Green Life Make Mars Habitable? | Plantae

Why go to Mars Everyone wants to have a house with a garden later on in life. Producing your own vegetables, or just having a glass of wine in an armchair in the light spring wind, sounds charming.

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/5 Every paper has a story. Ours started with a dataset and ended with a conceptual advance. But what I'm most proud of is the development of the people behind it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 9 links sensory timing to the initial lateral root growth angle | PNAS

Plants strategically respond to gravity and actively set defined growth angles. These gravitropic set-point angles (GSAs) shape the width and depth...

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Federico Grippo (he/him) @fedegrippo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Proud of @sophiezoe.bsky.social for her latest paper, highlighting how an early developmental time window shapes initial growth direction of lateral roots. Thank you for having me on board and for being the best supervisor I could have wished for! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A new "Dr." on the office door. Congratulations, Dr. @seinabnoura.bsky.social 🎉🌱 A proud day for our community @dompsfr.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I got once again reminded how fortunate I am to work with such a wonderful group of people. Thank you all! 🌱

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Lab retreats - are our favorite control experiment: same people, different environment, fresh ideas :)

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How do roots choose their angle? Steep, deep, and cheap! @gwenkirschner.bsky.social (from @hutton.ac.uk) explored the molecular control of root angle in barley, revealing how cytokinin and other regulators determine root growth angle and shape root system architecture. 📅 Jun 26 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Development is something that happens over time." Today @augustinsvenja.bsky.social (from @simonrdg.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social) showed how CLE40 coordinates developmental timing in the shoot apical meristem, linking WUS regulation and auxin-mediated differentiation. 📅 May 22 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Did auxin signalling exist before plants? @n-priyadarshini.bsky.social (from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social) studies auxin responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, where auxin affects growth and gene networks linked to ROS metabolism, transport, and the cell cycle. 📅 May 8 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

From herbicides to tomato breeding: Philipp Johnen (from @basfde.bsky.social) showed how molecular plant science translates into agriculture. From identifying herbicide modes of action to breeding resistant tomatoes, and how basic research supports farmers and crop resilience. 📅Apr 24 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How do plants sense competition? Ronald Pierik (from @w-u-r.bsky.social) explored how far-red light drives shade avoidance, showing how vascular bundle structure determines auxin routes within leaves to coordinate growth. Check out their fun lockdown project: plantmoves.nl 🌱

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Time-lapse videos of plants

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

How do plants reprogram growth under stress? @christatesterink.bsky.social (from @w-u-r.bsky.social) showed how salinity reshapes root branching and flowering through auxin, transcriptional regulation, and epigenetics, revealing latent pathways and developmental flexibility. 📅 Apr 20 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Frauke Garbsch (from Laux group) explored how the shoot apical meristem is established in Arabidopsis. We learned about the WOX2 module and how it initiates stem cell formation, together with newly identified downstream genes involved in shoot stem cell niche establishment. 📅 Apr 17 #PlantScience

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AmbassadorISRRWP6 @rootarchitecture.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Great gathering at the #rooting2026 symposium #roots - three of our ambassadors presented their work @sophiezoe.bsky.social @rodag.bsky.social @hhtormar.bsky.social and more are around #roots #rootphenotyping

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Very proud of my student @hengqi.bsky.social who won best poster award #rooting2026 #proudPI @dompsfr.bsky.social

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Hengqi @hengqi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We are now watching a nice ‘movie’ created by Sophie! She is presenting her work on lateral roots!🌱👍

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Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@dompsfr.bsky.social is well represented at the #Rooting2026 conference! We just heard a great talk by @lauraragni.bsky.social. You can check out our posters #7 (@hengqi.bsky.social) and #4 (mine) today, and listen to my talk tomorrow.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Looking forward to this new @focalplane.bsky.social webinar series! Our microscopy expert @blace.bsky.social will be one of the speakers in the first session.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Last but not least, a huge thank you to our amazing organizers @hengqi.bsky.social, @carlos-rc.bsky.social, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social, @advaitagashe.bsky.social, and @kevindaniel.bsky.social for making the symposium inspiring and full of great #PlantScience! 🙌 And thank you all for joining!

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Celebrating excellence at our 4th DOMPS Symposium! 🎉 Best Paper of the Year went to @seinabnoura.bsky.social, and Best Poster prizes were awarded to @jsalfeld.bsky.social, @aroessling.bsky.social, and @sophiezoe.bsky.social. Incredible work by all! 👏👏👏

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Jürgen Kleine-Vehn (@kleinevehnlab.bsky.social) reflected on how big ideas start small, something puzzling, recurring, or arising by chance. That the right conditions, such as time, tools, environment, and people, are key. So he would invest in creating conditions where ideas can likely grow big.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Pitter Huesgen (@degradomics.bsky.social) joked that €100M would disappear quickly, if he would just buy mass spectrometers. So he spoke about what fascinates him: proteases. His favorite, ICP55, trims destabilizing N-terminal residues, helping stabilize the mitochondrial proteome.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Andreas Hiltbrunner (@plantphotobiology.bsky.social) would explore how life adapts to extreme environments, from ecological colonization of harsh habitats to the evolution and possible emergence of life. Many of his ideas were tied to one specific landscape, the beautiful glaciers.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Ralf Reski (@reskilab.bsky.social) would invest in moss bioreactors to produce biopharmaceuticals. Using moss as a scalable platform, his vision focuses on manufacturing human proteins (such as factor H) for medical applications, combining plant biotechnology with drug production.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Sjon Hartman (@hartman-plantlab.com) would keep studying flooding resilience in plants. He would spend 5M on better lab facilities, a puppy room, and 5M on a DOMPS villa. The remaining 90M would fund a collaborative Molecular Plant Science hub with shared growth and phenotyping facilities.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Laura Ragni (@lauraragni.bsky.social) would head first to the Alps and then to the tropics, to study cork cambium stem cells. By comparing species with different protective bark layers, using large-scale single-cell sequencing, she aims to understand how this lifelong tissue forms and regenerates.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Annegret Wilde (@freecyano.bsky.social) proposed scaling up the Azolla–cyanobacteria symbiosis inspired by the Arctic Azolla event, when massive Azolla growth helped lower atmospheric CO₂. Her vision includes mega-scale Azolla bioreactors capturing CO₂ while replacing synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

To close the symposium, our professors answered one (or both) of two questions: 💭 What would you research with €100M? 🌍 If you could study anything, what would it be? Seven perspectives on curiosity, ambition, and science. 🧵 #PlantScience

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

@ottlab.bsky.social presented work on how plants control microbial entry into root cells. The study shows how a nanodomain-localized protein reorganizes the actin cytoskeleton to allow symbiotic microbes to enter and establish beneficial partnerships. bsky.app/profile/rece...

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“We still don’t know what’s going on, but we’re having fun on the way.” - @likeyoda1.bsky.social (from @unituebingen.bsky.social) Margot’s keynote explored how cell identity is regulated during plant embryogenesis, from the heart to torpedo stage, through precisely timed asymmetric cell divisions.

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Sophie Zoe Farkas @sophiezoe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Prize, prize... surprise! Two poster prizes in two weeks, #MBP2026 & #DOMPS2026, still a bit surreal. I am very grateful for the support and inspiring environment in the @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social groups, where creativity and curiosity are both encouraged.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"If you don't understand the soil, you don't understand root biology." - Malcolm J. Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) We started day three with Malcolm’s keynote on why roots must be studied in real soil to truly understand their growth and behaviour. #PlantSci

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Anup Kumar (from @uni-freiburg.de) introduced how artificial intelligence and machine learning are shaping modern biological research. The workshop highlighted how computational approaches can support data analysis, pattern detection, and biological discovery in increasingly complex datasets.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

@urbandesire.bsky.social (from @mpi-ie.bsky.social) led our first workshop on curating scientific content for effective communication. From crafting engaging ideas to reaching diverse audiences, participants explored ways to share their research. #SciComm

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