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Sovanna Tan

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Plant scientist working on root vascular development in cereals at the French institute for sustainable development (@ird-fr.bsky.social). Previously postdoc @oxfordbiology.bsky.social in @JaneLangdale.bsky.social's lab

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📣 VACANCY: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher - Tatsuya Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions 🔬🌱 📍Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply online by 14 Sept 2026 Apply here: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
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Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Researcher - Nobori group
Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Researcher position available to work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Beautiful !
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology @jipb.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
✅Crucial #crop #plant ✅Valuable model organism. 🌽This near-complete reference #genome of an important transformable #maize germplasm provides a valuable resource for functional genomics & genome editing. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantScience #agriculture
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Near‐complete genome assembly of a transformation‐efficient elite inbred line LH244 and its comparison with B73
Analysis of a near-complete assembly of the genome of the highly transformable maize inbred line LH244 revealed its high genetic similarity to B73 and will serve as a much-needed resource for functio...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 05/12/2025
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
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Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
PhD opportunity in the newly minted RO2T Respiration Group! Please share! Interested in root biology, oxygen dynamics, imaging & modelling? We’re recruiting a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Deadline 15th February. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #plantscijobs #plantscience
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Seán Jordan @seanfj.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It was a joy to contribute to this paper led by @sandyheth.bsky.social, Corentin Loron and Laura Cooper. We show the Devonian fossil, Prototaxites, is not a fungus but is in fact an organism from an as yet unknown extinct eukaryotic lineage. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dcu-lsi.bsky.social
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Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi
Prototaxites fossils are distinct from Fungi, suggesting that they represent an extinct lineage of eukaryotic life.
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France-BioImaging @france-bioimaging.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📢 The first newsletter of 2026 is out! Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside. How to read it? Click here ⤵️ france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/j...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques" Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development
Every researcher knows the anticipation and trepidation that come with submitting a paper to a journal. Years of effort have been distilled into a few thousand words and a handful of figures containin...
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Like Martin said, you go on until you feel stupid. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school...
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France-BioImaging @france-bioimaging.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📢 The September newsletter is out! Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside. How to read it? Click here ⤵️ france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/s...
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: 11th International Symposium on Root Development🌱 👉 buff.ly/Y29T13z #PlantScience
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11th International Symposium on Root Development
(2026) Mon 4 May, 4:00 PM - Thu 7, 1:00 PM [EDT]: Rooting 2026 is the upcoming edition of a well-established symposium that brings together scientists from diverse fields, including plant…
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Incredible Molly Herring wrote a story on the philosophy behind the work we do at PrakashLab. Wonder & curiosity.. even more important to share when every day is a new attack on the fundamental principles of scientific explorations. Thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social for this interaction.
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟 On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬 ⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️ 👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social
JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium
PLENARY LECTURE
17 September | 5 PM | Edinburgh
Prof Jane Langdale
University of Oxford
Regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves: understanding maize with a view to engineering rice
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A cytokinin response maximum induces and activates bifacial stem cells for radial growth www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantscience
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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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Olivia Hazelwood @ohazel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
(1/5) – I am very excited to share our publication in QPB with @aribidopsis.bsky.social ! Before working with Arif, I thought I knew at least the basics about the plant cell cycle, but shortly I realized that I knew almost nothing. If this sounds relatable at all, then this review is for you!
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Bipin Pandey @bipinpandey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
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Botany One @botany.one · 05/02/2025
📝 Botanists Trip Over The Light Fantastic When They Try To Understand Flower Colour 🧵 doi.org/n45f What humans see in a flower is nothing like the multi-stage sensory journey that guides insects to blooms. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief
Three vibrant Zinnia flowers (Zinnia elegans) displaying the species' characteristic diversity of colors and forms. A bright red zinnia with prominent ray florets and a yellow center disc, a magenta double-flowered variety exhibiting dense petal arrangement, and a fully double yellow cultivar.
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2025 International Plant Growth Substance Association (IPGSA) @ipgsa2025.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for the International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) 2025 Conference are now OPEN. www.ipgsa2025.org Deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for talks is April 15 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado! #plantscience
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please spread the word, PhD position in our group! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se
Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is a great resource by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social We normally prepare different ones and then choose those that are color blind friendly. Sometimes is hard to choose 👇🏽 What's your favourite ? @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social #SciArt
The collage shows a montage of a starred cell in different colors.
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Leo Serra @leoserra.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
More details on our recent pre-print: Alignments of stomata have been described in many species, here are 2 examples: Thym from my kitchen, and Leucadendron from a 1935 paper (Smith 1935 on the orientation of stomata) What is directing these alignments is unknown 1/12 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Leo Serra @leoserra.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Stomata form alignments in many species, we do not know how. So, we forced a lot of cells to differentiate into stomata, and we watched them dividing, with modelling, and mechanical perturbations, we conclude that they were aligned by mechanical stress derived from differential growth
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
In our Tansley review, we attempted to establish the stem cell concept in vascular cambium the way we see it. I hope that this is useful also for the other cambium enthusiasts. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Please RT: We are looking for a new group member to study cell fate determination in Arabidopsis @UmeaPlantSci @_SLU ! Dead line August 10th 2024! I will be @ipmb2024 in Cairns in a few days and @PADiBa2024 if you would like to meet! Check our group: srobertgroup.com
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Madlen I. Somssich @madlensomssich.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
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A CUC1/auxin genetic module links cell polarity to patterned tissue growth and leaf shape diversity in crucifer plants | PNAS
How tissue-level information encoded by fields of regulatory gene activity is translated into the patterns of cell polarity and growth that generat...
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Who needs goodies and printed abstract book? Let's provide space for breastfeeding and/or expressing (if time and furnitures allow it) and even better: an onsite childcare for parents to attempt conferences 😊
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Last month, Mothers in Science has twitted that "they asked moms in [their] community why they declined attending conferences after having kids." Breastfeeding came in 2nd! So I'm very gratefull to the organisers of the SFBV international conference for letting me feed my baby during breaks 👏🙌
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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
At first there were NOGs, then along came the SNOGs… 🌱 🧬 A prion-like protein regulates the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens - read our preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Plants communicate with volatile compounds. But how they are perceiving those is difficult to discover. Now the group of Natalia Dudareva discovered one of the receivers. Read more about this study on my blog plantenzo.net/2024/03/26/r... #PlantScience
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Receiver discovered
Receiver discovered Plants use volatile compounds for communication. Lots is known about how these compounds are made and distributed. But how plants recognise these volatile compounds remained a myst...
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
We set out to consolidate what we know about plasmodesmata but maybe we better consolidated the questions to which we still need answers. What molecules move through plasmodesmata? And how? How far do they go? And what information/resource do they carry? Have a read to see what we think. ⬇️
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
The WIP6 transcription factor TOO MANY LATERALS specifies vein type in C4 and C3 grass leaves Great work!
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
An ultra-potent ethylene inhibitor - www.cell.com/plant-commun... from the family! A new group of compounds controlling plant growth and germination, with huge potential in agriculture. Lovely study covers Dictyostelium, Arabidopsis, molecular modelling. #plants #plantscience #agriculture
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Open postdoc with Jill Harrison at Bristol Uni to study the evolution of apical growth Deadline 15th March Come join our HFSP funded team to investigate apical growth! thenode.biologists.com/jobs/would-y...
SEM image of two Selaginella shoot apices
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CharrierLab @brownalgaedev.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
3-year post-doc on control of cell division orientation in brown algae, in Charrier's group @ IGFL, ENS Lyon, France (bsky.app/profile/igfl...) Job description : ->https://rb.gy/dt0aq9
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 23/01/2024
We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology! Establish or maintain your own collaborative, supportive research group and offer innovative teaching to students. Deadline to apply is 1 March ➡️ bit.ly/3OgnqQO #plantsci
An illustration of a sorrel leaf. Text reads: Join us as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Molecular Plant Biology
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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
[Please repost] Save the date! We are organising the international symposium "Perspectives on Protein Networks in Plants" in Strasbourg, 19-20 September 2024. Anticipate outstanding speakers and a great location! More details here 👇
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Yvon Jaillais @yvonjaillais.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
There is still some time left to register if you want to follow the Cell Biology of Plants and Beyond symposium online. It's on Friday and the program is 🔥. Don't miss it! You just have to register here before Jan 23: sbcf.fr/en/event/the...
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The Cell Biology of Plants and Beyond – Jan 26, 2024
After the success of the two editions on “Cell Biology of Coronaviruses” and “Cell Biology of neurons, and Beyond” in 2023, the French Society for Cell Biology organizes a d…
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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
[Please RT] Interested in embarking on a #PhD journey in #evolution of #plant #metabolism and eager to work on cool models? We can support your application for a PhD scholarship from the University of Strasbourg's doctoral school! Feel free to get in touch before mid-February.
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Tina Schreier @tinaschreier.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Out Now: JXB Volume 74, Issue 21 🌿 academic.oup.com/jxb/issue #PlantScience #Phytohormones #Botany #Evosky
A moss gametophore grown on a combination of both auxin and cytokinin, revealing role of the ratio of auxin to cytokinin in gametophore development. See Cammarata et al., pp. 6541–6550.
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Congrats 👏
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Thomas Blein @bleinthomas.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
🥳 Happy to share the publication of the last part of Thomas Roule's Ph.D. at IPS2 on the role of ARES lncRNA 🧬 in the modulation of Arabidopsis 🌱 root architecture. doi.org/10.1002/iub.... A great collaboration with the group of Federico Ariel 🧪
Above: The down-regulation of the ARES long non-coding RNA do not modify significantly the expression of its neighbouring genes. Below: The down-regulation of the ARES decrease the average length of the lateral roots (right) without affecting the main root length (left) or the lateral root density (middle).
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Just a reminder we are looking to recruit an Associate Professor here at Oxford Biochemistry. Application deadline soon! Please repost
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Freelance science writer opportunity for the SEB www.sebiology.org/resource/fre... The SEB is looking for new science writers to commission articles for the website and magazine. #ScienceWriter #FreelanceWriters #SEBiology #ScientificPublishing #SciJobs
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Freelance science writer opportunity for the SEB
The SEB is looking for new science writers to commission articles for the website and magazine.
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology @jipb.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
A massive genomic variation dataset provides a powerful new tool for exploiting rare rice variants. #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Simple list. 
Heading: Rice Super-Population Variation Map.
Points: (1) 10,548 rice accessions collected from 19 studies, (2) 1 SNP per bp and 1 indel per 33 bp, (3) 84% of SNPs and 92% of indels are rare mutations, (4) online database with powerful tools.
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Joyce Yu @joyceyu.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
The Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition is open until the end of Nov! Have a stroll around the different rooms, including #DevBio 🔬 images, #SciArt and a Historical embryo zoo 🐥🦞🐧🐢 Check out the artwork chosen by the Node community and a panel of judges: thenode.biologists.com/peoples-choi...
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The Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition — People's choice and Judges' choice - the Node
Have a look at the People's choice and Judges' choice artwork from the Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition!
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Sovanna Tan @sovtan.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
(Where I did my PhD 🙂)
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