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Dominique Bergmann

@stanfordstomata.bsky.social
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Steel town kid gone west. Development, plants, resilience and flexibility. stomata.stanford.edu

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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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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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great to see this new work from Chin-Min (Kimmy) Ho's lab on HDL as a chromatin-associated factor that changes chromocenter architecture and modulates developmental plasticity in plants rdcu.be/4Qk2bkawwiba
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are very much looking forward to listen to the latest #plantsci results presented next week in the following 8 plenary sessions, at our #BT2026: Dominique Bergmann, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social (Stanford University, USA): Flipping the script: Generating stomatal form in Arabidopsis leaves 🧵1/9
The poster of the International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG), the Botanik-Tagung, lists all invited speakers and session topics that can also be retrieved from https://botanik-tagung.de/speakers.html
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Stomata: an introduction to a virtual issue Check out this #Editorial from Alistair Hetherington introducing the Virtual Issue 'Stomata' 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Logo for the 46th New Phytologist Symposium, 'Stomata'. Illustration depicting the broad functions and global relevance of stomatal research in the context of global change.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: A hand-knitted wire sculpture of stomata on the epidermis of wheat, made by scientist and artist Dr Jodie Armand from a 3D confocal image of the wheat epidermis. Image courtesy of Dr Jodie Armand (University of Sheffield). #PlantScience
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 251, issue 6: A hand-knitted wire sculpture of stomata on the epidermis of wheat, made by scientist and artist Dr Jodie Armand from a 3D confocal image of the wheat epidermis.
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Super cool exploration of stomatal bHLH gene evolution in ferns and gymnosperms. A decade ago Anne Vatén @stomagenesis.bsky.social already knew these plants were critical missing links -- now her group has functional studies in spruce! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2/ Plants love to multiply TF families — great for regulatory power, but how do factors that bind the same DNA sequence have different effects? Andrea Mair's hypothesis: specificity comes from each TF's protein partners.
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/9 🧵New preprint from the lab! A midpoint in a long journey to understand specificity among bHLH transcription factors in plants. Part IV: how does an accessory domain guide specificity of heterodimerizing bHLHs? #PlantSci #TranscriptionFactors #stomata www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho are also editing our newest Special Issue. Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...
Call for papers Special Issue
Plant and Algae Development

Academic Editor Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University, USA) and Guest Editor Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany).

Submission deadline: 2 November 2026

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our single-cell atlas paper made the cover 🎉 image by @lbmountain.bsky.social, showing the mature Brachy epidermis in all its beauty. #GoBrachy: yellow is lignin, and blue is cell wall autofluorescence.
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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🍀🔬 Force-responsive symmetric cell divisions orient stomata along global tissue axes @pnas.org from Andrew Muroyama's lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
3 days left to save science from fascist takeover! Public comments are how we fight back, submit yours here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... @standupforscience.net has an awesome guide to help you write one: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... #science #savescience 🧪
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Plant cell sculptures, hand-woven by @jodiearmand.bsky.social These are some of the coolest bio-inspired and bio-accurate works I've seen. Go check out her work!!
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Check out our latest subject collection, showcasing @dev-journal.bsky.social papers on plant development, which has been curated to support ICAR2026: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Are you attending ICAR 2026 next week (from 22-26 June) at National University of Singapore? @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, and Reviews Editor, @saanjbati.bsky.social, will be there. Feel free to chat with them about your next Development paper.
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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage
Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is going to be so exciting! Reach out with ideas! And come find me at ICAR in Singapore to learn more.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to register for the 2026 Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting! Great speakers! Tons of talks selected from abstracts! Workshop with Scott Fraser! Workshop with Rashmi Priya! Redwoods trees! 🧬🐸🐟🪰🐭🪱🍃🔥🔬. @devbiol.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The abstract submission deadline for the Botanik Tagung of the German #PlantScience Society ( @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social ) is coming up. If you want to showcase your science to the German Plant Science Community, then this is the place to be: 👇
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Upcoming Freeman Hrabowski Scholars competition! Career transforming stable, sustained support @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc program, too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA
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Ido Nir (INlab) @idonir.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Excited to share our new preprint, a project initiated during my postdoc in the @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, on how plants encode environmental responsiveness in development 🌱 We use tomato to dissect how stomatal production is tuned by climate inputs via cis-regulatory variation in SPCH
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The latest elegant (as always) review from @onsunlau.bsky.social Silent master: SPEECHLESS the driver of stomatal stem cell fate and integrator of intrinsic and environmental cues - Yang - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/...
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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🎙️🔬🍀 New episode of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast is online! In this episode, Laura told us about cell cycle regulation during plant regeneration. Podcast: tinyurl.com/2zv935d4 Article: tinyurl.com/mryz9e36
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Heike Lindner @heikelindner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our first Kalanchoë laxiflora story found its perfect home @Science Advances with a beautiful cover image of Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaves. I am grateful that I can continue working with this incredible new model to learn more about succulent development 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The picture shows Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaf margins
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯
ONLINE COVER: Leaves of Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, a member of the Crassulaceae family of succulents also containing Kalanchoë laxiflora. Stomata, otherwise known as plants’ breathing pores, allow gas exchange between plants and the atmosphere, but little is known about how succulent stomata are formed or move. Cheng et al.’s investigation into K. laxiflora revealed that subsidiary cells can support the opening and closing of stomata and that the transcription factor MUTE, which drives stomatal development, also facilitates additional rounds of asymmetric division needed to generate subsidiary cells. Their work provides insight into succulent development and could be applied in agricultural contexts to engineer water conservation strategies.

Credit: Rob Tilley / MindenExcessive activation of the MUTE gene switch leads to unrestricted asymmetric cell divisions in the leaf surface of the succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora.
© Miro LäderachThe MUTE gene switch is active in all cells of the developing stomata. Gene activity is visible through a weak signal (in blue) in the future helper cells and a strong signal (in green) in the mother cell of the guard cells.
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our Editor, @swathiarur.bsky.social, has curated a new subject collection for the journal, highlighting the intersection between developmental and cell biology. Take a look at the collection 'Cell biology in development' here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
A screenshot of the 'Cell biology in development' subject collection showing introductory text and an image of dividing cells.
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is an amazing opportunity for students and postdocs to learn new ideas and techniques at the intersections of biology/physics/AI. This course was transformative for me and my students! Summer in beautiful Santa Barbara as a bonus.
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Is everyone ready for #Plantsgiving?!?! Thank you @martinebotany.bsky.social for my favorite botanical tradition 🥹🌱
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What a glorious day--waking up to see this lovely preprint that does it all--a comprehensive scRNAseq atlas of leaf development, hints at the txn of new cell types, and great hypotheses about how GRNs may differ among related TFs (and in other news, some hope for American Democracy)
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
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Volume 152 Issue 20 | Development | The Company of Biologists
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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 22/10/2025
Understanding #microtubule dynamics: The synergy of technology, theory, and experiment. New Perspective from Richard McIntosh @colorado.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #Biophysics #Microtubules
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Welp, I guess I can claim that I had my profile banner photo up years before demolition was cool.
photo of East wing of US white house being demolished.  To contrast with my profile photo of Herrin Hall at Stanford coming down outside of my window
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
2010: Launch of the Node @the-node.bsky.social, our community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists. Find out how the Node was born. bit.ly/3VOfCZZ
The Node infographic showing global reach, number of posts, jobs advertised, events listed and registered authors. Including a breakdown of the Node network.
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA
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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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How plant roots rebuild their tips after injury
Geometry-driven cell divisions help restore shape.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Stand up for our country & against this authoritarian regime. Big SF protest saying hell no to Trump.
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mcyeemd @mcyeemd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
17X17 Protest (17K people and 17 miles long) in Redwood City - here are our two 90+ y.o. protestors out there for all two hours!
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Congrats Gozde and team!! A plethora of new preprints from the Demirer lab @caltech.edu 📚
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One of my absolute favorite meetings! Attendees--please do ask me about CoB and the journal Development. Our community has strong advocates there.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/08/2025
💊It’s Day 12 of #31Days Of Action! Attend our weekly Webinar to learn about our mission and how YOU can get involved! Join #StandUpForScience and Special Guest Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH & NIGMS, for our Tues Action Hour TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT! Sign up here👉 zurl.co/OmG1N
Promotional graphic for “Action Hour with Special Guest Jeremy Berg” from Stand Up for Science, labeled as “Day 12.” The design features red, white, and blue colors with paint splatters, star outlines, a partial image of the Statue of Liberty, and a QR code. The website link www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-action is displayed at the bottom.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Excited for the @faseborg.bsky.social's upcoming #PlantDevelopment conference in Massachusetts? #PDevSRC To complement the meeting, we've curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms
Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Wow, what a spectacular workshop! People, place and prospect of deep conversations that could guide the next decade of inquiry.
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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · 17/07/2025
We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱 It will be an exciting meeting! FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
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