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Stéphane Verger

@stephanevrg.bsky.social
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Associate professor and group leader at Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden. Interested in plant mechanosensing, cell adhesion and wood formation. www.upsc.se/stephane_verger

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COST Action PlantWallK @plantwallk.org · 17/07/2026
📢 PlantWallK WG2 Webinar — "Image & Data Analysis" Join us for an introduction to AI for image processing, with two talks: 🔹 Tereza Belinova (ISTA) — From Pixels to Patterns 🔹 Beatriz Serrano-Solano (EMBL Heidelberg) — AI4Life Highlights 🔹 Hosted by @stephanevrg.bsky.social 📅 Fri 7 Aug, 14:00 CEST
Flyer for the PlantWallK WG2 Image and Data Analysis Webinar, COST Action CA24116, on a pale green background. Top left shows the grey COST Action "European Cooperation in Science and Technology" logo; top right shows the PlantWallK logo, a stylised green leaf built from geometric cell-wall-like facets, above the text "PlantWallK, COST Action 24116". Below, in green, "COST ACTION CA24116 – Advancing Plant Cell Wall Knowledge", followed by a dark green banner reading "WG2: Image & Data Analysis Webinar". Introductory text explains that the webinar offers an introduction to AI for image processing for action members. A shaded date bar reads "Friday, August 7th – 2:00 PM (CEST) | Duration: ~1h30". Under "WEBINAR PROGRAM", two white cards list the talks: "From Pixels to Patterns: Image Analysis Essentials in the World of AI" by Tereza Belinova (Imaging and Optics Facility, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, ISTA), and "AI4Life Highlights" by Beatriz Serrano-Solano (Euro-BioImaging ERIC Bio-Hub, EMBL Heidelberg). A pale yellow box notes that attendance is reserved for COST Action members, with the registration link to follow via COST channels, and that the session will be recorded for members. A final green-bordered box invites those not yet part of the PlantWallK network to join at www.plantwallk.org/#join.
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 22/06/2026
📆 Deadline approaching today! 🌾Are you interested in how plant cells perceive and respond to mechanical signals?🧪 Apply for this postdoctoral scholarship and join @stephanevrg.bsky.social's group. 👉 See the original post for details and application.
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COST Action PlantWallK @plantwallk.org · 25/05/2026
🧵 It’s happening! The #PlantWallK kick-off meeting is officially underway in sunny Prague 🇨🇿 Over the next 2 days, researchers from across Europe (and beyond!) will come together to push the frontiers of plant cell wall science. Stay tuned for live updates! #PlantWallK26 #COSTAction
Panoramic view of Prague from Letná park on a sunny day. The Vltava river winds through the city with several bridges visible, framed by lush green trees in the foreground and a light blue sky above. Some birds fly in the middle distance above the historic rooftops.
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 13/05/2026
🧪🌾VACANCY: Postdoctoral scholarship in Plant Cell Adhesion and Mechanosensing🔬 Interested in how plant cells perceive and respond to mechanical signals? Join @stephanevrg.bsky.social’s group and work on fundamental questions in plant cell biology. Apply by June 22👇: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within plant cell adhesion and mechanosensing
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
On #FluorescenceFriday we are featuring this beautiful FLIM image of compressed wood tissue from Ioannis Theodorou @ioathepatterns.bsky.social. For more information about the image and Ioannis’s research check out our post: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/27/f...
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Featured image with Ioannis Theodorou - FocalPlane
Featured image with Ioannis Theodorou - News
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
FATE annual in person meeting! This time in Umeå! Nice day of interdisciplinary science! @stephanevrg.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @pmarhavy.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social @uu.se @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @liu.se
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Latest preprint from our group together with @stephanevrg.bsky.social @wabniklab.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social Our work supports the view that morphogenesis is not driven by growth alone, but by the integration of physical and biological regulation. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation at Umea Plant Science Centre, Umea, Sweden *Application Deadline: 2/27/2026" Read more here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu… #PlantSciJobs
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025
‼️If you are finishing (or have just finished) your PhD and are exploring postdoc options, this is a great chance to meet people, share ideas, and build links. Come to northern Sweden ❄️🇸🇪 and connect with the community Message me if you have any questions 📩
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Launch your first independent research group in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. Deadline extended to 30 Jan 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s... #plantscijobs 1/4🧵
Photo of the interior of award-winning Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University building. Glass walls look into the research labs and naturally lit staircase and walkway with study boxes looking into the Botanic Garden
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
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Umeå Plant Science Centre - Research Groups at UPSC
Umeå Plant Science Centre - A centre of excellence for experimental plant biology in Umeå Sweden. ©UPSC
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 07/11/2025
🧪🌾INTERVIEW: New tools to study how plant cells hold together🔬 Léa Bogdziewiez from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group developed innovative tools to study cell adhesion at a whole new level. She just defended her PhD thesis – congrats, Léa! Learn more in this interview: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
A women with glasses and long brown hair is standing at a water front. She is wearing a hat and a warm jacket.
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Mateusz Majda @matmajda.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 07/10/2025
🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬 Read more in this interview👇: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Two men at a huge microscope, one is sitting in front and one is standing next to him, both are looking into the camera.
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
People: "Things used to be better." Scientist: "When did it start getting worse?" People: "When I was born." From "The illusion of moral decline" by Adam Mastroianni. shorturl.at/FFEDV
A graph showing violin plots. On the y axis is the perceived morality of people from 0 to 8. On the x axis the time points 40 years before my birth, 20 years before my birth, at my birth, 20 years past my birth, today. The morality value is constant until birth, and then declines.
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 07/08/2025
🧪Are you looking for a postdoc in a multidisciplinary environment? Don't miss this opportunity to join @icelabumu.bsky.social and apply for 1 out of 3 available fellowships! Project D will be in collaboration with our group leader @stephanevrg.bsky.social. Take a look on the link below and apply!
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IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with... @umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 28/07/2025
🧪🌾Are you familiar with protoplasts and why they are used as simplified models to investigate complex mechanisms such as how cells stick together?🔬 If not, take a look on this short popular science video created last year by Léa Bogdziewiez & Sonhita Chakraborty for the Fascination of #PlantDay👇:
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 27/07/2025
Really happy to see this work published! Last year, when we started working with protoplasts, Stéphane connected us with Léa, who was incredibly helpful. She did a fantastic job teaching the students in our group protocols and tricks, and I’m really grateful. This pipeline will be useful for many!👇
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@stephanevrg.bsky.social lab is changing the way we question cell wall developmental role! Thanks Léa for this great pipeline! In use for our @kawresearch.bsky.social project!
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 25/07/2025
🧪🌾PAPER - Would like to use protoplasts to study cell walls but struggle with cell wall recovery?🦾 Check out the Q-Warg Pipeline: a robust and versatile workflow established by Bogdziewiez et al from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group! Find it in @plantdirectj.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/pld3...
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Please spread the word: Position in plant development @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Looking forward to having a new colleague! www.upsc.se/jobs/6590-as...
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Umeå Plant Science Centre - Associate Senior Lecturer in plant physiology with focus on plant embryo development
Umeå Plant Science Centre - A centre of excellence for experimental plant biology in Umeå Sweden. ©UPSC
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 27/06/2025
🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you expert in plant embryo development and planning your next career step? Join the excellence initiative "SLU Future" at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and become group leader @umeaplantsciencecentre.se! Read more here👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #PlantSciJobs
Whitish mature spruce somatic embryos growing on a cell callus partly coloured in red in front of a blue background
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts! Plant Computational Biology Workshop Open to researchers at all levels Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation 📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.
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Stéphane Verger @stephanevrg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Looking for a new PhD student to join the lab! Please share!
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 24/04/2025
After a long and very successful career our plant cell wall expert Professor Ewa Mellerowicz is retiring. Ewa mentored & inspired many young scientists and her contributions to wood biology research are invaluable. Thank you for everything, Ewa, and all the best for the next chapter in your life!👏
A women is standing on a green field with young aspen trees.
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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab! 🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬 #PlantSci #CellBiology
FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall (SOEW).
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bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646819; this version posted April 6, 2025.
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Yuchen Long @longyuchen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hello Bluesky! Here’s my first post: My lab in NUS (Singapore) has one postdoc (research fellow) position open. Candidate will conduct mechanobiology study on duckweed (Wolffia sp.), in close association with Prakash Kumar’s lab. More info and application link: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...
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Research Fellow (Biological Sciences)
Research Fellow (Biological Sciences)
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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 17/02/2025
🌾🧪VACANCY - Are you expert in wood biology and would like to set up your research group in a great environment for this type of research? 🧬🖥️⚖️ Join us a @umeaplantscicentre.bsky.social! Read more here👇 and apply latest on Feb 28: slu.se/en/about-slu... #PlantSciJob #sciencejobs #hiring
Microscopic image of wood tissue with fibres and tracheids labeled in pink and some compartments within the cells in green. Photo: Stephan Verger
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Anja Geitmann @geitmannlab.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Plant Biomechanics friends and colleagues - I created a starter pack for our community. Feel free to let me know if you want to be removed from or added to the list! go.bsky.app/D9oZmVH
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 20/12/2024
Calling all early-career plant scientists (-6 months to +2 years from PhD defence)! 🌱 Share your research at the Umeå Plant Science Centre Symposium on 26–27 March 2025. Network, collaborate, and join exciting workshops! Apply by 7 January 2025. Details: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n... #PlantScience
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Umeå Plant Science Centre - UPSC invites young plant researchers to present their research
Umeå Plant Science Centre - A centre of excellence for experimental plant biology in Umeå Sweden. ©UPSC
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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are looking for a new colleague :) Please spread the word!
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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024
🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 I'm thrilled to announce my new project, Watchers on the Wall, exploring how plant cells sense and respond to stress through their walls. 🌱 A 5-year fully funded PhD position is open—please share with potential candidates! 👇 (1/7)
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Stéphanie Robert @srobertgroup.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
On March 26 and 27, 2025, we will arrange the next UPSC Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium. For young researchers to present their research at UPSC and explore potential collaborative projects with UPSC group leaders. www.upsc.se/early-career...
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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🌱 New preprint from the Verger Lab @stephanevrg.bsky.social ! 🧪 📜 Imran Baba et al., 2024: doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🔬 Discover how RG-II crosslinking in the plant cell wall, regulated by Boron, is crucial for cell adhesion during growth. ✨ Bonus: RRQuant tool! (Details in thread 👇) #PlantBiology
Figure 2: Homogalacturonan deficiency and rhamnogalacturonan-II
dimerization defects affect adhesion through largely separate pathways. (A-G)
Representative max intensity Z-projections of confocal stacks from 4-days-old darkgrown hypocotyl stained with propidium iodide from Col-0 (A), mur1-2 (B), qua2-1 (C),
mur1-2 qua2-1 (D), esmd1-1 (E), mur1-2 esmd1-1 (F) and qua2-1 esmd1-1 (G). (H)
Schematic representation of Boron-Rhamnogalacturonan-II (RG-II) dimers and
Calcium-Homogalacturonan (HG) “egg-box” crosslinking domains along the HG
backbone. (I) Quantification of the relative ruthenium red staining intensity (see
representative images and length quantification in figure S3). Boxplots summarize
three biological replicates, as represented by dots of different colors, and letters
describe the statistically significant differences between populations determined by
one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD test (P < 0.05).[Scale bars, 30µm in images
(A-G).] See related content in figure S2 and S3.
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Thomas Greb @thomasgreb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Did you ever wonder how mechanics may influence the behavior of cambium stem cells? We did. Driven by modelling done in the group of Karen Alim, we checked whether mechanical stress can explain the regularity of cell divisions during radial plant growth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Robust regulation of cell division is central to the formation of complex multi-cellular organisms and is a hallmark of stem cell activity. In plants,…
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Stephan Wenkel @microproteins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Development! Join the ERC Synergy project RESYDE exploring symmetry breaking in flowers to uncover the evolution of floral architectures. We're seeking talented postdocs to reshape plant development! Please get in touch if interested.
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