Excited to share our latest preprint. Arabidopsis thaliana has been the leading model for plant genetics - but most of what we know comes from growth chambers.
Can this model also help us understand how climate shapes plants in the wild and reveal gene functions under real environmental variability?
Location and date of the Molecular Biology of Plants Conference in Hennef, Germany, from 16 - 19 March 2026
#PlantSciConfi
Updated programme of the
Molecular Biology of Plants Conference
organized by @kunzlab.bsky.social et al.
is available on the website of our Section @molplantsci.bsky.social
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
ECR's: if you want to take part in the
3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting
remind the deadline, which is on 23rd January
www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
TOMORROW: SEMINAR by Bruno Guillotin from @ips2parissaclay.bsky.social, invited by @yvdp.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social
Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch
Congrats to the beautiful work!
🌱 Join us tomorrow at 12:00h for a seminar by Julia Arraiza (@jarraiza.bsky.social) and Arthur Cleyman from the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie in Belgium (@viblifesciences.bsky.social)
💡 Free entry
👉 https://www.cragenomica.es/events/external-seminar-vlaams-instituut-voor-biotechnologie-vib
Using sexual reproduction markers identified from scRNA data, Arthur Cleyman developed new tools to transform Cylindrotheca closterium and make “pheromone sensing” lines. Cool 😎 #MLD8 @gustbilcke.bsky.social
Closing Keynote of #ICAR2025 by Jiří Friml taking us on a journey through the saga of auxin signalling
What a great session: thanks to all including Julia for the av assistance! #icar2025
When it’s your turn to ask a question you get the soft mike tossed to you. Feels like a festival #icar2025
Starting day 2 of #ICAR2025 with Julia Bailey-Serres from UC Riverside on plant fight or flight (!) responses upon water logging stress.
Starting the scientific program of #ICAR2025 with an amazing keynote by Jane Parker @parkergroup.bsky.social on the structural basis of plant immunity! Looking forward to 5 days of fantastic Arabidopsis and plant science at the #Bijlokesite in Ghent!
It‘s about to start - such an amazing venue for #ICAR2025
Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !
Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Schematic representation of a longitudinal section of the juvenile root meristem and the regulatory networks controlling changes in division orientation. In the epidermis/lateral root cap (LRC), the SMB–FEZ pathway is responsible for regulating the division guiding changes in division orientation that generate the epidermis and LRC. In the ground tissue, the SHR–SCR module guides the changes in division orientation that generate the cortex and endodermal tissues. In the vascular tissue, the TMO5/LHW–DOF2.1 module and, more specifically in the phloem, PEAR transcription factors, drive oriented divisions that regulate vascular proliferation. Inset: developmental trajectories for the various cell types found in the root meristem, beginning from the quiescent centre (QC) in the centre and ending outermost with the final forms.
🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬
'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Wonderful talk and discussions by Julia Santiago today here in PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social 🇧🇪🌱. Thanks to @embo.org YIP for financial support!
TODAY: Public PhD defense of Mirna Sekulic from @deveylderlab.bsky.social. @viblifesciences.bsky.social
TOMORROW: SEMINAR by Nicolas Rouhier, scientist @univlorraine.bsky.social, invited by @vanbreusegemlab.bsky.social and @yvdp.bsky.social
It was wonderful visiting VIB—thanks to everyone for the engaging discussions! @hildenelissen.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @vandepoelelab.bsky.social @moritznowack.bsky.social and many others
In our last work that is just out in @newphyt.bsky.social we use a transcription inhibitor to improve the detection of mild drought stress responses in scRNA-seq. Browsable dataset on www.single-cell.be/plant/leaf-drought . Thanks to Ruben Tenorio Berrio and collaborators for the exciting collab!
This year’s edition of our internal PSB @psb-vib.bsky.social symposium #PSBmeets25 in full swing. Off to 2 days of seminars, poster sessions, discussions, and party!
