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Exciting and thought-provoking talk by Yasin Dagdas in our HiLIFE Monday seminars #viikkimon

Very happy about this nice piece of work by @eugeniapitsili.bsky.social on developmentally controlled cell death in plants @dev-journal.bsky.social‬ !
Special thanks also to @ingridtsang.bsky.social for a terrific editorial job bringing out the best of this manuscript!!
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Tämä yksilö on varmaankin teinipoika. Iän myötä tasoittuu tämä mahtaileva käyttäytyminen.

Wise words from Miltos "Be intellectually humble — if you are studying an interesting question, remember that the question is bigger than one’s intellect. Put your ego aside so you can learn from others, read a lot and respect your co-workers and colleagues at all levels."🙏

Miltos Tsiantis Interview with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

Q&A with Miltos Tsiantis, who studies plant development and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

Cross section of hypocotyl of 8-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana. The ovac mutant displays enhanced secondary vessel differentiation (red) at the expense of parchenchyma cells. Images A2 and B2 show the vessel cells only. SR2200 and Fuchsin staining. Imaged by Donghwi Ko.

How plants control fleshy & woody tissue growth🥕🪵
Ykä Helariutta’s labs at @slcuplants.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi reveal how plants fine-tune xylem development to balance growth — with big implications for crops and forestry

📜@science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ℹ️ shorturl.at/YLnUw

PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate Polyamines are often associated with ribosomes and are thought to stabilize their integrity. In Arabidopsis, the polyamine thermospermine (tSpm) affects xylem cell fate. tSpm induces translation of SU...

In @science.org this week, thermospermine affects ribosome methylation, which in turn regulates translation of xylem development proteins www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience

Wow, congrats Kalika and Akansha et al. for the beautiful work!

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience

One week left to apply!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

confocal images of four root tips and their transverse sections

Not so lonely now...! 👥🛣️

Ohashi-Ito et al. demonstrate that LONESOME HIGHWAY and its homolog LL3 play distinct yet redundant roles in regulating cell proliferation during #root vascular development

🛋️ doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantScience
#RootBiology
#PlantDevelopment

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs

jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki
#plantscience #plantdev

Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Model bacteria that lack (or have minimal) defense systems have been crucial for understanding bacterial immunity. Now, there is a model defenseless plant. One may expect that this model can accelerate discoveries on plant immunity

Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution YouTube video by University of Oxford

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 ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy Inflorescences of flowering plants adopt diverse genetically programmed and environmentally tuned architectures. By contrast, continued maintenance of the stem-cell pool within the apical meristem is ...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
A feedback loop allows two shoot stem cell populations to respond differently to environmental conditions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience

Aberdeenshire fossil dating back 410 million years joins museum collection Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

Really exciting to get some press coverage on our Prototaxites paper @instmolplantsci.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

It is like listening a grandparent in a nursing home...

Happy to present our latest: Evolutionary adaptations to the hormonal regulation of vascular tissue development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Work by Wei Xiao and funded by @erc.europa.eu

Great to visit @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social today for advisory board meeting and seminar. Exciting science here.

Save the date: Plant Development PhD school (i.e. Retzbach 2.0) in Neustadt, Germany.

Sept 23rd-25th, 2026
~€350 all inclusive

Excellent speakers and a relaxed atmosphere for early-career researchers (PhDs & postdocs). Registration opens soon.

For more info, see
raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

Great project and super nice working environment 👇

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology

Come to work with us at @helsinki.fi ! Still time to apply!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...