Priya Ramakrishna

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

For #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing my ongoing series of women in science through history. I’m now at 79.

Here’s to the day a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field.

Since last year I have added these 12 #linocut prints.
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A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.

Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽

#WomenInScience

🌱𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Explore different aspects of plant receptors in this 3rd webinar in collaboration with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social

🗓️ 10th March 2026
🕗 18:00 am CET

Register here 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

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?

🚨Job Alert – Please RT!
We’re looking for bright minds to join our community!
We are looking for 12 postdocs and 7 PhD students!
Details on all projects and application: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
@leibnizipk.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social

Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense Salt and Drought We discuss recent breakthroughs in plant osmotic stress sensing, including molecular crowding and phosphorylation pathways. Based on non-plant systems, we formulate new hypotheses for how roots sense ...

Tasting Trouble: Rethinking How Plants Sense #Salt and #Drought

www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#PlantScience #SciComm @mplantpcom.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social @linjieshu.bsky.social @jipb.bsky.social @jia-jintegragri.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social

15 PhD positions in Marie Curie Doctoral Network ‘AGILE’
Looking to work with and learn from world-leading experts in plant cell imaging? MSCA DN 'AGILE' has got 15 open PhD positions: www.msca-agile.eu
Please check out the website and apply there
Deadline: 15th of April, start date September 2026.

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology

Join our community & shape the future of research

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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....

🌱🔬 Imaging and microscopy people 👇

#plantscience #lifescience #microscopy

Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA
- Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴
Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads.
utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
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Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate - Nature The choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms motile and contractile cell monolayers purely clonally, purely aggregatively or through a combination of both processes depending on environmental condi...

Salinity tunes mode of multicellularity in a tidepool choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... - paper in @nature.com

It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

#forscientists
#notforprofit

Workshop venue seating with speakers with introduction by Helen Zenner from Company of Biologists

Picture of entrance to Buxted Park

English countryside with sheep

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Thanks for highlighting our work on combining AI-based organelle dynamics detection in phase contrast with fluorescence!

www.nature.com/ncomms/edito...

@natcomms.nature.com and Nelio Rodriguez. Spearheaded by @wl-stepp.bsky.social with collaborators @jclandoni.bsky.social @maweigert.bsky.social

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-...

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨Last chance to submit your abstract for a GRS talk!
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026.

Apply soon!

General application deadline (poster presentations only): April 25, 2026.

#plantscience #abioticstress #ECRs

Membranes and their lipids and proteins in organelle biogenesis The Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course 'Membranes and their lipids and proteins in organelle biogenesis' will take place in Spetses Island, Greece, from 10–16 May 2026. Registration is open (deadline 1 Ma...

EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course – Membranes in Organelle Biogenesis
📍 Spetses, Greece | 🗓️ 10–16 May 2026
A week with leading experts on organelle biology, membranes, lipids, and dynamics.
⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026
🔗 Info: network.febs.org/videos/membr...
📝 Register: spetses2026.sites.uu.nl

Long in the making, but happy to present the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome!
Cryo-ET🔬reveals a large new domain on the small subunit, built from multiple extensions in conserved ribosomal proteins.
bioRxiv 📖: shorturl.at/q44tG
This suggests greater chlororibosome diversity than expected!
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Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Excited to share our latest review on hydrosignaling: moisture-dependent molecular pathways that help plants grow towards water. Insightful review of the literature and discussion of moisture sensing mechanisms by Will Dwyer and @hhtormar.bsky.social. Enjoy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...