Javier Brumós

Fanny Angelina Hesse and the Discovery of Agar YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology

Struggling with gelatin that melted in the heat or got eaten by bacteria, Koch’s team was stuck. Fanny -an artist & "housewife" assisting in the lab- suggested using agar-agar.
She’d learned about its heat-stable gelling properties from a neighbor who had lived in Indonesia
youtu.be/qyTjqIKTQLo?...

The Origins of Agar First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

One of the most important tools in modern Life Science research -the agar plate- actually started out as a secret ingredient for a summer dessert? 🍮🧪

Check what Fanny Angelina Hesse, the unknown hero of this story, did in Koch’s laboratory
www.asimov.press/p/agar

Great initiative for #PlantScience postdocs

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Please, spread the word
@sebplants.bsky.social @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cragenomica.bsky.social
@cnb-csic.bsky.social
@irnasa.bsky.social
@ibvf-sevilla.bsky.social
@csicdivulga.bsky.social
Many thanks to the sponsors for the awards
& @cargueso.bsky.social for inspiration

Prepare your best art for AR(t)RBMP

Plant Molecular Biology Meeting
📍 Bilbao
🗓️ July 1-3
rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info

Thanks to #RBMP2026 organizing committee, @danielmarinoehu.bsky.social
@ibmcp.bsky.social support & my partner in crime for these fun initiatives @javijevi.bsky.social
#PlantScience

We appreciate all the support from the #RBMP2026 organizing committee, @danielmarinoehu.bsky.social
& sponsors #PlantScience

Thrilled to announce the 2nd edition of AR(t)RBMP at #RBMP2026 in beautiful Bilbao!

Get ready to unleash your creativity — 🌱🎨📷🔬🧬prepare your best pictures, drawings, videos, & artistic visions

🏆 The most outstanding art pieces will receive a special award!
More info @:
rbmp2026.com/RBMP/en/info

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

bit.ly/3ZHtneT

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...

Hi Joan! Have you guys tried it and it doesn't work?
Using it for trees, this approach can be a game-changer.

orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...

Heritable transgene-free genome editing in plants by grafting of wild-type shoots to transgenic donor rootstocks - Nature Biotechnology Gene-edited plants free of CRISPR-associated sequences are generated by grafting.

Transgene-free edited plants in one generation, clever approach!

Chimeric RNA resulting from Cas9 & guide RNA transcripts fusion to tRNA-like sequence motifs moves from transgenic rootstocks to grafted wild-type shoots producing heritable edited genes #PlantScience

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ISPMF 2026 Valencia Plant Molecular Farming is entering a new era, with breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genome editing, and biomanufacturing driving innovation across healthcare, agriculture, and sustainable industry...

7th International Conference on Plant Molecular Farming. 13–15 May 2026. Valencia, Spain
@ispmf.bsky.social 2026
www.ispmf2026valencia.org

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?

I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/

It all started a few years ago... 🧵

From big data to mechanistic insights: decoding plant complexity with models Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing, imaging, and phenotyping have carried plant science into the era of ‘big data.’ Complex, multi-scale da…

From big data to mechanistic insights: decoding plant complexity with models.

Combination of AI with mechanistic models is transforming temporal, image-based, & spatial omics data into detailed predictions of robust plant traits. #PlantScience

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plant Communication Communication occurs when a sender emits a cue perceived by a receiver that changes the receiver's behavior. Plants perceive information regarding light, water, other nutrients, touch, herbivores...

Communication is a two-way street. A sender emits a cue that is perceived and triggers a change in the receiver's behavior. Plants perceive information regarding light, water, nutrients, touch, herbivores, pathogens... Plants also emit cues perceived by others. #PlantScience
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Get ready: TAIR12 is coming - Phoenix Bioinformatics More than two years ago, TAIR took the lead in a volunteer-driven project to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

It's our birthday! Twenty-five years ago, in December 2000, the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was published and #TAIR was born.

Now, we're preparing for the release of #TAIR12 early in the new year. What a long way we've come!

bit.ly/3KDJciT

#plantbiology #plantscience #genomics #Arabidopsis

😭😭😭

The Hidden World of Plant Roots with Stanford Biologist José R. Dinneny YouTube video by Science Communication Lab

From the Science Communication Lab: a new mini documentary highlighting my lab’s work on roots and their environmental responses! Beautiful videography helps to communicate the wonder of this hidden world of plants below our feet. youtu.be/vqZ3LT8sCIQ?...

Join us in Málaga!

Me gustaría agradecer la participación de @paulabruna.bsky.social y Paco Calvo como ponentes invitados, mis compañeros Pau Artigas del @tallerestampa.bsky.social y @javijevi.bsky.social de @ibmcp.bsky.social por sus excelentes presentaciones y a @fundacioncarasso.bsky.social por la financiación

🎙️🌱 ¡La presentación del proyecto PUA fue un éxito rotundo! 🚀
Hemos compartido los resultados sobre la emisión de ultrasonidos por las plantas.

Gracias a todos por participar en esta jornada de ciencia, arte y filosofía que busca redefinir nuestra concepción de las plantas.

Ven a **La Casa Encendida**, 27 nov, 18:00 h, y experimenta cómo la IA hace audible la inteligencia vegetal.
Aprender, sentir y repensar nuestro vínculo con la vida que nos rodea www.upv.es/noticias-upv...
#Escuchar #Posthumanismo #InteligenciaVegetal #ArteCiencia #FuturoSostenible

How do Xylem-Pole-Pericycle cells decide between forming a new Lateral Root or contributing to cambium formation & secondary growth?

Cytokinins facilitate cambium development & reduce LR potency, shaping the entire root architecture!

@apmahonen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
#PlantScience

Roberto Solano Roberto Solano, National Biotechnology Center, CSIC (Spain).

Research feels more like a hobby than work. It is like kids solving puzzles to reveal messages with important implications for knowledge & potentially for the sustainability of our planet

Roberto Solano @cnb-csic.bsky.social
@newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org
#PlantScience
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perspective here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Escucha lo inaudible: las plantas también tienen voces. El proyecto PUA combina #arte, #ciencia y #filosofía para repensar nuestra relación con nuestro entorno.
📍 La Casa Encendida | 27 nov, 18:00 h | entrada libre
www.lacasaencendida.es/encuentros/u...
#InteligenciaVegetal #Escuchar #Posthumanismo

Our lab is seeking candidates to apply for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in the area of plant synthetic biology funded by the Spanish Research Council. Deadline for applications is 17 Dec. Please, spread the word! contact: k.wabnik@upm.es

Auxin transport positions stem cells in the vascular cambium during normal development and regeneration | PNAS The vascular cambium contains bifacial stem cells producing secondary phloem in one and secondary xylem to the opposite direction. In Arabidopsis r...

By combining molecular genetics with cell-ablation experiments, we found that vascular cambium stem cells and xylem-identity cells form an interchangeable unit, a stem cell niche. Meticulous work by @xixizhang9001.bsky.social, Ondrej Smetana, Jing Zhang & Xiaoyu Wang 1/x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...