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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 13d

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant Tissue Culture and Genome Engineering - 2026

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#PlantScience

Plant Tissue Culture and Genome Engineering - 2026

(2026) Sun 10 May - Wed 13 [EDT]: We are excited to announce that the International Conference on Plant Tissue Culture & Genome Engineering (PTCGE 2026) will take place from May 10–13, 2026, in Santa…

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · 16d

Please share & RSVP to join the November 25th webinar!
Hear from the 2025 Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
@plantevolution.bsky.social

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 22d

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

www.nature.com

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · 23d

Please repost and spread the word! 🙂

Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · 24d

This should be fun! 🤓 Join us May 10-13 in Barcelona!!

www.ptcge2026.com

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · 24d

This should be fun! 🤓 Join us May 10-13 in Barcelona!!

www.ptcge2026.com

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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 26d

Really looking forward to this panel discussion on Tuesday - getting to discuss in depth why it is important to define plant cell types and states!

#PlantScience 🌱

Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · 29d

ONE WEEK AWAY!

The final segment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, The Open Panel Discussion is Sept. 16, 2025.

To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

Promotional Image for the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series.

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Travis Lee @tralee-sci.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n
@natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social

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

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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are excited to announce the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.

Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

@radinbio.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!!

We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Aug 9

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1

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Aman Husbands @husbandslab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Now in the latest issue! Lowkey, I love that you get to post about your stuff when it’s bioRxiv, Early View, AND latest issue 😊

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Aug 8

#TansleyReview: Mechanisms driving functional divergence of #TranscriptionFactor paralogs

Isabella J. Higgins, Sarah G. Choudury & Aman Y. Husbands 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mechanisms leading to paralog-specific binding profiles.

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marketapernis.bsky.social @marketapernis.bsky.social · Jun 29

Open PhD position in plant regeneration 🌱
www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · May 29

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below:

career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Career Opportunities: Postdoc or PhD student position in Plant Physiology (22260)

career5.successfactors.eu

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · May 22

Join the 5/29 NAASC panel (register by 5/28): with Rachel Shahan (UCLA), Kevin Cox (WUSTL & Danforth Center) & Monika Fischer (Univ. British Columbia).
Early Career Scholar Hosts: Catherine Freed, Mingyuan Zhu, Vincent Cerbantez.
Panel will be recorded for later viewing
@rachelmshahan.bsky.social

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Ronald Pierik @ronaldpierik.bsky.social · May 12

Please share: Two PhD positions in Plant Photobiology in our lab @w-u-r.bsky.social in Wageningen University, the Netherlands:

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD candidate Plant Light Signalling

www.wur.nl

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · May 11

Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · May 8

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Taylor for successfully defending his dissertation, “Decoding the Transcriptional Specificity of Auxin Signaling: A Synthetic Biology Approach" earlier today!

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · May 6

A pleasure to host Dave Jackson for a wonderful SPES seminar today!

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Dior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · May 5

New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level - Nature Communications

Genetic variance is vital for breeding programs and mutant screening, yet traditional mutagenesis methods wrestle with genetic redundancy and a lack of specificity in gene targeting. Here the authors ...

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social · May 2

I'm excited to share this NAASC early career professional development seminar aimed at plant biology scientists considering faculty jobs!
🌱Lab Launchpad: The New PIs Guide to Starting Your Own Lab🌱
Register www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/register-car...

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · Apr 30

He also recently published this micropub with help from 3 undergrad research assistants: James, Eric, and Jaime! And with @rclaywright.bsky.social

doi.org/10.17912/mic...

A Comparative Analysis of Transfected and Integrated Auxin Reporter Systems Reveals Sensitivity Advantages in Protoplast Transient Expression Assays | microPublication

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · Apr 30

doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
Very proud of soon-to-be Dr. Taylor's review on auxin signaling specificity. (Joseph is defending his dissertation next week!! 🤓)

Transcriptional Tuning: How Auxin Strikes Unique Chords in Gene Regulation

Auxin is a central regulator of plant growth, development, and responses to environmental cues. How a single phytohormone mediates such a diverse array of developmental responses has remained a longs...

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Bas Bargmann @bas-bargmann.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congrats!!!

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Brady Lab @bradylabs.bsky.social · Apr 19

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · Mar 7

The Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series continues next week, March 11!

Don't forget to register! bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

Promotional Image for the March 11th Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, highlighting the two speakers, Dr. Keiko Torii and Dr. Justin Walley.

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