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Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

www.cam.ac.uk

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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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Gabriella Mosca @moscabiomeclab.bsky.social · Sep 7

The BM^2 Lab is hiring a Ph.D. student to work on a variety of problems connected to modeling of morphogenesis in plants (i.e. ovule curvature formation, fixed handedness establishment in certain plant organs and its link to cell wall mechanics).

Please share!

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Aug 4

Associated Python code is also provided, have a play with it!

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Aug 4

Introducing five concepts from dynamical systems to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms, have a read! @perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬ @roederlab.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social This effort started in a morphogenesis meeting @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social‬ in 2023. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Adapted from Fig. 1 from Kadiyala et al 2025.

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking forward to visit @cragenomica.bsky.social tomorrow Wednesday and present our work!

CRAG @cragenomica.bsky.social · Jul 15

🌱 Join us for the "Plant developmental dynamics: from cellular patterning to developmental transitions" seminar by @pauformosa.bsky.social‬ from the @mpipz.bsky.social

💡 Free entry
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/unxcsfnomw

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Jun 25

So glad that the new suberin work from @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social 's lab is out now 🙂 Thanks Tonni for giving us the chance to work on it too! Congrats to all co-authors and especially @leoniekraska.bsky.social and Tonni. See below Tonni's post!

Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning

In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization, linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis. The research uncove...

www.cell.com

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · May 22

Very excited to participate tomorrow Friday the 23rd May at the @plantaeofficial.bsky.social webinar on 'AI in Plant Biological Sciences Research', looking forward to it!

Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · May 6

📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on May 23 at 10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉 Free registration at buff.ly/aA7HlDF

#plantscience

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · Mar 28

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city.
www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

Senior Group Leader Position

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus

Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...

www.science.org

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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · Mar 20

⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Mar 18

Congrats to all authors, and very especially to
@nickrussell31.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social

Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Mar 18

Spatial ploidy inference using quantitative imaging, our new collaborative work in the Polyploidy Integration & Innovative Institute, with the @roederlab.bsky.social and the Fox lab. Try our pipeline with your images!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · Feb 5

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology.
Application deadline: 25th Feb.
tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jan 17

Nice to see the MPIPZ Community here on Bluesky growing, but we still need a lot more people from the Institute to join. More importantly, it's time the actual MPIPZ moves its account here.

go.bsky.app/TZbbhVn

@maxplanck.de #PlantScience

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢 Deadline approaching

Doing research on #stomata? Submit your abstract to our call for papers by 14 February!

👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353

#PlantScience

Call for papers: New Phytologist Special Collection on Stomata

Call for paper: New Phytologist Special Collection on Stomata

www.newphytologist.org

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Jan 17

A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme

Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market

Deadline: January 31

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists

Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our second call for our Pathway to I...

journals.biologists.com

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Dec 17

Interested in doing a PhD on modelling the dynamics of a differentiation wavefront in the Arabidopsis root, in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, at the MPIPZ in Cologne? Just a few weeks left to apply!

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Devang Mehta🌱🧬 @mehta-lab.com · Dec 5

Please consider registering & submitting an abstract for the first ever Plant Chronobiology meeting happening in Leuven next summer! Thanks to support from the FWO, we can offer accommodation coverage for international early career presenters! #plantscience

plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

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Practical Course on Developmental Biology QUINTAY @devbioquintay.bsky.social · Dec 11

We have moved to this new location as we prepare to launch a new edition of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintya-2025. This course began more than 25 years ago, and we are excited to bring together an excellent lineup of faculty and students for this latest edition

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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · Dec 5

Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!

Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A grey coloured Arabidopsis leaf epidermis, with black cell walls. Each cells has a colourful blobs - a nuclear localised fluorescent ABA sensor, with warm colours indicating high concentrations, and cooler colours indicating lower concentrations.

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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · Nov 22

I am happy to share the link to video and pdf of 2nd lecture at College de France on biological information. I present & discuss general properties of Biological Codes (genetic, transcriptional, signalling and adhesion codes) dealing with balance btw diversity and specificity.

tinyurl.com/5dv39v4v

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congrats Enric Bertran, Martina Cerise, Gabriel Rodríguez-Maroto, Pau Casanova-Ferrer, George Coupland and co-authors!

Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Aug 15

Shape and identity coordination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis during floral transition – how does it happen? Check our new story at Nature Communications. Truly grateful for this exciting collaboration at MPIPZ with the Coupland group! @ceplas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coordination of shoot apical meristem shape and identity by APETALA2 during floral transition in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications

Bertran Garcia de Olalla, Cerise and colleagues discovered that the transcription factor APETALA2 has a dual role at the shoot tip of Arabidopsis, where it both mediates changes in the timing of flowe...

www.nature.com

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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · Aug 2

Is giant cell patterning random in sepals and leaves? Check out our new work combining quantitative microscopy, computational methods and modeling, a great collaboration with the Roeder Lab, with F.Clark, G.Weissbart, X.Wang, A.Roeder and co-authors! @ceplas.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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