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Priya Ramakrishna

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Assistant Professor at EPFL, CH • 🌱 Interested in cellular adaptation to environmental stress • Microscopy enthusiast 🔬• Cryo-elemental imaging ❄️ • #newPI Lab: https://ramakrishna.ch/

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Priya Ramakrishna @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social · May 14

🌱 Excited to share that I will start my lab at EPFL, CH this June supported by a @snsf.ch Starting Grant! ramakrishna.ch

We are interested in plant mineral nutrition and will deep-dive into the fine-tuned mechanisms employed by plants to adapt to abiotic stresses such as salinity.

#newPI #plantsci

Plant Adaptation Lab (PAL) – Situated at Institute of Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland

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Jose Julian @josejulian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Think vacuoles are just plant cell dumpsters? Think again.
They sense. They signal. They reshape. They fight back! ⚔️

Vacuoles are emerging as central hubs for plant resilience and adaptation. 🌱

@plantophagy.bsky.social and I unpack it all in our new review. Check it out!

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · Jul 2

Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jul 2

Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells

in Microbiology Spectrum

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Comparing Raman and NanoSIMS for heavy water labeling of single cells | Microbiology Spectrum

Accurate and reliable measurements of cellular properties are fundamental to understand the function and activity of microbes. This study addresses to what extent Raman microspectroscopy and nano-scal...

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Jenny Saile @jennysaile.bsky.social · Jun 25

This week, I’m #RootingForScience by sharing a day in my life as a plant biologist, highlighting what I do and why it matters💚

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · Jun 27

📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci

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Alex Guyon @alexguyon.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

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Conor McClune @cmcclune.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾

Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III - Nature

An approach that combines single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed perturbation identifies genes that enable the biosynthesis of direct precursors of the anti-cancer drug Taxol, whose curren...

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎉🆕📰🎉: Leaf Na+ effects and multi-trait GWAS point to salt exclusion as the key mechanism for reproductive stage salinity tolerance in rice
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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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...

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Charlotte Gommers @charlottegommers.bsky.social · Jun 8

Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

Plastids in a Pinch: Coordinating Stress and Developmental Responses Through Retrograde Signalling

Plastids can sense environmental stress and improve whole plant adaptation through retrograde communication to the nucleus. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of integrated canonical and ...

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · Jun 10

90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO

Omaya Dudin

Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

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Lara Van Dijck @laravdijck.bsky.social · Jun 7

Curious about my PhD research @parkergroup.bsky.social? The paper is available as preprint on bioRxiv now!
🔬 The interaction between scopoletin and fungal endophyte F80 rescues plant growth under iron-limiting conditions by resolving the iron mobility bottleneck.
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition

Iron acquisition is a critical challenge for plants, especially in iron-deficient soils. Recent research underscores the importance of root-exuded coumarins in modulating the root microbiome community...

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Jun 7

New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change.

The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jun 7

A resurrection experiment reveals reduced adaptive potential in a common agricultural weed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657543v1

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Jun 3

🚨 The FASEB SRC “Mechanisms of Plant Development” is happening this summer! 🌱
🗓️ August 24–28, 2025 | Southbridge, MA. A short thread [1/3]

We have an outstanding roster of confirmed speakers — it's shaping up to be a fantastic meeting.
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

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Priya Ramakrishna @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social · Jun 6

Valuable advance in correlative #cryoCLEM - #CryoET imaging - especially applied to a challenging plant tissue!

Detailed workflow and beautiful ultrastructure details of plant cell and root barriers! ❄️🔬🌱

Must read for all cryoimaging enthusiasts!

#plantscience #microscopy #cryoimaging

nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · Jun 5

Check out our latest work, featuring beautiful, first-of-their-kind cryo-tomograms of crucial plant cell wall modifications, Casparian strips, suberin lamellae, lignified xylem walls and more! From our Electron Microscopy Facility led by @chgenoud.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Imaging of specialized plant cell walls by improved cryo-CLEM and cryo-electron tomography

Cryo-focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FIBSEM) has become essential for preparing electron-transparent lamellae from cryo-plunged and high-pressure frozen specimens. However, targeti...

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is a great program! Designed mainly for postdocs but some late-stage PhD students have been successful in the past. Follow the link to read more!

The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · Jun 2

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱

👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

#plantscience

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jun 2

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · May 19

Subcellular plant carbohydrate metabolism under elevated temperature (Charlotte Seydel , Martin Heß , Laura Schröder , Andreas Klingl , Thomas Nägele) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

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Lucia Strader @luciastrader.bsky.social · May 23

Biomolecular condensates are critical for organizing cellular contents, but most studies focus on phase separation driven by salt, pH, or temperature.
But what if intracellular movement also matters?
Here, we explore motility-induced condensation in the cell.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Active transport enables protein condensation in cells

The force generated by active transport modulates protein condensation.

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · May 31

Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds - Diao et al. - Plant, Cell & Environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds

Stable oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δ2H) isotope compositions of tree-ring compounds preserve information about environmental waters; however, our understanding of their isotopic relationships is hamp...

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · May 30

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · May 28

New paper alert!
Our latest work shows how oxygen sensing in plants evolved to make life on land possible.
Please, have a look-! www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
#plantscience

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Tony Heitkam🌱🔍💚 @toheitka.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology.

🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social

We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement.

#AcademicJobs

Plant Biology - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Department of Biology - English

www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de

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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)

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · May 22

Stomatal transpiration and rapid programmed cell death ☠️ triggered by lowered ambient humidity causes anther tissue collapse for effective pollen release !

Happy to be part of this great PNAS story with @kampova.bsky.social, Matyáš Fendrych, and @svosolsobe.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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