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Dominique Bergmann

Dominique Bergmann

@stanfordstomata.bsky.social

2.1K followers 340 following 43 posts

Steel town kid gone west.
Development, plants, resilience and flexibility.
https://stomata.stanford.edu/

Dominique C. Bergmann is a plant scientist with a specific focus on developmental biology and plant biology. Correspondingly, she is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and is in association with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Additionally, Bergmann is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. .. more

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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 5d

What a glorious day--waking up to see this lovely preprint that does it all--a comprehensive scRNAseq atlas of leaf development, hints at the txn of new cell types, and great hypotheses about how GRNs may differ among related TFs

(and in other news, some hope for American Democracy)

Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 5d

1/ Preprint alert: 
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution 
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 5d

1/ Preprint alert: 
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution 
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social

Reposted by Dominique C. Bergmann

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d

Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues

journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...

Volume 152 Issue 20 | Development | The Company of Biologists

journals.biologists.com

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 19d

Understanding #microtubule dynamics: The synergy of technology, theory, and experiment. New Perspective from Richard McIntosh @colorado.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Biophysics #Microtubules

Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 20d

Welp, I guess I can claim that I had my profile banner photo up years before demolition was cool.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23d

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 26d

2010: Launch of the Node @the-node.bsky.social, our community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists. Find out how the Node was born. bit.ly/3VOfCZZ

The Node infographic showing global reach, number of posts, jobs advertised, events listed and registered authors. Including a breakdown of the Node network.

Reposted by Dominique C. Bergmann

Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Oct 10

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾
bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · Sep 29

Thanks Marc!

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Kalika Prasad @kalikaprasad.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.nature.com/articles/d44...

How plant roots rebuild their tips after injury

Geometry-driven cell divisions help restore shape.

Reposted by Dominique C. Bergmann

mcyeemd @mcyeemd.bsky.social · Sep 1

17X17 Protest (17K people and 17 miles long) in Redwood City - here are our two 90+ y.o. protestors out there for all two hours!

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 1

Stand up for our country & against this authoritarian regime. Big SF protest saying hell no to Trump.

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Gozde Demirer @prof-gozde.bsky.social · Aug 26

Big news from the Demirer lab: first 4 research papers are preprinted! Check them out, feedback welcomed:

eCIS for plant protein delivery: tinyurl.com/mrx4d878
R2 for targeted insertion: tinyurl.com/5n73za6h
Transient expression: tinyurl.com/38p2ud6w
Chemotaxis assay: tinyurl.com/3nw9haes

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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · Aug 15

One of my absolute favorite meetings! Attendees--please do ask me about CoB and the journal Development. Our community has strong advocates there.

Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Aug 14

The FASEB Mechanisms of Plant Development #PDevSRC meeting starts next weekend!

Sorry I can't be there, but please speak to @stanfordstomata.bsky.social if you're interested in submitting to @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Browse some of the #PlantDevelopment highlights in the collection:

Focus on plant development | Development | The Company of Biologists

Plant species are fantastic models for understanding how a single cell becomes a complex multicellular organism, providing opportunities to interrogate cel

journals.biologists.com

Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

www.science.org

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · Aug 14

The FASEB Mechanisms of Plant Development #PDevSRC meeting starts next weekend!

Sorry I can't be there, but please speak to @stanfordstomata.bsky.social if you're interested in submitting to @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Browse some of the #PlantDevelopment highlights in the collection:

Focus on plant development | Development | The Company of Biologists

Plant species are fantastic models for understanding how a single cell becomes a complex multicellular organism, providing opportunities to interrogate cel

journals.biologists.com

Reposted by Dominique C. Bergmann

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 12

💊It’s Day 12 of #31Days Of Action! Attend our weekly Webinar to learn about our mission and how YOU can get involved!

Join #StandUpForScience and Special Guest Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH & NIGMS, for our Tues Action Hour TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT!

Sign up here👉 zurl.co/OmG1N

Promotional graphic for “Action Hour with Special Guest Jeremy Berg” from Stand Up for Science, labeled as “Day 12.” The design features red, white, and blue colors with paint splatters, star outlines, a partial image of the Statue of Liberty, and a QR code. The website link www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-action is displayed at the bottom.

Reposted by David M. Amodio, Patrick A. Jansen, Rebecca Sear , and 5 more David M. Amodio, Patrick A. Jansen, Rebecca Sear, Juan Cole, Adam Gamoran, Andrew Rudalevige, Augustine, Dominique C. Bergmann

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1/3

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Aug 6

Excited for the @faseborg.bsky.social's upcoming #PlantDevelopment conference in Massachusetts? #PDevSRC

To complement the meeting, we've curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic:
journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Aug 4

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning

Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore

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

From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms

Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

journals.biologists.com

Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wow, what a spectacular workshop! People, place and prospect of deep conversations that could guide the next decade of inquiry.

Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Aug 3

Join us for a unique workshop that will give many diverse perspectives on how to approach experimental cell and developmental biology in the 21st century.

SCNAT @scnat.ch · Jul 23

🧪 The #RigiWorkshop is back - Apply now for 3 days of cell #biology in the Swiss Alps! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. Details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · Aug 3

Join us for a unique workshop that will give many diverse perspectives on how to approach experimental cell and developmental biology in the 21st century.

SCNAT @scnat.ch · Jul 23

🧪 The #RigiWorkshop is back - Apply now for 3 days of cell #biology in the Swiss Alps! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. Details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

The Rigi Workshop 2026 (with the motto "Endless Forms Most Beautiful") will take place from 25 to 27 January 2026. PhD students and Post-docs can apply now!

Reposted by Iveta Silova, Laura Wray‐Lake, Dominique C. Bergmann

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 28

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Reposted by Dustin J. Marshall, Dominique C. Bergmann

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Jan 13

🧪 Deadline to apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop 'Why Are Cells the Size They Are?' organised by Dustin Marshall
@djmmeeg.bsky.social and Craig White has been extended to 31 January 2025.

Find out more and apply at
bit.ly/4gVDROh

#BiologistsWorkshops

#ECR

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Jul 17

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱
It will be an exciting meeting!
FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 16

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

Patterning of cell identities in the posterior E8.5 mouse embryo. Co-expression of mesoderm marker TBXT (blue) and neural marker SOX2 (green) identifies cells in the neuromesodermal (NMP) progenitor region at the intersection of their respective gene expression gradients. TBX6 (red) marks paraxial mesoderm and also marks sporadic mesoderm-committed cells emerging within the NMP region. LAMINB1 (white) marks the nuclear envelope of all cells. Credit: Matthew French.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · Jun 21

#ICAR2025 Poster Prize winners are @aroessling.bsky.social from @elkebarbez.bsky.social lab @uni-freiburg.de, Wouter Smagge from @dejaegerlab.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @universiteitgent.bsky.social and Alexis Lebecq from @stanfordstomata.bsky.social @stanford.edu ! Congratulations!!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Company of Biologists and the Woods Hole Embryology Course

We explore the association of Development and @biologists.bsky.social‬ with the Woods Hole Embryology Course @mblscience.bsky.social‬ and hear from former students about the impact the course has had on them:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Images taken during the Woods Hole Embryology Course that have been promoted by Development and the Node.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 6

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026.
Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.