Daan Weits
@daanweits.bsky.social
My team at Utrecht University studies the role of internal oxygen levels in plant development and physiology. Also fan of hiking, bouldering and the outdoors in general
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Daan Weits
@daanweits.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Finishing the symposium with our second keynote @apmahonen.bsky.social - so many cool and impactful stories rolled into his talk!
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Finishing the symposium with our second keynote @apmahonen.bsky.social - so many cool and impactful stories rolled into his talk!
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EPS Theme 1 (plant development) symposium today in Utrecht!
Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱
@epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
@violawillemsen.bsky.social
@renskevroomans.bsky.social
@uuplants.bsky.social
Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱
@epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
@violawillemsen.bsky.social
@renskevroomans.bsky.social
@uuplants.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
EPS Theme 1 (plant development) symposium today in Utrecht!
Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱
@epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
@violawillemsen.bsky.social
@renskevroomans.bsky.social
@uuplants.bsky.social
Exciting talks so far and very lively Q&As! Proud to be part of this community 🌱
@epsgraduateschool.bsky.social
@violawillemsen.bsky.social
@renskevroomans.bsky.social
@uuplants.bsky.social
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New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New lab / new life 🌱
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
The Julian Lab is now open at the Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (IMPB), BOKU University 🇦🇹
We explore how plants defend their vacuoles and how vacuoles defend them! 🛡️
Excited to collaborate with @angegross.bsky.social’s lab.
#PlantBiology #Vacuole #VQC #BOKU #IMPB
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How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leaf-age specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is determined by distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery
While the molecular mechanisms mediating submergence tolerance have been extensively studied, those underpinning age-dependent resilience remain poorly characterized. In Arabidopsis thaliana, submerge...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stoked to share our review advocating a whole plant perspective on resource balancing strategies with Joe Earle, Lucila Salvatore, Bas van den Herik and Kirsten ten Tusscher
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Stoked to share our review advocating a whole plant perspective on resource balancing strategies with Joe Earle, Lucila Salvatore, Bas van den Herik and Kirsten ten Tusscher
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
How coupling resources and development ensures whole plant homeostasis url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
October 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy to share our recent thoughts on how grasses form and pattern stomata
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...
🌾From fate establishment, through within-file patterning to dumbbell formation🌾
Congrats to
@lbmountain.bsky.social
on getting two publications out in a single day - a first for the lab!
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#ThrowbackThursday to last week Thursday at #ISPLORE2025JP where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the #ISPLORE2025JP hashtag for some of the best moments 🌱🌊
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to last week Thursday at #ISPLORE2025JP where we took a group picture of our fantastic community. Missing those conferences vibes? Scroll back through the #ISPLORE2025JP hashtag for some of the best moments 🌱🌊
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How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants?
In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk
“ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia”
www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk
“ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia”
www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia
Short summary:This study investigates the evolution of the low-oxygen response in
land plants mediated by group VII Ethylene Response Factors (ERFVIIs). We identified
conserved transcriptional signatu...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants?
In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk
“ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia”
www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk
“ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia”
www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
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Join us at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to start your research group! Fantastic scientific environment, strong support, and nice colleagues :) Apply and please share broadly in your network.
Ready to establish your own research group at the Hubrecht Institute for Molecular and Developmental Biology? We’re seeking a tenure-track group leader to develop an innovative research line within our vibrant scientific community. Learn more & apply! https://f.mtr.cool/jncxfqkuds
September 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join us at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to start your research group! Fantastic scientific environment, strong support, and nice colleagues :) Apply and please share broadly in your network.
Great to see the hard work of Dani Amat, Janne Hageman and @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social is appreciated by the #ISPLORE2025JP community!
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Great to see the hard work of Dani Amat, Janne Hageman and @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social is appreciated by the #ISPLORE2025JP community!
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Incredible location ✅
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Incredible location ✅
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Excellent science ✅
Amazing community ✅
Perfectly organised ✅
What more could we ask for!?
Safe travels to everyone!
#ISPLORE2025JP
Very grateful that my team was represented by three talks at #isplore2025jp and two posters 🇯🇵🌱🫚
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Very grateful that my team was represented by three talks at #isplore2025jp and two posters 🇯🇵🌱🫚
Cool talks!
It’s been a great opportunity for our lab to deliver four talks on different aspects of plant hypoxia and flooding research at #ISPLORE2025JN! Well done @linazhou.bsky.social @gunjansharma88.bsky.social & @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social for the great presentations! 🌱 💦 🌾 🦠 🌺 🫧 🇯🇵 #plantsci
September 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Cool talks!
Excellent initiative!
Openness means more than access.
We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
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We’re pleased to announce that we now publish Replication Studies, helping make science more reliable, transparent, and trustworthy.
buff.ly/Gebypvq
September 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excellent initiative!
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5 ECR #ISPLORE2025JP talks starting with Muhammad Ateeq talking about tolerance mechanisms in Peach 🍑 academic.oup.com/treephys/art...
Comprehensive physio-biochemical and transcriptomic characterization to decipher the network of key genes under waterlogging stress and its recuperation in Prunus persica
Abstract. Waterlogging is a major abiotic stress that plants encounter as a result of climate change impacts. Peach is very sensitive to hypoxia during wat
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September 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
5 ECR #ISPLORE2025JP talks starting with Muhammad Ateeq talking about tolerance mechanisms in Peach 🍑 academic.oup.com/treephys/art...
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The #ISPLORE2025JP poster session is in full swing 🌱🌊
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The #ISPLORE2025JP poster session is in full swing 🌱🌊
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We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with talks by PhD students Stephanie Frings, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and Gabriele Panicucci. 🌱🌊☔ Check out their recent review and preprint:
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We finish this #ISPLORE2025JP session with talks by PhD students Stephanie Frings, @rimchaudhury15.bsky.social and Gabriele Panicucci. 🌱🌊☔ Check out their recent review and preprint:
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES in plants
Plant ERAD machinery governs the turnover of auxin transporters involved in developmental and stress responses.
www.science.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
1/ 🌱 When plants face stress, they often suppress growth to save resources.
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In our new Science Advances paper, we reveal how: plants repurpose their ER quality control machinery (ERAD) to regulate auxin compartmentalization and thus growth.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very cool work from the @syno2xis.bsky.social lab by first author @ximenachirinos.bsky.social . Also very well presented at #ISPLORE2025JP!
Thrilled to make my first post here 🌱 Right after presenting at #ISPLORE2025JP, where I shared our work on how anatomy & habitat shaped the oxygen-sensing machinery of angiosperms. Please check out our new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Very cool work from the @syno2xis.bsky.social lab by first author @ximenachirinos.bsky.social . Also very well presented at #ISPLORE2025JP!
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The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The second day of #ISPLORE2025JP starts with a great overview talk by @theplantlab.bsky.social on hypoxia regulation. Hypoxia is everywhere! #plantscience 🌱🌊
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Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
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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.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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...
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Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Coming to you live from #ISPLORE2025JP Fresh preprint from my lab showing that leaves progressively oxygenate and how this is important for their morphogenesis.Thanks to our collaborators from @Fra_LicO2si lab. #plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Opening keynote lecture of #ISPLORE2025JP is by Genshiro Sunagawa about hibernation, the role of oxygen, and potential application in medicine. Very cool!
September 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Opening keynote lecture of #ISPLORE2025JP is by Genshiro Sunagawa about hibernation, the role of oxygen, and potential application in medicine. Very cool!
Here we go! My team is fully represented at #ISPLORE2025JP #plantsciences . Yesterday we had lovely ramen together with Livia Merendino :)
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Here we go! My team is fully represented at #ISPLORE2025JP #plantsciences . Yesterday we had lovely ramen together with Livia Merendino :)