Dorota Kawa
dorotakawa.bsky.social
Dorota Kawa
@dorotakawa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UU_Plants | roots, monocots, stress resilience, magic microbes
Delighted to be awarded NWO VIDI grant! We will study how microbes shape root cells to enhance plant stress resilience - so exciting!!!!

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Fantastic to see several plant projects granted🌽🌱
149 Vidi applications granted to talented researchers | NWO
NWO has granted a maximum of 850.000 euros to 149 scientists from the domain Science (ENW), Applied and Engineering Sciences (AES) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domains, as well as Health, Research and Development (ZonMw). With the help of the Vidi grant, the talented scientists can start their own line of research and further develop their talent.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We are hiring a technician for our BarrierFates consortium! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Research Technician Root Barriers
Join us in investigating the role of maize root barriers in soil stresses!
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June 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Cortex is fantastic and can form so many diverse modifications! We've been lately thinking a lot about cortex in Poaceae and you can now read it about it!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The root cortex of the Poaceae: a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable tissue - Plant and Soil
Background The root cortex in Poaceae is a diverse, dynamic, and dispensable composite layer of tissue. Early in plant growth, the cortex in Poaceae roots primarily consists of parenchyma cells. Howev...
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May 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Reposted by Dorota Kawa
It's alive! Our work combining experiments and computational models to show that "Root stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis involves cell-type specific transcription factor complexes"! Amazing collaboration with Vivien Strotmann and
@yvonnestahl.bsky.social! 🌱🌱 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
March 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Reposted by Dorota Kawa
These webinars are meant to get you thinking and discussing too! We clearly have no fully baked answers to what is a cell type.

So we invite your ideas, and you can post them here: padlet.com/nolan84/what...
What is a plant cell type?
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February 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A little balloon came our way☺️
It will help us to test the role of Suberin-Inducing Microbes in enhancing crop stress resilience.
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Grants for 28 projects within Open Competition ENW-XS | NWO
The NWO Domain Board Science has awarded 28 projects in the Open Competition Domain Science – XS round 24-4. The next ENW-XS deadline is 18 February 2025.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by Dorota Kawa
Vicia lunata is a rare wildflower that grows on just a few mountain slopes in Cyprus and Turkey. Its flowers are so bright they look as though someone coloured them in with a highlighter pen.
January 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Over the moon with our BarrierFates consortium funded. Roots, barriers, maize, stresses -it's going to be awesome!!!
December 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Dorota Kawa
Fun #MicroscopyMonday content: the aerial roots of my office orchid! Sectioned and fluorol yellow (suberin) stained by student in @dorotakawa.bsky.social lab.
December 9, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Dorota Kawa
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
December 3, 2024 at 10:58 AM