Heike Lindner
@heikelindner.bsky.social
Plant Developmental Biologist @unibern, interested in leaf development, Kalanchoë, CAM
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Heike Lindner
@heikelindner.bsky.social
· Dec 28
This story was only possible through true team effort. Team Kalanchoë with Xin at the forefront. @jameshartwell.bsky.social, the most generous scientist who shared resources and answered countless questions. Read about MUTE during stomatal development in Kalanchoë www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
Join us at the Salt and Water Stress GRC 2026 in beautiful Switzerland! The conference setting provides numerous opportunities for interactions with peers and high-profile researchers from diverse research fields. Registration: www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...
Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩
Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Join us at the Salt and Water Stress GRC 2026 in beautiful Switzerland! The conference setting provides numerous opportunities for interactions with peers and high-profile researchers from diverse research fields. Registration: www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...
Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩
Look at the view from my room in winter 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Look at this remarkable preprint by @lbmountain.bsky.social, presenting a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing Brachypodium distachyon leaf.
What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾
What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾
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
🌾 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
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Look at this remarkable preprint by @lbmountain.bsky.social, presenting a single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing Brachypodium distachyon leaf.
What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾
What a joy it was to watch Lea progress during the analysis and to continuously find more and more exciting facts about the developing leaf 🌾
Reposted by Heike Lindner
Former COS scientist @heikelindner.bsky.social secures an SNSF starting grant to study the role of succulent anatomy in CAM photosynthesis. Congratulations!
I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Former COS scientist @heikelindner.bsky.social secures an SNSF starting grant to study the role of succulent anatomy in CAM photosynthesis. Congratulations!
Reposted by Heike Lindner
🌵 So proud of my fav scientist in the world 🌵
Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis!
Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!
Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis!
Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!
I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌵 So proud of my fav scientist in the world 🌵
Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis!
Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!
Thrilled to see what will come of this super innovative project dissecting how leaf succulence is built and how it affects CAM photosynthesis!
Congrats @heikelindner.bsky.social and the Kalanchoë team!
I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am beyond thrilled (like the screaming and jumping type of thrilled) that my SNSF Starting Grant was funded. I will start my own lab @unibe.ch next year, studying succulent anatomy development and if and how this anatomy is required for efficient CAM photosynthesis in different Kalanchoë species 🌱
Reposted by Heike Lindner
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@lbmountain.bsky.social is on a roll! Beautiful review about stomatal development and patterning in the grass leaf 🤩🌾
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 8:15 AM
@lbmountain.bsky.social is on a roll! Beautiful review about stomatal development and patterning in the grass leaf 🤩🌾
Reposted by Heike Lindner
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
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
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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
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
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Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
career5.successfactors.eu
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself!
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben!
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Nacht der Forschung 2025
Die «Nacht der Forschung» ist ein «Fest des Wissens und der Forschung», bei dem die Universität Bern die Vielfalt und Breite ihrer Forschung der Öffentlichkeit näherbringt.
www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch
September 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself!
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
Reposted by Heike Lindner
🌱 come join our lab 😀
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
August 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🌱 come join our lab 😀
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
🔬 PhD: small RNAs & plant stress (36 mo)
🧬CDD researcher: plant molecular biology (24 mo)
Apply 👇
PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
CDD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#PlantScience #PhD #ResearchJobs#ERC#CNRS
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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.
🧪 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
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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.
Reposted by Heike Lindner
My PhD paper is out! 🎉 We've uncovered the physiological and genetic basis that makes the rice landrace Wazuhophek incredibly efficient at using phosphate.
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Physiological and genetic basis of superior phosphate uptake and utilization efficiency in the rice landrace Wazuhophek
Abstract. Low phosphorus (P) availability due to edaphic conditions or the scarcity of P fertilizers restricts agricultural productivity. Various rice-grow
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
My PhD paper is out! 🎉 We've uncovered the physiological and genetic basis that makes the rice landrace Wazuhophek incredibly efficient at using phosphate.
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Reposted by Heike Lindner
🧪 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
July 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🧪 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
Such an amazing meeting with wonderful talks, incredibly friendly and open-minded people and inspirational discussions.
I hope many collaborations will flourish to keep this community going.
Thank you for having me 🌾
I hope many collaborations will flourish to keep this community going.
Thank you for having me 🌾
What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
July 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Such an amazing meeting with wonderful talks, incredibly friendly and open-minded people and inspirational discussions.
I hope many collaborations will flourish to keep this community going.
Thank you for having me 🌾
I hope many collaborations will flourish to keep this community going.
Thank you for having me 🌾
Reposted by Heike Lindner
What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
Reposted by Heike Lindner
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
Reposted by Heike Lindner
IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 is about to start on Monte Verità 🌾
I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️
www.brachypodium2025.org
I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️
www.brachypodium2025.org
July 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 is about to start on Monte Verità 🌾
I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️
www.brachypodium2025.org
I am very excited for four full days of Brachypodium love ♥️
www.brachypodium2025.org
Congratulations Xin!
Establishing a new developmental model system in a lab takes bravery, patience and lots of trial and error.
Your pioneering work has enabled team Kalanchoë to become strong and has made the impossible possible: Michael‘s love for Brachy had to expand to another model 🌾🌱🌵
Establishing a new developmental model system in a lab takes bravery, patience and lots of trial and error.
Your pioneering work has enabled team Kalanchoë to become strong and has made the impossible possible: Michael‘s love for Brachy had to expand to another model 🌾🌱🌵
🥳Congratulations, Dr. Cheng!🥳
PhD student #4, who pioneered work with the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora in our lab 🌵🔬
See Xin's #preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I don't think I will ever get used to mentees leaving the lab.
Best of luck, Xin, you will be missed 💚
PhD student #4, who pioneered work with the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora in our lab 🌵🔬
See Xin's #preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I don't think I will ever get used to mentees leaving the lab.
Best of luck, Xin, you will be missed 💚
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Congratulations Xin!
Establishing a new developmental model system in a lab takes bravery, patience and lots of trial and error.
Your pioneering work has enabled team Kalanchoë to become strong and has made the impossible possible: Michael‘s love for Brachy had to expand to another model 🌾🌱🌵
Establishing a new developmental model system in a lab takes bravery, patience and lots of trial and error.
Your pioneering work has enabled team Kalanchoë to become strong and has made the impossible possible: Michael‘s love for Brachy had to expand to another model 🌾🌱🌵
Reposted by Heike Lindner
Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Signaling peptides control beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions
This review provides a comprehensive overview of signaling peptides regulating beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. It highlights recent a
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Check out our latest review on peptide signaling in beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. Signaling peptides are so fascinating! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Reposted by Heike Lindner
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
June 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
Reposted by Heike Lindner
Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social
speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud
Jan 25-27 2026
biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...
speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud
Jan 25-27 2026
biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...
Rigi Workshop 2026: Endless Forms Most Beautiful
PhD-students and Post-docs: From 25 to 27th January 2026, join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary workshop at the top of Rigi Mountain to discuss and embrace curiosity-driven approaches, beyond the tra...
biol.scnat.ch
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Very excited for the Rigi Workshop "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" that I am co-organising with @dudinlab.bsky.social
speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud
Jan 25-27 2026
biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...
speakers: @gautamdey.bsky.social Susana Coelho @jandevries.bsky.social Lauren Sanders @annikaguse.bsky.social Edwige Moyroud
Jan 25-27 2026
biol.scnat.ch/de/rigi_work...
An excellent summary of Christelle's work at our institute @unibe.ch. She is an outstanding scientist, teacher, mentor, and role model. I am fortunate to have her just around the corner. 💪👩🔬👩💻🌾
Prof. Christelle Robert shows how natural compounds from #plants can keep insects away – and maybe even support our health. In the video, she talks about the challenges of gender stereotypes in #science: www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/what_ca....
May 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
An excellent summary of Christelle's work at our institute @unibe.ch. She is an outstanding scientist, teacher, mentor, and role model. I am fortunate to have her just around the corner. 💪👩🔬👩💻🌾