Kierzkowski Lab
@kierzkowskilab.bsky.social
Plant developmental biologist, associate professor,
Plant Science Research Institute, University of Montreal
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Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
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Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
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🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
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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 🌱
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Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀
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October 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thrilled to be among the recipients of the SNSF Starting Grants! Congrats to all the incredible researchers funded this year. Can’t wait to keep exploring how plants grow, sense, and respond to mechanical forces. Plants and biophysics rock!🌱⚛️
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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
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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
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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:
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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:
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Career Opportunities: Postdoc or PhD student position in Plant Physiology (22260)
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May 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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:
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The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social
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April 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Camelot paper is now published. If you ever wanted to try biomechanics, Camelot is an inexpensive and easy way to get started. @matmajda.bsky.social
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Big thanks to Daniel Cosgrove & Enrico Coen
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
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Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
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Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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April 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Big thanks to Daniel Cosgrove & Enrico Coen
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social
@innerworldsjic.bsky.social for spotlighting our paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Let’s call for more in vivo data on growth, elasticity & stress. Time to fuel the field with experiments! 🔬🖥️📏🧪🌿
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation
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#plantscience
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#plantscience
April 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
An Arabidopsis single-nucleus atlas decodes leaf senescence and nutrient allocation
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#plantscience
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It is real!!! 3 years after Joris Sprakel and I conceived the first ideas, the GreenTE Gravitation project has really started. We could not be happier after seeing all the ambition, joy and excitement among our ECR’s and PI’s. Plant Mechanobiology for the win!!! More info: www.green-te.nl
April 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It is real!!! 3 years after Joris Sprakel and I conceived the first ideas, the GreenTE Gravitation project has really started. We could not be happier after seeing all the ambition, joy and excitement among our ECR’s and PI’s. Plant Mechanobiology for the win!!! More info: www.green-te.nl
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Very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work, with main drivers Marion Orsucci and Adrien Sicard:
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems
Repeated shifts in ecological strategies often lead to consistent speciation patterns across phylogenies. One example is the transition from outcrossi…
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April 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work, with main drivers Marion Orsucci and Adrien Sicard:
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.
We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
April 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.
We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
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Final version of our preprint on ARF degradation now online @natplants.nature.com. Great job by PhD student Martijn de Roij in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social with @jorgehg.bsky.social and JW Borst. Great to see this appear along @mjprigge.bsky.social paper!!!
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ARF degradation defines a deeply conserved step in auxin response
Nature Plants - De Roij et al. map a minimal region for auxin response factor (ARF) degradation in Marchantia and reveal that ARF instability predates the emergence of the auxin response. This...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Final version of our preprint on ARF degradation now online @natplants.nature.com. Great job by PhD student Martijn de Roij in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social with @jorgehg.bsky.social and JW Borst. Great to see this appear along @mjprigge.bsky.social paper!!!
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Join us in Cambridge this September for the 9th annual Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop.
Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes:
1. #Mechanics
2. Pattern processes
3. #AI
4. Computer graphics
5. Concepts
🧳3 travel grants available
REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes:
1. #Mechanics
2. Pattern processes
3. #AI
4. Computer graphics
5. Concepts
🧳3 travel grants available
REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Join us in Cambridge this September for the 9th annual Plant #ComputationalBiology Workshop.
Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes:
1. #Mechanics
2. Pattern processes
3. #AI
4. Computer graphics
5. Concepts
🧳3 travel grants available
REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
Seminars and discussions will focus on 5 key themes:
1. #Mechanics
2. Pattern processes
3. #AI
4. Computer graphics
5. Concepts
🧳3 travel grants available
REGISTER TODAY www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
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Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
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We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
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A space for time. Exploring temporal regulation of plant development across spatial scales
Developmental timing in plants is tightly regulated at the whole-organism scale, from germination to flowering. Less is known about when and how local transitions are temporally regulated. Not every ...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details.
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Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with University of Montreal (UdeM) | 12838461
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)
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April 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details.
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#BIOPHYSICS For the first time, scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ – in this case, a flower's anther. @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social @routierlab.bsky.social @natureplants.bsky.social
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Hidden forces shape plants from the inside out
UdeM scientists use a combination of experimental data and modelling to reveal how physical forces help plants to generate their complex 3D shapes.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
#BIOPHYSICS For the first time, scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ – in this case, a flower's anther. @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social @routierlab.bsky.social @natureplants.bsky.social
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Learn more about the genetics of fruit diversification in Brassicaceae from a new review led by @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
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Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae
Fruit represents one of the key morphological innovations associated with explosive radiation of angiosperms. Fruits are also the source of vitamins a…
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March 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Learn more about the genetics of fruit diversification in Brassicaceae from a new review led by @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
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Research Briefing by @routierlab.bsky.social and @sysilveira.bsky.social about our recent paper @natureplants.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Research Briefing by @routierlab.bsky.social and @sysilveira.bsky.social about our recent paper @natureplants.bsky.social
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So happy to share our most recently published work.
Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So happy to share our most recently published work.
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proud to present our collaborative work, brilliantly led by Sylvia Silveira @sysilveira.bsky.social and Loann Collet.
Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
rdcu.be
March 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
proud to present our collaborative work, brilliantly led by Sylvia Silveira @sysilveira.bsky.social and Loann Collet.
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🧪 New Paper Alert
New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱
Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3
@fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca
New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱
Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3
@fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca
Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
rdcu.be
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🧪 New Paper Alert
New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱
Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3
@fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca
New publication in @natureplants.bsky.social by @routierlab.bsky.social and @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social on how mechanical interaction between tissue layers shapes organ development in plants. 🌱
Learn more 👉 rdcu.be/efad3
@fasudem.bsky.social @umontreal.ca
Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
rdcu.be
March 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social
Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
Thanks for hosting me at IB-CAS @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thanks for hosting me at IB-CAS @yang-brassicaceae.bsky.social
I had a wonderful time in Japan at the NAIST and #JSPP2025 meeting.
Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!
Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I had a wonderful time in Japan at the NAIST and #JSPP2025 meeting.
Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!
Thank you very much @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and Makoto Shirakawa for the invitation, warm welcome, and stimulating discussions!