Stéphanie Robert
@srobertgroup.bsky.social
Our research is focused on understanding the single steps controlling plant plasticity.
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How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size?
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
A multiscale growth atlas of Arabidopsis: linking cell dynamics to organ development
Plant development depends on coordinated growth at cellular and organ scales, yet comparative analyses are hindered by inconsistent reporting of growth across studies. We conducted a meta-analysis o.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size?
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
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Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
Excited to share our pre-print on how Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates ROP6 recruitment to nanodomains upon auxin. Great job from my PhD student Matheus Montrazi, @arthur-poitout.bsky.social, @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Excited to share our pre-print on how Sphingolipid-driven interleaflet coupling orchestrates ROP6 recruitment to nanodomains upon auxin. Great job from my PhD student Matheus Montrazi, @arthur-poitout.bsky.social, @alexmartiniere.bsky.social, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪
#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience
Congrats to all!
🧪🌾NEWS - Three UPSC research projects received funding from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social!
Rishikesh Bhalerao, Åsa Strand & Nathaniel Street will investigate how trees time bud break, how plant cells start photosynthesis and what makes conifers so resilient.
Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Rishikesh Bhalerao, Åsa Strand & Nathaniel Street will investigate how trees time bud break, how plant cells start photosynthesis and what makes conifers so resilient.
Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Congrats to all!
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
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. 🚀
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
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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Dear ENPER community,
We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026. Link to the ENPER 2026 website:
enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026. Link to the ENPER 2026 website:
enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
ENPER 2026 – European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research
European Network for Plant Endomembrane Research
enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Dear ENPER community,
We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026. Link to the ENPER 2026 website:
enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026. Link to the ENPER 2026 website:
enper2026.bio21.bas.bg
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Interested to learn more about Plant Biotechnology? Enroll in our one-year Subsequent Master program and enjoy a training at Europe's largest Agro-biotech campus: masterplantbiotechnology.ugent.be
January 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Interested to learn more about Plant Biotechnology? Enroll in our one-year Subsequent Master program and enjoy a training at Europe's largest Agro-biotech campus: masterplantbiotechnology.ugent.be
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My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available →
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
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Check out the ToC of our latest Special Issue about auxin in plant development.
https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW
All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW
All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Check out the ToC of our latest Special Issue about auxin in plant development.
https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW
All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3KSt2BW
All articles are free to read for 2 months. @srobertgroup.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy
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And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
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'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.'
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
'With a dream career of ‘expressing beauty with flowers’, I decided to pursue an undergraduate education in horticulture in the Netherlands. It sounded so natural, but I never knew what would happen later.'
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
In Profile: Yuchen Long
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
🧵👇
@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
The A to Z of Auxin in Plant Development: Physiologia Plantarum
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@marhava.bsky.social and myself have edited a special issue on Auxin for Physiologia plantarum! Have a look at the nice contributions! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
The N-terminal domain of COMPANION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE1 promotes microtubule array formation in Arabidopsis (Viswanathan Gurumoorthy, Alan Hicks, Sriram Tiruvadi-Krishnan, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The N-terminal domain of COMPANION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE1 promotes microtubule array formation in Arabidopsis
CC1 N-terminal domain binds and crosslinks microtubules (MTs) in an extended conformation, providing structural insights into how CC1 maintains MT organiza
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The N-terminal domain of COMPANION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE1 promotes microtubule array formation in Arabidopsis (Viswanathan Gurumoorthy, Alan Hicks, Sriram Tiruvadi-Krishnan, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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#IJPB takes the floor at the 4th INUPRAG Symposium.
👩🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO
👨🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9
INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social
@ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
👩🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO
👨🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9
INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social
@ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#IJPB takes the floor at the 4th INUPRAG Symposium.
👩🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO
👨🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9
INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social
@ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
👩🔬C. Bellini 👉 CATS team bit.ly/4dy5hHO
👨🔬N. Arnaud 👉 FTA team bit.ly/3JfhiJ9
INUPRAG is a consortium between @inrae-france.bsky.social (BAP department) @umeaplantsciencecentre.se and @cragenomica.bsky.social
@ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social
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We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
How do cells communicate when it's hot?
Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...
Fantastic UPSC cutting edge seminar by @apmahonen.bsky.social dissecting secondary growth in plants one step at the time! Such an amazing contribution to the field! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
October 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Fantastic UPSC cutting edge seminar by @apmahonen.bsky.social dissecting secondary growth in plants one step at the time! Such an amazing contribution to the field! @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
KATANIN promotes cell elongation and division to generate proper cell numbers in maize organs
Microtubule severing is essential for proper eukaryotic cell elongation and division. Here we show that the microtubule severing protein, KATANIN, is encoded by two genes in Zea mays (maize) called Di...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Excited to share this preprint on the microtubule severing protein Katanin, and its role in cell elongation and division in maize. First author Stephanie Martinez worked collaboratively with many folks to bring you this preprint. Check it out! 🔬🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
The IJPB meets the public: wonderful moments of exchange! 🤩
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The IJPB meets the public: wonderful moments of exchange! 🤩
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
🍀🔬
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
The winners of rising stars in plant sciences 2025 #Editorial #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The winners of rising stars in plant sciences 2025 #Editorial #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
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Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
www.cam.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Only a few days left to apply!
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.
@starmorph-syg.bsky.social
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)
This story blew my mind! Amazing work. Highly recommended. Congrats to all! @nikogeldner.bsky.social @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This story blew my mind! Amazing work. Highly recommended. Congrats to all! @nikogeldner.bsky.social @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...