Stéphanie Robert
@srobertgroup.bsky.social
Our research is focused on understanding the single steps controlling plant plasticity.
Looking forward!
Welcome to @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @jalonsos.bsky.social! We are very much looking forward to working with you!
I’m very happy to share that next year I’m launching the Meristem Hydraulics Group. We will be at the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se (Sweden) & the University of Helsinki (Finland) @helsinki.fi
Here is a brief description of our research interests:
www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_...
#PlantSciences
Here is a brief description of our research interests:
www.upsc.se/juan_alonso_...
#PlantSciences
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Looking forward!
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🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science?
Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!
Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!
Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
PhD position in nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in forest trees | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science?
Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!
Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!
Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Deadline: 10 Feb 2026
#PlantSciJobs
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Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇)
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇)
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.
🌱Congratulations!🥂
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
#auxin, novel GH3 inhibitor!
The diphenylurea-type GH3 enzyme inhibitor Auxurea A selectively inhibits the auxin inactivation pathway in dicots (Kazushi Arai, Katsutoshi Sato, Takemoto Agui, Yunde Zhao, Hiroyuki Kasahara, Kosuke Fukui, Ken-Ichiro Hayashi) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
The diphenylurea-type GH3 enzyme inhibitor Auxurea A selectively inhibits the auxin inactivation pathway in dicots
Auxurea A selectively inhibits GH3-mediated auxin inactivation, thereby elevating endogenous IAA levels and revealing the importance of auxin transport in
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#auxin, novel GH3 inhibitor!
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Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Check out our latest paper. Very glad to see this one finally out. Fantastic work by @charlotte-dlslle.bsky.social . Learn more about MBAP proteins and their roles in brassinosteroid signaling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🔊 Don't miss this chance!🧪
There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾
Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026
There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾
Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🔊 Don't miss this chance!🧪
There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾
Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026
There is still time to apply for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists in April 2026!🌾
Not sure yet? Check out what this year's participants said and learn more about the event:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
⏰ Application deadline: 11 January 2026
Ice bath before Julbord, enjoying the sun when it is still out! Perfect end of the week with this fantastic group! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ice bath before Julbord, enjoying the sun when it is still out! Perfect end of the week with this fantastic group! @siamsadoyle.bsky.social @sharmavinod.bsky.social @rahulpvnewland.bsky.social @absolutemaverick.bsky.social @lorindaloi.bsky.social @loupitgreg.bsky.social
Oh Wow!
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
www.science.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Oh Wow!
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
With @umeaplantsciencecentre.se people too!
Another STRAMORPH publication by @nowako76.bsky.social on Fluorescence-activated organelle sorting (FAOS) for organelle sorting!
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Illuminating the subcellular maze: fluorescence-activated organelle sorting in plant sciences
We present an overview of how fluorescence-activated sorting enhances plant organelle isolation, showcasing its advantages, recent achievements, and future
academic.oup.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
With @umeaplantsciencecentre.se people too!
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
And another one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.
The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.
Metabolic network divergence: polyamine and ethylene biosynthesis dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana and Solanum lycopersicum
Polyamines are ubiquitously present in all living organisms. In plants, together with phytohormone ethylene, their metabolism plays a crucial role in …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
And another one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.
The first author is a STARMORPH PhD student from @nowako76.bsky.social lab.
Congratulations!!
🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations!!
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.
Great news!
Historic day! 🌾
The #EU agrees on new rules for genomic techniques, paving the way for crops that better resist climate change and pests, deliver higher yields, and need fewer fertilisers & pesticides. A big step towards a more sustainable food system.
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
The #EU agrees on new rules for genomic techniques, paving the way for crops that better resist climate change and pests, deliver higher yields, and need fewer fertilisers & pesticides. A big step towards a more sustainable food system.
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
New genomic techniques: deal to support the green transition in farming | News | European Parliament
The new rules will make the EU food system more secure and sustainable, with climate- and pest-resistant plants that give higher yields and require fewer fertilisers and pesticides.
www.europarl.europa.eu
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great news!
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New preprint from our lab: Salicylic acid- induced alkalinization of the apoplast requires TMK1 and results in growth attenuation
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to all who contributed @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
@julien-gronnier.bsky.social
@kaltraxhelilaj.bsky.social
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🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨
🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬
We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬
We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿
🔬🧱 Plant Cell Wall Biology 🧱🔬
Editors: George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2025
📣 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
@sebiology.bsky.social
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🔬🧱 Plant Cell Wall Biology 🧱🔬
Editors: George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2025
📣 We welcome contributions! 🔗 Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues?utm...
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
@sebiology.bsky.social
(1/2)
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨
🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬
We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬
We're still accepting submissions! Got a manuscript?
👉 Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New preprint!
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
SOSEKI polarity proteins are mechanoresponsive integrators linking growth and tissue mechanics during lateral root formation. Their polarity marks growth boundaries and reorganises in response to mechanical alterations —reshaping how we think about axis formation.
tinyurl.com/28p7af2w
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
🧪🌾How do plants react so quickly to cold?❄️🧬
Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.
Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.
Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🧪🌾How do plants react so quickly to cold?❄️🧬
Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.
Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Researchers from UPSC & @cragenomica.bsky.social discovered a genetic strategy that keeps stress-response genes "on standby" for rapid activation.
Read more below 👇 and in the article published in Molecular Plant:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I love winter mornings up North.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I love winter mornings up North.
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“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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The work of Samia Belaidi, PhD student in the team, and @bwojcikowska.bsky.social on the involvement of MP isoforms for somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis is now online! Congrats to all co-authors!
Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social
Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to share our new publication in Plant Physiology! The paper focuses on the role of the MONOPTEROS transcription factor in somatic embryogenesis. Huge thanks to all my co-authors for being part of this great project!
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MONOPTEROS isoform MP11ir plays a role during somatic embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
In Arabidopsis, canonical and short AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5/MONOPTEROS isoforms are required for somatic embryogenesis induction by regulating auxin biosyn
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The work of Samia Belaidi, PhD student in the team, and @bwojcikowska.bsky.social on the involvement of MP isoforms for somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis is now online! Congrats to all co-authors!
Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social
Work performed @ceitec.eu with the help of @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social
Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Looking for a fantastic place for your next career step? Come to speak about your science and meet us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
Have a look at the research groups www.upsc.se/research/res... and build up your next project
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📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
📣 Finishing your PhD or recently graduated?
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
Looking to shape your own postdoc project?🧪🌾
Join us for the UPSC Symposium for Early Career Plant Scientists on 28–29 Apr 2026, Umeå, Sweden, and network with the UPSC community!
Learn more and apply: www.upsc.se/early-career...
📅 Apply by 11 Jan 2026
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One of the STARMORPH group leaders on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congrats @nowako76.bsky.social !
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Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of the STARMORPH group leaders on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025! Congrats @nowako76.bsky.social !
clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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New OA Article: "Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism" rdcu.be/eP4mp
LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.
LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New OA Article: "Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism" rdcu.be/eP4mp
LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.
LBD TFs in the cambium drive radial plant growth by regulating PECTATE LYASE-LIKE (PLL) enzymes that remodel cell wall pectin, promoting cell expansion.
Reposted by Stéphanie Robert
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