🎓 Today our PhD researcher Carolina Huércano made her PhD defense at the IHSM La Mayora (Teatinos).

✨ Congratulations, Carolina! ✨

#PhD #PHDdefense

👏 THESIS DEFENSE
👉 "Characterization of SMP-domain proteins in plants. functional insights into NTMC2T5 role in plastid differentiation"
🤝 Carolina Huércano and directed by Noemí Ruiz

📅 Friday 5th at 10:30 AM
📌 IHSM La Mayora Auditorium

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant Plastids: From Evolutionary Origins to Functional Specialization and Organelle Interactions academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab. We mapped the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation and show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Tomato is the mother of potato.” scim.ag/4mheKrH

Webinar : Optimizing Immunoprecipitation of FP-Tagged Proteins in Plant Cell Extracts

📅 Date: August 7th, 2025
🕒 Time: 9AM CDT / 3PM BST / 4PM CEST
🔗 Register here: ptglab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#PlantBiology #ProteinBiochemistry #Immunoprecipitation #GFPTrap #MolecularBiology

Do you LOVE organelles??
Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social!

Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy

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Very happy to see this review by @elizavveen.bsky.social, Jesse Küpers and myself now out in Plant Cell & Environment! About how stresses impact chloroplasts, and how this can steer plant development via retrograde signaling 🌱 @pph-wur.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.15664

🔬 Recycling signaling molecules allow plants to survive environmental stresses

📋 Published at PNAS by our researchers Selene García, Vitor Amorim, José Moya, Jessica Pérez, Noemí Ruiz y Miguel Ángel Botella

More information here! ⬇️
www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/comunicacion...

Rapid Miniprep of Intact Chloroplasts from Arabidopsis thaliana Leaves bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... @bioprotocol.bsky.social

I wanted my first post here to be special, so I’m excited to share our new review on lipid metabolism at ER–plastid contact sites!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...