Catherine Bellini
cathbell62.bsky.social
Catherine Bellini
@cathbell62.bsky.social
Proud and honoured to be one of the two laureates of the 2025 Rósen Linné Prize. Warm thanks to all students, PhD students and postdocs who joined me over the years and greatly contributed to our research success. Thanks also to colleagues at UPSC, IJPB and INRAE for their continued support always.
#IJPB Congratulations to Catherine Bellini 👏👩‍🔬🌿

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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Proud and honoured to be one of the two laureates of the 2025 Rósen Linné Prize. Warm thanks to all students, PhD students and postdocs who joined me over the years and greatly contributed to our research success. Thanks also to colleagues at UPSC, IJPB and INRAE for their continued support always.
🎉 Congratulations to @cathbell62.bsky.social! 🎉

She has been awarded the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany for her research on plant roots and carbon allocation, and for promoting international collaboration in science, especially the #INUPRAG collaboration.🧪🌾

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December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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

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October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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🌾INUPRAG 2025 - Advancing Plant Science Together!🧪

Great to see @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
so well represented at the 4th INUPRAG Symposium in Montpellier this week!

Thanks to @inrae-france.bsky.social and the Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM) for hosting this inspiring event!
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Rubisco enzyme is responsible for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, crucial for photosynthesis. Recent research has mapped mutant Rubisco molecules which could revolutionize plant CO2 assimilation & adapt to future climates

buff.ly/7Ms2OZt v @innovativegenomics.bsky.social #PlantScience #Science
March 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus
Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Guerre en Ukraine : le texte de la déclaration commune des Etats-Unis et de Kiev sur une proposition de cessez-le-feu avec la Russie
Guerre en Ukraine : le texte de la déclaration commune des Etats-Unis et de Kiev sur une proposition de cessez-le-feu avec la Russie
« Le Monde » reproduit le communiqué diffusé par les deux pays, mardi, après une journée de négociation à Djebba, en Arabie Saoudite. Moscou doit encore se prononcer sur la proposition américaine.
www.lemonde.fr
March 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Avec l’acier et l’aluminium, Trump s’enfonce un peu plus dans la guerre commerciale
Avec l’acier et l’aluminium, Trump s’enfonce un peu plus dans la guerre commerciale
Le président américain met en place, mercredi 12 mars, 25 % de droits de douane sur l’acier et l’aluminium venant du monde entier, affaiblissant un secteur sidérurgique européen déjà très fragile.
www.lemonde.fr
March 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🧪🌾DISPATCH - Are you interested in intercellular communication and plasmodesmata?🔬

Take a look on the recent dispatch article from Rishikesh Bhalerao in @currentbiology.bsky.social:

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Intercellular communication: Regulation of plasmodesmata
Intercellular channels called plasmodesmata regulate cell–cell communication in plants. A new study now reveals how the levels of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and the interaction with MCTP protein...
www.cell.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🧪🌾VACANCY - Are you interested in tree biology and looking for a PhD?🧬🖥️

Join Totte Niittylä's group and the @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Synergy Project CarbonTree and study wood formation in hybrid aspen.

Read more here:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Deadline: March 10

#PlantSciJobs #ScienceJobs
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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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February 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🧪🌾 NEWS - How are cold responses regulated in plants?

PhD student Varvara Dikaya focussed on PORCUPINE, a protein involved in RNA splicing and found that the answer to this question is not simple.

Read more about her PhD thesis, which she will defend tomorrow, here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
February 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM