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Chiara Perico
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kwolbachia.bsky.social
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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jytinevez.bsky.social
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure

New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
1/ Preprint alert:

🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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samtmugford.bsky.social
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
A pumpkin carved to depict an agarose gel electrophoesis with all lanes blank apart from the size ladder on the left and a single band in the lane on the far right
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨

🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️

Deadline: 30 Sept 2025

👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns

#PlantScience 🧪
JXB EDITORIAL INTERNSHIPS 2026 Who is this for? • Early career researchers (2-8 yrs postgrad/postdoc experience) What will you do? • Assess submitted manuscripts (with editorial mentorship) • Write commentary articles for publication in JXB • (Optional) Join JXB's social media activities Benefits for you: • Gain editorial & publishing experience • Career development as a researcher • Free SEB membership (1 year) • Invitation to JXB's Editorial Board meeting in 2026 Apply by 30th September 2025 bit.ly/jxbinterns
September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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tralee-sci.bsky.social
Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n
@natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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mscience.bsky.social
🌱 Xenium breaks barriers in plant spatial biology!

Thick cell walls, autofluorescence & complex tissues have long challenged spatial transcriptomics. A new bioRxiv preprint shows an optimised @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium workflow for Medicago truncatula roots & nodules.

#PlantScience #Xenium
August 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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July 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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pdchristine.bsky.social
VACANCY

Optical Microscopy Specialist

Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
johninnescentre.bsky.social John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 15
VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...

Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite
Optical Microscopy Support Specialist | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join the Bioimaging Platform at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
July 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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lauriebelch.bsky.social
OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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pdchristine.bsky.social
GROUP LEADER VACANCY

JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences.

If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.
www.jic.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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trevormnolan.bsky.social
🌱 Thrilled to see our latest collaborative work with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social published in Cell! By combining single-cell RNA-seq and live imaging, we uncovered previously hidden brassinosteroid signaling states and their role in optimizing root growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
March 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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biology.ox.ac.uk
Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉

Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology
while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT.

Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...
EIT Expands Team of Field-leading Experts Spanning AI, Economics, Life Sciences, Generative Biology and Medicine | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Founding team who will lead the Institute’s ambitious science programs and platforms are announced.
www.eit.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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lauraragni.bsky.social
Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience
January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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cristobaluauy.bsky.social
1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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annalandre.com
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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kierzkowskilab.bsky.social
Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks?
Check out our protocol:
bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
#Arabidopsis #Flower
December 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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bristolbiosci.bsky.social
We want you to work with us!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
The back corner of the LSB
December 17, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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julialambret.bsky.social
Happy to share our latest publication on @newphyt.bsky.social! Big thanks to reviewers and editor, and a special shoutout to all the amazing authors involved.

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Increased chloroplast occupancy in bundle sheath cells of rice hap3H mutants revealed by Chloro‐Count: a new deep learning–based tool
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December 13, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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tatsuyanobori.bsky.social
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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heisler-lab.bsky.social
How does MP influence PIN1 polarity? Here’s our latest preprint …… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Vascular Transcription Factor TMO5 Regulates PIN1 Polarity and Organogenesis Downstream of MONOPTEROS in the Shoot Meristem
Plants continuously produce lateral organs, such as leaves and flowers, from the shoot apical meristem (SAM). This process is guided by the accumulation of the plant hormone auxin and the polar locali...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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thepallavisingh.bsky.social
Come work with us! Please repost!

We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice.

Apply online before Nov. 3.

vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
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October 7, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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thepallavisingh.bsky.social
We are embarking on an exciting journey- come work with us!

We are also looking for 2 PDRAs!!

vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Apply online before Nov. 5. Please RT!
October 8, 2024 at 8:41 PM
chiaraperico.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Multiplexed in situ hybridization reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development | PNAS
Leaves of flowering plants are characterized by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with the selection of vein-forming procambial initial ...
www.pnas.org
July 31, 2024 at 1:28 PM