Leonie Luginbuehl
@lluginbuehl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Cambridge University. Plants, mycorrhiza, carbon. https://www.luginbuehllab.com/
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New paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
New paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not light-exposed but still respond to light quality changes. We think that not only the precursor GA12, but also bioactive GA4 is shoot-to-root mobile. The work was led by former postdoc…
plantphotobiology.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
New paper: Gibberellins are long-distance regulators of shoot-to-root signalling of the light environment
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
Our latest paper ( published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not…
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.
August 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biosynthesis and bioactivity of anti-inflammatory triterpenoids in Calendula officinalis - Nature Communications
Calendula, a plant used in traditional medicine for centuries, helps reduce inflammation. Here the authors identify natural compounds that are key to its anti-inflammatory activity, revealing how they...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
July 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants
A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."
From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
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...
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
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...
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...
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🔥Postdoc opportunity 🌱
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
The Legris lab at the University of Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 is looking for a Postdoc to work on the regulation of branching by warm temperatures. If you have a background on plant physiology and development, and you're interested in shoot thermomorphogenesis, apply now!
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
June 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#ISMPMI2025 attendees!
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Bookmark our concurrent session co-organized with @uprogress.bsky.social featuring exciting talks on the spatial and temporal regulation of plant–microbe interactions.
We have 3 invited speakers: Feng Zhou, @lluginbuehl.bsky.social @type3lab.bsky.social
and…
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Pleased to see this work come out in its final form! rdcu.be/em4UY. Great collaboration with the Ausin lab. Here we provide some mechanistic insight into how H2A.Z finds its way to gene bodies (spoiler alert, H3K4me3 readers are involved!).
H3K4me3 binding ALFIN-LIKE proteins recruit SWR1 for gene-body deposition of H2A.Z
rdcu.be
May 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Pleased to see this work come out in its final form! rdcu.be/em4UY. Great collaboration with the Ausin lab. Here we provide some mechanistic insight into how H2A.Z finds its way to gene bodies (spoiler alert, H3K4me3 readers are involved!).
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK
#PlantScience
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK
#PlantScience
In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
www.science.org
May 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My pick for In Other Journals this week:
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK
#PlantScience
Sugar signaling boosts wheat yields - field trials of a trehalose-6-phosphate spray that boosts yield, probably via upregulation of starch synthesis and CO2 fixation.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
rdcu.be/enUzK
#PlantScience
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Preprint! w/ C. Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell, G.Evans,F.Fercoq,P.Kenrick & A.Ferrari
An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging
@slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr
An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging
@slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr
May 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Preprint! w/ C. Strullu-Derrien,R.Wightman,L.P.McDonnell, G.Evans,F.Fercoq,P.Kenrick & A.Ferrari
An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging
@slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr
An ancient plant symbiotic fungus with distinct features identified through advanced fluorescence & Raman imaging
@slcuplants.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social Cambridge Graphene Centre @mnhn.fr
Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
May 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
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🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
Stepwise increase in plasmodesmata during C4 evolution in Flaveria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649591v1
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
WE’RE HIRING!
Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽
The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition.
Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/
Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽
The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition.
Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
WE’RE HIRING!
Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽
The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition.
Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/
Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽
The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition.
Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Congrats to Alex Guyon for passing his viva today @slcuplants.bsky.social
Really proud of him! He was doing the last experiments in the morning and now is celebrating with the examiners @lluginbuehl.bsky.social and Mahmut Tör.
Really proud of him! He was doing the last experiments in the morning and now is celebrating with the examiners @lluginbuehl.bsky.social and Mahmut Tör.
February 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Congrats to Alex Guyon for passing his viva today @slcuplants.bsky.social
Really proud of him! He was doing the last experiments in the morning and now is celebrating with the examiners @lluginbuehl.bsky.social and Mahmut Tör.
Really proud of him! He was doing the last experiments in the morning and now is celebrating with the examiners @lluginbuehl.bsky.social and Mahmut Tör.
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
Really pleased to transition from 2024 to 2025 with Tatiana Vernie's work on the evolution of the common symbiosis pathway published @pnas.org 🔽
We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conservation of symbiotic signaling since the most recent common ancestor of land plants | PNAS
Plants have colonized lands 450 million years ago. This terrestrialization was facilitated
by developmental and functional innovations. Recent evo-...
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January 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Really pleased to transition from 2024 to 2025 with Tatiana Vernie's work on the evolution of the common symbiosis pathway published @pnas.org 🔽
We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Leonie Luginbuehl
We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
January 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...