🌱 3 plant biology institutes, 2 great days! 🌿

PhDs & postdocs from DBMV @unil.bsky.social, @psb-vib.bsky.social & @rdplab.bsky.social rocked the 2nd Trilateral Plant Bio Symposium in Lausanne!

👏 Big congrats to all ECRs, especially to @nathan-german.bsky.social for winning Best Presentation! 🏆💥

Thrilled to share our latest work: how plants control growth through activation of a surface-specific growth programme. Thanks @zoenv.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social and the other coauthors for all the hard work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Little Flower"

A Cryo-SEM portrait of my micro-rose depicting the flower as a sculpture of cells, fractured and frozen in time. Full image is 10k x 10k pixels.

Translational research is digging for gold. Basic research is learning where and what to dig. The more funding is diverted to translation, the more we deplete the research ecosystem, driving the supplies of "gold" - immediately translatable findings and innovations - to unsustainably low levels.

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

🚨Our paper is out!

If you ever wonder how four-way junctions are avoided during plant cell division, some answers here 🧬🍀🔬🧪🤓

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello Bluesky! 🌟

This account was created a while ago but never really used—until now!🌱

We’re finally here and ready to share, connect, and explore.

Stay tuned for updates and fresh content. 🚀

New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab!

🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella.

📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬

#PlantSci #CellBiology

🌱 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

Charlotte @ckirchhelle.bsky.social will focus on manuscripts on plant cell biology, endo-membrane transport, quantitative imaging and plant morphogenesis. Read more about Charlotte’s research and her advice to young scientists: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Dynamic cortical behavior of plant protoplasts reveals unexpected similarities between plant and animal cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623369v1