Pablo González-Suárez
@pablidopsis.bsky.social
Strongly caffeinated postdoc
I used to count flowers, now I count stomata
📍 ZMBP University of Tübingen (DE)
🌐 https://www.pablidopsis.com
I used to count flowers, now I count stomata
📍 ZMBP University of Tübingen (DE)
🌐 https://www.pablidopsis.com
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🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸
González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸
González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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🌿 Ciara O'Brien 🌿
As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔
She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past!
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔
She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past!
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🌿 Ciara O'Brien 🌿
As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔
She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past!
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
As a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, Ciara's current research focuses on starch metabolism in potatoes 🥔
She's a strong advocate for early career development & has been involved in many early career initiatives in the past!
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- How plant cells decide their fate: balancing growth and specialization (Journal of Experimental Botany) @likeyoda1.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/RjCQNKq
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Review. How plant cells decide their fate: Balancing growth and specialization | Plantae
Every plant begins its life as a single cell, which divides, differentiates, and gradually gives rise to the intricate tissues and organs we see. Initially, plant cells are highly versatile…
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- How plant cells decide their fate: balancing growth and specialization (Journal of Experimental Botany) @likeyoda1.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan @ntnuchanlab) buff.ly/RjCQNKq
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Very happy to see our work out examining guard cell transcriptomes over the course of a slowly developing drought. Thanks to @bradylabs.bsky.social and @kaisakajala.bsky.social for the inspiration, way back in Davis in 2013! The data are available in bar.utoronto.ca/eplant & doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
From October 14–15, 2025, a workshop on „Academic Career Perspectives in Germany: Junior research Groups” took place in Regensburg. 📓🔬 Coach Dr. Birte Seffert from GSO* Berlin provided tips and resources on funding opportunities, host institutions, application preparation, and networking.
Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
October 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our new review just got published in JXB - together with
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@likeyoda1.bsky.social
we discuss recent findings on mechanisms that cells use to 'decide' between dividing and differentiating in plants 🪴 tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
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I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.
🧪 Can AI learn the language of plant life?
HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖
#HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy
HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖
#HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I believe that with this powerful AI model, we can uncover more fascinating rules hidden within plant nucleotides. Thank the support from the @hfspo.bsky.social and @johninnescentre.bsky.social, thank for the support from Prof. @yiliangding.bsky.social. Prof Li, Prof. Zhang and other co-authors.
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🌾⏳ RESEARCH 🌾⏳
Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
September 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🌾⏳ RESEARCH 🌾⏳
Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Evaluation of male-sterile wheat grown under field conditions indicates that stigma longevity is not a limiting factor in hybrid seed production – Millan-Blanquez et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!
September 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Yesterday, we celebrated the 9th #ZMBP PhD Symposium, where our PhD students (and some from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social) presented their work as chalk talks, posters and longer talks. Thanks everyone for the scientific discussions on #plantscience!
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It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
Local regulation of auxin-related pathways in the shoot apical meristem plays a major role during proliferative arrest
González-Cuadra et al. show that repression of auxin-related pathways locally in the
SAM is key in the control of proliferative arrest. FRUITFULL regulates these pathways
to promote meristem arrest. B...
www.cell.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It was already known that auxins (surprise!) had a key role controlling the end of flowering, plant menopause. Now we can tell you how and where they act in the inflorescence meristem to control the process.
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
@irenegonzlez.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901002-4
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Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stem cell regulators drive a G1 duration gradient during plant root development - Nature Plants
A positional and developmentally regulated cell cycle duration gradient exists in the root meristem whereby the G1 phase is very long close to the stem cell niche. This relies on the interplay of PLET...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Did you know that there is a cell cycle duration gradient in plant root meristem? New story by joining forces between Plant dynamics lab and Crisanto Gutiérrez & Bénédicte Desvoyes lab @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social #Plants #roots #cellcycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not the most cursed plant I have seen today BTW #arabidopsis #plantscience
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Not the most cursed plant I have seen today BTW #arabidopsis #plantscience
Now what is that inflorescence meristem doing in my inflorescence meristem? 🧐 #arabidopsis #flowers #plantscience
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Now what is that inflorescence meristem doing in my inflorescence meristem? 🧐 #arabidopsis #flowers #plantscience
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Writing a recommendation letter for yourself
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Writing a recommendation letter for yourself
Pleased to see this out and happy to have contributed to this story during my first post-PhD adventure 🌾🌡️ Here we looked into one of wheat’s florigens (FT3) and characterised its role in temperature-regulation of floral development
Fine tuning wheat development for the winter to spring transition #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Pleased to see this out and happy to have contributed to this story during my first post-PhD adventure 🌾🌡️ Here we looked into one of wheat’s florigens (FT3) and characterised its role in temperature-regulation of floral development
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📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
September 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
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🧪🌾NEWS - Aspen controls bud formation using light and temperature
Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿
Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿
Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
September 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🧪🌾NEWS - Aspen controls bud formation using light and temperature
Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿
Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Ove Nilsson's group has now discovered how aspen trees decide between growth and winter dormancy during summer cold snaps and autumn.🌿
Curious how aspen does this? Read more here:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Reposted by Pablo González-Suárez
While studying how plants cease flowering we wondered if determinate inflorescences might behave different. Moreover: are fleshy fruits strong sinks that starve the meristem? Arabidopsis did not have the answers, so we turned to 🍅🍅🍅,
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772
The quantitative effect of seed production triggers the end of flowering in tomato
Auxin and abscisic acid from tomato seeds act as signals that instruct flower meristems to arrest in a coordinated and quantitative manner.
academic.oup.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
While studying how plants cease flowering we wondered if determinate inflorescences might behave different. Moreover: are fleshy fruits strong sinks that starve the meristem? Arabidopsis did not have the answers, so we turned to 🍅🍅🍅,
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772
Curious?👇👇👇
academic.oup.com/plphys/article/199/1/kiaf195/8127772
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REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
REVIEW: Why GWAS models fails in identifying rare variants in crops and the potential of emerging technologies like #MachineLearning
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience
by Talissa Floriani & Alexander Lipka
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #PlantScience
So refreshing to hear voices of early career researchers speak up about this
How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices
“Every cleaned data set, debugged script, and refined figure deserves acknowledgment,” this researcher writes
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So refreshing to hear voices of early career researchers speak up about this
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Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.
August 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.
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Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
August 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
🌱 Passionate About Plant Development?
Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu
Very cool! On Drosophila emerging organs switching from cell division to growth during developmental transitions 🪰
A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
A switch to non-proliferative growth sustains Drosophila wing development during the early pupal stage
Using precise tissue volume quantification, El Marzkioui, Gaugué, et al. show that
wing primordia continue to grow during the early pupal stage, a phase of increased
cell volume driven by insulin/IGF ...
www.cell.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Very cool! On Drosophila emerging organs switching from cell division to growth during developmental transitions 🪰
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Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience
July 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants (Sanja Zenker , Donat Wulf , Anja Meierhenrich , Prisca Viehöver , Sarah Becker , Marion Eisenhut , Ralf Stracke , Bernd Weisshaar , Andrea Bräutigam) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience